skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then, like I said, they should advertise they are selling "a usage profile" and not bandwidth. There are laws that protect consumers from being misled.

Leaches, wtf?

Should the power company be able too ban you from using the electricity they sell you to power a saw? If you do, are you then leeching from the other electricity customers?
Well I actually got everything for free, so $0 ;)

But if you need to purchase everything here are the prices:

* Arduino: $25

* TiM Board: $45

* Electric Imp + Breakout: $42

Total: $112

Yikes, that more than I expected... This is why you need to make friends with people who give away hardware!
A bit surprising, but I have no plans to move away from Media Temple, even though I'm not crazy about GoDaddy.
I really disagree. I think people learn more from failures. In many cases it seems the successful ones don't really truly know why they were successful.

Of course they did a lot of things right and it's worthwhile to listen to how they accomplished that, but if you were to duplicate exactly what they did you wouldn't necessarily be successful. So clearly there is something more to it.

In any case, there will be bad advice coming from both successes and failures. To eliminate all the "failures" as having "terrible insights" is short-sighted.

PS: I'm NOT a YC alum. And my bootstrapped company is running with revenues.
Crap. I was building my own solution for Node.js static website generation with https://github.com/thibaultCha/Miranda because I didn't know about Harp.

Very good tool, congrats.

Well, what doesn't exist yet is a static forum generator, so...
It doesn't work in terms of making live of a regular person better. Your argument is akin to saying North Korea is a better place to live than Germany because North Korea can put satellites on the orbits and develop nuclear weapons. Surely it must be more advanced! In some ways, I'm sure it is, but my question to you is this: at what cost? 30 milion dead to indutrialize USSR. That was the cost. In communism individual is nothing. They will sacrifice millions on the alter of having this industrialization done.

Bulgaria example: all satellite countries in the soviet block, and I underline again all of them, were developing more slowly and had much, much worse living conditions than their Western counter-parts at all time from 1945 forwards. Just compare Eastern to Western Germany. So, don't rewrite history, communism was one that made people sick of the poverty and revolt in Eastern Europe.

On the other hand, I agree with you, that post 1989 Eastern Europe is developing slower than we would have hoped for. However, in mu humble opinion, and that's just opinion, this is because of following still socialism. Free housing, free healthcare, free this and that. People in Eastern Europe live in socialist not capitalist states. Moreover, more often than not, the "capitalization" process done by "liberals" in Eastern Europe was just simply stealing the whole industries by ex-communistic elites together with guys who are currently in power. These are very corrupt states. I like to compare my own country - Poland - to Mexico. You know Mexico has had "capitalism" for a long time. But it is not a real capitalism. People there believe in free stuff, they vote for free stuff, and they don't like or trust free market economy. This causes corruption which in turn makes them permanently poor. I think Eastern Europe is a bit like Latin America. They don't have true capitalism but some kind of a corrupt states that just failed. Adding EU socialism on top of that kind of pushes things in the right direction in my opinion - from post-communistic mentality towards more modern, western, socialists - but it is still socialism.
From the FAQ about the merger:[1]

What about GoDaddy’s reputation in the tech community?

GoDaddy has been transformed in recent months and is essentially a new company. If we did not like what we have seen, we would not have joined the GoDaddy family. They have overhauled their leadership team and attracted tech talent from the best-of-the-best. We love “the new GoDaddy” that CEO Blake Irving and his team have created, especially their new approach with advertising, product focus and UX.

Though neither GoDaddy’s brand nor operations are being integrated into ours, we are excited to be a positive influence on them with how to make even more improvements to better serve the Web pro community

[1] http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2013/10/15/faqs-about-the-goda...
Yep, everyone should be using HD Wallets. Not only are they essential for one's own privacy, but they are also good for preserving overall network privacy. Plus, they make accounting easier.
Well, going by the firewall which is constantly updated and maintained, and arresting people for criticizing government officials, I would say the government at the least tries to control the country strictly.
Let me know when the Tablet Age is able to do 3D modelling on the go like my Bronze Age stuff.
Your comment is badly written, and mostly free of meaningful content, but I don't want to downvote it because I feel that it would somehow be gratifying to you.
That's a pretty great synopsis of what I remember about Ender's Game.
Not to diss MediaTemple or anything, but both GoDaddy's and their lack of good support and high price points make this match somewhat obvious in my eyes.
Seems like smartphone noob syndrome. Look, it's a tool. Like any tool, it can used for good or used to satisfy your base instincts. For those without a smartphone, there have always been gossip rags at the grocery checkout line with which to fritter your time. If you don't want to be bothered by the beeps and farts of apps that think they need your attention, turn off the notifications. That phone doesn't just leap out of your pocket with the inbox displayed, there's active choice on the part of the user.

