skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very simple solution: pass a law that automatically absolves customers of any fraud, and places burden of proof on the banks. Transactions reported fraudulent should be automatically reversed, unless the bank can provide proof (satisfying the standards expected in civil courts) that the customer was at fault.

As an example, this was largely the case with transactions not involving PINs (signed-for purchases). Recent introduction of EMV (chip-and-pin cards) was really done to shift responsibility for such transactions back onto the customers and reduce banks' losses.

This is also the case with stolen cards (in the UK and Ireland, at least): losses related to such cases are covered by the bank, even for losses occurring before the card was reported stolen. This is the reason banks implement various pattern-matching techniques to try and detect such transactions as soon as possible.
Google Docs allows users to compare revisions and link to other documents, despite the chart saying it doesn't.
Um, tools like Compass, Serve, and the Rails plugin totally remove any awkwardness.
As alternative do DVORAK you could use the NEO-Layout it has a third modifier for parenthesis an that stuff.
But I think is it very dangerous to use a different keyboard layout. I used NEO quite a time and I got a bit faster than on qwertz. but sometimes i had to use other computers than mine and i this moments I were doomed. I had to use two fingers with looking on the keyboard. That was my reason to switch back.
direct navigation isn't really dead at all. As someone who has been involved in buying domains for 7 years, I can attest it still exists. However, this is only true of your real generics. Anything you hand register today won't be a type in, far from it.

Furthermore, there is always a tradeoff between generic/brandable. A few large companies have gotten away with the generic (Hotels.com for example) but most take the brand route because in the long run there is more value/protection. You need to decide based on your goals and timeframe.
As DavidSJ noted, typing in Dvorak doesn't make programming any easier. However, there are newer generations of Dvorak such as Programmer's Dvorak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Prog...) that attempt to make it easier. I've been using plain Dvorak, because I didn't learn about the alternatives in time. I don't think the switch has made much difference either way.

Oddly enough, the change that has caused the greatest increase in typing speed for me was starting to use my netbook keyboard. Most people will find this insane, but the smaller keyboard decreases finger travel, so as long as your fingers are small enough to continue typing with precision it ends up being a plus.

I think it's pretty meaningless to worry about typing speed being a productivity problem while programming. I can type at 120 wpm, but only 85 wpm while typing composed English, and about 35 wpm typing code. It's much more about brain latency. :)
I use Colemak and I can still touch type on qwerty (but slower and with more errors). There is a Colemak mode for Vim and for Emacs keyboard layout doesn't really matter.
It sometimes happen, not often, that my brain needs spurts of speed from my hands, and it's then that I notice that particularly my left hand holds me back. I've taken DVORAK under consideration as it's partly designed to detangle the left hand.

I'm not sure that a valid comparison / assessment can be made after a day or two's use.
Google should license the film and put it on YouTube for Chinese to watch it for free.
I recommend the following. Don't know why, but after I read a biography on Oppenheimer I just had to read this too.

Aspray, William (1990) John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing. MIT Press.
(http://www.amazon.com/Neumann-Origins-Modern-Computing-Histo...)
Obligatory Yegge link on typing: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties...

Typing is definitely the bottleneck for me in some situations, especially when I'm prototyping something, and I can hit 100 wpm without too much difficulty.

As for giving it a several day test drive, I don't think that's going to help at all. The point is that once you know dvorak it is faster than qwerty. It would probably take a least of month of dvorak to be able to make a reasonable evaluation.
Fair enough, I should have first stated that I've never tried DVORAK (so take my advice with a block of salt). What about giving it a week then? I suppose my point was that you won't know how hard it is until you give it a shot for a little while. People all learn differently, the only way to know is to just give it a shot.
This reminds me of Cliff Stoll (The Cuckoo's Egg) giving a talk at the Dayton Ham radio Convention a few years ago about curiosity and how it seems to be dying these days. He went out to the flea market and bought bags of parts and dumped them on the overhead projector and said, with some drama, "you can build a radio out of these".

He gave an illustration of an application of such technology for his neighborhood. The street near a school had a speed limit that was often exceeded. He wanted to find a way to bring the attention of this to the city. Purchasing some parts from Ramsey Electronics, he built a radar gun (using licensed ham radio frequencies), attached it to a post near the street, connected the output to a macintosh, and delivered plots of the speed of cars over a period of time. The city then put speed bumps there, making it a safer street.
The "Mexican Standoff" variation of this is much more fun.

In the case of two parties, you both come to the table with sealed envelopes, and inside those envelopes is a document saying how much you think the company is worth, and how much you will pay for the other parties' equity.

