skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if this will help, but when I was switching to dvorak I used typespeed. Its not dvorak specific but its fun and gives you a great way to learn.

http://tobias.eyedacor.org/typespeed/
The series in question is the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, read by James Marsters, If you're an audiobook fan, I also recommend looking into GraphicAudio. Unabridged audiobooks with a full voice cast, music, and sound effects.

The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks is good in GraphicAudio, as is Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Warbreaker is stand-alone, so it may be a good starting point.

There are a few rough bits, but there always are; some sections with awkward musical choices, some re-used recognizable sound effects, but they're no more common than errors in standard audiobooks.

(Disclaimer: GraphicAudio books are abridged, but functionally unabridged. If it's raining, they play the sound of rain instead of having the narrator say "it was raining". By definition, that makes them abridged, despite no loss of content.)
Use the right tool for the job.

The programmer is the important element, and the language and tools should be chosen based on the problem. .
Ask HN: When do you think the next iPad (with a camera) will be announced?
The rumors have been going around the last few days. For example:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/10/apple_to_move_aggressively_on_facetime_camera_equipped_ipads.html<p>What do you think? When will see the next iPad, which will presumably have a camera in it?
http://searchyc.com/submissions/dvorak?page=1
Avi Bryant answered this here (http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1186/django-is-obsolet...), but on Django form. For the projects he mentions, sinatra is more than enough.
I'm working on it.
Also - anyone know how to get NFL real time play by play feed?

It would come in very handy for a project I have in mind.
>Twitter needs to decentralize or it will die.

told ya so
the problem with benchmarking a virtual instance's CPU is that how much you get varies quite a bit based on your weight and how much contention you have.

If you have a system with 512MiB ram on a box and a system with 2048Mib ram on the same box, and they each have 1 vcpu, and they are weighted appropriately, when the cpu is idle, the 512 system will have just as much cpu as the 2048MiB system. When there is contention, the weighting will step in and give the 2048MiB system more CPU, though.

(of course, I believe that amazon does not mix instance sizes. Even so, assuming an even ram to cpu ratio, which is a pretty good assumption, the 2048MiB ram system on a system full of 2048MiB guests will have much better worst case performance than a 512MiB guest on a system with a similar ram/cpu ratio, even though if they both have 1 vcpu their best case performance will be about the same, assuming the cpu cores on each hardware are of similar speed.)

Really, if you are going for imperial data, you should do it the way Eivind Uggedal did it. He repeatedly ran a benchmark and recorded results over a very long period of time. Doing it just once is going to get you a pretty random result, and on average, is going to make a small instance look much better (cpu wise) than it is in the worst case, and really, you usually have to design for something fairly close to the worst case.
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I totally agree, I've many times pleaded the case that MS should just ditch Trident in favor of Webkit, and everyone would benefit.
Some people really are that clueless about the potential issues around email, whether it's the fact that it isn't secure or that it can be dredged up from any number of locations in an eDiscovery process. In fact, I would be a lot of people, especially at smaller companies, fall into that category.
looks like fun but can I get Mac OSX software? The keys on my mac were easiest to re-place.... :P
3D long-exposure light painting with an iPad
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This is a case where I want more than one upvote.
> For a lot of people

For New York Jews? You say it to me I think potato famines.

It's a fine, catchy name with some bite. Hopefully they don't trade it in for something dumb like folksr.
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Thanks, your Terms of Service are excellent [1]. For others, here's the applicable section:

Service of the Applications is billed in advance on a monthly basis and is non-refundable. There will be no refunds or credits for partial months of service, upgrade/downgrade refunds, or refunds for months unused with an open account.

What if a customer signs up for your Solo plan ($15/mo), and then immediately upgrades to Agency ($49/mo). How much is he charged and when?

And what about the other way around: Agency to Solo. They don't get a credit for $34 when they downgrade to apply to future payments? With a service like Recurly, they're credited that $34 and that's applied to future bills. In your app, it seems like they'd pay the $49, then $15 when they downgrade and then $15/mo thereafter, correct?

[1] http://www.roninapp.com/site/tos
It runs on osx :P

If you're looking for something with a nicer user interface, I am afraid I cannot help
Thanks so much for the positive feedback. ;) Justin has done a lot of work to get the audio quality where it is, so it's nice to hear that his effort is paying off.
"7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails"

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...
It's not just IE6, it's IE7 and IE8.
because his hero Anslinger did?
Reductio ad absurdum: http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio . I use this with everything. Programming, math, thinking of relationships between people....

