skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True!

Started with one place I can't remember - started with S. It was cheap and allowed multiple small sites to run off one account. Eventually turned to crap and so we bailed.

WebCentral - gave up on their silly control panel.

Used a place in NSW or Vic that started off OK, then was acquired (BlueCentral, I think?) and turned into a bit of a rude disaster. Abandoned that. Had a site break on Friday of a long weekend, so no support until Tuesday...

Had 60+ clients with CrystalTech who were polite and had great service. They were bought by NewTek and started overloading shared servers and tech support went from efficient and polite to slow and especially dim-witted. Bought again by SBA and things got worse. We've gradually shifted dozens of sites to accounts at Linode and that's been a great move for us.
When I had a domain registered with GoDaddy, they called and woke my sick mother up just to try and sell me shit I didn't need. When told I wasn't available (not that it wasn't my number, but that I just wasn't available), they threatened to cancel my registration for providing "false" contact information.

I started the transfer to another company an hour later. They have never and will never get another dime from me.

No, this isn't a joke or parody or satire. It's what actually happened. It's a horrible, customer-hostile company.
What's stopping you from firing up a VM and installing ubuntu?
Best of luck to you. I retooled and taught myself javascript, jquery, ruby, and sinatra. I launched my first site 2 months ago. I hope you get to explore, learn, and ride out your passion to success.
Wow, they weren't kidding when they said .NET
Unfortunately according to my American friends' colloquial definition of "success" it is simply $$$.

Yup money. "She became very successful" = "She made lots of money". Sometimes I am a jackass and ask stupid questions, "well what if she is unhappy, is she still successful?". And people look at me like I am from Mars ;-)
I remember in 2001 when it was almost a badge of honor to be hosted on (MT), especially if you were one of those website that got the free hosting in exchange of their logo on the page.
I wish the same could be said about Australia.
http://thingsboganslike.com/2010/02/15/85-residential-proper...

There's a huge stigma against renters here.
Perhaps in some contexts, but that doesn't negate the fact that the IMF, World bank and other financial players use the media indirectly to set the political stage for their goals, misinforming the populous and otherwise breaking what would be a well informed marketplace.
Ahh, lawyers destroying business opportunities since forever
Rent is an all-inclusive expense usually, while a mortgage is not. Rent covers maintenance, taxes, cost of future renovations, and you usually don't have high transactions in getting or leaving an apartment. So you can't directly compare mortgages and rent amounts.
Not with the current interest rates renting is not cheaper than mortgage.

Hi thesis also probably ignores the the fact that a mortgage is one of the few ways a normal person can use leverage and I most countrys property is a tax efficient way of handing capital to your descendants.
Interested! If you start it up, I'd love to help out.
I disagree. I think you've only pointed out that depression and surgery with anesthetics require less intervention, but I don't think less intervention = more authentic.

Flourishing with other humans, whether in a tribe or NYC, is more authentic than starving to death in the wilderness.
If you watch the second Veritasium video, you'll see that adding a weight to the bottom of the slinky does not change any of the behavior; it still does not fall until the 'pressure front' reaches it.

A heavier weight at the top will accelerate just as fast due to gravity as a small weight. As far as I can tell the only possible effect of a weight at the top would be to ensure that the elasticity of the bungee cord does not accelerate the top much faster than the speed of gravity; you should be able to just use a less elastic cord.
Its very important to take the total cost of ownership into account and not just the cost of a mortgage.

While you can theoretically sell your house later. Money put in into maintenance, taxes, association fees, may not ever pay off.
It is, at least, about making Ruby more concurrent. Rubinius eliminates the global interpreter lock, which helps, but Ruby's execution model is still very much thread-oriented; Ruby's fibers are very slow, and are not good enough for Node-style concurrency.

It is also about wiping the slate clean. Ruby still has some ugly stuff inherited from Perl (globals for regex results, or the use of unreadable "magical" globals such as $:). There are many areas where years of experience can help us design a better language.
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DH's shared hosting was fine for me and my WordPress blog for 2 years.

Then I hit #1 on Hacker News and bad things happened.
It's a quote from the movie Hackers. If you haven't seen it yet, do it! Just don't hope for realism ;)
The return he quotes is an average over an aggregate of course. But if you do proper research, you can beat that average substantially, and many people do.
JOBS Act may bar fundraising pitches at demo days, accelerators say
How new is this company? Has anyone gotten paid from them yet? I can see eCPM dropping drastically as more people start to use them.

I'd be interested in trying this out for some of my apps if there is a solid foundation behind this company.
At various times I've owned houses and rented. Currently, I rent. People tend to seriously underestimate the costs associated with home ownership because they are more diffuse than when you rent.

