skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_registrar

Basically, each TLD (.com, .org, .io, etc) has an approved organization. Different companies (hover.com, godaddy.com) get a license from the parent organizations to register domains for those TLD's. Of course, this requires the registrars to get separate licenses from each parent organization.

At this point, its the free market, more or less. This is the level where different licensed companies sell the domains at whatever prices they set.

*Edit: Some TLD's have the same parent organization. Not sure if that was clear.
ActionScript <3. ActionScript 2 to 3, C#, C++ and then most recently JS/HTML, PHP and mySQL. What a strange path.
I have answered 76 in two years and 4 months (and posed 5). Let's be generous and say that's 1 answer every week. Is that not 'casual use'?
It really depends on your goals and background I would say. At my school (education school) the point isn't to create students who can compete with computer science majors next door. Rather, we focus on getting students to 1) be able to understand the basics in order to communicate with more experienced developers and 2) quickly be able to create interactive visual programs for pilot research and the classroom. For us, the purpose is split between programming theory and folding in their learning and instructional theory into design. I used to teach Java which is great for focusing on OO concepts but the end products that students were able to create didn't necessarily match their visions. This discouraged a lot of students and turned them away from code. So sad!

Currently, we use Flash with a focus on OOP with ActionScript 3 (not timeline based loose junk). The advantage of this is that they can easily create rich assets in a simple and familiar environment to make the code part more genuine and purposeful for them. I've found that if you teach it this way they are very motivated to learn the programming concepts to realize their visions which are usually heavily tied to the visual and surface levels of a project. Gotta admit things you directly see are pretty sexy to many people. Once this "wow" moment is satisfied, it's much easier to point them in directions that go back to the programming theory to improve the depth of their work.

If you have a purpose and drive to want to accomplish something concrete you'll stick with the ups and downs so a programming language that supports that goal I think, is an appropriate language. It works well for us, the class is immensely popular and many of my students are very curious now of other languages like JavaScript, objective C, etc. The concepts transfer well too and some have even transitioned toward development. You can always learn new languages later although one commenter poses a good question of how one's starting language influences thinking. Don't have an answer for that one. But, my take is just try to get a good foundation with a language that supports what you want to do.

NOTE: I learned to program myself, and sought out specific programmers I admired to teach me so I don't have the experience of what a typical compsci program and curriculum is like. You might seek those opinions too. I would consider myself pretty darn good at understanding education and learning matters though so if you want any pointers, advice, or questions I'd be more than happy to discuss on this thread. I'm excited that you want to dive into programming. :-)
What? In the real world, if you say I'm fat, that I should stop eating fast food, and I'm a douche-bag, then that's your opinion.

My opinion is that I am am very fit, I have awesome pecs, I can lift a burning car off a pregnant mother etc.

;-)
Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/) is a very complete open source vector graphics editor (similar to Illustrator).

It has probably the best set of node editing tools of any vector editor I've used. I now use it exclusively for illustration, web design etc.
New Yorkers are culturally probably close enough to other Americans that it wouldn't be as great a factor. If the difference between New Yorkers and, say, Vermonters is big enough to make a difference, so would the difference between Vermonters, Idahoans, Texans, Alaskans, and Arkansans. (All states with between 40% and 60%[1] firearms ownership: http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/brfss/2001/us/firearm3.html). And yet, the cultural differences from those states don't seem to make much of a difference.

Again, it's a very reasonable and intuitive assumption that allowing more gun ownership would result in more impulsive shootings. But reasonable and intuitive arguments are wrong all the time. That's why it's so important to look at the actual evidence.

[1] 40-60% is pretty much what you get in gun-friendly American states. "Giving everyone in NYC a gun tomorrow" is a straw man.
How to Handle Interoffice Breast-to-Elbow Situations (Flow Chart)
Do you have to do something to enable this? I have over 200 rep on Stack Overflow, and my profile page there and on Super User both show each other under "related accounts", but on Super User I am still at 1 reputation.

Edit: I created an account on Cooking, and it gave me the linking bonus everywhere. I guess I hadn't created accounts on any Stack Exchange sites since reaching 200 rep on one of them.
FWIW, we hit 256gb, and we got a call, threatening if we passed it again in 6 months we would be banned from Comcast for 12 months. (Someone in the house accidentally left a torrent sending for 3 weeks)
I'm glad to hear that's worth a 43% tax to you.

It's a little steep for me.
My Life Listed is a simple & fun way to list, count & share your life
Erm... not to be a dickhead or anything, but Adobe has some pretty sweet software. Although, I'm not all "I LOVE ADOBE" - because I believe they bought their best products from Macromedia.
The Time Traveler confronts Barack Obama: in Martin Luther King Disguise.
Do you have links for the AJ stories regarding the 20% missing oil and their critique of Arabic language's current state?

