skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strangely I have put my nickname as first name and . for last name and haven't had any trouble. Do google perhaps validate names using an english-specific validator that doesn't run when your location isn't an english-speaking country?
It's certainly within the rights of a company to terminate upon first missed payment, even if it's the fault of PayPal. However, it's NOT ok to terminate accounts that have been paid for and then act childish towards your customer.

Edit: I can't believe I had to spell that out for you...
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Redditors are demographically distinct from the average purchaser of web hosting? I'm suspicious.
Similar to redditors as in educated, technical and young? Or is this some sort of reference to the liberal bent of the site's users?

I really can't tell what exactly you're alluding to.
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I'm assuming it's the "demographic of people who know how to make a blog post and submit it to a popular news aggregator".

But that's just my read of the comment.

Edit: Oh, and pitchforks. 80% of the Reddit demographic keeps a pitchfork in their closets for internet mobs.
It will help supporting Firefox because there will just be two versions that matter: the up to date version, and the old version (which is any older version).

This simplifies any solution and troubleshooting, it either works in the current version, or Firefox will update - if it's connected to the internet. Which means eventually, Firefox is always up to date and there will no old versions and therefore no issues.
> almost certainly the most common use case [click-to-focus]

Most common only if you are coming from a ms-windows background. Click-to-focus is only a relatively recent newcomer to the Unix/X-Windows system in the scheme of how long X-Windows has existed.

And if you ever break out of your ms-windows mindset and actually give focus follows mouse a try, focus follows mouse is actually the more powerful method.
A little explanation would be good. I'm not going to sign up to this without knowing what it is.
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Everybody I know who knows GIMP thinks it's terrible. I'm getting used it so I guess I'm really a bit tougher than normal people.
One thing that is too common in these aerospace related budget estimates is that they go up. I am trying not to be pessimistic, but I have a feeling that their launch costs might go up a little bit. Even if it does it, their prices would still be groundbreaking nonetheless. I bought Dr. Zubrin's book on mars direct (its great!) and lets say that somehow the cost to send three spacecraft with the capability to come back (including development costs) is $10 billion (which I am pretty sure is a super under estimate but the spacex way might say otherwise). To put that into perspective google could have funded a full fledged manned mars mission and still save $2 billion to spare by not buying motorola...

But this is definitely possible even with nasa's reduced budget now that the shuttle is retired.
Exactly. There are actually 2 more links on HN also. Like said, this is the 5th post for the same thing. Come on guys!
I have to admit I haven't learned LaTeX myself yet, but I've been using LyX for a while now, which basically spits out compilable TeX. Processors like LyX (are there even any processors like it?) take care of exactly that barrier of entry.

I agree fully that advanced features in LaTeX are most likely more difficult to learn, but if the argument in the first place is the 'power' of the features, then LaTeX will win out regardless. It's like comparing vim/emacs to nano (in terms of 'power').
Source: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/08/16/654361/markets-li...
I don't.

I can't really remember my precise reasons why not but I recall having this feeling that it was charity and that I don't go around stating which charities I give money to because I feel that such things reveal some aspect of my beliefs.

I'm probably quite raving about anonymity and the freedom to act without being judged by it by future employers, government and the like.

So I vaguely concluded a long time ago that as software can reflect aspects of political beliefs that such things are best done with anonymity.

These thoughts were a lot clearer a decade ago, now just out of habit I use aliases. No-one ever seems to mind and at some level it feels cool to know that you're not known.

I didn't make the mistake of using 1 alias everywhere, which is just as well as a couple of times I've let slip my identity in IRC chat rooms.

Edit: I remember now... I had a particular gig which required government clearance and during that process realised that everything I ever did was going to be factored into their judgement and in the future it would be too. It was then that I shifted all work that didn't need to be directly attributable to aliases.
There are limitations but frankly the line isn't clear as I would like it to be. My last job said anything I create using the tools provided to my (my laptop) could be subject to their ownership. My newest company goes a step further and says anything I create in my spare time becomes theirs. Their actual statement was, "Let's say you create the next facebook. Then that's our property." Of course after explaining to them that I was "helping" a friend build a specific web site they said that wouldn't be included as it is in another business sector than they function in. The odd thing is that facebook is not in their sector either. So again, my main complaint is that the line isn't as clear as I'd like it to be for my tastes.
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I do, because it is instantly verifiable to prospective employers who want to see things I've worked on. I don't think there is anything wrong with using a pseudonym in this case, but doing so would make it at least one step more difficult to verify that you actually wrote the code.

Also, it keeps me more honest. If every commit has my real name attached, I am more likely to write clean code since I value my reputation.
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This is good. Brains are engines of prediction and they avoid doing things which will cause us harm.

The only answers to procrastination are "are you motivated to do it?" and "is that overridden by a negative motivation against doing it"?

