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> You could make the same argument with tools, so why are languages different? I think because they are more foundational.. other tools are built IN them not just using them. They become a substrate. Or not, if they're not widely used.

What about the computer itself. I don't want to argue one way or the other but the hierarchy:

Hardware (non-free)
OS (sometimes-free)
Programming language (mostly-free)
Programs (sometimes-free)

seems pretty arbitrary.
Invite-only beta....

watch the hype fade away in a week and everyone will forget this exists (hello Google+)
Daring Fireball: ‘DOCTORING THE BALL’, WITH GUY ENGLISH
Yup. The level of new construction in areas outside the waterfront is essentially 0. Which is preposterous given the current state of rental affairs. I'd bet you could count on two or less hands the number of new low rise buildings built in Cambridge this year.
I've never needed support from any registrar as long as the AUTH Code retrieval and unlock process works...
Meh, this is cyclical as always.

Not enough rental properties means developers will start building more rental properties, which means they will ignore regular for sale housing, which means prices in the for sale market will go up, which means developers will build more units to sell, which will cause a lack of units in the rental market, ad infinitum.

Exceptions for markets with government controls. :)

(One thing I like about the Pacific Northwest, our government controls are minimal, and have loosened up in many places recently, with less height restrictions allowing for higher density housing!)
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Absolutely. We recently created a multi-server branch for linux-dash. It just began but the goal is exactly what you stated: single, consolidated Linux-dash page for N servers with the same drop-in installation capability.
I love my fitbit and wear it pretty much religiously, it tracks how much I move in a day and how much I sleep, but 2 things irk me about it. It is constantly broadcasting my location via bluetooth LE. You have to have an internet connection to retrieve any data from it.

As a software dev I'd love to get my raw data out just to see what fun an interesting things I could do/see with it. When I have asked in the past they have turned me down flat saying that they don't provide access to the raw data because people could "figure out how we calculate our raw data and algorithms, so this data is all proprietary"
Google:
Our bot has blocked your domain for a specific reason. Please whine on hackernews and hope for frontpage to reach support.
I would rather deal with DNSimple than Google.
The way I understood the author is that we don't really see who played better, or what the story is, in anything but very lop-sided games because the low-scoring nature of soccer means that we are constructing fictitious narratives to fit the events of the game, which are often better explained by chance.

I agree that who played better and the whole story are much more interesting, and I think the author agrees too. I believe his argument is that it's difficult to really see who played better. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, though.
Yes, exactly. I should have said, try Mathematica.SE for questions after having read through the inroductory tutorials. :-) Thanks for the link!
And....for $1.50 you can put a brick on the gas pedal.

Now, this is missing many of the features of autonomous cars like the ones Google is developing and the driver will need to remain at the wheel and ready to take over in case of emergency...

(ok, let the down votes commence. I couldn't resist. It's great people are working on things, and I hope something comes of it but this seems like a case of all or nothing to me).
In South Africa, we suffer from the opposite problem: chartered accountants are fetishized in the business world, far more than MBAs even.

They dominate the leadership of big business and the CA(SA) designation, especially for a black African is a golden ticket to opportunity and a huge salary. Our youngest and brightest minds aspire to be accountants, rather than engineers. It may not be a coincidence that South African business is sometimes accused of having a lack of flair and imagination.
And Wave?
There will still be a need for dedicated computer programmers, but I think that if everyone had basic scripting knowledge or at least was not afraid of gaining that knowledge, the world would be a better place for it. And if more people understood what it took to program, there might be less under or overestimating of the value of a good programmer.
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Will my pagerank increase if I register with one of their TLDs?
Support

With Google Domains, you get phone and email support (M-F, 9am to 9pm EST).
My blood runs cold.
Oh, come now… At least they'll be careful about your privacy.
Your move, Amazon.
Google is a huge multinational company with sufficient nexus in the EU (specifically France) to fall under the jurisdiction of that ruling. This sounds like an app developed by a small team, physically and legally located far outside of San Francisco. If the city tried to enforce a judgment against them, it should be laughed out of court.

I'm not sure why so many here are so quick to throw the hackers under the bus as soon as they agree with the government's demands. This kind of thing could happen to anyone, and ruin any controversial startup.
Google apps for business have phone support
If I had to guess, it offers a service similar to what Route 53 and DNSimple offer for cloud-hosted apps: A CNAME-like functionality but that functions at the root level record.
When a giant shakes, everyone moves. It doesn't even have to be particularly disruptive -- this is good for everyone who owns or brokers domains.
My point was broader than that some are "voting against [their] immediate self-interest, if [they] think [they] will benefit from improvements to society in the long run", as many people may vote on some moral or ethical basis, or believe they are voting in their own short or long-term interests, but be ill-informed.