I couldn't find them on Google.

Thanks!
The Limousines beg to differ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx5tSmOY_iM
"If you want to continue accessing site please bookmark www.atdhenet.tv. You can also follow us on twitter."

I guess it's up to Tuvalu now.
To make it easier for a newbie: Choose Python if you want to learn programming for yourself - lean, lots of bindings for C-Frameworks, not much surprises and a big community.
They are similar in that they both are big touchscreens with no physical keyboard. Apple did not invent that by any means. That is also a shot of the Android App Drawer and not an actual homescreen. Most Android homescreens I've seen have a few widgets on them and do not look anything like a big grid of app icons like the iPhone. Also, that "original" Android phone design you point out looks a hell of a lot like a Blackberry. Android must have blatantly copied RIM by your logic.
If you commute 6 miles a way, 2 ways a workday, 20 workdays a month for 12 monthes a year on 278.04 gallons of gas, you're getting 10.35 mpg. This is not good mileage. I suppose it's more likely that your daily commute is a small fraction of your total travel.

For the opposite extreme, I live in Manhattan, where $1248/y gets me unlimited subway and bus. Add a few hundred for visiting friends and family scattered around the country. Yes, I'm paying about $30k/y for a (rather nice) one bedroom apartment, but that's my only big expense.
Not an explosion. I know nothing of the physics at the quantum level beyond layman stuff. However, "explode" is probably the wrong word.

If you consider during the first nano seconds of the Big Bang when temperatures were at their highest in history (and energy at its most dense), all of the base forces were combined.

As the energy of the early universe expanded and became less dense, the atomic forces (strong, weak, etc) froze and separated out of the dense energy and the unifying parent force. As the atomic forces became separated, quanta of energy started forming into sub-sub-atomic particles which further combined into sub-atomic particles like protons, neutrons, and electrons. These then combined to form mainly hydrogen with trace amounts of helium and lithium.

Its not till later after the first few generations of mega-stars that other elements formed (oxygen, carbon, iron, etc).

So based on all of this, from everything I know particle physics seems to be the result of energy moving into lower states over the time scale of the universe. Because of this, I don't think that if you cool an atom to absolute zero (which is supposed to be impossible but I don't know why), that the atom will disperse. The removal of energy doesn't seem to make the fundamental forces disappear, so all you get is a very cold atom of helium that just doesn't move at all.
It's okay for MS to parse user input through it's toolbar, fine. However, it's not okay for Microsoft (or anyone) to use that toolbar to figure out what response any given server sends in reply to any kind of requests - unless it's part of a documented feature. You're only seeing the part where Microsoft is grabbing user input and not the part where Microsoft is grabbing Google data.
The thing is - at the time the Bill of Rights was ratified, guns actually were an effective deterrent against the state. The idea is that if government ever stopped serving the people, they could forcibly overthrow the government and win their freedom.

But technology's moved on since then, and a gun is no more effective against the U.S. military than swords and slingshots were in 1776. Ask the folks at Waco or Ruby Ridge how their guns worked out for them.

If you really want to hold true to the spirit of the 2nd amendment, the best thing you could do is declassify all nuclear state secrets and make plutonium available on the market. Or, failing that, at least create a consumer market for anti-tank RPGs and man-portable surface to air missiles.

When I suggest this, every person I know has reacted with horror. "But...the terrorists will win and destroy us all!" they sputter. To which I'll just point out the end of your last sentence: "the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." That's the point - the Declaration of Independence was suggesting that the terrorists should win, because during the American Revolution, the Americans were the terrorists.

I'm actually quite content with my sheeple existence, but I also enjoy pointing out the inconsistencies in many people's political views. It's ironic that many of the people that are the most pro-gun also support things like the Patriot Act and state control of military secrets. If you really support the right of the people to bear arms, where are my nukes?
The fact that it's owned by the Qatari government probably wouldn't help things either. Not only is it Middle Eastern, but it's controlled by a foreign government.
I haven't seen this problem quite so much on Hacker News -- or at least, it's nothing compared to more mainstream sites. On Reddit you can actually watch (particularly on slower sections, like proggit) as single people come into the thread and every single post expressing opinion X loses one point.

I don't think it's caused by disagreement per se. I think it's because people (whether they realize it or not) want to promote their opinion on certain topics. An upvoted comment expressing a contrary opinion seems like an endorsement of that opinion by the community (even if it isn't). So they downvote it to try to reduce the appearance of that endorsement, thus promoting their own opinion in its stead.
My guess would be that this is a reference to the alleged anti-Israeli bias as had been mentioned in comments on other recent Al Jazeera threads here.
I bet I'm the only person here who can answer Teco. I found a PDP-11 at college and Teco was what it had, so it's what I started playing with.
Honest question: why not? Surely identifying sites that have disproportionate organic traffic relative to search engine referrals can only be good in identifying places people actually want to visit online?