The technique comes naturally, I presume, from dealing with abstract problems. So a lot of people use it without knowing the latin logical phrase.
If a non-pilot and a private pilot took off in a 727 (that had recently been "repaired") from Angola and were last seen flying over the ocean, it's not terribly difficult to understand exactly what happened: they crashed into the ocean.
That's not what it's dependent on. IE6 will be supported until 2014. Even with Explorer's glacial release cycle that will be about 5 newer releases than IE6, 4 for the still supported IE7 and so on.
"Groupon has fantastic clear , benefit-driven copy and landing page design , and they split test everything fanatically ."

Care to provide us with references or examples?
Quicksorting a deck of cards is not actually that quick, oddly.
Let the user win in the normal case.

If they pay for the smaller plan, and the next day they upgrade, they'll happily receive the larger plan until the next billing cycle. This also means they can cheat the system by paying, the next day upgrading, then downgrading right before the next billing cycle. Oh well, we've got bigger fish to fry. If they love your service enough to live with the pain of having to time their upgrades and downgrades, you have a gold mine in your hands and you're probably not hurting from being unable to collect your $34.

As for the downgrade case, the TOS applies in this case. Fortunately, very rarely do our customers downgrade. After all, we've built a service that helps them build their company (and I gather jMockups is much the same). It hurts us more than just financially to see them shrink in size.

At the end of the day, we're running on a streamlined billing system that doesn't take more than a paragraph to explain. And this helps because we also put up an explanation right on the account upgrade page. More importantly, we're not wrestling with unmanageable amounts of code or fretting about a third party vendor meeting business needs - more time to spend improving the product in more important ways.
Groupon's editorial manual describes in detail their approach to copywriting: https://docs.google.com/View?id=dmv9rbh_11gtqx983t

I just started working on a groupon clone. Dev site: dealhill.com. If you're working on one too, feel free to email me. It would be cool to share knowledge and discuss strategy.
The Endless Mural (HTML 5 generative art tool)
I dunno. Nintendo survived 'wii'.
Let me know what you find out about the insurance. I've been curious about that.
One must remember that a single machine could serve many, many users via terminals.
> Once this price goes down, it goes down for EVERY SINGLE customer

Alternatively, what if the price went down for previous customers—retroactively, as you've said–but not for new customers? Then, customer N - 1 gets paid back a bit of money when customers N and greater purchase your product. There is a name for customer N - 1 in this case: an investor.

I've had the hypothesis for a while that the future of artistic economics is microinvestment: your fans purchase, through a completely streamlined process (e.g. iTMS), tiny amounts of the right to steer your career around—and the actual digital goods come for free with those investments. The "collector edition" becomes the "investor edition." Polls on your fan-site—in est a virtual shareholder meeting—hold real legal sway over your publisher/studio/firm. Etc.
Thanks for your quick response anyway, I appreciate it
In my experience, those systems are in dire need of replacement, anyway.
Interestingly enough, I thought they WERE going to use PHP at first.

Something to note about the choice of Rails though is that you now have options like insta-deploy Railsmachine/Heroku type providers for this. Not them specifically mind you.
Dabangg has created a new benchmark: Sonu Sood
Yeah, I know--at least I didn't spend to much time on it :( Seems to be better if you set the category to books/music/movies. Problem is you can't sort the results with api if you search across all products. Even if you can sort the results, most categories seem to return a bunch of junk. Don't think it's the same search Amazon uses on their site.
It's too hard to pronounce easily.
In an established product, no. At this stage, I think keeping 'em public is a good idea.
Anything I pay for with paypal appears as PAYPAL <company name> <some account number> <3 letter country code>.
Do Techies Make Good Leaders?
That is at odds with what I saw in that google search. Google was hiring lots of people to replace people that left
that link is a bad test. they wrote 0's to the drive, which is bad because 1) empty nand flash contains all 1's and 2) writing 1's or 0's doesn't mark the blocks as cleared, you have to use secure erase
Do you realize that a contract doesn't have to be written right, that contract law places as much emphasis on oral agreements and your actions?

Arrington was smart in knowing that he didn't need the written contract if things went bad (exhibit a) and that a written contract would tie down his own options for the crunchpad (ie. if they signed and then FG didn't deliver, arrington could have gone to another partner without FG still owning part of the company).

You can see in the evidence that Arrington spent a lot of time going back and forward to work out the merger agreement. This was seen as an almost formality from both parties, hence the reason why it was pushed back so late.

ps. and that PR firm, McGrath Power, I will never ever work with them nor any company that works with them and I will advise every company I know not to work with them or to leave them. Seriously sick company, who in evidence, basically said 'oh this looks bad, but it is worth $x, so lets do it' (the amount was redacted)
That is, in your case the formula gives the right order of magnitude. Great precision for such a rough estimation.
It would help to know what your widget actually did, but here's a freemium pitch: make your widget free for the first X views / mo., and then show ads, unless your user subscribes for $Y / mo.

