skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that you said your broker did a good job for you so I'm sure others would want to contact him. For example the parent commenter.

But if you follow the links the site premiumurls.net redirects to twitter and the whois info is private (and why does it need to be?)

If he is really good at what he does then why is that, other than trying to operate in some kind of stealth mode?

How did you hear about him originally I can't find out that much about him. (I am finding that history records indicate a woman was attached to that domain name and it seems odd that someone would pick a .net like that..)
The site VistaPrint doesn't want you to know about
I've been in the printing world for a looong time now. Specialty vinyl banners mostly, i've printed so many banners the wife even says I smell like banners. ....Good thinfg she likes banners! ;-)

I decided its time to disrupt the industry. SInce forever, I've had the idea for it, but could never figure out how to make it into reality. So I learned design and programming and gave the world CloudBanner technology.

Our company just started up, but here the highlights so far:

• We are about 1/2 the price of Vista print, Staples, etc. (+ always free shipping!)

• our Technology offers infinite Banner customization

• our customers print some really funny Banners sometimes, we get a hoot from it.

• Printed in USA (new England)

• our banners are very adaquate quality too

*adaquate

I have been a reader of big hacker news, and I always value what you guys have to say, so any feedback and suggestions would be so awesome!

Oh, here's a $5 off coupon code: BANNERSRDOPE
Robertson recounts. “And I kind of kicked myself. I’d consulted in this area for 30 years, but I’d never said, here we make all these gizmos that measure, and all these systems that deliver, but I never brought the two together.”

Really?

I hope this CEO chose the right partner... :-)
David's calculating sticks: collection of slide rules
Interesting - curious how you feel about buying something like ww.guru and then buying the matching wwguru.com anyways to prevent brand confusion.
Large amounts of Foreign debt is a result of an inability to sell bonds in your currency.

The US has a long history of loan repayment but we still dealt with high levels of inflation fairly recently. As in There where US treasury bonds issued at 17%. Which was vary close to runaway hyperinflation. At current interst rates our debt is sustainable but bump that to 10+% for to long and it would distroy our economy.
Wow, what a story. They sound like they're killing it, the founder's motivation is admirable, and she's making a positive dent in the world. I hope they succeed.

Inspiring.
I find myself using lesser and lesser add-ons as the years passes (idk why). Right now it's just a matter of:

* SearchPreview (I'm so used to that little screenshot on the search results... can't live without it anymore).

* FlagFox (Just for the curiosity where the website is hosted!)

* Pocket (Mostly links that I found at work but didn't had time to read there, I then read at home)

* AdBlock (Yeah, guilty. Download websites becames sane plus I hate so much thosein video ads at youtube ).
Ah, sorry to knock your country of residence, perhaps unions work differently in Sweden. In the USA, unions use their monopoly power to push wages above the competitive rate, at the expense of consumers, the unemployed, and nonunion workers. Imagine if you were looking for your first job, and you were only allowed to be employed at union rates. It would not be easy to convince an employer to hire you. Perhaps that's why so many youth in Sweden are unemployed?

Also, in the US, I have the freedom to negotiate my own wages, rather than having them negotiated for me by a union over which I have no control. This means that if I work harder or smarter I will earn more. Personally, I like having control over my own destiny in this way, and society at large reaps the benefits of more motivated and productive workers.
I don't work for MS so consider this pure speculation:

In the past "bad guys" have used VBS to leverage a minor exploit into a full compromise. For example, they might have the ability to write arbitrary strings to the filesystem but not execute or run code. So they write out a *.VBS into the StartUp folder, and when the user reboots they have gone from a relatively minor entry into full remote control.

While VBS and BAT remain on Windows based PCs, having PS be locked down is a little irrational. However I suspect Microsoft might be looking to the future when one day they can remove both BAT and VBS (or force the user to enable/install them manually) so that it becomes harder to use such things to escalate your compromise.

Essentially they're trying to limit attack surface on 90%+ of consume grade machines, as your average consumer will never run a PS script or even care that they cannot. A lot of medium to large enterprises have an internal CA (with the CA cert already on the machines for authenticating with AD) so internally signing their network scripts is of lower cost (i.e. the infrastructure is all in place, just a single command to sign which you can automate with PS, unlike a solo developer who might not be aware of certificate issues anyway and certainly won't be running their own CA).