Unless you can afford to pay for most or all of the cost of the house upfront, you will often find it easier to increase your net worth by renting after all the opportunity costs and losses are added up.

This is how landlords make their money. If they own a house outright then their cost basis is less than a homeowner with a mortgage and manageable downpayment. In many cities, you are better off renting and saving until you can make a big enough mortgage payment (or pay cash) where the purchase starts to make sense relative to renting.
Yeah, that jives with what I was told. I think the stock grants mature over 4 years? I think the schedule was kind of interesting as well but I don't remember what it was, it wasn't 25/25/25/25 either.

To be honest, I think it was a miss-match in positional terminology. I was going for a PM role, which in my current career path is basically the CEO of a specific project or program for part of a company. (These programs can be very big, the largest program I ever worked on as part of the PM staff was north of $130m/yr. but for a wide variety of reasons I prefer the smaller $5-20m work, much more fun to run). Typical compensation is a base salary + specific performance bonuses + contract win bonuses (+ large option grants as bonuses in the kinds of companies that do that sort of thing).

I got the sense that at Amazon PM roles are much lower down the totem pole positionally and act more like coordinators in the organization and don't have as much agency as I was assuming. I was honestly just looking for a change of pace and probably would have accepted whatever they offered even if it was quite a bit lower than what I considered my market rate, but I fouled it up early on and didn't recover well.
Fair enough; that's a good point.
I'd recommend reaching out to @BenBalter to talk through using this for DoD. As for FISMA and compliance I believe GitHub has a government-ready ToS that could be applied - but you'd probably want to get an official go-ahead to use it to host code, and I'd still think hard about using GitHub vs. a git service behind the firewall depending on what you're building.
> If you're going to have this money there are many better ways you could invest it than taking a 0% return from buying a home (and hopefully also overtake the cost of rent).

I'd love to see some numbers on this.
It's a loss /as an investment/ if you can't sell it for more than you bought it for (modulo inflation).

You still got value in the form of shelter for your expenditure in the form of a mortgage just as you would have if you had paid rent.
Digital Management is Unnecessary Punishment
>I think Marco is overly dismissive of shared hosting

Is he? It sounds like he's deriding the hosting business (the providers, the prices, the way the customer is passed around, etc.), rather than the idea of shared hosting.

>but that doesn't mean the category is intrinsically bad.

Again, the category isn't bad, all the major players in that category are crap.
Ditto. And ditto about being careful not to let your quirky mnemonic slip. My wife and I met a couple at a party a while ago, then met them 6 months later at another party. My wife quickly asked me if I remembered their names and I said, yeh Quiche Lorraine and Brad pitt (their names are Lorraine and Brad). Of course we then met them again another 6 months later and my wife having had a few drinks let blurt, 'hey, its quiche lorraine'
It is so strange to look at that C# code.

I know they use it, it is just looks kind of odd compared to the rest of young (I mean less than 5 year old) web companies. No Ubuntu, nginx, node, jvm, but instead C#. I don't know, it just stands out.
Why Veeva’s IPO is a huge win for enterprise SaaS and health IT
I share a similar opinion. I compare every host I deal with to Rackspace. I have dealt with them from early on 6+ years ago with their dedicated servers and mail. Their support is the real deal and if you need a managed service level I would not think twice about using them. That being said though if you are going unmanaged you're going to pay a lot more to use Rackspace than other companies.
If we're going to say "debunked by science", it would be great to cite a meta-analysis or a paper or two that actually debunks the claims, rather than rely on the claims of a few doctors.

Plenty of doctors have made claims that perpetuate these myths, so simply citing a few more doctors is not entirely convincing.
It was a competitive analysis field.
Drudge Report is largely a link aggregator, though; their spin is pretty much limited to how they write their headlines and what they choose to link to. Mother Jones, as the parent said, does their own reporting and a lot of it, and they're arguably one of the few organizations that really gets into serious investigative journalism.

To your point, MJ is pretty often engaging in "advocacy journalism," in which they're very definitely advocating a specific point of view and presenting the work they do as supporting evidence. Their view is that Elon Musk is hypocritical for arguing against private-public partnerships when many Silicon Valley companies, including his, took advantage of such partnerships. You may think they're playing dirty pool, and I'd certainly agree they're being deliberately provocative -- but I also think they see it as their duty to ask uncomfortable questions. The tone of their article certainly isn't respectful, but virtually every paragraph is implicitly (or explicitly) sourced.
Dremahost VPS is a pretty interesting product, as you still get the unlimited disk and bandwidth of the shared product, but now on a VPS.
This article begins by giving away the moral high-ground.

"They ask: If court orders are legitimate, why should we allow engineers to design services that protect users against court-ordered access?"