One example of this is that people in non-farm states support agriculture subsidies just as much as people in farm states, when it is clear that these subsidies are simply a wealth transfer (to the farm states).[1]

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2008/07/24/the-illogic-of-farm-subsi...
Dynamic SSH config via FUSE
Just a counterpoint as someone who switched from Linode to DO (and indeed have used mostly their $5 nodes) and currently uses a mix of DO and Azure: You need to be comfortable with command-line server administration to use Linode. Yes, they've got tutorials, and they're pretty good. You can be walked through installing __________ on whatever specific flavor of OS you happen to be running. But the moment something goes wrong or I had a slightly-above-novice-level question, the response was that Linode did not offer that level of support and it was a self-managed server (or whatever the specific language was).

Not complaining, that was exactly what I was paying for, but it's certainly something to take into consideration if you're not comfortable with command-line server admin.
I experienced a co-founder split not too long ago and I can definitely tell you from my personal introspection that you may need to look deeper than "it was my fault for not seeing the warning signs".

It always takes two to tango and you're right to not bitch about them but then saying you were stabbed in the back is silly. Being a founder is tough, having co-founder problems is tougher, clearly understanding what your part in the dynamic is or was is even more difficult.

Sometimes, too, to get this level of internal depth takes distance from the people and the experience. It took about six to eight months for me to figure out what was rightfully my fault and what was rightfully my co-founder's fault - beyond "seeing the warning signs early".

Also, I don't know what your captable looked like but if you were the controlling interest you cannot and should not expect anyone to care about what position you're left in - you must be prepared to shoulder the burden on your own for a bit if they decide it isn't worth their time anymore. The more you own it the more you own it.

Hope you're okay and sorry if this comes off as admonishment, it actually comes from a heartfelt place. You're welcome to contact me personally if you want more support.

[EDIT]

Re-reading my comment, I might be coming off too much as an armchair psychologist, I'll leave the comment up for posterity and maybe you'll find something useful in it or not. Either way I think you've handled yourself well and hope that you yourself are doing well.
Man, just reading the story gave me anxiety.
Its a hypothetical question really. I keep everything offline in multiple places.
Gandi (https://www.gandi.net/) is quite well-known for having free private domain registration.
Serious question: What happens in three years when Google decides to "sunset" this service like Wave, Labs, Reader, Buzz, Code Search, Knol, etc? Their target audience doesn't know how to work with registrars, which puts them in the worst possible situation when Google Domains is dropped. Will they help their users transition to other registrars?
Turn your photos into parallax scrolling albums
The History of the Official World Cup Match Balls
They have had registrar-level access for quite some time already, presumably using that to "connect the dots" of domain ownership. So this just takes it to the next level... now they can see 'inside' private domain registrations? What else could they do with this that they can't already do? Hmm.
ELO ratings are available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Football_Elo_Ratings
Try Hover. Customer support is great and there's zero up-selling when buying a domain. It's a couple dollars more than GoDaddy but more than worth it.
Two thoughts:

1) this is a somewhat bizarre exercise. It seems like it's more relevant to work out the probability that the better team wins, for empirically relevant values of what the author's calling "expectation value" --- i.e., give team A an expected scoring rate of (say), 2.0 goals per 90 minutes and give team B a rate of 1.9 goals per 90 minutes, then see how likely each team is to win. (R code, based on 10,000 simulations because I'm lazy and don't feel like working out the probabilities by hand:

> mean(rpois(10000, 2) - rpois(10000, 1.9) > 0)
[1] 0.42
> mean(rpois(10000, 2) - rpois(10000, 1.9) < 0)
[1] 0.38
> mean(rpois(10000, 2) - rpois(10000, 1.9) == 0)
[1] 0.20

In words: the better team wins 42% of the time, the worse team 38%, and they tie 20%;)

The numbers 2.0 and 1.9 were made up, and the disadvantage of this approach is that you're required to get some data and estimate reasonable values of each team's scoring rate, or make them up. I should note here that OP has to do the same thing; the line

"We can turn the Poisson distribution around, and ask: if a team scores N
points, what is the probability (or more technically correct, the probability
density) that the underlying expectation value is X?"

is nonsense without a Bayesian interpretation, which requires a prior density (which is the equivalent of making up numbers like the 2.0 and the 1.9 I used above, and weighting them by how likely you believe they are). Note that I could put a dogmatic prior on 2.0 and 1.9---a point mass for each team at one of the points---which would make me believe that the "expectation values" are 2.0 and 1.9 regardless of the actual score. Clearly that would be a bad prior, but it's not clear that the implicit prior used in the article is a good one.