As a webmaster I would opt-in for this sort of thing in a heartbeat if I thought it would help your algorithms understand my site. I'm sure Joel Spolsky and most other legitimate online publishers would do so too.
Amazon charges 0.1$ per Gb impossible to go cheaper than that.
I don't think so. How can you blame people for being ignorant when they are constantly being bombarded with ignorance coming from the MSM?
Google started with something, probably by scanning the Yahoo directory and starting from there. If they just pointed Googlebot to one site they would never get the whole web, they had to start from some source with a lot of sites that they could then branch out from.
Dang... I let my domain AzureNow.com expire a couple weeks ago. should I pay 85 bucks to keep it?
TI-86 Basic! Turns out ticalc.org is still hosting games I uploaded in the late 90's, impressive.
so people are willing to pirate music but not reality TV shows?
GW-BASIC!
I'm not sure why you are being voted down, the situation could be this. Also, Bing toolbar could simply be collecting tuples "(search_string_entered_in_toolbar, subsequent_href_clicked)" regardless of the search engine the user has specified and phoning these home... this seems like the easiest implementation (no parsing nonsense) and does not target google in particular.
Poll: iPhone users - Are you switching to Verizon next week?
Choose whichever reason compels you to switch or not switch.
Yes I am switching, and I live in an urban area.
Yes I am switching, and I live in a rural area / suburb.
Yes I am switching and I travel often.
No I am not switching and I live in an urban area.
No I am not switching and I live in a rural area / suburb.
No I am not switching and I do not travel often.
I honestly don’t see why native apps would require more effort and commitment than web apps, at least on devices with app stores of some kind.

Native apps can use some app store infrastructure where you enter your details once, websites would have to rely on PayPal or other services and you would have to enter your details over and over again. Paying in some app store has less friction. I can kind of see your point for free apps, searching some app store for an app and downloading it kind of seems more complicated than googling it and taping the link, I can’t (yet) see it for paid apps.
Volunteers translating Egyptian phone messages in real-time
I don't know what makes you think I recognize it as unworkable. Think you are reading too much into what I wrote.
Crashplan: backup among all of your machines for free (even multi-site), get Crashplan+ for $50/year for unlimited cloud backups for one machine, or $120/year for unlimited cloud backups for up to 10 machines.
Fun fact: the square root of the number of available IPv6 addresses is 18 quintillion. Therefore, there are 18 quintillion blocks of 18 quintillion addresses. We're not going to run out anytime soon.
dBase... Well, it was on the computer dad brought home from work.
I didn't say you did, Matt. It seems like my post is being misinterpreted, so I'll try to clarify: The parent post was concerned about "the privacy bit". What I'm pointing out is that the same information (search terms in the referrer) is captured by Google Analytics (and by Apache logs, and by advertisers, and by Facebook via "like" buttons, etc, etc). From a privacy standpoint, there's nothing particularly new going on here, IMO.
In my mind and in my car we can't rewind we've come too far.
They're not just susceptible to Google bombing. They are at the mercy of some easy to automate SEO with the bing toolbar installed. If I were a black hat I'd install the bing toolbar, craft some perhaps human looking Selenium code, and start the clicking. Over a period of a few weeks I'd be owning the top results in Bing.
I've got 300 gigs backed up in the cloud for <$5/month (Crashplan+). That would run $30/month at Amazon.
Remains of Pink Terraces discovered
Even when a company pays little to no tax, the government does get itself a pretty good taste of the profits via the dividend tax.
I chose scripting language, because I was introduced to programming with mIRC script. :) I actually used mIRC script to write socket-based tools that didn't even run on IRC. I wrote Battle.net bots with it, if anyone recalls those days. This was in like 1997.
Identify what your Ruby process is doing
Really Apple has been very consistently moving the goal posts according to whatever the feel is in their (and only their) best interests.
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Corporations don't pay taxes any more than the government pays for healthcare: people pay for both. Every dollar paid in taxes is a dollar taken from a real, flesh-and-blood human being. (And, of course, transferred to a real human being. The California corporate tax, for example, is a wealth transfer from anyone beneficially owning a Californian corporation to Californian public employees, who are - far and away - the largest beneficiary of Californian taxes.)
Good thing all big companies, such as, say, Google, pay plenty of dividends, right?
My favorite:

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
The paradox, as I see it, is that taxation is both the government's primary means of generating revenue and of influencing behavior.

When the government wants to use taxation to effect a certain desired behavior it offers 'tax credits' and 'deductions'; but when politically disfavored groups use them they're exploiting 'loopholes'.

Yet, a group's political favor is often very much a function of total revenue (or rather the difference between total revenue and the cost of whatever initiatives the government wants to pursue).
"The essential is invisible to the eyes."

