skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can personally attest to becoming very confused by having the add "hq" to basecamp's address. It took me a very long while to get accustomed to that URL, having to repeatedly google basecamp to find it.
Since there appears to be a bit of a worry: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D027234_6652762_717573

Crappy save-page-as in Firefox for all 16 pages, thus no working Youtube videos, but better than nothing if it goes down :)
I for one eagerly await the music-less dystopia that awaits us following the collapse of the RIAA
I pity your society. In mine, the community buries its dead for free. You're not even supposed to cook at your own house for weeks, neighbors bring in food.
The same question showed up on Quora ... no reponse: http://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-http-bit-ly-links-w...
Please publish this script! Or, throw up a site and let us add our email to a newsletter list :)
It's about the users, dummy
So the whole thing about plugging something into your computer port (firewall, etc) to gain complete control like in the movies is true.
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In a market, participants are indifferent to where they get their products and services from, as long as the price is right.

In a funeral, I bloody hell care who comes to grief with me, more importantly, I care about who didn't.
It's more than a gimmick. A recognizable and memorable URL has proven to be extremely beneficial to new startups. Memorable .com addresses are becoming endangered, or very very expensive.
My biggest problem with this is that if a post that doesn't belong gets upvoted it'll reach the front page, and once it reaches the front page all of the worst parts of Reddit flood into the comment threads.

/r/coding has stricter moderation, but much much less content is posted there. People generally want to post their links where they'll garner the most karma, and cross-posting feels kinda dirty.
People may have a crappy built-in magnetometer, but it seems you don't need one - just a lot of practice. There are cultures that put such weight on the cardinal directions that they always maintain a sense of where they are facing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoception#In_humans
http://www.isegoria.net/2010/08/does-your-language-shape-how...
.ch, .is, .se... If you're going to get a ccTLD from a country that isn't yours, make it a reasonably internet-friendly country.
What if you lose your YubiKey?
The superbug is also known by its common name "democracy".
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I prefer (cd /path && command), since that way if the cd fails for some reason (like you've typo'd the path), it won't still attempt to run the command.
It's not that...it's the integration with my app - that is lacking. i.e. being able to put a user on a trial account, then have the app send an 'upgrade token' to 2checkout when their trial expires.

Then also automatically renewing every month - and allowing the user to be able to upgrade and downgrade as they see fit (from within the app).

The integration is very lacking for 2checkout.
I use this tool all day, everyday. It should be built into bash.
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$20 per physical token; Not an annual 'seat' thing.
No one is required to have ID in the US. In general, we have considered "papers please" to be a form of fascism.

However, that does not mean the police won't put you in jail for not having ID, though they have to let you out eventually. This has happened to me.

At this point in the discussion someone cites the Hiibel decision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_Distri...

That decision is that states with stop and identify laws, can require someone to identify themself when there is "reasonable suspicion" a crime has occured, which is also knowns as a Terry stop. The decision does not say you have to have government ID in those states. It says you have to identify yourself. It is sufficient to state your name and birth date for these purposes.

Again, that doesn't mean police will follow the law. Most of them don't.
Voldemort developer here. I actually spoke with Nathan a bit (hi Nathan!) and concluded ElephantDB is a different project, solving a somewhat different use case.

The core difference is that Voldemort read-only storage uses a custom storage engine, based on memory mapped files (see the blog link jbellis posted) which allows a very high data to memory ratio (without having to worry about HotSpot's garbage collection, while excellent, still has issues with heaps larger than 20-30 gb). The data and index files are both built as part of the Map/Reduce job in Hadoop. The files are fetched in parallel from HDFS to Voldemort serving nodes, swapped "atomically" (atomic relative to a single node, not the cluster), and the process of fetching these files warms up the page cache as these files are written to disk. However, that makes implementing incremental updates tricky.

Of course, being part of Voldemort adds additional features e.g., being able to collocate it with read-write stores, using Voldemort's pluggable serialization support, failure detection, existing clients (for Java, C++, Python, Ruby), etc..

We use the read-only storage engine heavily for such features as People You May Know (Voldemort push being after around 100 chained Map/Reduce jobs), Skills, parts of our recommendation engine (the more real time features use read/write store) and more. The average latency is consistently within a few milliseconds: upper bound being the time it takes a disk to perform a single seek (if the data isn't in the cache). We've current improving ability to expand clusters with read only stores without re-pushing the data: my coworker Roshan was able to even make use of sendfile() when shipping data from one node to another to make this expansion fast with large volumes of data. We're also working on changes to the index format which will make it easier to implement incremental updates.

In addition to LinkedIn, the read-only storage functionality / Hadoop integration, is also used by several interesting startups, namely DeepDyve and Mendeley as well as at least one big company (not sure if I'm allowed to give out their name).