By show ads, I mean, after some domain has gotten X views, break the widget and show the biggest ad you can.
It may be superfluous technically, but it could be coding standard on their part to eliminate any confusion. It's not that far of a stretch.
http://ad.ly/ has been testing an ad network for stream-based applications (those that interact with timeline-based media like Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace's new interface). Ad.ly presented at http://appnationconference.com/ yesterday, both as part of a panel for monetizing the app-based stream, and a break-out panel showing a sample application that includes monetization.
I drink a hell of a lot of whiskey.
Also GNU Social, started by the same people as http://libre.fm , http://www.gnu.org/software/social/ .
ssd's have spare blocks for extra life/wear leveling. ssd garbage collection can use LBA in combination with these spare blocks to always have cleared blocks.
There's a massive difference between the Firefox auto-update (you're not launching until I'm installed then you're good) and the IE update (I'm going to make you reboot your PC, or nag you until you leave your PC idle for 15 minutes and I'll reboot losing your work for you. Oh yeah im tied into Windows Update so your PC as a whole might have random issues after reboot.)
And rightly so. Sports guys talk about various glory moments where pure luck or doing the wrong thing (according to the fundamentals) worked out well. Fishing stories are all... yeah..

Basically all groups have their lore. Everyone knows it contains an element of bragging, a lot of BS and some downright fabrication. It's not about fact reporting, its about bonding, it's about highlighting certain aspects to demonstrate traits valued in the group, it's about passing on a generalized knowledge. Hell, some places "shooting the shit" is called "telling lies with the boys".
Well worth reading the whole thing. It’s not too long, and he’s already Readability’d it for us, if you will.

But if you don’t have time:

• #NewTwitter will make Twitter more mainstream, and will provide advertisement opportunities.

• #NewTwitter is a shift away from being a platform towards being a destination (or “place of consumption,” if you will), and as such further complicates relationships with third-party developers.

• Twitter should become decentralized, but it’s clearly in Twitter’s best interested not to.

• Alex circulated a document internally advocating decentralization, and executives disagreed (understandably).
This is Jessica from inDinero -- happy to give you a complete picture on what the ideal choice is.

For small businesses (where it's just you and possibly a few employees), they typically use inDinero exclusively b/c they don't have complex needs.

For larger businesses (more than a few employees), we actually see a few customers on both inDinero and QuickBooks simultaneously, where the business owner will use inDinero, but they'll also have an accountant on QuickBooks.

In any case, it completely depends on what you're looking for. Accounting software like QuickBooks was built with accountants in mind, so many of our customers are converts. Feel free to email ceo [at] inDinero.com, and we'd be happy to give you the complete low-down.
I run three services with monthly subscriptions, the oldest having gone from free to freemium about 6 years ago.

1) Keep it simple. Don't prorate things, just let their subscription continue until the end of the month they already paid for. Rarely someone asks for a refund after canceling, and I give it to them.

2) If there's any chance they might return in the future as a subscriber, yes. Keep accounts and subscriptions as separate entities in your code/data. Subscriptions can come and go, the account doesn't change.
No, people are anti-tax because they believe government is an inefficient way to Get Stuff Done.

This is a common euphemism for "you don't deserve my money because all my money came from hard work and all your poorness comes from your laziness, regardless of circumstances".

And about that 4M figure, I couldn't find any evidence of that on Google, but I did find numerous results for 1.4M, which you were off by more than a factor of two. In addition, half of that is due 16-24 year olds choosing not to be janitors fresh out of college due to the recession that was by no means their fault.

That 1.4M also includes the terminally ill, disabled, and housewives. So for you to even bring this up as evidence is dishonest.

http://www.walletpop.co.uk/2010/09/14/1-4-million-brits-have...
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There exist publicly accessible Diaspora instances, and there will be more by the end of today. That was entirely predictable, since it has been marketed as the host-your-own federated Facebook. There is already someone on the mailing list asking how to let people use his from outside his university network, because they firewall non-80 ports. If he figures out how to configure thin, bad things happen.

Any disclosed vulnerability is an exploit roadmap for these public instances. Speaking generally, exploits of public web apps can sometimes be pretty severe. Yes, the software is immature, but is now immature and an attack vector.
Quite possibly the geekiest hn comment I've read :)
What about education & higher ed? Seems like an enterprise wide (or district-wide, or campus-wide) tool for making dead simple webpages would be a killer way to spice up any class.
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I think the name is quite perfect, really. I can't think of any other single word that sums up what they're trying to do so well, at least not so evocatively.

The whole idea is to allow the Facebook-bound multitudes to leave that particular kingdom and spread -- along with their data -- across the Internet, as a decentralized system.

