skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I really disagree, as someone who has done domain names professionally for almost a decade. How many registrants are going to notice their whois info changed? Nothing changes with whois info in terms of functionality. 60 days, no big deal.

Besides, if I already have your account compromised, I probably have your email, that's how they are linked in the first place. It wouldn't be too hard in most systems to just initiate the transfer and hide that info from the user, or simply lock them out of their email. You think their domain registrar is the first place they will call when their email stops working? HELL NO. They have bigger concerns.

They are using a special email address for whois stuff? How often you think they check that? Most people, not all that often. If I didn't subscribe to updates on my whois info from a third party, I wouldn't notice either, and it's my damn job.

We can't implement mindless policies to 'protect' people from themselves unless there are real tangible benefits to it and it's not simply self-serving. Of the major registrars, GoDaddy is the only one I know of implementing this policy and they've been hijacked numerous times. Their whois privacy even had a hole in it for years that is now fixed. It's not stopping the hijackings. Other registrars without that policy have better track records preventing domain hijackings.
Their whole sales process is designed to make you buy more and spend more time looking at their products than you need to. Why is it hard to believe they wouldn't do the exact same thing to the leaving process? They've clearly mastered it.
It looks like for the amazon-type companies the company's culture gets replaced by the founders image, as people need some way to grasp the company as a whole.
I'm moving to Namecheap. Gandi was my first pick but the advantages are not worth doubling what I spend on domains. Namecheap is big enough (accredited, as many domains in its portfolio as Gandi) that I don't think they'll be going anywhere. I also like how they deal with lawyers trying to shut down domains -- where GoDaddy immediately caves and pulls the domain in response to an abuse complaint, Namecheap has consistently refused to take down domains or uncover privacy-protected WHOIS info without a court order.

That's about the best I can expect from a US-based registrar, they're on top of the PR right now so I'm sure they'll provide good service in case of any problems with the transfers, and their prices are competitive with what GoDaddy was offering.

As for my complaints about payment, I pre-funded my account through Google Checkout. That let me use my American Express card and I put enough on it to cover at least 2 years of auto-renewing my domains.
Sigh. I feel your pain. They've deleted the Python SDK unanounced from Github two weeks ago. Not really responsible if you consider there were dozens of watchers and possibly at least as many other sites / projects depending on it. (Also that's ignoring the fact that their docs state 90 days warning period :()

edit Typos, writing on the phone and it's late.
Canonical shares U1DB technical preview
> Made improvemetns to fulltext search.

Like auto-adjusting keywords for typos? ;)
You can do that, but it has the problem that until the user logs in, the password is in a dangerous form. If you bcrypt the salted SHA1ed form, though, you increase complexity slightly but get a complete conversion immediately.
If SOPA passes, a hefty chunk of this site's readership will be out of a career. I think that's weighty enough to bear the noise.
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The story, as told to me by a guy that is very connected in the US solar industry: 1) SolarWorld, a German company, filed a complaint with the US government. 2) A bureaucrat in DC thought it would be a good idea to take the complaint seriously. 3) Now growth in the solar industry, in both China and the US, may be hurt due to the possible trade war.

Some background:
http://www.electroiq.com/articles/pvw/2011/10/solarworld-fil...

It seems, if you are for free trade, this is a bad thing.
I almost hate the Fire. I have a Kindle Touch and I thought the interface between the two devices would at least be consistent.

In the Fire to bring up the menu when reading a book you tap the bottom of the screen. In the Touch you tap the top of the screen. In the Touch you can look up the definition of a word the same way you do on the Fire. However, on the Touch when the definition of a word comes up you can look up the definition of a word used in the definition of the word you just looked up the same way the original word's definition was obtained. You can't do that in the Fire.

Why don't both devices automatically sync? When I first turn on a device I sync. Sometimes when I open a book I have to sync again to get to the furthest read page. Why do I have to sync after syncing?

Why does the browser icon show up on the main page of the Fire every time I use the browser? I keep removing the icon from the main page. Shouldn't I only have to do this once?

Turning pages is a great pain in the Fire and the Touch. You tap the screen and a page turns. This is horrible because sometimes while holding the device I accidentally tap the screen without meaning to turn a page. The iPad has the swipe interface for turning a page. Apple got this spot on. Amazon should copy Apple in this regard.

The web browser on the Fire is horrible. It's slow and I can't get web base email to work properly on it. This is pathetic.

