skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two scenarios seem likely:

1) The Republican party will nominate Mitt Romney, and the election will be a closely contested competition between two men who are disliked by the most active parts of their respective parties.

2) The Republicans will nominate one of the crazy brigade, who will have a small set of very loud proponents but will scare moderate Republicans enough not to vote, and scare Democrats and independents enough that they will turn up to vote for Obama.

(There are other, less likely options. Huntsman is centralist enough to gets votes from unsatisfied independents, and I think Perry could win if he managed to get the nomination. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/how-can-... is a good summary of the current state of the Republican race)
What the GP means is that the domain registrar business is what Scott Adams calls a "confusopoly". Just like banks and telco companies, registrars know that they can't compete on price alone, so instead they convolute their products and offerings as much as possible just to make it look as differentiation, but the main purpose is to make sure that the customer has no way to objectively compare two companies.

As much as people are talking about GoDaddy and namecheap lately, no one managed to find a cheap registrar. Consumer opinion will always mention quality of support or the political stance of one company or another, but not one single soul managed to show me one registrar that has low prices for domain registration and renewal and SSL certificates. It's always one or the other.
To me, there's pros/cons to this approach with the perspective of making it as EASY as possible for developers to ship across all types of hardware (which is great). But the con seems so big to me: the end-user experience is so slow (iPhone and Android) that when you think of "Facebook for Mobile", you think "Maybe I can wait to access FB on my iPad or back on my laptop when I'm home?"

All of the native apps that I've seen, played with and analyzed, speed = to some the best experiences for a user. I mean, doesn't a FB user want exactly that when they check the Newsfeed? For instance, today, I turned off 4G and moved to 3G on my Android, checked the FB app and it crawled. It junked new screen loads, comments, liking, etc. Switching over to 4G made (some of) the pain go away.
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I think the big sign of growth for G+ is its growing pains. Hangout and other components simply don't perform as well as they did when it was a brand-new service.
"Did you get the birthday gift I sent you?" asks her stepmom.

"Uh-huh," I say.

She sent me a gift certificate to Saks Fifth Avenue.

"And? Did you like it?"

"Not really. I don't like gift certificates. It's like you're giving me an errand to run."

"Well, uh . . ."

Once again, I felt the thrill of inappropriate candor.

If this whole thing felt "thrilling" then by my estimation, he's usually disingenuous to an extent where I'd just eliminate him from associates I feel are worthwhile.

Also, the fact that he feels a gift certificate is like being "given an errand to run" indicates a level of self indulgence and laziness that would eliminate him from associates I would hire, as well as supporting the theory that he's usually too disingenuous for me to hang out with. If someone doesn't have enough balls to flat out tell me, "I got your gift certificate, but I haven't had time to go to the store yet," and feel the need to tell me the "right thing," then I can't imagine being able to depend them to tell me the truth when there's a little stress and things actually matter.
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twixmit is like chat roulette for twitter, you submit a post, someone else submits a post, they get mixed up and then posted to your twitter timeline. The result is they get your post and you get theirs.
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"That beats all the other options I looked at."

Then you haven't seen all the options.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3388223
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One thing I'll need to know before I can transfer domains over is if you offer glue record registration or do I have to manage that using another DNS service.
Ruby Developers Offended by $2,800 Ruby Class
I agree. I think it's important to bring up Ocean's poor customer response, but also don't think PA's public posting of the details was the correct response.

My schadenfreude is of course piqued, but I think blowing this up in quite so public a way is quite the right way to deal with it.
I find Knockout interesting in this respect exactly because it's not monolithic. It exposes some primitives (observables, computed observables, and binding handlers) and you decide how the application is structured. I'm not against a more frameworky approach, but I think it's smart to let the conventions evolve first.
Pawn shops make all their money on the interest on the loans. The buying and selling of goods is really the side line lower-profit leader to get people in the door. Most of the items for sale as just items that the owner failed to collect.

There is a world of difference between a straight 2nd hand goods dealer and a pawn shop. Most of that difference is in the profit margin.
Oh please. I tried this with my girlfriend months ago. It took 3 seconds to tell her she could lose a little weight, and about 3 hours to beg her not to leave me.
I think that comparison is a bit off.

Internet Explorer cannot be removed without damaging Windows or affecting other programs which depend on Internet Explorer's files. You also said yourself it is "pre-installed".

You are not required to be a Google+ user in order to use Gmail, and you obviously won't see integrations in Gmail unless you have a Google+ account.
Let me second this recommendation that anyone with a genuine interest in this topic check out The Algebraist; it's a truly excellent book. I wouldn't say it's Hard SF but it's pretty firm and, IMO, a far more considered and imaginative vision of viable-ish space battle than the linked article manages.

