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They only did that due to user demand though. People didn't want their private life wide open for the world to see.

chrishackenon Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview

That's exactly what he's saying. Small startups, who don't want to use Google, would have a lot of difficulty implementing some of these designs on their own.

chrishackenon Want to Build a Side Business? Just Buy Great Domain Name

> Google indexes domains

Based on their content, back links, etc.

> And with social, you don't own or control the content

Using social to drive traffic to the content, not posting content directly on social.

chrishackenon Want to Build a Side Business? Just Buy Great Domain Name

How many companies have started without x.com that are now huge? Tesla was TeslaMotors.com before it was Tesla.com, Square was SquareUp.com before it was Square.com, DataDog was Datadoghq.com before it was Datadog.com; I can keep going.. (yes, they're still .com's, but you wouldn't consider datadoghq.com investable. In all likelyhood, Datadog only used that name because it was a $9 registration.)

The domains didn't make them succeed.

I mean sure, if you're going to invest in domains, I'm not going to argue that buying turtle.com for $9 is a good idea, but those days are long gone. Anything that's dropped or available now probably isn't going to be worth anything; unless you're paying $8k on NameJet and flipping for $10k.

chrishackenon Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World

If you owned your home prior to them building the plant, I'd imagine you probably can. (Again, not a lawyer.) However, I was thinking more along the lines of your neighbor installing a coal furnace next door and turning your house black.

chrishackenon Want to Build a Side Business? Just Buy Great Domain Name

Not to burst your bubble but I'm convinced we're moving into an era where your domain name and TLD are becoming less and less relevant. Google and Social are all that matter. Had you asked me 4 years ago if I'd ever consider building a business on .io or .co I would have laughed in your face. Now I'm building products on both of them.

FWIW, I used to buy/sell domains and I think it's a terrible investment strategy now. I can't tell you how many thousands of dollars I've wasted.

Unless you're able to pick up one-word / 3L .com's for very cheap and know you can easily flip them, it's just not worth it.

chrishackenon Lambdascript – A new pure functional language built on top of Python

I may have misinterpreted your comment, but I think that was my point. He could have built Lambdascript directly on top of Go or some other marginally fast language instead of building on Python.

chrishackenon Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World

It's ironic that your comment was downvoted; because everything you said is exactly why it was. It's not that your idea is a bad theory or negative; people downvoted it because they didn't agree with it.

chrishackenon Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World

I'm no lawyer, but I would think if you provided sufficient evidence that someone was causing irregular levels of pollution at your private property you'd likely be able to sue them.

chrishackenon Lambdascript – A new pure functional language built on top of Python

What's your point? You really want to recompile code twice just to run it?

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

Generally 30A for a full, 15A for a half, etc. Then $12/Amp for extra power.

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

Everything is all swell now, but there have been days, weeks, months, where everything was one payment, one customer, one ..., from imploding. I got lucky.

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

But that person on the phone is almost certainly reading from a scripted prompter and could care less about your issue. It would probably take 2-3 days to get someone on-site if there was a physical issue with your connection. I've gotten calls before at 2am and was on-premise by 2:30am, does ATT do that?

chrishackenon Uber Doesn’t Want to Give NYC (or Anyone) More Data

I don't disagree that this data would be beneficial to the public, but I don't think government should have the right to tell a private organization that they need to hand out their data to whoever wants it.

Over regulation kills business; maybe not companies like Uber, but smaller companies that are still trying to get off the ground.

This is a slippery slope.

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

https://nepafiber.com/colocation

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

Your link returns a 502 and ispschool.slack.com doesn't exist.

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

I don't see an email in your bio. Mine's chris at nepafiber

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

I started with around $15k, but that's nothing compared to what I've dumped into the business since then. If I knew then what I know now, I'm not sure I would have started this.

I have not written about it, yet.

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

I'm working on a deal with a local private school and that was the first question I got. "How can you offer faster speeds and better pricing than Frontier, Verizon, etc?".

They were previously paying $2,000/m for 100 Mbps. It's not that hard to compete with that. haha

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

I love your site design. Extremely clean and it very clearly shows what the bot is for.

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

> Do you use the line of other providers? And how profitable is?

Yes, we're peering with Zayo and will also have Level 3 (waiting on build) in April.

Don't really want to toss out numbers but the bandwidth itself is extremely profitable. The equipment and fiber needed to connect to end-users are 95% of the costs.

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

> Are you pretty much on business because AT&T/Goog/TWC are not serving in your area?

That's it exactly. Prior to me, the only service available in the area was Verizon DSL or Cable (40 Down/2 Up).

chrishackenon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

I'm not sure if this qualifies as an "online business", but I started an ISP in November '15. It's also not entirely "one-person". I am the sole founder, but I do hire part-time help on occasion if I'm swamped. It started off as a WISP and has finally grown to the point where we are beginning to deploy fiber.

The site is https://nepafiber.com

I still work full-time as a systems engineer, but the business started bringing in more money than my job does around 3 months ago. I'm only still at my job so that I can expand more rapidly; running fiber isn't cheap.

chrishackenon Study: carpooling apps could reduce traffic 3x in NYC

> travel times in cabs are hellish comparing to subway commute

Isn't this because of road congestion though? I thought the principle behind the study was to remove all cars except those 3,000 ride sharing vehicles.

chrishackenon Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case

They were given a warrant. Did you not read the article?

>Bentonville issued a warrant for Amazon to hand over any audio or records from an Echo belonging to James Andrew Bates.

chrishackenon CDC considers lowering threshold level for lead exposure

Water isn't the only issue either. Our city has higher levels of lead than Flint does, but it's consumed through means other than water. http://www.pahomepage.com/news/18-pa-cities-lead-higher-lead...

chrishackenon Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case

http://www.he.net/

"Get BGP+IPv6+IPv4 for $0.25/Mbps!"

I thought it was HE, but it must have been someone else that had a 10Gig deal for $2,000. Either way, that's for a single 10Gig link. If you're buying 100Gb - 1Tbps like Amazon is, you're probably getting an even better deal.

We just signed a contract with Level 3 for slightly more than the price you mentioned, but they had to build into us; which costs them ~$120k out of pocket, thus the higher price.

chrishackenon Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case

Based on the costs of disks alone, their cost per PB is actually around $35k. They likely get a volume discount, so we can lower that estimate even more and say $25-30k. Bandwidth is essentially free even though they charge ridiculous amounts of money for it on their services. You can get a 10Gbps link for as low as $2,000 if you buy it on-net and in bulk, Amazon probably gets it even cheaper. So ~3PB/month for $1,000/month.

chrishackenon Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case

Sure, maybe they don't understand the technology, but why not just hand it over so they can determine for themselves that there's no data pertaining to the investigation. They're essentially obstructing justice. They're trying to act like the good guy, but they're really just being assholes.

Of course there's the possibility that they have something to hide and are actually collecting more data than we all think they are.

chrishackenon Los Angeles Drivers on the 405 Ask: Was $1.6B Worth It?

My thoughts exactly. We could have put that money towards an impressive rail system, or even a metro Hyperloop.