The name is therefore the goal, the intended result. It's a high bar, but it's an ambitious project.
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Rainbow colour looks a bit cheap imo - for Google, because all its services are free for consumers, it plays fine.

If I'm starting a social media company though, I probably wouldn't want to venture out too far away from blue - simply because it's the easiest way for users to associate it as a mainstream social media company, i.e. alongside the Facebook-Twitter-Linkedin-Foursquare league, unless you are competing head on with any of these big four. I know this is a cheap strategy, but it also makes it cheaper for you to establish yourself in the market.

Or, just pick your favorite color, much easier and you'll always be comfortable with.
I was one of the early reviewers (which means getting to read a PDF for free, so take what I say with a grain of salt). The book didn't strike me as particularly prescriptive in the "you have to do this to be Agile-with-a-capital-A" sense. The whole samurai thing was kind of like a running gag to keep the tone light. I don't think I'd have noticed this book on the shelf ("Agile? Don't we already know what that's about?"), but having it dropped into my lap, so to speak... it was a fun read.
If you're smart enough to get code from github working on your own box, paranoid enough to worry about facebook's control of your data and be interested in an alternative, and savvy enough to get wind of such an early release, I don't think you're going to put anything that sensitive in this network!
How my pride almost killed me
Lol wow my bad, I didn't see the download link :P Thank you! I'll have a look-see. :)
I just slogged it out. After 5 years, now I'm an ambi-typer. Seamlessly and thoughtlessly switch between dvorak and qwerty. It was quite an interesting experience to suck at something so bad for a few months and it also gave me insight into the general muscle memory/learning process.

I don't see why a general typing tutor wouldn't do the trick, though.
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To answer the question, check out: http://www.aa.org/pdf/products/p-3_isaaforyou.pdf
There's no marginal benefit beyond what putting a security warning message on the download page would get you. In fact, filing a public bug would probably be less effective in preventing harm than such a message would be. The marginal cost is significant.

There's actually more of a case for disclosing security bugs in established products if the vendor doesn't respond quickly enough. If people are relying on a product for critical uses, having information that lets them minimize their risk could be helpful. I don't see the benefit in this case.
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Can’t put a year to it, but Opera supported this (even without Firefox-style keywords) years and years ago.
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The President's Back to School Speech
The nice thing about Japan is that you'll never get mugged here. So you might as well withdraw all the cash you'll need during the Golden Week.

(But you should avoid the Golden Week if you're coming from abroad)
Accoding to wikipedia, honey is about 38% fructose and 30% glucose.
HFCS 55 (mostly used in soft drinks), approximately 55% fructose and 42% glucose.

Why aren't people rally against honey? Because it's "natural".
At this point, I've twice - not once but twice formed corporate entities for projects that never got off the ground. I won't do that again unless I'm diving into a high liability field, or have ridiculously high assets that it's worth it from an EV perspective... your chance of getting sued selling basic advertising and contracting services are pretty low, and if you're contracting individually they'd sue you as an individual anyways even if they're not supposed to. This might protect your assets some if you lose, but you'd still be on the hook for legal fees to defend enough to protect yourself from personal liability.

My take - just get started. Form up an LLC once you get your first cash coming in. Ignore this if you have significantly high assets already. If not, this is probably being over-cautious, and the time and money is probably better spent elsewhere.

Edit: It's pretty trivial to assign intellectual property you own to a corporate you own too, if you ever want investors. If an investor wants you, not having an entity already won't slow you down. If anything, the wrong kind of entity is probably more of a hassle to transfer IP from and dissolve. Just get started.
I'm guessing the parent isn't upset about paying taxes for schools, but is upset about the increasing amount of federal control of education (i.e. No Child Left Behind) that has been coupled to the increased amount of federal ed funding.
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Criticize my app. University Course Planner
Students would use CampusDL course planner to develop and design a university or collage time table. By viewing multiple courses at the same time, the course planner will help students visualize their best scheduling possibilities by showing them the different options and conflicts.

www.campusdl.com

Click Add Course -> Select Course. For more courses follow the link provided in the Add Course popup.

don't use IE, for now.

Features:

shows conflicts

shows class text books

Save/load private and public schedules.
...and more
Popup Blocker
It is wise to use a popup blocker to secure your computer and do uninterrupted work. However, spending money for popup blockers, with so many free and effective popup blockers available is not a good idea.
And i have seen this equation used as heuristic to estmate the number of employees of company, when to hire and when to reduce. This is gross of course because the calculation should be done on the benefits. The production costs might be high and 100k per employee not enough.
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The idea behind lower cap gains/dividend taxes is to incentivize investment (over consumption or savings). I'm no expert with the economics literature here, but I would worry about making changes that make it harder for businesses to access capital.
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