skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are also specifically built for cars

Not to be too pedantic but ... the roads in SF were built long before the car was invented. Think about it, if SF were built _for_ cars, why would it be at the end of a peninsula so cars have to cross bridges to get to it? SF was built so that it was easy to access by sea from ships. Cars came much, much later and the issues with parking, etc... really stem from the city not being in a very good location vis a vis cars. I agree that roads are a public good but I think they should be used to provide the greatest economic benefit which, in my opinion, is not to get commuters into the city.
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Please go public soon so I can buy shares.
Hardware is molecules, not bits.
We could probably rewrite the entire Firefox UI in HTML nowadays, but that'd mostly be busywork (and would break a bunch of extensions). I would bet that Servo's UI will just be HTML.
What, you think you can't overpower a little servo?
I'm in the 'funemplyment' situation since december (with little bits of work here and there). After a good two to three months of terrifying nothingness I started noticing new desires and goals, many of them completely different from the 'bucket list' of should-do's I had accumulated over the previous post-college years of working as a freelancer (and consuming massive amounts of Hacker News).

I think if I had started working on my should-do's right away, I would've remained stuck in this Hacker News fueled desire to write an app, start a company, learn a new programming language, attend meetups, or 'hack my hourly rate'. And if I had traveled, I would've done so not to find solitude or adventure for the sake of it, but rather so I could tinker on some project or connect with 'interesting' people.

Now, I'm not arguing that these are bad goals. It's quite possible I will do these things too. But I'm very happy that I chose to 'do nothing' for a while, as it awakened old goals and desires that I had completely forgotten about since I started working.
Wow. Amazing story. I have heard of 99 dresses a lot - though women's fashion is farthest from my interest area. So you did build quite a brand.
I am also pleasantly surprised to see that you probably have set up this blog just to share this article?

I have been an entrepreneur 5 years now, and I can totally relate with the part of showing a positive face when you have none - its an occupational hazard. Good luck for the next set of adventures.

BTW, I am sure the Valley community will be open to welcoming you back. You are an entrepreneur through and through - so if its not the Valley, Bangalore's doors are always open :-). Best of Luck.
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This is a platform, not just a language.

The same way that 'Mathematica' also has/is a language, but also a platform.

You can write whatever code you want, but you can only run it on their hosted platform which is not free to operate.
There's two ways of being known as a hot-shit programmer. The first has been described by Joel ("Smart. Gets things done.") and Rands ("Be productive, be fantastically clever when necessary, speak truth to power, hit your dates, and don’t ship crap."). These are people who deliver the goods. Deliver them often enough and folks will know your name.

The second way is harder, particularly for the introverted. This involves self-marketing, being obviously and repeatedly correct. It also requires a bit of political adeptness and a bit of visionary helps as well. Both Joel and Rands have done very well here and there's a number of others who have made a name for themselves via the web. If you have a choice, choose this method as it yields better visibility. Although it also means that screw ups are magnified if and when they occur.

Am I the best programmer going? No. If you're reading this, I suspect you're not either... But I work hard at delivering the goods, and I'm good at what I do. People like this get remembered when new projects start. No matter how big or small your niche is or how many you fill, impress others. And don't needlessly piss them off - people remember assholes far longer than good 'uns.
So does Dreamhost.

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Domain_WHOIS_Privacy_Service
Why are pools and tennis courts negatives? Maintenance costs?
Exactly my thoughts. It may be acceptable-ish for a personal home page, but using this for anything that's remotely useful and/or has more than one user, no way in hell.

Already tried that with email (Google Apps for Business), and the punishment was swift like the new Apple programming language.
This is cool, works on mobile too!
I've actually been enjoying following the World Cup for a few decades now.
Exactly. And you can't learn domain knowledge that quickly. And there is a pile of money and senior-level engineering positions available to those who can marry understanding of the technology with domain expertise.
I can't say I would complain if thousands of dollars was given to my address, but you are right... it would represent a difficult problem for enforcement and creative people would come up with clever workarounds.
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Ignoring all of the politics of "Free Software" and/or "Open Source Software", as a practical matter languages that are not available in no-cost implementations are rarely successful outside of very niche markets.