Directions? I've always avoided asking locals for directions, as most people can barely get themselves to work and back (and I've been one of them when I worked downtown Seattle). Apple Maps has nothing on the local gas station for bad directions.

People steal dumb phones; people will steal anything. You just don't cry as much when a feature phone walks off.
I like Digital Ocean and Gandi.net
We're still at a very early stage. We tried to approach it in a way to see if people would show any interest in case there's the outlook of a finished product, not only a "This Could Be". We're sorry for the confusion this caused and hope to make up for it when we launch.

Re: free download, we will release most of our technological stack that will be running on your mail-stack if you pay us. So eventually you actually could (and hopefully will, if you can) setup the same thing we're offering yourself. But in case you don't want to have the hassle seeting it up AND keeping it up2date and managed, you will have the option to pay us for that part. It will still run on a dedicated VM (or maybe physical HW) that's dedicated for you and that you can take and move anytime you want (we will not ever lock you in, i can promise that right here and now)
Your app-based humor of the day
VCs are actually really important players here. They are so well connected and have worked on so many transactions, that they really help. I wonder how they would fit into an open marketplace.

Another side is that talking to a VC about selling is a serious conversation. It can affect things like likelihood of follow on funding, so opening one door can close another.
Things I Use for Productivity
You don't have to think very hard to find other reasons why 'circlejerks are bad'.
I've had great results with various things that we have at Media Temple over the years as well as their service. (Godaddy is actually a competitor).

As far as why this happened? I think it's because at the price point that MT is at they realized that the pressure from the digital oceans and linodes and similar would end up resulting in an eroding of the demand for what they do. MT is way more expensive even more than low end VPS at Rackspace where we also have some things.

I wonder if Rackspace was in the bidding for MT or how this deal went down. This would have seemed to be an excellent acquisition for them.
Surprised to not see Grace Hopper on the list. She was instrumental in the creation of COBOL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
I agree, but what they should do about it is attack the policies, not swap out the stack for another stack. Motion is not necessarily progress.
Steam UAC bypass via code execution
Surprised that this is not happening quick enough.
I know namecheap.com did this very well, with GoDaddy negative press a few years ago.
Apple ends year-long search, hires Burberry CEO to head up Apple Stores
if you pay for lastpass premium, you can use the android app with an android keyboard plugin. The keyboard is secured with your lastpass password and/or mobile PIN, and will fill forms on websites or login boxes on apps. It's pretty bad at detecting the site or app you're using, so I end up browsing for passwords more often than not, but's pretty usable. It's better than copy/paste because the interaction happens entirely inside the keyboard pane.
Here is to hoping Enom does not sell out to GoDaddy
We are a competitor to gd but part of what they do is price things low and then make money with add ons and by selling you things at extra cost that you don't really need. MT pricing (who we deal with for some things) is high to begin with. They also have add ons which they make money from but less teaser things and gotchas.
AngularJS 1.2 RC3 released
A great project. RIP AS. HOPE and BUILD HOPE. Thank you.
Also, since I just realized who you are (hey!), is there any info on award categories or working in teams somewhere? Are hackathon projects expected to utilize the Restly SDK/API? If so, is there any chance of getting an API key before the event? (I did sign up for beta access.)
I have a thing called paper which i hide. On it i write stuff about events in my life that has to do with the password in question. That way i can easily memorise a shitload of passwords and if i forget one i just look at my papper. And easily figure out what the password was.

If the password is for a realy dumb service that i dont care about i just write it in a text file located on my server /home/user/shitty_passwords.txt
Why we play Moneyball rather than Powerball
Well this blows...
I'm thinking more of some sort of service offered by manufacturers/OS developers.
A la Google Device Manager.

If I can remotely wipe my phone, it won't be hard to also brick it, remotely.

Leave the carriers alone, those incompetent jacks
"Stronger passwords are typically hard to remember. Since you will need to enter your 1Password master multiple times a day, this can be a problem."

This doesn't make too much sense. While stronger passwords are harder to remember, if you use them multiple times per day, you'll have stronger memory of that password. Its hard to forget a password you have to use a few times per day...no matter how long or short it is.

Additionally, stronger passwords are not always harder to remember. There are some great password and memory techniques that makes long complicated passwords easy to remember.
R usage skyrocketing: Rexer poll
Questionable is certainly rounding up
Any word on the progress of this / who is behind it?
Considering MT has made money time and time again citing GoDaddy's faults, issues and outages, it strikes me a bit odd that they would sell out to them. But then another part of me isn't really surprised at all to be honest.
I've been with GoDaddy for years. People who blame them for their SOPA stance need to remember there was a lot of support in Congress for SOPA. Was it the best Bill? Nah, that doesn't mean GoDaddy's reputation should be torn to shreds every single time their name comes up on HN. The same people should remember there are a lot of good people at GoDaddy, techies just like them who are trying to earn a living doing a job they love.
I think it's partly to do with the fact that in a complex system it's sometimes pretty difficult to clearly identify lines of cause and effect, but most smart people will think about it until they've satisfied themselves that they have figured it out.