Your post assumes that PS hasn't been hugely successful, which is definitely not my experience. SysAdmins in the Windows worlds are all over PowerShell, they love it, and if you go read something like SpiceWorks or any other similar community 90% of the new automations are written in PS rather than VBS/BAT (it helps that all of the MS tools in Server 2012 natively support PS).
I don't really think the default security restrictions are going to limit PS's popularity, they might limit it for certain niche deployments (e.g. MAKE scripts distributed over the internet) but not for internal use.

As far as you not liking PS, I understand, I really do. Most other scripting languages use strings as their fundamental unit of work (e.g. pass strings from process A to B, even over pipes it is all strings or file names which are also strings). In PS the System.Object is the base unit, and everything above that is also an object (it is classic OOP), so it really takes some getting used to. There's a lot of inheritance in there.

But once you understand the underlying concepts involve, it is quite de-mystified. However it really helps if you've come from a Java/.Net programming background since even things like overloading isn't really something you'd run across in a scripting language based largely on string transportation.

If you want to get started watch this workshop (you don't need to watch the full 4 hours(!)):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ya1dQ1Igkc
That is by far the best explanation, better than I could have said it myself. Thank you, you nailed it perfectly.
Agreed 100%. To me just selling 10 units was amazing, considering I did not know what Obj-C was a few months ago.
This. Started recently a small project in Dart, was a breath of fresh air.
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Instead of just a bunch of adons names, why not just list the most important ones and a little reason on why you use/like them.

In other words: why not make your contribution interisting somehow?

Didn't mean to be rude... just saying!
Wow, where did you go that used .NET? I've only ever seen that in specific .net courses available in some places.
First Steps for VR on the Web
Note that if you do the math with the constraints of one unique violinist and nonzero travel time, there can only be a maximum of 5-6 weddings in the given time window.
The fact the reply to an offer by an editor started with three or four paragraphs of political ideology.
Best Business Books (Recommendations included)
I've just finished reading "Hard Drive" a book written by James Wallace and Jim Erickson (Jun 1, 1993) about the early days of Microsoft and it's founder Bill Gates. I have to say that it was a fantastic read and certainly one of my favourite business books of all time.

As a self-proclaimed omnivorous reader that says a lot and I've got to admit the bar is set high after this one so finding a great follow-up read is difficult.

So, with that said - what is a business book that you thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend as a "must-read!"

Cheers!
Along similar lines: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/nyregion/an-unusual-media-...
Google Cloud Tracing Explained
"Give some context to the message…"
Use the force Luuuk
I don't understand why bad code is "not technical debt". It seems to me technical debt, poorly spent. Someone who takes a payday loan to buy beer is still incurring a debt.

If there is some more meaningful distinction here that I'm missing, can someone clarify?
This is pretty cool. However, clicking on a plugin takes you to [1] (for example). Clicking on the header there takes you to [2]. This is probably not the intended behaviour.

[1]: http://vimawesome.com/plugin/vim-airline-sad-beautiful-tragi...
[2]: http://vimawesome.com/plugin/plugin/vim-airline-sad-beautifu...
"You do realize that that 'parking spot' has had my highest income website on it for over a decade with about 100K visitors daily even at the low times?"

Why even "apologize" like that? You don't have to.

For some reason people seem to think that there could be a cost effective way to truly determine what the best use of each and every domain name is and allocate it to the truly deserving users!.

And that if that was even done then a user with more money wouldn't then come along later and buy it from that person by paying them money.

You know I remember way back in 2001 - I think it was. And I would have attorney's contact me wanting to know if they could use law.com for their website. You know as if they just woke up one morning, had this idea, and nobody else thought of using law.com for the same purpose. They were the first! That's how little they knew about the internet prior to that thought.

Likewise, many startups seem frustrated that the name that they want is being held for ransom by some other person. As if nobody else would have come along and used it for their business and they wouldn't be able to use it.
When I did an information economics paper inside Google I pointed out that understanding the value of the information in the context of its delivery system was key (there was an ongoing discussion about ereaders at the time). For many people (and as far as I could tell every single product manager inside G at that time :-) the notion that information delivery on anything other than a smartphone was both poorly conceived, and doomed to imminent failure (ie as soon as the smartphone/app version came out). No amount of data could break down that closely held belief.

I'm still convinced that at the right price point and feature set (which at one time I had hoped Plastic Logic could provide), the notion of a cheap (but reasonably large format and nearly indestructible) ereader could be the eco-system for this kind of thing.
I don't see much evidence of that.
> “I realized that I could have just as well been looking into the eyes of a Steve Jobs or a Bill Gates.”

> Though Theranos is largely unknown even in Silicon Valley, that is about to change.

> Precisely how Theranos accomplishes all these amazing feats is a trade secret.