Why on earth would you allow that a court order is legitimate? Both the tactic and the execution are of questionable legality, and critically that legality is flexible.

Remember that the clearly illegal complicit acts of telecommunication companies were made retroactively legal through a grant of immunity. The idea that you would begin your article by allowing the emperor to retain the assumption of clothes undermines the credibility of your remaining contentions. Courts having the right to demand things from citizens that they do not wish to divulge is not some force of nature, it has not always existed, does not exist in all systems, and need not exist in the way it currently does.

So cut the crap trying to justify the moral, conscientious, and brave action of a small company and force them to justify their existence.
That's basically what is. A Facebook clone focusing on mobile. They limit your number of friends and have a better mobile experience by doing things like putting things accessible from fewer screens, because mobile users hate multi-screen flows, etc..
Exactly. The reason homeownership can be a good investment is not because it appreciates in value, it's because:

1) For a given residential property in a high-demand market, you can reliably extract annual rent equal to 4-5% of the value of the property in a high-demand market.

2) If you just live in the property, your expenditures are reduced by a slightly higher amount because you avoid the inefficiencies of the rental market. Also, income is taxed, but reduced expenditures are not.

3) Homeowner's insurance is usually a much better deal than renter's insurance. This of course varies based on where you live, but on average (in the U.S. anyway) you'll get better rates for equal coverage if you own your home.

It has nothing to do with some insane notion that property values always go up.
Thanks!

So far updates are done by just dragging the whole folder unto the site dashboard again. We'll figure out what files have changes and just upload those.

There's also a version history so people can always roll back changes or see how the site looked like before.
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Hopefully liberty.lavabit.com uses a new uncompromised cert?
Someone smarter than me once told me, "never bet against the fed."

Being short on housing seems like doing just that. Not only have they been keeping money dirt cheap, bailing out banks, taking over Fannie & Freddie, but the Fed even went so far as to buy junk mortgages directly.

In a perfect laissez-faire fantasy world, this guy is probably right. In the world we live in, where the US Government and Federal Reserve do everything they can to keep the music playing, perhaps not.
> IMHO, Node.js is the new Ruby. It has the benefit of
> having the same language on the client and the server,
> but once again, it's going to run into similar
> scalability issues when large organizations try to use
> it. I think we're going to run into the same issues,
> of it becoming a cool bandwagon, the platform being
> stretched to its breaking point, followed by the
> realization that there are serious problems.

I think Elixir[0] may be the new hyped language. PragProg seems to be positioning[1] themselves[2] for a hype cycle on it, at the very least.

[0]: http://elixir-lang.org
[1]: http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-06/programming-elixir
[2]: http://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir
The (apparent) sponsor of the new venture is Pierre Omidyar, the original founder of eBay.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-usa-security-gr...
Do you happen to know if "Tablet Web Browsing Battery Life" and "Web Browsing Battery Life (WiFi)" are one and the same thing though? Tablets don't load Flash. ChromeBook does by default. The tests may still be different in unknown ways.
Even Wikipedia refers to Mother Jones as a "politically left-wing American magazine,".

The reason why I was picking those two is that from my perspective both have been covering the Snowden/Greenwald revelations from a positive angle - even so they are politically from quite opposite ends. Greenwald seems to be keen on arguing that he is not trying to affiliate himself with the left/right spectrum. That is why I can see him getting decent exposure (and traffic) with this strategic positioning.
Try doing the matasano challenges :). I completed the first two and it was my first exposure to block cipher weaknesses. I had almost zero crypto knowledge before that. All you need to know is programming and basic arithmetic.
Another point is that if you see it as an investment, you should see it as a hedge against runaway prices:

If you rent, and are unlucky, you might find yourself priced out of the market for the type of properties you would like to live in, and at the same time become priced out of purchasing.

Where I live, purchase prices and rents have increased 30% or so in the 8 years since I bought, while my repayments are the same. My repayment + interest has been substantially below rental prices since a few months after I bought.

If it had gone the other way, yes it would have been a bad investment, but it would have been a cost I'd still be ok with because of the predictability it gives (and if prices dropped, I'd use it as an opportunity to trade up, still hedging against prices increasing again).

Essentially by purchasing I have locked in an upper limit on the vast majority of my housing costs for the duration I stay in this house, and also reduced the risk of a substantial jump if/when I move, as the value of my current house is likely to move reasonably close to the overall market.

That hedge is worth a lot to me.
> That link was meant to show a suspiciously large jump in the volume of Chinese bitcoin exchanges relative to other exchanges. It wasn't intended to show the price increase.