This is why I'm not so sold on advice given by 'one-hit wonders,' people who scored big with a startup and are now seen as gurus because of it. I'm interested to hear what they say, but I'm skeptical.
LMGTFY: https://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+4chan
Possibly, but graphic design and type design are vastly different fields. A good graphic designer isn't necessarily a good type designer.
Matt, first of all, thanks to you and your team for posting in the comments on sites like HN, TechCrunch, and all the other sites where the news is starting to hit the tech community. I know it can't be easy to read so many critical comments against a company that I am sure has been a great place for you to work at.

However, I think trying to spin things as "everything at (mt) will be the same... only better" is a bit of a disservice to the tech community you are trying to reach out to, which is inherently more savvy about the reasoning and justification behind the acquisition itself.

In short: No company ever sets out to acquire another company to just keep things the same.

I do not doubt that in the short term, not much will change. But starting within the next year or so, there is no doubt in anyone's minds that the combined leadership team of GD and (mt) will begin to capitalize on business, product and technological "synergies" to help increase the bottom line.

That's not a knock against you, GD, (mt) or anyone. That's just business.

But what does that mean for all of your existing (mt) customers?

GoDaddy's modus operandi of profit maximization through questionable-at-best marketing practices, minimizing costs in customer and technical support, and taking any short cuts possible even at the detriment of the customer, does appear completely at odds with the high value of support and refined products that (mt) had prided itself over the years.

So the $400M question (or however much the acquisition was for) is: can these vastly different approaches of your business models be reconciled at all? Or will one way end up "winning out" over the other way? And if it's the latter, who will end up "winning out"... the GoDaddy way, or the (mt) way?

I do apologize if I come up to some of my own conclusions ahead of time, but I hope you guys can prove me wrong. But as I am now an outsider looking in, it ultimately won't make too much of a difference to me -- I actually have been in the process (and am nearly complete) in moving all of my clients off of GoDaddy to AWS (for completely unrelated reasons, mostly dealing with pricing).

But as someone who had been a customer for over 8 years and as someone who had been an advocate for (mt), I couldn't help from having the feeling of "whew, I just dodged a bullet" after hearing this news.
NSA Chief: What Cyberwarrior Shortage?
This letter combined with all the MT people trying to astroturf the comments on the techcrunch post is pretty ridiculous. It's like they don't realize we are capable of thought.
Embrace, extend and extinguish.
>The guarantee of asm.js that your code is ~2x slower than native is nice

What? How did a couple of benchmarks that showed ~2x performance for a few tasks become a 'guarantee'? In some situations asm.js only takes twice as long to run your code, in others it takes 12 times as long[1] or even more[2].

[1] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/benchm...
[2] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/classi...
Where? I don't think they're located downtown, other than for Pinger.
I interpreted that as concerning two different domains with respect to a Start Up (or any immature business, really).

With respect to stability: Persons with lots of frequently changing variables in their lives (e.g. frequent beginnings/endings to relationships, moving around, etc.) have less stability. Adding the instability that comes with a turbulent, chaotic tech start up just compounds the issue and taxes one's resilience even more, because inevitably one will have to pay attention to instabilities other than business related ones.

With respect to responsibility: having kids, a spouse and other similar obligations (can) act as a tether and definitely act as dividers of attention. A spouse and children necessarily require attention that could otherwise be focused on the business. This is really much more of a problem for individuals who aren't already financially secure and depend on some relatively secure, stable income to support their lives.

The common element in both cases is time and attention: living an unstable life increases the probability of something other than the business acting as competition for attention, and living a life with other responsibilities "baked in" guarantees competition for attention.
How big is the battery on the Nexus 10?
Show HN: Become a developer, don't quit your job
The coolness of Medium explained from a JSON
Nexus 10: 9000 mAh
HP Chromebook 11: 2300 mAh
^^
I'm betting it's this.
>its hard not to get compared and contrasted to Apple.

You make some great points, especially when drawing a comparison with Apple.

However, I believe that most users purchasing these devices are coming over from Windows. When you compare the ease of use of ChromeOS/Android to Apple, it may be second-rate, but the Google systems are miles ahead of the unintuitiveness of the Windows (95/98/XP/7) experience for the average user.