You then open the envelopes and whoever has the highest number will then buy out the other according to their valuation.
I posted a similar question a couple of days ago here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058437

I'm curious how much it really matters. I can see it being a big deal for email, but for organic traffic I'm not convinced. Most domain squatters don't have anything up on the site, have a adsense landing page or something extremely outdated. Assuming your site has even mild success, your search engine ranking will be much, much higher. Sadly, the email issue is probably a show-stopper.

Also, I don't think a lot of people actually type the domain in the address bar. They're either clicking a link or searching.

The real question here is, can you pull a dropbox? Trademark the name, launch your site, get popular, then just take away the .com if the owner somehow infringes on your mark. Is this a valid precedent or do you have to have boat-loads of cash to actually make this work?

In any case, it's probably just easier to choose a different name. I just emailed someone yesterday about a .com domain name and he wanted $20k. Seems like the dropbox method might be easier.
This is old news but the guy got what he asked for.

It was like taking out a piece of bloody meat while diving surrounded by hungry sharks.

You know, being inside an airport is like being on their territory.
Can we not call everyone who holds domains squatters? Just because they don't:

* answer your emails

* you don't see anything on the page

* there are currently advertisements showing

* won't sell for 10$ because that's registration fee

doesn't make them a squatter. A cybersquatter is someone infringing on your trademark. In almost every case I see, the people calling someone a squatter are simply pissed off that the domain they want is taken and they have no legitimate rights or claim to it, other than they thought of it just now and think they can do something better with it.

Thanks.
Single page: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/01/25/100125f...
Yes, but prior to that they used getdropbox.com, not dropbox.net (or something of that ilk). I do believe they were able to lawyer a squatter into releasing the dropbox.com domain after they were proven successful.
On the flip side, I host net-benefits.net as a favor to friends in the debating community, and every week I get an email from somebody attempting to get into, e.g., Prudential's online insurance portal Net Benefits, because they Googled the name on their benefits statement. (There are about four places on the Internet that thought this would be a clever name for their insurance/investing portal.)
What about the grocers etc that lose because of the money that was transported overseas rather than locally?
Until I realized, just now, that the OP also wrote the article, I felt folks were treating him a bit unfairly. Now, not so much.

Pegobry, your point is well taken; I'm an engineer myself, and I agree -- as Web frameworks mature, and engineering/development patterns level off, design becomes the differentiating factor. And yes, provided your numbers are correct, Tumblr currently appears to be "winning." Not sure whether the latter really matters, or whether it even supports the former at all, but it's a concept with which I happen to agree.

Your mistake was to post the article here, primarily since you wrote it yourself. Most folks here are engineers who follow YC startups. You might as well have posted a link titled, "Why Microsoft Is Kicking Apple's Ass" in an Apple forum.
I don't think these are mom-pop cinemas.
In a program that has since ended, MakerBot has also pioneered crowd-sourced manufacturing. If you had some way of making the pulleys they needed, be it on a MakerBot or otherwise, they would pay you $2 per pulley. They would, in turn, sell those pulleys in the MakerBot kits they sold.

(http://blog.makerbot.com/2009/08/06/makerbot-is-pioneering-d...)
Have you tried the .us domain? I always suspected it's the next big landrush as so many of the .com names are gone.
You're not going to type faster with the Dvorak layout. Maybe piano lessons would be a better use of time than Dvorak practice.

The layout is better for programming, though, so I recommend learning it. Underscore and hyphen are in the perfect place, and having the comma and period keys on the upper row is nicer for the hands.

Dvorak is a lot better for Emacs, too, if only because C-x stretches out the hand instead of scrunching it up.

I've become ignorant of the benefits of Qwerty, though. For some period of time, I got annoyed by the positioning of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, but eventually I just got used to using two hands for those commands. That's the one specific lingering annoyance that I can think of.
I'd say, invest in yourself. If you're short of creative ideas on what to do with your time and finances, I think you might find the book "the 4 hour work week" interesting.
import csv
file = csv.reader(open('config.csv'), delimiter='\t')
for row in file:
for cell in row:
# do something with the cell
China pays Web users to find porn amid crackdown
This is an example of how important good copy is. Write bad copy and people will bash your company, even for doing something fundamentally good.
It's not something you should just "consider". Adding that feature will make your app successful.
His advice might help the way you speak too. Courtesy is not sugarcoating. He noticed some good engineering in your writing, but if you want to reach people maybe your words need better design.
What if they only sort of peripherally remember the name? It's about finding it, rather than using it.
Or both. I'm actually using XP still, mainly because I have some older hardware on which it runs ok, and I'm a victim of the reality of the economy and Win 7, even if it ran ok on said hardware, is a luxury I can't afford right now.

But your second point is spot-on. In the 10 years Ballmer's been the head, the stock has done essentially nothing. He's a train wreck, and a sociopathic scary one at that.
Believing You Can Get Smarter Makes You Smarter
Thanks :)

I don't really have any experience with any higher level API, so I guess I can not help you there.