I could go on but the point is made. The Fire is an unpolished device. It's almost entirely pathetic. This is all just my opinion and others will have a different opinion but I would highly recommend getting an iPad instead of a Fire. Don't be lured by the low price of the Fire.
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About points 1 to 3, I think e acknowledged above with enough emphasis my complete lack of social wisdom so far... :(

Regarding 4, just as the app said automatically, I'm also sorry that something went wrong... ;) Can you tell me where, on the flow of the app, you experienced this? I'm on Heroku using their free tier for now, so maybe you just experienced a lack of server resources... =O
Agree, and in addition if you know the URL you can still acces the iAd reports and the sales and trend web interface. Only the web app for managing existing apps or changing prices is not available.
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I don't think presenting a business idea is any more alien to the average person than an art gallery.
The point is that the firms themselves were not behind SOPA. If you're suggesting that we shouldn't deal with any businesses that employ anyone who supports SOPA, I think you're a little off the rails here. That won't help anything and just makes us look unreasonable.
Can Google+ posts be marked with plus.Google.com instead of Google.com?
It's a little misleading that Google+ posts are annotated with (google.com) next to them when they are not official Google communication.

Google+ posts should follow the same pattern that WordPress.com posts take, for example (foobar.wordpress.com).
Googles iPad Killer Ready In 6 Months, Says Eric Schmidt
There seems to be two different conversations going on here. Namecheap says GoDaddy was "returning incomplete WHOIS information to Namecheap". GoDaddy says it was a rate limiter. In all the work I've done with external APIs, I don't think I would ever refer to being rate limited as getting incomplete results.
Win-win for the politically connected oligopolies ( tribes, states, vegas ). Equation stays lose-lose for everyone else ( startups, customers ). And of course there is still UIGEA. So, don't get your hopes up.
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Exactly how I feel! Glad to see there are some mad people like me ;o)
What do you mean "start him off" with programming? You can't exactly buy and package "programming." Why don't you tell him "son, here's this computer. This is google.com. Google 'how to program'. Find something that looks cool."

Let the kid mess around for a while and find what's out there. Afterwards, something like codeacademy.com would be a good starting point if you want a more structured approach.
Twitter more popular than Facebook in 2011
Great ideas - thanks!
It's my understanding that the cost to create a new power plant powered by solar cells is cheaper than the cost to build a new plant powered by coal or oil.
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interesting advice. Wonder what the hourly rate is on odesk...
Tablets could hardly be considered consumer appliances before the iPad. They're not even in the same league, and this is coming from someone who owns zero Apple hardware.
great map. good info.
"""I'm just saying, do we really want our startups to be working with the same network of big law firms that helped Disney extend copyright law duration to infinity 100 years ago? These big law firms obviously have their interests in protecting old business -- I would too."""

The law firms care about what their clients care about. If a startup is paying them, they care about the startup's concerns.

The problem lies with the legislators, lobbyists and big media companies --not with lawyers.

It's like arguing you wouldn't want to do business with a lawyer who works with murderers and such! Well, the whole point of the law system is that EVERYONE gets their defense.
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Step 1: Get rid of offshore casino sites

Step 2: Make gambling legal and tax

Step 3: Profit
Twitter?

I'm working on Facebook and Twitter and the latter just seems generally nastier (ill documented, ambiguous, not based on a simple graph...). A lot of Facebook the Facebook API is pretty good - well documented, clear and simple. And however bad Oauth 2.0 might be, Oauth 1.1 is worse. Oauth 1.1 is pathologically irrational.

And Facebook is only, ONLY directly responsible for THE API ITSELF. If they've maintained some Java or Python stuff, that's right nice of them but it's not their main job. If you are complaining about particular SDKs offered by Facebook, you aren't complaining about "The Facebook Platform", you're just complaining. When they change the interface (as they've done several times), then complain.

I think the site's motto probably explains things better "Of course it sucks, it's made of software".
I used this:
http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g...

from one of previous HN post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097
Oh, about the "subscriber" I was just referring to an HN member that added the Facebook app. Sorry, I'm a native Portuguese speaker and my English is not very good... :S
In this day and age of "just in time", scaling up production should not be an issue. They can't give them away forever, and if they do, it's a great value for the consumer. Protectionism is toxic, and is not the answer.
The Mountain Pass mine is in San Bernadino county. Am I missing something?
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These aren't just employees who signed these letters independently. They were asked by a client to sign onto the letter which agrees with the clients interests. They sign these precisely because the client of the firm paid them to. While I was at a firm we signed onto letters or drafted our own for clients all the time (and it was precisely b/c it helped get the laws through, so call it what you want -- i know I don't mind "support" though I can see how some object to the technicality). In laymen's terms, client shows up and says "we need this law to go through we'd like to hire a lawyer to write an independent legal opinion letter to the court to help them make their decision. Or maybe you guys can sign on to this guy's already written letter? We'll pay you for it, of course."