2) More important: teams sit on leads, so the probabilities aren't constant. A team that outclasses another team probably won't win by 19-0, because at 8-0 they'll focus less on scoring and more on playing defense and avoiding injury. The same concept applies less dramatically with a 4-1 win, a 3-2 win, etc. Modeling strategy is much harder, so I'm not going to provide R code :). But one effect is that a poisson process will probably predict too many extreme scores.

That said, the OP's thesis is self-evidently true: "My thesis is that soccer is an amalgam of random processes whose net effect produces rare events—those more-or-less unpredictable events spread more-or-less uniformly in time." It's a game with about 3-5 goals scored in 90 minutes. They're rare!
Actually 1&1 has been offering that free private registration for a while. I switched from GoDaddy a few years ago.
What online tools do other successfull startups use?
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What'd you buy?
I've seen this guy in person before. He's just a conspiracy nut. Do not give him any more attention than he deserves, which is zero.
I get the point you're making. But if you're in a public place in the US or UK, you have given your consent to be recorded. The difference between Glass and smaller, less conspicuous recording devices is that with Glass at least you know there's the possibility of being recorded by that person (same way with cell phones). If someone really wanted to record you without your permission, there are cheaper and sneakier ways to do it. Also, it's not that hard to pull out a phone and pretend to text while actually recording video. No one would ever know.

So the idea that people wearing Glass are assholes is a ridiculous notion because there are already numerous ways to record someone without explicit approval, you already have the right to record anyone in a public place even without explicit permission, and it's already possible (and already happens) with existing smartphones. So if you're getting mad at Glass wearers for something that people are already doing, you're the asshole. The only difference between Glass and other technology is that Glass is newer and less common. That's it.
This isn't about providing superior services - it's about consolidating the flow of information.
It's easy enough to see who played better if you actually watch the game. There is absolutely no reason to build a "ficticious narrative" when the real narrative being streamed to every corner of the globe in realtime.

I used to find soccer unutterably boring, until I had a roomate one time who was really into it. He showed me the proper way to watch a game... you're not sitting around waiting for goals, you're watching how they pass, how they handle the ball, the skill and athleticism.

I still find it boring, but at least I appreciate it now.
Ok, we'll at least take it out of the title here.
he may have said it wrong, but you seem more wrong: it is not silly that games should be designed to identify who is the better player.

I think you are confusing "the best team winning" with everybody knowing who is going to win a priori.

Sprinting, marathoning, horse racing, downhill skiing, etc., they all determine pretty clearly who won, and they do a good job to varying degrees of seeming fair. That doesn't mean you know who will win, and when happens as for example with skiing under certain conditions that later runs are disadvantaged compared to earlier runs, that can vary the outcome but not in a satisfying way.

Soccer could be a better game, but I get it, you don't like change.
It's a little alarming how quick the thread here backed away from this point, to reassure you that nobody is really saying that anyone is obligated to disregard drinking habits. No. People should definitely be reinforcing this (very real) ethical obligation. Don't select candidates based on their willingness to go to a bar during the interview process.
What's the current status of rent control in Boston and the surrounding suburbs?

Even if relaxed or gone, as I recall may have happened in some cities, it left a legacy, plus developers have to factor in the danger of it being reimposed.
TL;DR Metro Atlanta, incomplete/failed subdivisions are being finished by investment companies. However they are not aiming low, they are aiming for those who want out of apartments, have the income, and good background histories, to make renting profitable and safe.

North Metro Atlanta, anecdotal here but I have read similar. There are a lot of failed/incomplete subdivisions out where I live. Recently an investment group bought the last 11 lots in my 54 lot subdivision, they had been empty for three years.

Within short order 11 new homes were built and are being rented. There are two different companies contracted out to rent these homes for around 1300 a month. Single family only, background checks, and a host of rules. Two other nearby subdivisions are trying to sell their incomplete lots but the builder for this group told us the appeal of ours was no pool or tennis courts. Toss in large homes, existing were 3800 to 5200, large lots, and it was ideal for their investment. The new homes are 2400 square feet but fit in architecturally.

With the possibility of an airport expansion in Paulding I suspect NW Metro Atlanta will see a large expansion in rental housing. Contracting out to build homes in numbers of near a dozen does save good money
Has Google ever "sunset" a product they actually charge money for? That might help us understand what they'd do in this case. But I don't think there's a lot of precedent there.
There are 3 processes: PhotoDNA hashing [1], automated flesh tone detection, and manual review.

1. PhotoDNA runs on every upload. It's only used to identify known child pornography that has already been reported, to make sure it can't be re-uploaded.

2. Automated flesh tone detection only runs when a photo is shared. (This is a change in policy; it used to run on upload.) There are heuristics that try to measure whether it's personal sharing or broad sharing, and we're continually improving those. The goal is to make flesh tone detection only run during broad sharing.