Though, arguably, the type of stuff Mathematica is used for is already sufficiently niche that this is less of a concern.
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I wonder if that includes private from Google's internal uses?
Well, with most single-page apps, bulk of the logic is running on the client, with the backend just exposing a REST API.
Didn't realize that. Maybe I was confusing it with their service acting a registry (as opposed to registrar): https://www.google.com/registry/index.html

I could have sworn it was possible to register domains directly through Google, but I guess it could have been a cleverly disguised front-end to another registrar.
The point went over your head, in any failed dynamic there are always mistakes made on both sides. I'm trying to encourage her to think deeper (not write) about it beyond not catching the "warning signs" which places her in a victim position. Whether she was or not, victim cycles create repeat patterns until the person sees their own role in it.

I'm encouraging psychological healing. I've very much been through a very similar experience.

[EDIT]

It actually sounds like it turned out well since she did end up with a solid co-founder relationship anyway. I'm leaving this up for posterity but now think my thoughts on this are unwarranted.
Very interesting, how do you control the steering wheel? Most solutions I've seen for that were either really clunky (and unsafe, as they obstructed the airbag etc.) or used/replaced the power steering.
I just assumed you would have used the existing interfaces, I know for a fact that at least the current A6 has all the necessary hardware on board, and am pretty certain that the A4 has the same for park assist.

Have you thought about selling your system directly to manufacturers for integration? I'm certain that there are chances if you're able to deliver a working component that can simply be integrated into existing models. Most of the current assistance systems aren't developed in-house but come from one of the big third party suppliers.
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Ya, they shuffled their prices a month or so ago:

https://www.linode.com/pricing

Its the same 1 Core / 1GB == $10 pricing DO uses. [roughly]
Kim-1, all souped up with cassette interface
Hopefully transferring domains is easy regardless. I wouldn't ever recommend a registrar that was hard to quit.
I am not a Heroku customer and maybe there is more substance to his complaints but I didn't see anything in the post that would cause him to want to leave his hosting provider with guns blazing like this. Reduce their prices because their service providers have reduced their rates? Seriously which company you know does that? Do we even know what arrangement Heroku has with amazon? Isn't it possible that as a large customer their rates are already discounted. On the subject of downtime he didn't actually say that his application was down as a result of the maintenance in this instance or any other.
> Create up to 100 email aliases with your domain, such as help@your_company.com or sales@your_company.com, and have them forwarded to existing email accounts, like you@gmail.com. This way, your email is a professional reflection of your business.

So there are no actual email boxes included?
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I think that Cricket Test matches (take place over 5 days) also seem to stress team capability fairly well. But I'm not a cricket expert (I would need to be introduced by someone knowledgable), so I may be quite wrong!
> For some people, keeping their minds busy and dreaming is their "junk tv" - often in the form of work.

I'm not sure if you're using the 'junk tv' analogy as an explanation or self-criticism (or something else), but it seems to me like 'junk tv' is a good analogy to explain why even for self-challenging individuals it might be good to not do this for a while, in the same way that not watching junk tv, or spending some time in silence might be worthwhile for over-consuming or overly chatty individuals.
DO is pretty much the same as Linode in that respect. You have tutorials and command line comfort as the basic requirement for using the product.

Both the parent and the OP both suggested switching to DO which is the point of comparison.

I've never had better support/more comprehensive with DO than Linode. Then again, I've had a Linode account for like 6 years and I think I've opened as many tickets. ;)
I don't see it as such. I see it as "independently arriving at the same, correct solution." This is vision, not just skill. You don't see a lot of that. You probably just got distracted by another, harder problem once you realized you could see the end of the project.
They're probably just using the AppNexus console anyways.
Why on earth would someone try to kickstart something like this on a platform which doesn't accept bitcoins?
"Buildpacks are just terrible."

Elaborate please? CF uses a variant of them, and they're ultimately just a simple three-script harness to build and run your app.

There are pros/cons vs. dockerfiles , chef/puppet/ansible, or just doing a Netflix style Aminator, I suppose, but "terrible" seems exagerrated.
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There's a phrase for things like electricity and smartphones: general purpose technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_purpose_technology

As for more Silicon Valleys, it's telling that to my knowledge outside California have made non-competes unenforceable, although Massachusetts is getting a clue more than 2 decades after Route 128 died a hard and painful death.
NextBus always uses a straight-line estimate for the vehicle position within a few stops from the terminal. This is based on the departure times in the Muni published schedule. However, Muni operators and dispatchers do not adhere to this schedule in any way, so the estimates that NextBus gives near the beginning of Muni lines are pure fabrications. Lies, you might say.
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What are the alternatives to Heroku? I'm looking for something that makes it easy to deploy and launch services. http://deis.io looks promising but it isn't production ready yet.
Isn't a generator a code smell? - if you need one then your framework abstracting the right things.
Show HN: Yeoman generator for Google's Web Starter Kit
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I might be completely missing the point (haven't studied probability since 1998) but go on then, tell me who's going to win the World Cup. Or just Croatia vs Mexico, which is starting now.