Avoiding invalidation is much more of a strong and personal negative override than I ever thought years ago. It can hit you as the OP implies - fear that if I'm not in control of my life people will think I'm a weak and submissive person, or if I'm not in control thats like my childhood and makes menfeel invalidated by comparison to a helpless child - or like other people in this thread are replying - fears about doing something well (will people think me a swot?) or doing badly (my spouse will scorn me?) or all sorts.

The most common factor among the replies here is stopping asking he question "what bad thing am I avoiding by procrastination" far far too soon, and/or accepting far too vague and unhelpful 'answers' as soon as they are thought of without realising they are unhelpful.
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http://feedbackarmy.com/ and http://www.usertesting.com/
TLDR, someone told a hosting company to fuck themselves on Twitter, so the hosting company canceled their hosting?

Nice DoS vector; all I have to do is claim I'm foo.com on Twitter, then I just tell foo.com's host to fuck themselves, and then foo.com is gone forever. It also sounds like a good way to cancel unwanted credit cards. Instead of waiting on hold for hours to talk to high-pressure "you don't really want to cancel, do you" guy, just tell your bank to fuck themselves on Twitter, and your account magically goes away.

Somehow I feel I'm missing something here...
Finally. I know that this feature has been talked about for at least 3 years.
We're going for a more curious and courageous kind of people. We avoid giving details about the web app but the only thing we can tell is that is a game based on guts, determination and inspiration.
Thank you for your onest oppinion, but man, i think we deserve more than 5 outta' 10 :D
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I don't know. I kinda' like the mistery around it. From my point of view, it got me :D
"Eventually the Psion broke, and nothing as good has replaced it as an ultramobile writing tool. So much for progress."

There is definitely a market for a device with a Psion quality keyboard and maybe an e-ink based screen (not sure they can react fast enough to feel snappy actually...) It would make a top notch writing platform... Smartphone keyboards are a joke when they have one and e-reader are even worse...
While this is definitely pretty crappy of Cisco to do, it also doesn't seem illegal. Working with the Chinese to block peoples' freedom isn't something the US legal system has any jurisdiction over. Cisco was simply turning profit on a very un-American project.
more than likely a dedicated server.

[root@web5 ~]# whois 67.225.136.53 -h rwhois.liquidweb.com -p 4321
[Querying rwhois.liquidweb.com]
[rwhois.liquidweb.com]
%rwhois V-1.5:003eff:00 rwhois.liquidweb.com (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.7.4)
network:Class-Name:network
network:ID:NETBLK-THISWEBHOST.67.225.136.52/30
network:Auth-Area:67.225.128.0/17
network:Network-Name:THISWEBHOST-67.225.136.52
network:IP-Network:67.225.136.52/30
network:IP-Network-Block:67.225.136.52-67.225.136.55
network:Organization;I:THISWEBHOST
network:Org-Name:ThisWebHost
network:Street-Address:19 Dorset Close
network:City:Chelmsford
network:State:Essex
network:Postal-Code:CM2 9UD
network:Country-Code:GB
network:Tech-Contact;I:sales@thiswebhost.com
network:Abuse:abuse@sourcedns.com
network:Created:20110816
network:Updated:20110816
network:Updated-By:admin@sourcedns.com
In the US employers put a bunch of crap about how they own everything you do in their employment contract, but so far as I know they lack teeth. Mostly it is anything they may have contributed to, so company time, company materials, company information, etc. Where I work they have boiled it down to don't compete with us, don't do business with us, and don't use our stuff for your business.
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I disagree.

Unless HP was very picky about who they license too, we'll end up with another Android scenario, and a race to the bottom with hardware vendors doing as little as humanly possible to make a good experience. To them, it's just a free/cheap way of saving R&D costs.

Having said that, hardware companies already have that option in Android, so HP could take the high road and enforce strict standards for usability, compatibility, upgrades, etc. on licensees.

I still think it's a very risky gamble. HP hasn't demonstrated that they know how to create a winning end to end product with it yet. How would giving out part of that recipe (with restrictions) help anyone else be successful with it?

"the hardware isn't doing anything to bolster WebOS"

So... improve the hardware. If HP as one of the largest companies in the world (deep pockets) can't make a good piece of hardware for webOS, who else is going to be able to?