> The analyzers look like large desktop computer towers. Holmes declines to explain how they work, or even allow them to be photographed, citing the need to protect trade secrets. The company manufactures them at an unmarked facility I toured in a research park across the South Bay from Palo Alto, in Newark, Calif.

> the single most accomplished board in U.S. corporate history. It includes former U.S. Secretary of State, Treasury, and Labor George Shultz; former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry; former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger; and former U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and Bill Frist

> In a rare if not unprecedented rout this past March, the patent holders unconditionally surrendered midtrial, stipulating to the invalidity of their own patent. As a kicker they agreed–though the presiding judge would have been powerless to order such a thing himself–to bring no additional patent suits against Theranos for five years.

> retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, explaining why he signed up last fall as another of Theranos’s strikingly illustrious outside directors. Mattis had stepped down just months earlier as commander of the U.S. Central Command–the chief of U.S. military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia

... zombie
... apocalypse
I'd just buy the .com and leave the rest unless I would be able to make a nice mnemonic.

For me a domain is a requirement, just like hosting is a requirement. Camarades.com became an instant hit and it was very hard to spell. Google wasn't even a proper word before it was used as a brand (they miss-spelled googol) and now it is almost a verb. Facebook is an ugly juxtaposition of two otherwise unrelated words. If ww.guru is your thing and wwguru.com is free then for the $10 or so you really should just take it. But if the .com is taken just ignore it and find another one. In the end a domain is an identifier, it is the service behind it that matters most. So if you plan on starting an escrow service it helps if you can obtain escrow.com. But if you can't I would not worry about it, there are tons of options.

I've yet to see a service succeed just on the strength of the domain, and I've seen plenty of services with great domains fail. A good domain can help but will not be the defining factor of a success.
If this was a Rails engine whose views and CSS I could adapt to my own I'd be sold!
Metro isn't flat either. There's a Z axis and objects get pushed back when you tap on them.
>>>> Backbone models, by default, don’t enforce any structure. You don’t have to declare anywhere what properties you’re going to store. As a result, people inevitably start saving miscellaneous properties on models from within a view somewhere, and there’s no good way for a new dev starting in on the project to be able to read the models and see exactly what state is being tracked.

What a terrible lead-in example for justifying Ampersand.js. If you want structure, why not use a strongly typed language that transpiles to JavaScript? I don't understand how all these micro libraries you created get you any assurance of what you were after.

Can you please explain further why I would use Ampersand.js? Coming from TypeScript, I just see no substantive argument. If I were a Backbone developer who had monolithic dependencies, I could see your argument. I also get AMD modules or CommonJS modules for free with TypeScript.
Add authentication to your Angular app with Auth0 and ASP .Net OWIN backend
That's the problem we're trying to solve at Leanstack.io, but without the Q&A interaction: http://leanstack.io/platform-as-a-service. Would love to hear your feedback: yonas[at]leanstack.io.
They are up to something, namely trying to become relevant again. When you rule the world, you can get away with all sorts of obnoxious things. When you don't, it's either play nice or go home.
"What would you recommend doing if I wanted to see which are valuable?"

If people are approaching you to buy them that is one indicator of value.

In general domains are a numbers game. If you own a large quantity of decent names you might sell 1% of them a year. Whether you get a good number totally depends on how you do the negotiation that's a huge factor.

In general it's pretty difficult to outbound sell domains especially if you don't know the business to be able to size up and potential buyers.
Loved this quote from her professor: “To me, I wish I wasn’t 70 years old. I wish I was her age and could be in on this. Because this is going to be a long, exciting, fascinating, exhilarating ride.”
@mdo : Any hint on what's big in store for v4
Reading some of the other comments in this thread, I think I'm getting a better idea of why this guy is suggesting that SSH in Docker could complicate things, especially when you are scaling to a large number of servers, but what I still don't quite understand his argument about security updates. Is that in any way SSH specific, beyond the fact that SSH is powerful and it's critical to be up-to-date on powerful things?

If it's a problem to update SSH, then it should also be a problem to update whatever else you have in your Docker container. I guess there's some argument to be made that if you're running a single-purpose Docker container, the updates to whatever service it's running won't sync up with the updates to SSH, so you may drastically increase the number of times you'll have to package the image, but that's just a general argument in favor of single-purpose containers, not anything specific to SSH like the key management issue.
(whomever downvoted this and my earlier comment: it's extremely bad form on HN to downvote something because you disagree with it; post a comment instead)

Now you are nitpicking to the extreme.