This applies for design as well. I think you should read a little more about what design is before you go around saying a designer is a pair of hands who knows photoshop.
Real-Time Analytics in the Cloud
What's in store next for online travel technology as GDS debate escalates?
Can someone describe the statistical analysis that would be required to discover something like this? Is it along the lines of guessing different parts of an algorithm till you find something that agrees with the data (IE He'd have to guess that only "singletons" could form winning entries and go from there)? Or, are there some more general approaches here to draw out correlations between the structure of visible numbers and any hidden structure?

More generally, other than saying "statistics," what specific fields of math are applicable to a problem like this? I'd guess there's some relation here with cryptographic attacks and attacks against pseudo random generators, but what specifically would one study to understand these types of problems?
I'm confused about the HTML, CSS, JavaScript part. Are those supposed to be complementary skills to a designer (in this form)? What about someone who's a bit better at those skills rather than the actual design?
The timing of this is way way off. MTV stopped being a music station well before internet piracy. And over a decade before YouTube.
oh the memories! I just voted for BASIC (having self learned BBC Basic using school computers after school). Your post reminded me that I actually first started to learn to program asm on an ORIC 16k.
The problem with set number limits is that changes in software and hardware require changes in limits - it's easier to just watch swap and get notified.
Sounds to me like if you have access to a lock like this, and a strong magnet you could probably figure out what to do with it. I think it won't stop the truly malicious (almost nothing will), but it might stop many tinkerers that may have strong magnets sitting around but don't have the follow through to find a lock like this and experiment for a while... until the exact method is posted somewhere.

Also, I thought most locks had brass or other non-magnetic components just for this reason.
> Ask on IRC.

Nearly every time I asked a programming question on IRC I've had bad experiences with arrogant users who think you're wasting their time with your noobness. Now of course I don't believe that everyone on IRC is like that, but it's really the last place I'd recommend for newbies.
Many people fail to recognize the social engineering aspect to taxes.
Side by side comparison:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdevers/5402217217/in/photostre...

So sure, it's obvious that the shirt's designer used Chris Devers' photo to start with. However, after all the alterations made (turning it into monotone, heavily posterizing it, cleaning it up), I would say it's fair use.

Of course, it would've been nicer if GAP had simply licensed the photo.
Nope, Google has no paid out a single dividend. As long as Google thinks it can use the money to reinvest in the company and give investors a nice return from capital gains
Nibbles was the good stuff. Those were some great times playing around in QBasic. Totally sold me on how amazing programming was.
No, it's because they were given a huge budget and told to spend it to hire and resource the best journalists. This started with the exodus of Arab journalists from the BBC world service, who downsized (Blair should have severely regretted this for what it unleashed in factual reporting on his fantasy dossiers) and continued with a deliberate attempt to hire the troublemakers from around the world - real journalists who cared about injustice rather than ratings.

The disregard for ratings is of course possible because they are funded by an oil rich dictator. He is not benign - no such dictator exist - but if the only good thing he ever did was create AlJazeera, then I would still be forever grateful.

Of course, in the true spirit of Make Something People Want, the disregard for simple ratings is what is causing AJ's growth in viewers around the world. A good chunk of people want real news, and these were the same people who propelled CNN to dominance, back when they had invested in news.
I disagree with you and agree with the author of the blog post. Microsoft is not copying Google's search results, rather, they use behaviour of their Bing toolbar users as one signal for their own ranking. And, if clicking through the Google SERPs was the only signal for certain made up search term, then it appears like copying the Google's results. But technically it's not.
Believe it or not, I actually used MTV (Germany) to discover music from 1998 (when I was ten) to maybe 2002 (when I was 14). That used to actually be possible.

The music I discovered isn’t even bad and withstood the test of time remarkably well. (Of the top of my head I’m thinking of all the Discovery singles by Daft Punk, the first Gorillaz video Clint Eastwood and the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Californication.) And Celebrity Deathmatch was awesome.
I'm confused. The link leads to a page that actually links to My Life Listed (http://mylifelisted.com/coming-soon), but it's not even up and running... and there isn't really any information about what it is or how to use it. A bit early to start spreading the word?
Nope, Google has no paid out a single dividend.

That was the joke.
On the contrary: I think Quine is being sloppy with language, as many philosophers reserve "paradox" to stand for something far stronger than mere counterintuitiveness.

At the moment, I'm in the middle of writing a dissertation on Nagarjuna-- now, there was a master of paradox-- and I agree completely with you that decent philosophical can change a reader's opinions profoundly. I just don't put Quine into that categorization.

Naturally, YMMV.
This whole situation points at a market opportunity for a competing service to offer users the ability to backup a real DB dump of their entire user, not just "everything you uploaded", but actually a file that, provided later to the service (or a competing service) contains everything needed to recreate that account.