I mean, the article hardly even mentions antimatter, aka the most potent energy store in the known physical universe, aka God's battery. Who's going to be frigging around with some stupid dirty fission reactor when the local Dyson Sphere is producing cheap (by military standards) AM by the kilo?
> Honda sold about 200,000 of the hybrids over a six-year period, and because of resales, as many as 500,000 people are eligible to file claims against Honda.

How could a second-hand buyer claim to have suffered an unexpected loss? Could not Honda (assuming they would bother responding to the small claims action) easily show that the fault was well known and second-hand buyers should have known they were getting a 30-mpg hybrid? Or was this something that only appeared after a number of years?
There's no reason why Facebook, with their size and engineering talent [citation needed]
You should read The Killing Star: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Star

Spoiler Alert!

In the late 21st century, Earth is at peace, sending fleets of Valerie spacecraft to the stars. Without warning, relativistic kill vehicle obliterate the surface of every planet, and a mop-up fleet of ships begins hunting down the humans that remain.

The last two humans on Earth are kept as zoo specimens. They ask why their planet, and all its species, were exterminated. The squid-like aliens explain their logic thusly:

1. Every space-faring civilization is capable of planetary extermination.

2. If given the choice, every species will choose to exterminate another species rather than their own.

3. Each side knows that the other has the same choice.
It is a partial solution. There is no amount of conveniently accessible whiteboard space which will not fill up with "save" boxes if such a rule is not in place. Public whiteboards should have a simple "no saving state" rule.
I know but usually just get frustrated when I have to look at a reference to figure out what key to hit instead of just glancing down at the keyboard.

I forgot to mention, and it also doesn't help, but I'm addicted to WoW so the times that I have switched to Dvorak I just switch back to QWERTY because I want to play WoW without having to re-do all my key binds and type slow as crap.
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You can be completely open and honest and still be polite. It's a lot harder than just being a tactless dick, which is of course the default that everyone thinks of when they think of "complete honesty with no filter". It's the true mark of a nice person when they can be completely honest and still be nice.
For Google+, User Count Is A Journey Not A Race
I love the site. $8 for domain/renewal/transfer that includes whois privacy is a really good deal. I also like the idea of buying credits in batch.

Since your frontend is open source, I figure I'd ask: are you guys still profitable at $8/credit? Is there a way to be assured that the company will be around for a while so we would feel safe stocking up on credits while they're $8 a pop?
Why PPA ? It's maintained by volunteers and there is no connection with "Igor Sysoev". What i'm missing ?
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I've posted this before but I've made half decent money in small batches by purchasing crates of assorted goods at live auctions. Police auctions are sometimes good for this, as they may just load a heap of stuff onto a pallet and sell the pallet as a lot. Most people don't want to buy a pallet full of junk, but you can get lucky if you scope it out before the auction and look for valuable items. Same goes for office liquidations - you might get a bulk lot of 10 LCD monitors or laser printers or something like that. You can sell the first 1 or 2 on eBay, get your capital back and the rest is pure profit. It's also easy if you buy a bulk lot because you only need to write the listing once and just keep repeating it, plus you can get a feel for what days/times bring the most bids.

It's not terribly scalable because you need to have transport and time to attend auctions, plus somewhere to store the stuff. But if you have a decent sized car/pickup, proximity to auctions and a nose for a bargain, you can pick up some good pocket money with this strategy.

Incidentally, I think the market for the pricenomics data is precisely the same as the KBB market - detailed lookup via mobile app for people who are buying/selling regularly. A good pawnbroker/2nd hand dealer/auctioneer will know the price point on a wide range of goods, but allowing people to purchase this information for a reasonable price will help both people starting out, and also professionals stepping outside their bread and butter.

I would suggest a freemium model, where the free version gives you a price range, and the pro version gives you a very direct price.
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Yes. It can get this bad. I keep getting questions on whether node.js is better than what we have (Netty (Java) and Twisted (Python)). I told them there shouldn't be any major differences with our existing use cases (primarily pub-sub) but the manager was insistent we try it out.

So I took out a week to produce a test case to show him the difference was statistically insignificant and not worth the costs involved in porting. I think his head exploded.
Would be more interesting if Google can provide more meaningful data like facebook: https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

>> More than 800 million active users

>> More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day

>> On average, more than 250 million photos are uploaded per day

etc.
Ask HN: What do you want from project management software?
As the title says, what would you want in a project management web application. I'm working on building a web application and was curious what other people would want to have in it.