> The point is, one application becomes tens or hundreds of distinct and distributed processes.

And this is a process that starts from the moment you start splitting up the major services that typically already live in separate processes. It's a false dichotomy to treat your custom code and the full stack separately in this respect.

I explained that I agree that you had a point when you get to a level where the application has been split up to a great extent. I also pointed out why that was not the case I was addressing - rather pointing to your article as justification for baseline-docker. In fact, if you go "the whole hog", I'd argue the argument for baseline-docker because substantially worse.

It's a false dichotomy to contrast "fully monolithic app" and "true microservices". In real-life it is a sliding scale where most larger systems will already consist of multiple cooperating services, whether or not you wrote them yourself. For every person who thinks they are doing micro-services, I bet I can find someone who would argue they should have split it up more (or less).

The more pragmatic point is to split up to the extent your operational setup handles well. From my point of view, 10 services or 200 per application makes pretty much no difference in the setup we're deploying at work, for example.

I'd be happy to discuss microservices with you in more detail (I'm in London too), but that's an entirely different discussion from the comment I was making earlier.

> This is a massive rise in development and operational complexity before you seperate out your web server, database etc.

It's a massive rise in development and operational complexity if you're set up to do monolithic or near monolithic apps. Once you're set up to handle reasonably distributed/service oriented apps, additional increases in numbers of services quickly ceases to be an issue. On the contrary, I'd argue that for many setups, splitting up your application further reduces complexity because it forces making dependencies more explicit and allows for more easy probing and monitoring. I know I much prefer doings ops for apps that leans towards micro-services than monolithic apps (part of my responsibility is ops for a private multi-tenant cloud for various relatively large CRM applications we do).
tom at premiumurls dot net

Feel free to refer to me as the link-up (or reference this thread).

I completely understand someone that does not have a very public service in a high stakes market. Being extremely visible is not always helpful. But he's earned his spot in the light on this one and since it's easy to find him through tfa I'm sure he's ok with his contact info being listed here.
Oops, that's definitely a bug! Issue raised: https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/16

Thanks for finding this.
If you use that exclusively, then those ssh-based server management tools are moot.

Both most of these solutions are far more heavy duty. I've shipped enough VM images all over the place to learn to hate the overheads compared to the very lean-ness of a typical Docker deploy.
haha that pricing is Ridonkulus.
The whole article was pretty weird. Anyone care to speculate what's going on here?
That's a good mantra for life in general. Consider the subject expert, asked by a layperson a question which betrays a lack of domain vocabulary. Many such "experts" would assert the question to be a consequence of an inconsistent mental model, and question the petitioner's right to challenge the "expert" in the first place. These so-called "experts" who assume stupidity of the uninformed are rude, caustic, unconstructive, and contribute little to the human experience.

The true expert assumes an intelligent, albeit subject-ignorant, layperson. By placing themselves in the mind of the layperson and attempting to form a reasonable (if incorrect) mental model to fit the question asked, the expert can then explain both proper terminology, and either answer the question, or explain why it is ill-posed. These people help spread knowledge and are a boon to society.

As an example, consider a student who challenges a teacher of Newtonian physics to reconcile the Newtownian assertion that an object dropped while moving will continue to move forward, with the folk-physics belief that the object will fall where it is dropped. The caustic "expert" will simply assert the student is misguided and should pay more attention when he or she drops something. Perhaps perform some experiments and then get back to them.

The true expert will expend the small effort to understand that the student's mental model is likely formed from examples of lightweight objects being dropped at high velocities (e.g. a paper cup from a car), as any other common scenario results in the object reaching the ground quickly enough that the dropper has barely proceeded from his or her location. The true expert can then explain that indeed the student's model is correct in such scenarios, due to air resistance, and how these scenarios differ from the textbook's frictionless spheres in a vacuum.
Congratulations on shipping. I've bought it as an expression of sympathy — I'm building apps in my freetime too, but they were too complex even for a two man show… so I've never shipped anything. :)

What I would like to see in your app are high res icons. They look pixelated on my 5s.
IIRC, both Mars and Venus have enough of a natural population inversion in their upper atmospheres for laser action to take place (NIR CO2 lasers). Googling this hits paywalls pretty quickly but it seems to have been investigated in the 1980s.
Always an interesting subject. I can't help but feel it would reach a much wider audience and achieve a greater impact if it was subjected to an automated grammar check, or edited by a native English speaker. I could not get through all of the distracting grammar errors, and I suspect most non-technical English speaking managers (who seem to be the intended audience?) would have the same reaction.