To me, it is important to know a bit about the inner workings of an API. I guess you could say I prefer to learn bottom-up. This means, even if I end up using a higher level API, I still "need" to know how to use OpenGL directly. That's how it works for me, anyway :) Good luck.
And the downvotes the OP is getting clearly indicate that
"Nobody loses" - you feel it's healthy that the government dictates what's playing in cinemas? The fact that it's Avatar just tells you about the odds for a film that actually has some value, eg criticism of the ruling party.
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A better comparison would be to compare that royalty rate with what the author gets from sales. A 'typical' rate would be 10% of what the publisher gets. If the retailer sells the book for £8 they'll keep something like 40% so the publisher will keep £4.80 and the author will get £0.48.
Steven Levys "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" from 1984 is a great read. It pictures three major hacker cultures: the MIT hackers; Woz and the other early hardware hackers; and the video game hackers of the 70's/80's.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hackers:_Hero...

John Markoffs "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" from 2005 is another great book that follows the history of the PC industry, from it's roots in the ideas of Vannevar Bush and Doug Engelbart to the modern PC. IIRC Woz and the MIT hackers are portrayed here as well, but there's not too much overlap with Levy's book.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/What_the_Dorm...
I'm perhaps being naive here, but I'm not sure "a simple patch" exists. It could be one of those bugs that requires something non-simple. But I of course have no idea, not having access to the code (nor really even understand the flaw).
Tweetable Game of Life in MATLAB
I don't think that watching it for free will be a problem in China.
I started using Dvorak out of curiosity more than anything. I've been using it for close to 4 years now, and I haven't noticed any speed gains.

It's inconvenient to use other peoples' computers; although, this is offset a bit by the amusement value of watching others try to use my machine.

The claims about ergonomics may be valid. My hands move a lot less when using Dvorak, but I can't speak as to whether the chances of RSI are reduced in any way by this, or if it provides any kind of relief.

Programming-wise, I haven't had any problems. The biggest concern there is that you might not be able to type for the first week or two.

Unless you have some significant reason to do so, I don't think I would recommend switching myself. I didn't see any significant gains, but your mileage may vary.
You would think that being successful makes it harder to get the domain back, since the squatter knows the real stakes.

What are the legal grounds for "lawyering" him into releasing the domain?
Insofar as the C-x stretches the hand, this depends on the keyboard. I have a Kinesis contoured keyboard, and that chord is one finger closer together than the reach on a conventional keyboard.
What do you mean I need to improve my skills?
Android's Next Challange? iTunes
I bet they will use the torrents.
Sony’s bio-battery used to run toys on sugar-filled drinks
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WatchMouse Monitors 26 Popular APIs So You Don’t Have To
Anyone who wants to see Avatar (or any western movie) in China can just plunk down the 9-10 yuan (<$1.50) for a (probably pretty decent) bootleg DVD that can be found in just about any marketplace. I'm sure this is mostly for posturing and perhaps economic reasons. I'm sure they sometimes do these things just to remind people that they're there and that they can, even if the people there aren't overly impressed or bothered by it.

My inlaws in China probably watch more American movies than I do and I have netflix.
Someone tell me again why we allow Chinese imports?

We should seriously consider allowing only 20 kinds of Chinese-made consumer electronics into the US, and banning any model which gets popular enough to threaten non-Chinese manufacturers.
iTunes allows for in-application purchases with an online account. I suggest examining their payment model.
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I saw that recently on an innocuous kids site. A domain with a different tld, was a hard core porn site. Ouch.

I don't think that was a squatter it was just rather unfortunate. Unless that is a trend?
Here (in Russia) we watch everything for free in HDTV quality.
> Someone tell me again why we allow Chinese imports?

It's called freedom.
maybe just a person who accidentally saw the tweet in question, but did know nothing about the person who wrote it. Did they bother to ask any ofthe other followers about the seriousness of the tweet? Or even the originator?

That sounds like the usual 'I take the chance to get my 15 mins of importance'. Bad thing is, worried internet-foreign authorities make it so easy to denounce people.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Lev...

Stories from early in the personal computer era. This book inspired me greatly when I read it as a high school sophomore. After reading it, I taught myself Pascal (that dates me -- I guess this was in 1989) and started making little drawing programs on our old Fat Mac.

At this point it's an old book, but it's still in print, and the profiles in it are pretty timeless.
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I have noticed an on-screen keyboard/keypad with ING Direct. They use it for PIN entry. I presume that it is to defeat keyloggers as you have mentioned.
Change keyboard layouts if you have ergo problems, like I did. Don't change for speed; you won't gain any.

If you are finding that your keyboard is slowing you down while you code, though, consider changing your tools -- get a new programming language, or a new IDE. A concise language like Haskell requires very little typing, but you end up thinking about each line for a long time. If you're using Java with a plain text editor, consider switching to Eclipse; I find that Eclipse ends up entering about a third of the code that I author.
In China the DVD will be copied, which isn't as likely with the film experience.