It certainly sounded like that was what you intended. A transaction volume increase is interesting, but on Reddit I have read comments stating that the exchanges in some cases have started charging no fees - which sounds like it's possible that the increases are entirely spurious and due to, say, bots going nuts.
the reason why you never bet against the fed is more subtle. You should never bet against the fed, not because it never causes downturns, but because by the time it actually causes the downturn you've lost ground because of your short position, and hard. Unless, you're really lucky.
Well as with many things there is no black and white thinking here either.

As my dad always used to say, 50% is talent, 50% is effort. Someone with the 100% talent, who's a lazy fuck (50% overall) will be outperformed by far by someone with 50%/mediocre talent putting in 100% of work (75% overall).
What exactly is wrong with using Google Docs for writing that makes this better?
Here is a newbie question.

If I had a 1GB image for people to download, and say there are 1000 download, does it mean I will consume 1GB x 1000?

Nice tool by the way.
Before they came back up, I ran SSL labs test on their site. It did support forward security for some browsers. Now it supports none.

No idea about before the warrant, but I don't see any good reason to think it changed it changed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6518430
re: The lean start-up - does it matter? I'm sure you can 'go deep' understanding the cognitive science behind why the smiling girl works, and that might give you some insights, but without perfect knowledge of the whole world you could never perfectly understand why, and instead of spending that time with deeply understanding more about the why you could run 50 other experiments to find other things that worked or didn't work.
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This is probably wandering too far into conspiracy territory, but what if he's being forced to do it but doesn't want to, and this is his way of obeying badly?
I want to help duct tape the school assistant principal
For MBTI, it seemed like more of tenuous a J/P mapping. Structured being J, "go with the flow" being P. The structured, high-level/multi-level thinking is more of an extroverted judging function (aka, J-like), whereas the more step-by-step, adventurous thinking is more introverted judging (aka, more P-like).

However, I do stress that it is a tenuous connection. Neither list is a good list of J or P, most notably P.

As a side note, I do find it interesting that many attempts to describe personality or thought process often resemble MBTI in some way.

(I'm a huge MBTI fan.)
"When you’re waiting to interview at YC they have some alumni there to chat with you. To calm you down."

Off topic and at the risk of offending anyone this reminds me of what Playboy used to be known to do with women who came for photoshoots for the first time. The women were incredibly nervous and legend has it that other alumni playmates would always be around to make them feel comfortable and at home.
Yes, if a file of 1GB is downloaded 1000 times then the total bandwidth will be 1000GB.
I wonder if Shiller owns his home.
Yes, it's free but that doesn't mean it's painless. Going to SP2 and SP3 broke backwards compatibility with some drivers and software. It increased the RAM/CPU requirements for running the OS comfortably. They weren't just harmless stacks of collected bug fixes.
The same things that are valuable about any commit history?
The bottle I mentioned is 700mg per capsule, the one you linked to is 300mg per capsule. Price per capsule is therefor not a good measure, you need price per mg instead. :)

(Also remember to take into consideration number of capsules in the bottle!)
That would explain the patterns, yes. (I'm also annoyed at how HN keeps editing the submission titles. Seriously, who keeps wasting their time doing that?!)
Wouldn't it be cool if you could personally customize HN's ranking algorithm?
I thought of this (as I'm sure other people have) because I was thinking about how some people may not care if a story is old, or maybe think the discount over time should be stronger / weaker. Maybe they want a heavy bias towards ratio of up to down, maybe they want to emphasize upvote acceleration or something... I don't know. Wouldn't it be cool if there was an api that let people build their own story ranking algorithms?
I don't know about Firefox doing that on purpose, but the addon that I've written (Link Exposé) has seen several releases of firefox (19.* to 24.*) without having to do an (api) "update". It's written using the new jetpack SDK (now "Add-on SDK") - and there is a commitment to keeping that api stable.
Not to mention this guy will get on the air and actually defend the interests of himself and all of us.

I listened to his interview with CBC Radio(no one listens to CBC Radio), and he is just so articulate and calm.

His defence against the douche bag on CNN(OR NBC) was inspiring, this is what people should be taking example of.
I hated their customer support. I had to call it more than I usually do for a company, and every time, after they fixed the issue, they tried to sell me something. Not a simple little 'no thanks' they tried hard to sell me something. I had to tell them 'no' multiple times on multiple occasions. Take that anecdote for what it's worth.
Transactional analysis (psychology)
Heck, now that the Google Drive Realtime Collaboration API exists, he might as well build his system on top of that.

https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/reference/
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MJ is serious original reporting and opinion from a committed liberal point of view. They are equivalent in bias, if not in quality.
From my perspective "biased" is in American media pretty much defined on how well somebody can put you into the left or right corner. As long as you can somewhat convincingly argue that you are in the middle you are welcome guest outside of the "poisoned" circles.
Investors typically are not going for acquihires. See for a good discussion on many issues: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/05/13/the-corrosive-...