Unless you can do that fairly accurately then I don't see why you're picking on football. Surely life is just random events, some executed better than others!
s/mainteance/maintenance/
I've played with the UI quickly and couldn't figure out how to actually create a funnel. Yes, I was able to track events, but not relate events to each other (e.g. click on shop + click on buy).
That's the point here. Drivers will be tempted into a false feeling that the car is driving itself, just because it accelerates, decelerates and steers. MB has the same functionality, and I actually worry that it would cause even more distracted driving.
This can happen with knockout and other libraries when you end up dumping data into an object to send over simply to render it view side. You end up with a lot of wires between your controller and the view template rendered on the client side.
We've been pretty happy with Cloud66 (www.cloud66.com).
Interesting, I never though the term 'funemployment' would bother others, and in fact I liked the term because I figured it actually helped in distinguishing voluntary unemployment from the less pleasant version. Do you know this is the case, or are you speculating how people might feel?

I'd like to know, because In the former case I'll be more careful with the term, as I have a number of involuntarily unemployed friends and I don't want to make them feel worse than already do (some of them, anyways).
Gotta agree, startup is not some glorified zero sum game. Losing two co-founders nearly threw me into "depression". A special hell I created around myself of self-doubt and why-me.

Personally taking time off startup helped and made mentally more stronger. I can't even imagine what she went through with so many big ups and downs.
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I'm not sure what is was before, but as per HN guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
Here's the difference: A camera in a hat is designed to record people without their knowledge. Glass is designed to do other things, and, in fact, is terrible at recording people without their knowledge, because everyone knows it's a camera. It even has an indicator light to show when it's recording. It just happens to be possible to record people without their knowledge with it.

If anybody actually wanted to record people without their knowledge, Glass would be a terrible tool to choose, and many times more expensive than the alternatives, too. It's just not worth being that worried about.
Seems everything is returning to normal now. Here is a New Relic screenshot from the outage: http://i.imgur.com/WB7U2mz.png
We're working on switching from Heroku to EC2. To my knowledge there isn't a lot of documentation out there on this process - we're just looking for code snippets to figure out how to build AMIs, deploy, etc. It's a slow and error-prone process. Anyone know of good resources to make this migration?
I think it's great that you take the high road and don't resort to dragging other people through the mud. You definitely seem to place the responsibility all on yourself, which I imagine is not always the full truth. Not providing any reason at all, actually makes it sound as if the two co-founders just randomly and completely bailed on you. (Which may be exactly the truth)

I was trying to imagine a logical scenario, for example they had an even better opportunity. Or perhaps it was better to split before the stakes became to high. Maybe the salaries were not going to be what was expected, there were disagreements on responsibilities, etc. I can imagine a lot of scenarios.

Not to diminish your article, which I found extremely interesting. It was just a point that definitely seems like there was a greater story to be told.
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I paid $8/yr to register my domains with 1&1 now they've upped the price to $15/yr. Fuck them.
Report functions become available as soon as you place the code on your website!
Hover is without a doubt the best domain registrar I've dealt with.
Hardware (sometimes free)

http://www.sparc.org/
I haven't had a bad experience with Google's technical support either, but their technical support tends to work like this:

1. Hunt for solutions to your problem on forums.

2. Discover the magic link where you can submit a form with a message regarding your problem.

3. Sit back and wait for 24 hours.

4. Your problem is resolved, and you may or may not receive an email stating that the issue was resolved.

Communication is completely one way for most products.
Interesting. My rent increase was 6% this year. It was 4.5% the previous year and in prior years was around 3%. This would be in a suburb a few miles from Boston.

The advertised price for apartments in my building is actually higher than my cost. I am waiting on renewal to see if they are forced to drop the price so I can use that to request a smaller increase.

I suppose the smart money was to have leveraged up on some housing while I had the chance, but I just can't stand the entire home purchase and ownership ecosystem.
They have a separate EU hosting region that has separate maintenance (and uptime that's actually significantly better then US region): https://status.heroku.com/uptime?region=EU

So yeah, it was a lame time to schedule maintenance.
Let's build apps like Yo. They're good practice. Doing silly things that amuse oneself is a critical component of hackerdom.