Bottom line: look at your requirements and see which solves your problem best. Distributed storage systems aren't a zero sum game.
The Secret Service (or FPS or whatever it was) closed down chunks of Chicago in '08. It wasn't too much then. I don't know what too much is, but nothing I've heard about what they're actually doing sounds like "too much" to me.

However, it is simply not my job to make this determination. I don't have all of the facts, and neither do you.
Apple takes 30%, Amazon took 70%
These things seem to go in waves. In the 1990s, I remember the opposite worry, that a bunch of new educational theories had put too much emphasis on praising effort rather than results, the whole A-for-effort thing.

It's interesting that the politics have shifted a bit, though. I remember the emphasize-effort view being associated with clearly "liberal", almost hippie approaches, that what's important is encouraging every kid to give it their best try, so they actualize their own potential, etc. Meanwhile the more "conservative" view was very results-oriented, sort of: I don't give a damn if your kid is trying hard or lazy, all that should matter in math class is whether he does the math right or wrong. The current wave of articles don't seem to have that same political divide.
Has anybody asked what happens to .com when the USA turns off their Internet? Having a .com address could be a huge risk to companies in other, more stable countries.
Unrelated but a nice alias "tree".

alias tree="find . -name .svn -prune -o -name .DS_Store -prune -o -name .git -prune -o -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|___;g;s;___|; |;g'"

It shows your directory listing in the form of a tree. Easier to visualize.
Those are only domestic. If you want international, though still not as many countries as Apple, it would be 3.9% + $0.30 or thirty-four cents on the .99 example.
> Directory names are far from unique, a misfiring 'cd tmp' or 'cd src' can easily lead to nasty surprises, even without 'rm' ever getting involved at all.

I hear what you're saying, though I'm not really persuaded by this argument. When you 'cd' into a directory along your CDPATH, Bash will print out where you end up when you arrive. Here's an example of what I mean (easier to see than explain):

circe ~ ❯❯ cd bin
circe bin ❯❯ cd ithaca
/Users/circe/code/ithaca
circe ithaca [master•] ❯❯

The regular cd simply takes me where I asked. When I cd and use CDPATH (in the second case), I get told where I end up. Sure, there might be four or five different 'ithaca' folders on various machines and even on one machine, but I think that extra print-out really makes it unlikely that I will get confused.

> And you do know that CDPATH also affects shell scripts, right?

No, I'm embarrassed to say, I never thought of this. And this part does sound like a potential problem. When I write Bash scripts, I always use full paths, but I see where my having CDPATH set puts me at danger from other people's scripts. Technomancy gives a concrete example above. Although I think this is bad practice on their part (not to use full paths), I appreciate the warning.
Why Is the Military Creating an Army of Fake People on the Internet?
Does it implicitly export $CDPATH? Otherwise you would have to 'export CDPATH' to have that happen.
The same thing that happens when tuvala sinks beneath the waves - nothing.

It's more likely that the US gov might decide that Libya is a terrorist nation and shut down all the .ly addresses for you.
I don't think aiming at the results/effort equation is a bad heuristic for lots of things, depending on how effort is defined. Though maybe it isn't a good equation for schooling in particular, and I agree defining people as unintelligent based on them putting in effort isn't a good strategy.

It's the basic heuristic of elegant code, for example: elegant code maximizes the ratio of results to coding effort. The opposite is when you get the results, but by slogging through a bunch of inelegant boilerplate.

It's also the whole premise behind the "hacking the workweek" type ideas, though I realize not everyone likes those.

If anything, I'd say it's a pretty pervasive part of hacker culture, and what differentiates it to some extent from "normal" engineering culture: hackers aim for that results/effort win, the cool hack, virtuosic performance, etc., rather than the N-hour straightforward, carefully managed slog. Not even just because it saves time/money, but because somehow it's intrinsically interesting to see people finding ways to get great results via a route other than "I just plowed through it and got it done". That's sometimes necessary too, but it's not the part that gives the hacker spirit a spark.
Thanks! will have a look now
Hm. Working in the tech field also means eating pretty much every day. I shall post cooking recipes....
He is making a point by being sarcastic. He is not saying what he believes, but what the logic seems to be that society is using to guide decisions.
These sorts of lists bug me, particularly if people take them on without considering the consequences.

ehow.com, for example, is considered "bad" by some but each time it's come up in a search for me and I've clicked through, I've found it useful. For example, a few days ago my wife's iPhone 4 broke. I searched for "iphone 4 home screen without button" and eHow's page came first and told me quickly and cleanly how to work around the problem.

I would personally want to block all of those news sites that put interstitial ads in the way when you go to read their articles (e.g. ComputerWorld) but other people who don't mind that would get burned if they 'shared' my list without going through it with a fine toothed comb.

But I'll stick to using my brain as a filter for my search results. It seems to work out quite well.
If IE gets on board, certainly. Otherwise it could turn into the new VRML.