Thank you.
Playing too much Portal 2.
Whoa, I wrote a post about pretty much the same thing two days ago: http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/stop-worrying-about-shit-that-d...
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Yeah, I'd have a 335d if they made it in coupe form in the USA. 335d sedan is a nice car too, but the 335 coupe is just so beautiful. With military/contractor discounts, BMWs in Europe (which then get shipped back to the USA) aren't a bad deal new, either.

My real long-term (5-10 year) goal is to make enough money and have enough time to have a CH-801 (STOL piston, diesel engine) aircraft, about $100-200k, for flying SFO to Reno or Oregon, and then eventually a HondaJet to fly to Vancouver, central Washington, dive sites in Socal, etc.
For the 20 destructible bulbs and 100 floors, what's the fewest number of tries? I thought of this way: start at floor 50 and drop bulb 1. If it breaks, go to floor 25, if not, go to floor 75. Keep going to the floor halfway between the last floor and the boundary you want to test. You can do it in about 8 tries. Is there a way to do it in fewer tries?
This may have significant implications for http://www.palantirtech.com/government/mobile
Facebook's goal is to penetrate as many markets as possible with the fewest lines of code.

Does this mean they don't give a shit about experience? No. It means they want to have a large reach without much maintenance. After that is accomplished, then they can worry about experience on a per device basis.

I don't believe it's correct to just dismiss this as garbage because the application is currently buggy. The entire idea of this approach is to improve the experience across all devices, but for now they are limited because they are still on the first step, implementation. Also note the slide that says "betting on the browser," meaning that Facebook is betting that issues between platforms will eventually fade away.
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Someone I know runs a very profitable business that is essentially a rare book finding/agency business.

They provide a 1800 phone number + internet site. People who are looking for an out-of-print book give them the details. They search for the book. When they find it, they add 20% the price, charge the buyer, purchase the book at the list price and have it shipped to the buyer, and keep the 20% without ever touching the book.

Essentially it's an agency business - I've often wondered why people don't find the books themselves, but it's a time/doing business internationally/inexperience type of thing. They would rather pay the extra 20% and have someone else deal with it.

The true value of the business in in the dealers database which allows them to find a book very quickly by drilling down into who is most likely to have a copy, plus they have an exclusive deal with point-of-sale booksellers, whereby anyone who wanders into a bookstore looking for an out-of-print book can be given somewhere to go.
If you haven't figured it out already, this is a terrible, terrible idea.

Only if it's done in the way the author does it in the article. Blurting out everything at once is too hard to distinguish from passive agressive smallness. Also, you'd best have done some work first to ensure you don't have some passive agression leaking out somewhere in the first place.

The right way to do this is to not say too much at first, but to also actively seek out those who value the truth. Sharing the truth like sharing intimacy -- it's best done consensually.

Look for those who will take substantive stands, and filter away those who are just saying things to curry favor or fit in. Welcome even those you might disagree with. Admit when the other has a point, and see what they do with that. People reveal whether they really care about the truth rather quickly. Those who do not care often reveal that unknowingly.

The only tact necessary is to withhold an opinion by claiming ignorance or unfamiliarity with a topic and to sincerely respect others. One can usually do both truthfully -- very few people are the world's best experts at a given thing, and few can claim to know all the details of another's situation. If you have the humility to understand this as the truth, then you can usually exercise tact without resorting to untruthfulness.
I did read the entire section. My point is that the whole scenario only arose due to an information gap.
* Because i can.

* Because i can understand the technology behind the "magic".

* Because i can understand the technology behind the "magic" and design my system better.

* Because i can understand the technology behind the "magic" and design my system better and if PaaS provider goes out of business i have a chance to survive.

* Like snap said before : i've got the power...

And most important : because i'm a masochist bastard, who has trust problems...
I was at the Twilio conference this year and there was a talk from Tim Lytle who only uses oDesk for his clients. He claims to have a pretty good client base and is busy from the work.

Twilio also endorses oDesk as a platform for people to find qualified programmers http://www.twilio.com/blog/2011/06/twilio-partners-with-odes..., maybe the answer is to specialize and differentiate to become more successful when competing against $10 per hour international outsourcers.
I was catching a bit of the twitter back-and-forth this afternoon:

http://bettween.com/ireneros/tdreyno/

... and was a bit disappointed by the level of discussion.

"Live Collections", such as they are, have nothing to do with Backbone.js and Ember.js intrinsically -- and indeed, you probably can, and should, implement it in Backbone exactly as Thomas does in this article.

