skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We are super competitive and you are not. What do you think will happen if we are forced to compete against you?"

Counterpoint: How many jobs have you held that were purely competitive, rather than cooperative?

Pure competition may work for high level athletes in individual sports, or for sociopaths trying to claw their way to the top of a dogpile of thieves -- in zero-sum or negative-sum games where the only thing that counts is winning.

But in most walks of life, being too competitive is a liability.

Real life is seldom a zero-sum game, and the serious business of creating wealth and adding value is usually a positive-sum game. Cooperation rules, and the Wall Street Wanker's anonymous nastygram is merely the bitter complaint of a sociopath in an industry that's long overdue for external regulation.
I use this daily with my dev team. It's great because skype is cross-platform, easily traverses firewalls/NAT, and combines the screen sharing with voice chat.

Any competing tool (or set of tools) would have to accomplish those same goals.

Also, I tend to use skype (or email) whenever I have to paste a large block of text (like a stack trace), since Yahoo and AIM both avoid sending messages if they're too long.
I've said this in other China related threads but I think China will just end up black-holing themselves.
> But this is fairly easily remedied by switching to yet higher frequencies or using optical communication.

Isn't this the same?
The 3900 requests per second are likely not constant. That number is probably during their busiest time during the day, so their infrastructure needs to support that kind of traffic. You're right, though, requests per second likely includes all file types.
"You mean a free country like the US perhaps:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-08/betonsports-ex-c... "

I don't find it difficult to distinguish a country which by and large abides by the rule of law---even if one thinks upon occasion that the law is an ass---with a country that barely pretends.

And we don't know what's going to be the long term consequences of the PRC's steadily increasing crackdown on the Internet. The current ruling class is clearly determined to not see a repeat of Tiananmen Square; not getting in their way strikes me as a very good idea, even if that means running a normal Internet business has become impossible.
You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity. --Zuckerberg, 2009

Zuckerberg has no business discussing "a lack of integrity" other than his own.
listening & playing some music (not seriously)
painting (usually abstract art)
going to the beach (is that a hobby? I just like the sea too much)
I think you're correct, but China still tries its best to crack down on this. Remember the iPhone is sold in China without wifi. Probably to cut down on this exactly.
And they need to figure out which errors are critical. Some of the bits might be flipped without causing any damage.
lock picking, model making, cycling
Photography (http://divya.ca) and
Motorcycling
move to Taiwan?
I'm too busy these days (I only run to keep myself sane) but I used to design & build hi-fi gear. It's a lot of computer modeling and a fair amount of sawing / soldering.
they aren't preferences either, because preferences can change easily.
Cooking is probably my favorite hobby, I love doing something with my hands and really feeling accomplished when I make a great meal.

This may sound childish, but I also really enjoy building and playing with LEGOs. I just have a few sets but I constantly rebuild them and I find it is an interesting thing to do while listening to music.
Waterproof means it won't electrocute you if it gets wet.

As to self-regulation, the body's heat controller seems to release adrenaline to increase temperature. This works fine but is not so good for sleeping.
sailing and fishing around NYC
I gave that example because the entrepreneur it writes about was a foreigner visiting the US with a business outside of the US where his activities were legal.
Not sure if it is available for Linux yet. One can try yuuguu, but it's only free for up to 100 minutes/month: http://www.yuuguu.com/features/skype-integration
I think the best hobbies for hackers are the ones that will force you to go out. Walking, sports, astronomy, going to the beach, and so forth. We already use too many hours to stay at home hacking so it is better to counterbalance in some other way in the free time.
Skype and a cell phone (with Skype App) are all you need. In many ways, Skype is the killer app of the 21-st century.
Why Corporate Secrets Must be Protected.
Most browsers have text size adjustment facilities. Ctrl+= comes to mind.
Quite possibly… but which course of action is the most likely to succeed in getting the post quietly pulled?

"Hey Michael, sorry about this, but some wires got crossed on our end. My bad. Apparently…"

or

"Hey Michael, you screwed up. You better pull that post or else."

?
Read the comments section as well. The author (Ramki) has responded to queries raised in that comment section.
CentOS 5.5 released
From the original posting:

"[...] even if I had the cash I don't have a credit card that can make payments in $US to buy VPN access"

And avoiding a paper trail is wise if things eventually get ugly.
lindy hop
a question about your sentence structure.

why did you write "i wonder what is ..." instead of "i wonder what ... is."

did you mean to write "i wonder: what is..."?

where are you from? the structure you used common there?
Jogging is something I do regularly, as well as inline skating. I also picked up paragliding this year and try to do it as often as possible, but it always depends on the weather.