That said, I run a newsletter called JavaScript Weekly and track what items get clicked and which don't. All of the WebGL items I've linked up have done very poorly.. so perhaps the general developer interest isn't there quite yet.
Of course, it's not either of our immediate jobs to do any of that, but that's not what I was asking. You seem to be very good at bringing up everything else in the world but the answer to the logical follow-up question your post implied.

If you want to say that there is no limit at all to the amount of funds and inconvenience your would incur for the safety of the president, that's a perfectly fine position. Just come out and say it. I think you know, however, that it's untenable, hence all the hemming and hawing over your opinion of DC, or your ignorance of the actual facts, or of our ability for you or I to make such complex decisions.

So you're not going to answer. That's fine. Been nice chatting with you. :)
Rather than replying that Wisconsin had a projected budget surplus until Governor Walker spent ~$140 million in January, I'll just point out that backhanded comments like this one are kind of annoying, and hope that you remember for next time.
And instagram and picplz will add video within a week.

It's just impressive to me how the VC community works.

(twitter|groupon|zynga|other hot startup) meets (video|html 5.0|smartphones|other hot technology).
This same argument is why I still have it in for Apple, despite their current success in consumer electronics.

The Apple I know is the one from the 1990s who had things locked down so tightly, hardware and software, bit loyal developers who put their best efforts into the platform, as if to destroy any ecosystem that built up around their successful products.

And I still feel that things haven't changed - if you can make money from iOS apps today, that is wonderful - but be prepared to get bitten one day.
Oh, you absolutely CAN do it, you're just not supposed to, since the terminal service is designed for merchants who accept fax/telephone orders. It's a totally arbitrary distinction these days, but the risk is Paypal cutting him off if they find out he's using it for online orders instead of faxed ones.

It's not the perfect solution, but this guy's alternative is twiddling his thumbs for 5 months while he gets screwed over by high-risk international payment processors and/or spends a couple thousand bucks registering an American business only to be told he can't get a merchant account as a foreign alien unless he shows up stateside in person to fulfill US "know your customer" requirements.

It's not a crime for anyone to give him their credit card number, and his worst outcome is Paypal cutting him off before he is processing with someone else. So I wouldn't lose any sleep over PCI/DSS compliance.
Interesting reading this because this is exactly why I love emacs, especially when I came across this tip a while ago: "Emacs: TRAMP + bookmarks = awesome", http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2006/03/12/emacs-tramp-b...

I'm always plugged in to my server with tramp and I've got multiple projects all bookmarked. It makes hopping around real easy, makes it feel like a browser more than an editor.
Thirty percent may be okay for books, but companies selling music like Rhapsody probably don't even have profit margins of thirty percent.
Quite, but none of them from mooo.com on down should have been included in the first place - the error appears to have taken place during the change to the DNS records, not inside a courtroom. As I said before, if that domain had erroneously been included on the warrant itself, there would have had to be another hearing held before that could be cleared up. There is no mention of such in the story; instead work began to restore the DNS records almost immediately (but propogation time means that's not an instant fix).

A technical error like that could have occurred just as easily following a trial as following a warrant. It was negligence which was to blame, not a lack of due process.
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Hey Alex, I was hoping you'd jump in. :)

So why would I use ElephantDB instead of Voldemort read-only storage?
You can embed http://docs.google.com/viewer links in an iframe.
Is there a time limit on these courses - i.e. after x amount of time will content access be disabled in exchange for payment?
Facebook? That’s for my mom.

Oh, how times have changed. I share this sentiment.
I totally get that it'd be okay to praise me for making progress of putting effort into it, but - at least - in these cases, I weren't really. That's why it annoyed me.

It's also a reminder to be specific about your praise, too - nebulous praise is useless.
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We simply fixed the the algorithm that was accidentally ranking that reddit too high.

At the time you censored the atheism subreddit, it had just about as many subscribers as the other top 10 subreddits at the time. You decided to arbitrarily change the algorithm until it seemed right to you.

"we added the ability to prevent certain reddits from appearing in the top ten"
> So why would I use ElephantDB instead of Voldemort read-only storage?

Incremental updates is the current feature Voldemort lacks. If that's a must for you, use that. We are hoping to that feature at one point, but it required changes to the index format (which are a recent feature).

That said, a complete push of data into Voldemort is quick: the whole process is network bound (data is read sequentially from HDFS and written sequentially to Voldemort).
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Doctor Fate is the son of an archaeologist Sven Nelson who had died. Doctor Fate gets witchcraft after being trained by Nabu. In Young Justice Episode 7, entitled "Denial", Doctor Fate's helmet being stolen by two wizards namely Abra Kadabra and Klarion the Witch Boy. The task teenage super hero is to protect him .
You have to judge the tradeoffs for yourself. That said, whatever you do remember that anyone with access to your server has full access to all your payment data regardless of how you process the actual payments.
In the US routine medical care costs less than the cost of insurance.