I purchased the Samsung Chromebook for my girlfriend on a whim. I was skeptical, but it's a great device. Far less maintenance than her Windows lappy, and far cheaper than an Apple device. That's a big niche.
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Twist? If I had implied 1:1 - why do you think I spent the next paragraph explaining the difference? Also 0.7:1 isn't exactly dreadful - so that point stands.
I am so glad I have moved all my domains out of GD. Was recommending TM for my customer, now I have to tell them to move out of TM ASAP, sad.
That is not a good enough excuse.

If you are at an early stage and using other software that is at an early stage, then say so completely up front the way Mailpile does.

As a sibling comment stated, you've completely diluted the value of Show HN by throwing up a link to something you cannot even show.

If you want to gauge interest, then do it the way everyone else does--put up clear, unmistakable language that says you're at an early stage, in development, not ready to really take anybody at all on, and have a single email signup for receiving future info and/or early invite access.

That is how you make things clear. Here, you just farmed an email address in what, for me, amounts to a dishonest transaction by not having anything at all to provide me as part of the exchange at this time.

Don't apologize for "confusion" that was intentionally created. There is practically no chance you could have developed this site and not discussed how it was going to leave people with all these call-to-actions that had zero action behind them.

Potential users shouldn't have to figure this out for themselves.

EDIT:

Seriously, "in case there's an outlook of a finished product"? Good grief. If you're just launching trial balloons, respect interested users and HN enough to state that explicitly.

This is a joke.

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You just made me sad about Blizzard all over again. I was just starting to come to terms with their demise.
Desktopsharing for Linux
Cool app Mark, quite handy. Have you thought about making a browser extension version? It would be a quick way to get on more platforms and you can still build in the business model.
Am I the only person who thinks that being on the buying side of this is a losing proposition?

How many of those people at $1mm per head will make it through your technical interviews and fit in well enough with your culture? How long do they have to work for you before they split?

It seems like you'd have to put together some pretty draconian terms attached to a deal like this and I don't think that would be fair for anyone involved.
Wow, so nice to see a refreshing attitude here on HN. You nailed the arrogance of SV types. Not everything can be improved with technology, just look at these massive failures in disrupting education : Coursera, Edx, Udacity. I, too, hope that engineers will just step away from education. /s
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I just want the author to go to a Moscow or St Petersburg subway and compare that to the one in New York City. He will be amazed how clean and beautiful is Moscow subway, and he will see how dirty and slow is NYC subway compared to it.

You can not judge the whole country just by driving on a highway which not many people use and filming a gypsy wedding which has nothing to do with Russia.
Yes, I agree. "Echo-chamber" and "bubble" are features. Having a informative and effective discussion at a high level, and having opinions moved, predicates a high degree of common ground.

Effectively challenging somebody's worldview doesn't begin with "everything you consider true is false, now listen to me" as is sometimes the preferred method of radicals. Being bombarded with information and viewpoints you consider wrongheaded doesn't expand your horizon, it galvanises you.

But when a person I have a lot in common with and agree with on many issues says something that I don't instinctively agree with, I listen and at the very least make sure I understand the full argument before I decide whether I think it's wrong.
Half of these issues are really about Ruby on Rails, not so much Linux. Java could fit the bill for most of his requirements just as well as a Microsoft stack (and probably cheaper).
I think this is an interesting setup just because it makes it possible to have a very complicated 1Password master password without being too inconvenient. For my use of 1Password, it wouldn't work though since I use it on my phone frequently.

However as others have said, you need to have a way to get to the full password somehow, likely in the form of it written down and stored in a safe, at home or in a bank. Or in somebody else's password vault.

Actually, that's something I haven't seen much and that I have done myself manually only: the ability to secure this information by spreading the database with multiple trusted parties. Similar to what Snowden has done I understand: no-one can access the information by themselves, but you can piece together whatever information you need from multiple people. I know some stuff exists like this, I just haven't seen for password vaults specifically.
Your concern is understandable but it's incredibly naive to think Microsoft is the same company they were in the 90s.
From your findings, is it possible to create a sentence formulated like this? "If, after X hours, your KS has $X and X links, your chance of success is X in X." If not, can you create a comparable "headline fact"?
I feel like I'm trying to decode a regex. Could you reword that a little clearer?
Most of the time this is a good thing though, you don't want to be logging into something from a machine you can't guarantee the security of.
As a tangent, would you consider biometric identification (in the broad sense - retina, finger print, DNA) a priori identification as well?

I'd argue that one thing would make payments more seamless: identity = payment, in other words, you don't need a middleman (e.g. credit card, chip and pin, or mobile device) to verify your identity. You just show up and pay. No more carrying anything around. Think: Minority Report. That would possibly take decades and involve many privacy concerns from citizens.

Meanwhile, you'd have the same security risks you had before, playing the cat-and-mouse games with hackers (of all types, including biometric hackers).
I thought all the hipster Brogrammers moved onto Node and JS? Didn't they get the memo?