The techdirt article points this out too. When there's a law up for debate which a client wants to get through they try to get these letters in to make it more likely the law will pass. And yes this is different from official "support" which is saying "we the law firm want this law to pass." This is more like "our lawyer looked at this for our client and he does not think it's unconstitutional though this is not the position of the entire firm." To me, that's still bad but I completely understand if others are okay with it. Reasonable men can and do disagree about a lot of things.
I don't undertand how the article, which mostly talks about state lotteries, implies anything about online poker.
It's a different world altogether. When people think of paying for a mobile. They are by default thinking of paying for the hardware. They don't care, about what runs inside. When people buy an iPhone they are automatically imagining an awesome form factor an awesome UI. By default shipped to them.

So now here is the problem, If HTC ships a phone, will it be an 'HTC phone' or a 'Windows phone'? Now you see there is a problem there. People have trouble imagining the term 'HTC phone running windows'. They understand only single branding. Its either Windows phone or a HTC phone. That's the same thing as during the PC era, for an ordinary user it was always 'I have a Dell computer' or 'I have a Toshiba', It was never a 'Windows computer'.

That is what dug MS's grave here.

When people go to buy televisions, mp3 players or even cars. They don't care who is writing the software/shipping the engine for the car. They talk about manufacturers like - 'Is this toyota car good?' or 'Is this Panasonic TV good', even though Sony may probably be supplying the OEM components to Panasonic.

So people have a lot of trouble imagining 'Windows Phone'.

Android is different here, because Google main business is not selling Android. They sell a totally different thing for which Android is an enabler. So the branding problem doesn't arise there.

So people don't have any reason to consider 'Windows phone' special. Heck they don't understand what a windows phone is basically, Just like how I and you don't care about what engine is built into our cars, or who supplies the filament inside the electric bulb.

To me I can only imagine the electric bulb as a whole, I don't really have the time, money or the resources to go researching for the quality of filaments used inside and who manufactures them. I imagine the bulb as a whole, so the user does the same thing when buying a mobile. Its a whole mobile not a specific component running inside it. And from the direction of view, there is nothing special about windows on manufacturer X.
"""The problem with this post, and other pieces by Spolsky is that he creates an example out of two extremes on what really is a sliding scale. Amazon burned through a lot of capital. B&J grew slowly during decades. In real life, things are seldom so black and white."""

Maybe, but shades of gray are neither guiding principles nor reference points.

We measure shades of gray as 10% white or 20% black etc, i.e distances from the extreme, not with reference to other shades of gray or as an absolute gray value. (Even if we could enumerate enough sub-segments on the "sliding slice", we still intuitively understand segment 4/10 to mean something like: 4/10 close to white, 6/10 close to black).

"Every company has a unique story" is another way of saying: I cannot understand and generalize anything specific about how companies operate. Not very helpful. Science works with generalization and taxonomy.

"""What about Facebook, that grew organically at first and then took on massive investment once it was clear that college kids loved it and they could benefit from outside investment to grow even faster."""

Then they went towards the white end of the scale first, the black later.
as a big data guy, every time i see structured data written in an unstructured, non standard, and possibly ambiguous and unparseable format i get the same urges. i think the best solution is separate logs for human consumption and machine consumption. if someone logs data that they want analyzed in some goofy format then they can also write and maintain their own damn parsers for it, i don't have time for that shit and the solution is so simple.
I have a Kindle Fire. I actually like the fact that it is an imperfect product - lags in switching tabs, occasional lags so long in loading websites that you wonder if your wifi has gone dialup, the dang "Carousel". I do like the reading experience and pocket-ability - it fits into a winter jacket easily - though you need to weigh down your opposite pocket to avoid lopsided-ness.

The Kindle Fire is the first credible competitor to the iPad. Android tablets running Honeycomb - it hurts my head - the UI - it is like a Klingon control panel. Definitely not intuitive. The Kindle Fire - it is a compromise - a custom, dumbed-down ("The Carousel") UI on the iceberg of Android 2.x.

For me, it is a tangible reminder that products aren't all perfect like the iPad. There is no such thing as immaculate conception - the Kindle Fire will get better over time. Comparing it to the iPad is like comparing NYC to... any other city except London[1]. It's a different metro, not as sophisticated - it's for those who just want a tablet device that is relatively affordable.

The iPad has set the bar - it is the first computer for many under the age of six. The Kindle Fire is no such thing - it is, as a review said best, a Kindle with benefits.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
>> ...isn't all garbagy like XML...
>I don't think it's fair to take something that isn't garbagy at all
>and then say that the proposed alternative isn't bad because it's not as
>garbagy as one of the garbagiest things ever invented. :-)

I can see how what I wrote could be interpreted to say "JSON is a little garbagy", but I didn't mean to imply that JSON is at all garbagy. In fact, in comparison to the standard web log, it's very readable. Further, as a dev, I read web logs pretty frequently and I've forgotten what the "- -" was in the log line I pasted...