When you get a serious illness like cancer, the insurance company rescinds your policy and then you become uninsurable and die.

Insurance does cover the odd accident though, but they will fight tooth and nail over whether you need therapy to learn to walk again.
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The Sourceforge version might be more updated. But I doubt it will differ by much from what you have, the changes in the version are in the minor numbers.

Numbers circa 2008: take a look at section 6 in ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/qobi/TR-ECE-08-02.pdf and ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/qobi/TR-ECE-08-03.pdf These are numbers from StalinGrad. A automatic differentiation engine written in Stalin (hence the Grad).

Also the thread http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thr... that got me interested in Stalin in the first place.

With all that said, any reason to distrust research statements ? Those are usually taken seriously in academia. One only jeopardizes his position by bluffing.
Using "Once again" in the title seems misplaced, since the article is from 2007.

When I was growing up, it seemed ok to be praised for being smart, because life outside of being smart was terrifically difficult. Taking the school bus to school, being bullied, having a weird foreign name, the Canadian winter, those all seemed to promote some resilience, and being smarter than your average bear just seemed to be a light of hope.
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That's interesting, where did you get a list of all the expiration dates?
I suddenly have the overwhelming urge to buy a PS3 just to play that game. The whole concept is amazing.

...And once I grow tired of it, I'll install Linux on it and learn how to program all those cores. 8)
Silly me. I almost always do the same, but never thought of creating a function. Thanks anyways. :D
According to the PayPal website:

"PayPal offers support for Micropayments to merchants for US to US, GB to GB, AU to AU, and EU to EU transactions for Business and Premier accounts. This feature is offered at a special rate of 5% + $0.05 per transaction."

Then, there is a currency conversion fee of 2.5% and a cross-border fee of 1% for payments from outside your country and currency. So, total for a foreign currency payment would be 8.5%+.05, if I'm reading it right.

Dramatically cheaper than Apple.

You can see all that here:

https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/

Though the popups and menus don't work in Chrome, making it impossible to see all this information. Firefox 4 works fine, though.

Anyway, it appears impossible to revert to the standard rates/fees structure with PayPal micropayments.
To this day I have to doublecheck myself on where the '.'s are places in "del.icio.us" (in fact, it abandoning this URL some time ago). Now, "amazon.com"? Absolutely no worries there.
I always try to subtly correct that, it irks me when misspelt :P I'm sure people will google for things (hell, I have the "I'm feeling lucky" shortcut bound to "l" on my browser so I do "l basecamp" and I'm there), but this only works if you're first on Google for your name, which isn't something many companies can boast, and certainly not when they're just starting out, which is the time you want new customers the most...
> Sadly, this is exactly the kind of idiocy

rude
Ah, much nicer.
Thankyou.

Edit: On testing it doesn't work. 'to sitename' just goes straight to ~/Sites/. I knew there must have been a reason i used a function instead of an alias.
Why are all the comments about flash? The Nissan Leaf is a car.
Yep, that seems to be the best course of action. I'm bad at randomness, but I'm good at whipping up a simple markov-chain-based domain name generator in a few hours.

I'll train it on an English dictionary and they'll sound good as well!
I use you every day. I use you more than email now. I hate email, by the way.

Amazing how someone can use short emaciated 140-letter shoutings as a replacement for something as deep as email.
.is costs like $150 though, last time I checked :/
The more I hear about the HBGary story, the more concerned I get with their business partners at Palantir and Berico. This can't be the bottom of the rabbit hole.

Apparently both companies are deep into fighting the war on terror, are they seriously pursuing business against U.S. citizens?
That sounds interesting. Would you be able to explain it a bit more?
I have not changed my opinion about this at all. Obviously I need to work on my communications skills. I do not think qualified immunity will apply here.
39 EUR/year. http://www.isnic.is/payments/tariff.php. Still expensive enough to prevent registrations on a whim, though.
The game is also on PC. I went to SOE Denver to demo a different game, and also got a peek at this one while we were there.
Now you've gotta deliver those invites ;)
AOL seems like a flaming jet plane rapidly heading towards the ground. They keep thinking that you can use cash to create a parachute, but it seems not to work.

Good for potential acquisitions though!
Wow. I don't know how our team ever got anything done without this.
I didn't say I don't use email. I just use it much less than previously. It's funny but the opposite is also true. The fact that people can write really long, verbose emails can be as much of a productivity drain as anything else inside of companies.

It's why I'm a big proponent of these guys http://three.sentenc.es/
The idea is to take good results as evidence of effort.
Just a small comment--Princeton used to not require coursework--only quals. but it is rare to see this in current universities.
That is exactly what happened to me, made cs at the university unbelievably hard...