Let's just not fund them.
What helped me make the switch was to move to a different city (and country, technically). That might not be an option for you, but if it is you might want to try that. You might even be able to stretch out your 'funemployment' over a longer period if you go to a cheap city, if find that you like it, of course!
Weird, I get the idea of defining a new web framework API, but why would you build everything from scratch? There's loads of very good open source code out there.

Why not fork DataMapper for Lotus::Model for example? Now you have some dodgy hand rolled library that's probably not seen enough eyes to be really production proof.
Struggling to find any point of that comment that was downvote-worthy.
The whole US is a market with government distortions in favor of ownership, in the form of subsidized mortgages.
Yo's popularity entirely rides two facts: (1) it's a silly app, (2) it got a million dollars. We currently know nothing about user engagement and retention. I'd be surprised if anyone uses it for more than a few weeks.
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In which I over-analyse the ‘Yo’ app
This is great. Google is a company that is very serious about security, and has essentially no customer support so no way to social engineer your way around that security. Perfect for domains.
I have never seen any documentation on moving from Heroku > EC2. They are very different services and there are many options to replicate the heroku api.

Not used it yet but www.cloud66.com always interested me.
"...I was going to go big or go home"

Ms. Durkin I think you just need to go bigger next time. Don't just solve a small problem, solve a dire one that we all (man and woman, black or white) have in common.

Why disrupt a market when you can create a new one while simultaneously destroying four others? You know, that sort of thing.

Good luck!
You accuse me of trying to turn this into a contest. In fact, it's you who started the contest by inviting comparisons and talking about how Minecraft did something "right" while Second Life did it "wrong."

My point about how people have built Minecraft in Second Life isn't to start a pissing contest. I'm only trying to show you that you're comparing apples to oranges, because Minecraft is a game, and Second Life is a platform. Second Life doesn't have game-like features such as enemies because that's up to the users to create them if they want.

Some people create game experiences in Second Life, but other people are using it to run a virtual business that generates real-world income. Why would a business owner want creepers attacking customers while they're trying to shop?

"Lack of bad guys trying to kill you" doesn't typically come up when people are discussing the pros and cons of Android and iOS, why should that be an issue for this platform?
Be warned that Linode's status page is also borderline useless. Their website and web-based management interface (and API, according to customers on their IRC channel) were throwing 500 Internal Server Errors for >2 hours the other night, and their status page never had any mention of it.
So, here's a better one:

"We have the potential to solve the big problems. Let's not fund apps like Yo."
This signal says that people are still willing to pay for effective data collection. An app like Yo simply proves that quality/purpose do not really matter for making money. If it walks like a bubble, and talks like a bubble
I didn't mean diets in the restrictive sense, but rather as a description of any type of food a person generally eats.

I agree completely that weight loss/control is about caloric spendature in relation to caloric intake. However in the US we have more labeling and discussion about calories than any other country that I'm aware of yet we remain an overweight nation with nearly 2/3 of our population being over weight, and 1/3 being obese. I don't feel as though further quantification on the consumer side is going to remedy the situation.
Customization. Ever try to add a command-line tool to a buildpack? I don't understand why we cannot make use of apt as the EC2 instances that Heroku uses are just Ubuntu AMIs.
"Nabokov was fascinated by doubles, and his work is full of them — mirrors, twins, reflections, chance resemblances. Sergei was his brother’s double, a “shadow in the background,” as Nabokov put it."

I need to re-read Lolita in the light of this. I know that the book mocks the supposed connections between an author's experience and his work but I've always felt the Humbert-Quilty relationship to be a deeply personal one that the author drew on from somewhere.
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If an app that does nothing and has a half life of 3 weeks can raise $1 million, then the industry has a problem.
I'm more worried about having to outrun it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=old+person+drives+through+fa...
Let's fund them, let's just not acquire them. That way they won't be funded in the future :)
The future is tricky to predict. A lot of things look like toys, until all of a sudden they're not.

Worth reading the counterpoint:
http://avc.com/2013/04/return-and-ridicule/

"This notion also plays into Clayton Christensen's framework for disruptive innovation. Many of the most disruptive technologies started out as what Clay calls "toys". The PC is a great example of that. PCs came out of the homebrew computer movement. Geeks were building computers in their garages. And everyone thought they were nuts. But from that came the Apple Computer and the IBM PC and we were off to the races with personal computers."
Deis has quite a few successful deployments in the wild. Most of the work being done today is around automated testing, platform hardening, HA/failure modes, etc. A stable release is not far away.