EDIT: hey, I ignored most of your reply and that's rude:

My first tool for debugging Apache is 'less', so I would be screaming and yelling if JSON logs were harder to read than non-JSON logs.

Agreed about the size of the logs, but JSON logging seems to only change the caliber of the handgun used to shoot yourself in the foot, not turn it into a Howitzer.
Thank you very much for taking the time to provide me with your insights!

With all honesty, I don't have a business model. Aherk! was the project I used to learn how to program, and I think it did more than well!

Of course it would be fantastic if I could make money out of it, though...

Hey... you may have just given me the idea of a business model... Being a cool feature... for someone else?!

I know an exit strategy is not a promising game nor the sexiest choice... But this started just as a game, so..
My point is simply that if a startup is paying a law firm & that ESPN is paying a law firm then maybe the law firm cares more about ESPN's business in case of conflicts. I do not think that is as unreasonable as your hysterical response makes it out to be.

They are not saying "we the firm support SOPA" but they are saying "our lawyer looked at this law for our client and he finds it constitutional though this is not the position of the entire firm." I can understand if you're not disturbed by the latter but I think a simple incentive analysis should make it clear why I'm not the first to argue against sharing law firms with those on the opposite sides of controversial issues facing the court.

A simple hypothetical should explain it: ESPN wants SOPA, they get their lawyer to sign a letter which says the law looks fine. Let's say the law threatens the startup's business at the same time, maybe the law firm isn't as likely to write or sign a letter arguing against the law if it means it upsets ESPN. End result, more lawyers at these firms sign on to SOPA and you end up with what appears like considerably more support for that side from the legal community simply b/c bigger clients support the law than those that oppose it.

Really -- my point is simply that you don't need to hire a 5000 lawyer firm who also represents ESPN & the NFL when a 20 lawyer firm will do. I believe that is in line with the startup ethic as well.

And again that's not my point at all to not work with lawyers who work with murderers -- your statement of my position is a straw man at best and a dishonest mischaracterization at worst. I'm not saying ESPN did anything wrong here -- I'm saying ESPN disagrees with your startup's positions and it is paying that law firm to do what it can to win and hold their position. Maybe it's not a good idea to hire the firm if you don't like the law, you know?
Law firms aren't supposed to take on clients with conflicting interests. If a firm has helped one of their clients lobby in support of SOPA, they shouldn't accept clients who depend on fair use or DMCA Safe Harbor.
My guess: programming on phones is not common because text entry on most phones is optimized for text messaging- mostly just words. Entering punctuation marks is extremely painful on most phone (and tablet) keyboards. Even languages that are traditionally thought of as having sparse, simple syntax like Lisp need quite a bit of punctuation- parens, single and double-quote, and the question and exclamation marks are all important in Lisp.

Compare the touch keyboard of an iPhone to Graffiti on classic PalmOS and I think we've taken a major step backwards, albeit for a user scenario that is at best an edge case. The best feature of Graffiti was that it allowed a user to select a wide range of punctuation as quickly and easily as any other character.
"""Care to elaborate? I still use ICQ """

So you are that guy!

The parent meant that of course people have had since migrated off of AOL and ICQ.

ICQ is almost nothing today, and even yesterday, before Facebook took over, tons of people had switched to MSN.

Wikipedia gives: MSN 330 million active (June 2009), ICQ 50 million active (Feb 2010). You can do the math.
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Reading this a day later, there were a couple brainos in there. First, the second argument to step2 should be of type OneResult rather than Arg. Secondly, there is no need for return at the end of my_program, since step1 and step2 are both "in Reader":

my_program = do
x <- step1 42
step2 x

or
my_program = step2 =<< step1 42

(I use =<< instead of >>= so that nonadic composition reads like normal composition (.).)

Anyway, then do:

runReader my_program config
They're the cheapest, or close to it, though they make it up with all kinds of other tricks. I think it's really just that simple for a lot of people who don't know or don't care about all the other stuff.

Sure, we know about them, but other people are looking for the lowest price they can find on a search for 'cheap domain registration'.
Beware building your business on someone else's API. They control it and they likely don't care about you. The API exists to boost their business.
I bought one. I love it. I CANNOT wait for a 8, 9 or 10 inch one because I will be the first one to get it (assuming it's still cheaper than the Ipad).

I have no idea what people are talking about when they say they are disappointed. Seriously how much hardware + software do you want for $199.

Last time I read a book and finished it was a few years ago. I just finished a 500 page book on the fire, and it has certainly helped a lot with note taking, going back to highlights etc...

Browsing the internet is just fine, although the video audio seems to be off sync for Youtube videos. Movies through Prime were just ok.

Sometimes it hangs, but it's not all that bad. You just turn it off, then on (really, you just press the button back to back. like 1.5 seconds).

I think most people were expecting a smaller Ipad. Well, come on.