In other words, if you're looking for anything Backbone or Ember specific, there's nothing to see here -- both libraries support this idiom (Ajax some data, check for ids, add if not already present) in precisely the same way.
What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that the issues that are so very important to them are probably just not that important to the president (if he even knows about them at all.) He has a whole world full of things to worry about and only 365 days a year. When something so important to you such as SOPA arrives on his desk, he probably is forced to paint with very broad strokes. Should I be strong on IP, weak on IP? Does my party support it? The specific long term effects that so many of us fear probably don't even cross his mind.
The author mentions Facebook, but from my observations, it seems as if Facebook is much more real-time.

Does anyone know how Facebook is doing their live-updating? Are they using polling a la Ember.js, or are they doing something along the lines of Web Sockets/long polling?
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Ask HN: ImLocated.com Domain Free For Best Concept
I registered the domain ImLocated.com a while back, but never used it. I'd be happy to let it go to someone who is going to use it for a project. If you're interested, track me down (I'm not hard to get in touch with) and send me a message with your idea (general terms, no specifics necessary). I'll give it away over the weekend to the person with the most interesting concept (by my standards at least).
Why is there no IDE doing this?
I learned Emacs by reading the Emacs manual[1], the Org mode manual[2] (Org mode was the main reason I switched to Emacs), the Emacs Wiki[3], and other people's config files[4][5].

Note that I didn't use other people's config files, such as the Emacs Starter Kit that another commenter referenced; I read them. I've previously used other people's config files, skeleton apps, etc. when attempting to learn new technologies, and I always ended up regretting it. With Emacs I started from scratch and took only what I needed from other people's setups. This worked very well for me.

I don't know if you have any interest in using Org mode, but I'd like to mention that using Org mode to create a personal wiki has been one of the best decisions I've ever made. I previously had hundreds of files (.txt, .doc, .xls, etc.) containing notes for the subjects I've studied, and these files weren't interlinked like wiki pages, nor could they be converted to HTML and published to the web with a single command. Sharing knowledge with my team and family is so efficient now. I can't recommend Org mode enough for notetaking.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/

[2] http://orgmode.org/manual/

[3] http://www.emacswiki.org/

[4] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryDotEmacs

[5] https://github.com/search?type=Repositories&q=Emacs
Is FQL going anywhere?
I have a ruby on rails outsourcer that gets paid $5000 USD per month for 60 hours of work. I referencing my earlier post - I think specializations and showing competence in your chosen language / API / platform or type of work you do is key.
yeah, i joined and it's technically a really excellent platform, but i find it hard to have any real attachment to it without full pseudonym support.
Why is every gender centric post here on HN about "making connections" and "growing your network" ?

You want to advance; focus on adding value to the company and do a good fucking job!
My point was that the sample code didn't show Ember's strong features like computed properties and auto binding. The backbone version will be more or less the same size for this kind of demo.

as for the cleaner part, I didn't like the fact that I need to call _super().

On the other hand I really like .property and .observe in Ember.js :)
Also, I might add this idea being terrible or not depends on the types of people you interact with. There are people in the world who value these sorts of communications, and if you do this long enough, eventually the ones who don't self-edit themselves out. You get called "asshole" and "weirdo" and "maniac" along the way, but years later, life is pretty grand.

I don't take it to this unnecessary extreme (there are better ways of putting most of the things he said and still being just as honest), but it really does work.
>Art.sy’s Daniel Doubrovkine and Pivotal Labs’s Dimitri Roche are teaching a six-week class on Ruby on Rails at General Assembly for $2,800. When Mr. Doubrovkine took to the NYC-rb mailing list to advertise, he was surprised by the pushback. “I don’t want to put you down or sound like a jerk but any programmer should be able to learn Rails without paying $2,800,” wrote Rubyist Kfir Shay. “Documentation is excellent, free online resources are plenty, community is strong etc.”

I bet that a better investment with that cash, would be to get a decent Ruby library.
Backbone happens to be a single script, and is monolithic in that sense ... but really, it's just a library that provides "specific functionality".

There are many sites that just use Backbone Models, or just Views, or just the Router, all in isolation. Some use the Models on the server-side ... some use the Views in conjunction with Handlebars.js, or jQuery.tmpl, or Eco, or what have you.

I encourage you to browse the list of example sites -- there's really a huge variety of uses you can observe: http://backbonejs.org/#examples
Very happy to hear Google+ is doing well. I don't do much social networking myself, but serious competition for Facebook is a very good thing.