3. If the broad sharing criteria is met and automated flesh tone detection triggers a positive result, that is the only case in which an item is anonymously sent to manual review. It's some highly controlled clean-room environment where a dedicated team tries to determine whether the content is a legal risk or not. Clear cases of shared child exploitation porn are reported. (A parent's "baby in bathtub" type of photos are not the target here.) In most cases, it's adult pornography or family photos. In those cases, the folder is marked as porn and simply can't be shared again. (There's a user-visible message on the web UI.) It's not deleted, and it continues to be fully accessible to the owner across all machines.

The scanning policy used to be more aggressive and didn't exclude content that was unshared or only shared to a small set of people. None of us liked that policy to begin with, and then some high-profile false positives helped force the policy to be revised.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
Thanks for the feedback and all. Wish we'd get on this page a few months from now because we're still in heavy development. Bugs and all that - our community/demo is pretty much running a nightly build ;)

Just wanted to say, the "pinterest" homepage is just a theme. We've got an extensible API and an easy (hopefully) theming engine. Just to show you how different it can look like, open up http://convoe.com, give it a shot on your mobile as well - it's awesome. There are some themes out there that have a basic traditional view as well.

I'd like to say we're really working on the engine a lot, and once everything is stable we'll blow full steam ahead on cool themes, some traditional, some "modern" (whatever you like to think of that as). We also have almost 100 plugins in such a short amount of time, which hopefully shows how extensible our forum is.

We also have a widget system - you can drag and drop widgets on the home/sidebar/header etc. and replace components out. Here's an example of what I mean: http://i.imgur.com/GObRKQq.png

Please star us on GitHub and feel free to fork us and join our community, I'd love to hear what you guys think on how we can improve even more. :)

-- psychobunny, core dev @NodeBB
"There were mistakes made on both sides"
SF Issues Cease-and-Desist to Mobile App Auctioning City Parking Spots
When dealing with Google Apps, if they are not satisfied that my issue is perfectly resolved in a very short period of time, they hunted me down until I confirmed that everything was working honkey dorey. That includes cold-calling me to ensure everything is good. Their support is top notch for paid products.
whoever put in amstrad.... wow... I was not even expecting it here :-)

Amstrad CPC 464, Amstrad 6128 etc... :) Feeling old :)
That is not as bad as what you described, but it also corrupted one file in my multi-volume archive that is now not recoverable
Adwords definitely has phone support.
We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
It's glossed over because it requires more than a single party to represent the "story" in a fair light and it would unprofessional for her to write about her biased emotional experience.

I think she is 100% in the clear for glossing over it and I personally would have left out bits like "backstabbing" &c... They may or may not have but describing her personal emotional experience while leaving out the hairy and sticky co-founder dynamics is a great way to share an experience of the "dark underbelly" [that is startups].
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It's a valid point. I think that certain types of ideas do require capital to start. Uber, for example, probably needed a lot of capital to get their infrastructure going. If you have web-based startup with minimal expenses then investment capital may not be necessary until you are ready to make a big move.

Here on HN it is overly glorified to read "company gets 1.2 million investment." It puts things in perspective to think "company takes out 1.2 million dollar loan and now has 10 months to figure out how to stay in business." But that's the reality of going the venture capital route before your company has any income.
I'm curious what YCombinator has to say about that kind of behaviour. Is this a unique case? Has it happened before? How do you prevent it from happening? What's the benefit of being able to say you're a YC founder?
Considering that the invention of modern accounting was literally the driving force behind the renaissance, one has to wonder whether Dogecoin is going to be responsible for a similar reinvention of society.
Someone has certainly taken umbrage at having this pointed out for them.
if it was not legit, it probably would have been a lot faster since they have it in their cache...
Post-mortems like this are always really enlightening. I'd really like to know more about some areas the author glossed over, though. What were the grey/black tactics they used to get past the initial chicken-and-egg problem? And what change did they introduce that caused a near-revolt of their userbase?
I would be happy to do the computing on my own servers.
At the risk of being a buzzkill: a "smart home" is a home that is easy to manage.

Most people have too much stuff, too much clutter, too many gadgets/clothes/vehicles/appliances/tools, etc. All these things take effort and mental energy to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

The ironic thing about home automation is that it manages stuff by adding yet more stuff to manage. By trying to make stuff smart, you end up adding more points of failure-- more ways for things to get screwed up.
Can anyone enlighten me about why the title of the post got changed? I tried to squeeze all the relevant information in there, to make it easy for people to decide whether they're interesed or not. I really hope it's not because some of the commenters don't like this system not being open source, and find the "try it for free" bit not politically correct.