Licensing webOS will just lead to a lot of fingerpointing between HP and other vendors as people have bad experiences. "It's the hardware!" "No, it's the software!" HP owns all ends of the process. If they can't make it good, it's time to retire it (and I say this as someone who wants webOS to succeed - I just don't think licensing it out is going to save it).
I doubt NASA will get to keep the money they were using for the shuttle given the austerity-crazed culture that's overtaken Congress.
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Gruber is part of an interesting phenomenon that has emerged over the past few years: supporting companies (and reviling their 'opponents') with the same passion that people normally reserve for sports teams.
Frankly, I can't understand what's your point with this phrase. I think he obviously meant Google paid 12.5 billion for Motorola — a handset maker with rapidly declining sales, no recent profits, and misguided management - _only for the patents_. He's not ignoring the most salient factor in the deal; he's just reaffirming that, to get to the patents, Google paid 12.5 billion for the whole, including the bad parts that he's highlighting.
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Icons, in general, are overrated in my opinion. Only if an icon has a very clear meaning to all it can be safely used. Using an icon anywhere else is a big bet and starts with usability issues. E.g. whoever designed the play/pause/stop/previous/next buttons pulled that off, but it's a risk.

I think a button that says "Save" is much clearer than a floppy disk. I think a button that says "Link" (or "Insert Link") is much clearer than a globe, a chain or whatever weird arrow you can come up with.

I never understood why so much software has so many icons. I also think MS got it right in Office 2007+ with the ribbon, which essentially was made to enable "more text, less reliance on icons".

I don't know any software that I find easy to use that relies on icons.
I'll make an assertion about this: HP cannot make a winning end to end product with it.

They should license it to people who can. They're too big and too out of touch. They can provide some other valuable things, it's a well funded heavyweight alternative to android but I don't see HP building the next killer tablet or phone and as a consumer, I just don't think that when I see that sort of stuff from a company like IBM or HP.
Sounds like the old German "Abitur". Americans thought the system deadly, but some remarkable minds came out of it OK, along with of course hordes who were merely competent.
Just as an FYI, Windows actually supports focus follows mouse with a registry hack [0]. There are a couple of quirks mostly to do with things like tooltips, but I've found it usable.

[0] http://sinewalker.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/ms-windows-focus-...
I've used feedbackarmy, and I highly recommend them. The feedback was worth every penny (about a buck per feedback) and the customer service was great.
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A good introduction to a language that has not been well considered yet.
Facebook Bans Mentioning Other Social Platforms in Apps (#11)
These sorts of customers are not, however, automatically "stupid customers". They are "difficult" or "non-profitable".

Yes. notalwaysright.com is funny, and I'm sure some are good customers. However it's a good 'ammo' against the idea that "The Customer is always right" (a corrollary is that businesses should care about losing any customers).
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I won't judge This* without knowing the whole story. From experience I know that customers can get really retarded PITAs and waste all your time with nonsense.
Omitting these details turns it into "a fun discussion". Including these details (even as a footnote) would turn it into a potentially useful piece of research.
Prefixing the command with a \ will also disable the alias (e.g. \ls)
> "Fanboys used to say the same thing about MS when they were working on the first Xbox"

Microsoft already had a world-class design and manufacturing group at that point, making critically acclaimed peripherals. And the missing piece, making a glorified PC, was not nearly as cut-throat a business as making a phone. They didn't have to push the envelope and they didn't even try.

Google, having far less experience with consumer hardware, would have a far more difficult time making an already good hardware company better.

And, in any case, all indications are that they wanted a patent pool and are going to essentially leave Motorola Mobility alone for the near term. I'd be surprised if they even exerted pressure to bin or integrate MotoBlur extensions in the next couple years.
> think long and hard before you get into the business of taking $3 a month from people who are demographically similar to Redditors

This is so true. Whenever I have a sale of one of my apps and lower the price to $1.99 or something in that range I'm tempted to disable my support mail account.

Cheap people tend to get a huge sense of entitlement when they pay you one or two bucks.
3) the company's target segment is buyers of software
Huh? Who is that? Isn't it like a food company saying their target market is food buyers? ;-)
I mean that could be anyone that has ever bought a piece of software.

As for return on investment - did you do your math?
You know depending on your potential revenue/user it could be anywhere from being a terrible idea to being a phenomenal one.

Of course not that revenue/user is the only metric. But if you really need a big volume of customers to make a penny or two then obviously that kind of marketing is dubious and screams web 1.0.
Do NOT hope that because of having an event it goes viral and out of nowhere you'll get tons of customers.
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It's surprising that URL shorteners are so central to how Twitter works, but they only recently built it into their own UI. I've been using the website interface lately and find myself having to shorten externally and paste it into Twitter, as the 120 default is sometimes too short.
Judging from his other comments, I think he just means white, male, tech-enthusiast twenty-somethings without much money. Sell to underserved people with lots of money to throw around and a track record of spending it (instead of people you would hang out with) is the advice patio11 always gives.
What about 'echo *' ? That's usually my last resort when dealing with malfunctioning ls.
Are you just toggling between 1 and 0?

Why not v = 1 - v?
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Why can't one single teacher deal with millions of students?