Frankly, both countries worry about the balance of payments, which Chinese consumers consuming American movies helps. To have China focus on keeping every last dollar inside the borders is a form of protectionism, which if other countries followed would result in a general slowdown of trade. Sure this particular movie is a tiny blip, but then if so they should just play the movie until nobody wants to see it.

India doesn't have a hard time making movies - Bollywood is a huge success and they export to the rest of the world. Seems like a healthy balance to me.
Ask HN: implications of using GPL'ed Ruby library inside a SAAS service ?
I'm quite puzzled by this question - maybe someone here will be able to give a clear answer.

My current understanding is that I'd have to state I use the GPL library, and would have to send the library code (not the whole server code) to anyone asking (including modifications, if any).

Did I understand properly ?
This is painful.
I used it for about 3 years, and it sped me up greatly when writing text, as in large blocks of English language text, it didn't help with programming at all. However before that I was only ever a 5 finger Qwerty typist, the speed gain from Dvorak came from forcing me to touch type properly.

2 things made me abandon dvorak and switch back to qwerty. Keyboard shortcuts. I never got the hang of mentally mapping between individual keys, so I when I had to push a Ctrl-X for example, I would have to stop and think for too long trying to work out which one X is.

The other thing was pair programming, was a pain switching back and forth when grabbing and relinquishing the keyboard. Sometimes pair programming meets enough resistance as it is without my stupid keyboard layout adding to it.

Another bonus, is that with qwerty you can work single handed, and e.g. hold the baby or eat or use the mouse or whatever.

So right now I am back to my 5 finger qwerty, its slower for example for things like this message, but the bulk of what I do is just typing in little bits of text and source code here and there so the speed loss is acceptable.

If I were typing in large blocks of English text for a living I would switch back to dvorak, but for a programmer qwerty is better.

Actually, if you are one of those programmers that use the mouse to use menu items, and never use shortcuts, you might be ok with dvorak.
people (authorities) should learn to realize what kidding is
Also: Shiira [http://shiira.jp/en.php] (Mac OS X only)
Most people (even geeks) use google to find a site they don't remember the exact url for, and google does a very good job at finding that url, regardless if there is a .com with the same name.

Eg. searching for 'python' gets you python.org as 1st result. You don't want to go to the .com
That's how the chinese system works. It's a communist country with a communist party and a controlled economy: it's not a suprise if this happens. If you don't like such a system that's fine, protest the system, but don't protest a tiny part of the system.

If you don't want communism, then say that, but don't say "Avatar should be allowed to make as much profit as it wants, but I don't care about the system". Do you understand the distinction here?
Yes, I agree about multiple concepts having similar names.

We should keep Wikipedia out of the discussion. To point to the common usage of dynamic programming in the mathematical sense, people could just as well have mentioned some textbooks (or not supplied any sources at all). Wikipedia is just a handy reference, but only tangential to the argument.

By the way, Wikipedia has disambiguation pages (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(disambiguation)) when there are multiple common meanings for an entry.
But...that's what THEY are doing. Do you not become the same when you do that?
I came here to say exactly this. I enjoy Dawkins, but he might as well have been talking to a brick wall.
I think comedy shows like the late-night shows and SNL are in the same situation as CDs were last decade - it's no longer enough to have one or two jokes (singles) carry the whole show (CD), because we can now acquire those individually.

If Conan went online, he could focus on doing 5-10 funny things a week, cut his budget massively, and have a total of 40-60 minutes of content each week, but have it be good stuff. Because he wouldn't be bubbled into a timeslot, he wouldn't have to "fill" with less-funny stuff.
You can use all the GPL code you want on your server without telling or sharing it with anyone. GPL only matters when you're redistributing a program using GPL code.

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
It took me about two weeks to learn it well enough to where I could instant message my friends comfortably. I didn't notice any speed-up from the switch. I did seem to notice less stress on my fingers after a full day. Eventually I had to switch off of it because I found oscillating between QWERTY and Dvorak keyboards (for example home vs work vs friend vs lab) was annoying.
Your post seems to suggest that open web standards have only recently been developed. You do realize that even 10 years ago there were open, cross-browser standards? Granted, they were more primitive, but it was still perfectly possible to write web apps in them.
I kept adding Inspirational stories I find on HN and other places on http://inspiry.tumblr.com (Just wanted to share)
Could be a freemium model: free for n pages per domain, $5/mo for unlimited.

Also, a free version could have a logo/link to the site, while the paid version is completely white label.

Finally, it might just be a good project to have on one's resumé. Even if it's not directly profitable, it could lead to a better paying job or a better chance at get some VC funded.