Or are you stuck on the system you grew up with, unable to imagine any improvements?
I would very much recommend waiting for reviews to show whether that potential results in a good phone.

Phone specs have a way of not making much difference in the end.
I know this isn't exactly relevant, but I don't get to say this enough: someone needs to get cracking on this whole "tertaforming Mars and Venus" thing. Maybe that's where some of NASA's focus can be in the future as private enterprise picks up space travel.
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The shell will attempt to expand '*' into arguments before it spawns the 'echo' process.

The shell cannot handle long argument lists, so this will fail rather quickly.
There's no preview for this, so you find out too late.

I think a proper short URL looks neater too:
"http://t.co/x812ks1 A site about action figures"
"http://action.figures.com/rid... A site about action figures"

The short URL may not look pretty, but at least regular Twitter users will quickly learn to process it as "some URL". The longer abbreviated one breaks that convention and by including some actual meaning, it gets in the way.
1.) Monthly web hosting invoice unpaid

2.) Customer informed and appropriate action taken for unpaid accounts (suspend account for non-payment)

3.) Customer's friend makes a public complaint on Twitter

4.) Web host responds badly (but perhaps with some justification, outside parties getting involved in disputes, where a simple pay-the-outstanding-invoice would have resolved the situation)

5.) Non-payee gets abusive

6.) Web host deletes the account for abusive behaviour.

Apart from point 3, everything else seems in order. The customer's friend was provoking a reaction in public. What did he want, the webhost to publicly state that his friend's account had been suspended for non-payment? That seems worse than a firm private message to butt out of a contractual matter.

Suspending the customer's friend does seem harsh, but taken from the view that he's complaining publicly about a problem that doesn't involve him, it might be a long term justification of ejecting bad customers instead of just tolerating them (perhaps there's more to the story). That sort of approach is recommended by things like The 4-hour work week, firing your worst customers.

The guy should have paid his bill, either on time, or as soon as justified. There was no reason for his friend to escalate matters, there was no reason for the non-payee to escalate matters. You pay for the service, you get the service. You don't pay, then you get no service. Yes, the web host can be more lenient, but it's not something you should feel entitled to.

There are a number of extenuating circumstances that can warrant or could result in one or more of these points being appropriate responses.

And look at it, it's a cpanel / shared-hosting reseller - those margins are razor thin to non-existent, even loss-leading. If you're not paying at least $7 a month for a cpanel account, then expecting the host to be lenient for non-payment and subsequent abuse from the non-payee is unjustified.
The price of $12.5B is prior to discounting the $3B+ in cash the MMI is holding. A lot of emphasis is placed on the '$12.5B' value in this article, without taking into consideration that this is really 25% higher than the effective price of $9.5B, once you back out the cash.
The bottom line is, the only way to avoid getting defenestrated in patent disputes in court, is to have a portfolio. There was no choice if Google wanted to protect their interests. Logically, they had to do something.

As said previously, this acquisition hits a trifecta of benefits, not just a large and Android-relevant patent portfolio. Google can now directly create Android pure phones to their intended specifications, and they have tremendous talent and resources at their disposal.

Patents were huge, but to look at this issue and only see the patents is a logical foible.
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We already know how to build colonies, even if we haven't done it on another planet. Turning a subway or megamall design into a Martian colony is an engineering problem. Terraforming is a fundamental science problem. We're still a long way from cracking it.
What's so surprising about that? It's common sense that they'd do it.

Apple does the same thing concerning android apps, and Android does the same thing with apple apps. Online games do the same thing with other online sites and so on.

Nothing new, nothing surprising, and nothing wrong it it.
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A solution to this would be for Twitter to post the t.co URL if the original URL is longer than the t.co URL or if the original URL is too long to fit in the tweet. Else, it would display the original URL but direct it to the t.co URL for tracking.

So a tweet that says:

Check it out: http://zombo.com

Would be posted as:

Check it out: <a href="http://t.co/whatever">http://zombo.com</a>

This would preserve Twitter's tracking while maximizing the amount of information in the displayed URL as well as meeting the user's expectations, intent, and needs. Thoughts?
I just found it through the database course and signed up. Just got a taste of machine learning etc via http://blog.saush.com/

Hoping not all of it will go over my head!
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Official registration hasn't opened yet, right? I haven't received any additional info since I initially submitted my name and email address a few weeks ago.
Great! A list of problems with a description of _why_ it's a problem. Can I ask if you have put this list anywhere near the GIMP developers - mailing lists or bugzilla?
Erm sorry, it was a 38k source file of text. I was actually hard coding everything because I didn't understand it. the whole screen would get printed out (without any sort of looping) each time you guessed a letter.

GW Basic did let you do basic graphics, I eventually got around to emulating a side scroller at one point. Obviously it was just the foreground, but it was quite a lot of fun.