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namecheap adds 1 year to your existing expiration date when you switch. Nothing to do on your part. No need to contact support with the question like I did.
CSS Filter Effects Landing in WebKit
The oil industry is going "ethical".
Now this ad from "EthicalOil.Org" is something special.

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/buy-canadian-tar-sands.html

You have to know, that for the industrial isolation of oil from sand a lot of energy is needed. So much, that they (Energy Alberta) want to build a nuclear power plant near the tar sand fields.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf49a_Alberta_Tar_Sands.html

Do they realy care? I don`t think so.
The Moon is a moon because the center of mass of the system is inside the Earth. It's as simple as that.
How long does the transfer process take? Also, what about DNS configurations?
I almost think you're kidding here. It's called a popup.

You use Dropbox's already existing functionality to make a copy file. You then compare the changes and if they don't conflict you merge the files (while backing up both just in case of error). If they do conflict you send a message to the tray application which displays a popup showing the conflicts and asking for a choice. This isn't rocket science.

There are certainly places where that wouldn't be feasible like video editing. But I don't buy the argument that "because you can't do everything you should do nothing". Again I point out this took me a weekend to do with office documents and I didn't work through the night to accomplish it. So you can't really tell me it's out of the grasp of a company that has millions in funding.
Except, as noted in the comments, there is actually no way to get a truly unlocked iPhone in the USA (one that will work with any US provider). Even Apple's "Unlocked" full price phone will only work on GSM networks (so AT&T or T-Mobile). They will not work on Verizon or Sprint.
I wonder if he's charging too much, given that he's giving away 1/3 of his profit.
Thanks for this. It's hard to find good examples that are so thoroughly explained and aren't trivial.
Facebook was the top search term for 2011. Address bar or search bar?
The most inspiring thing about the whole story to me is how he was able to generate a massively successful marketing campaign simply by being authentic, and engaging his fans directly. I think this follows a lot of the "Thank You Economy" concepts that Gary Vaynerchuck promotes to a T, and I hope that other artists, companies, and brands take note of how powerful that strategy can be after seeing this success.
Is there a list anywhere of which Computer Science (and related) textbooks are worth reading? (Perhaps based on which universities are actually using them?)

Personally, I find that the research literature is usually (intentionally or unintentionally) opaque and that most ideas worth learning are at least 5 years old, so textbooks are the best place to actually learn things from a source intended to teach you the material.

The list I could actually vouch for would be:

CLRS
Russell and Norvig
Introduction to IR (Manning et al)
Database Systems: The Complete Book

Others that I've heard good things about are:

Dragon Book
Convex Optimization (Boyd)
Probabilistic Robotics
Foundations of Statistical NLP

I'd really like a good distributed systems or distributed databases book (rather than reading old Lamport papers or something), as well as a good statistics/probability book, and I'm not particularly interested in books about coding/engineering style any more (e.g., Code Complete, Pragmatic Programmer, Matz's Ruby book, K&R).
I have watched my wife countless times use the search bar in Firefox when she could of easily gone directly to a site using the address bar. Apparently she is not alone.
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
A Long-Time Apple Nerd’s Review the Galaxy Nexus | mcgvr
"Silly politics Gnome plays"

Care to explain?

Note: I'm a long time GNOME release-team member, GNOME sysadmin, GNOME bugmaster.
Shutting down the right to bear arms is authoritarian and a cause consistently championed by the left.
I agree, matching their funding is hopeful at best, but just attempting to do it can bring a great deal of awareness on the issue.
God, that attitude is just so woefully irresponsible, or something.

"I was lazy." My only question is, was it "I'm lazy and I've ignored every single 'GoDaddy punched me and stole my lunch' post on HN", or was it "I'm lazy and just hoped it wouldn't happen to me, like every person who posted their horror story on HN thought"?

Come on, if you're going to downvote me this quickly, tell me why I'm wrong. We're really going to accept "it was easy" and "I didn't feel like exuding effort" as excuses when GoDaddy has a well documented history of screwing business owners over? Or am I just supposed to believe that them supporting SOPA is so much worse than the callus attitude they have about a fairly important resource it terms of... you know, keeping your website available to the whole world.

ITT: We don't care that we're regularly told that GoDaddy is bad and bad for startups, but we're outraged enough to fight a political proxy war that we'll move our domains. Please, help me understand this. The "rage" here is that SOPA will effectively yield DNS censorship in the United States. GoDaddy has, on more than one occasion, taken it upon themselves to censor the DNS of domains for the entire world, yet I am crucified for pointing out that THAT alone is worthy of ditching them as a registrar? Again, please help me understand this, because it doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
> I have to use their products at my school - how do I get around that?

Be a proud pirate.
This is a weird thing to say. If he kept the whole $1 million, would the $5 still be acceptable?

The price of an artifact (especially one with zero incremental cost to produce) should be dependent on the value created, not the need of the producer. The fact that people spent $10 to have the privilege of travelling to see a fraction of this show, and then went away saying good things about the show implies that he charged too little.
Seems you missed all the design documents made for GNOME 3. Top bar is simplistic at this moment on purpose. There are more ideas behind it. However, just because you can put stuff somewhere, doesn't mean it is a good idea to do so.

The idea is to minimize distractions. Not to optimize for mouse clicks, hot corners, etc.

Defining your own criteria as the reason to call it deeply flawed it a bit easy IMO.
How can USA promote freedom of speech through these tools, and then turn around and ban them themselves? If the world's belief that America is a role model for democracy hasn't been killed by now, passing SOPA will certainly kill it. They might as well release Hillary Clinton from her job because nobody will take her seriously anymore if this passes.
No such thing? Really? So you're saying "touch, sound, speech, vision, gestures" for using computers does not exist?

You have inadvertently proved my point, few people today can comprehend how computers will be used tomorrow. And it is this exact reason that Linux is going to be light year behind the rest of the world when it comes to user interface design. The people making open source duplications of windows aren't the ones innovating for the future.

Anyone who thinks Linux desktop is going to take over the world needs to stay off the weed.
I've registered a few domains through Google Apps. At least the last time I did this GoDaddy was one of the places you might get randomly bounced to. It may have become the only place.
He's probably going to pay taxes on the 220k he's keeping for himself.
And meanwhile, people like Louis C.K. are making quite a bit by selling DRM free content on their own. Hopefully, more content providers will learn to adapt to the internet sooner than later.
I agree, but I'll phrase it another way. You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy. There. Them supporting SOPA seems like less of a direct, immediate threat to anyone here's business than the other stupid moves they've made that have landed them on the front page of HN. I have to raise my eyebrows pretty high at the people that are "outraged" enough at GoDaddy to move now, but haven't been after every damn month seems to see another story of "I didn't think it would happen to me, but guess what, GoDaddy's a cheap lousy domain registrar!"

Are you guys reading my posts as "I love SOPA" or what? I feel like I pissed someone off to have gained a dozen downvotes and no replies.
So let's recap: This is a new Javascript template engine that uses Mustache syntax and allows you to pre-compile template syntax. Sound's good...

But...why didn't they just use Handlebars? Or if you aren't wedded to Mustache syntax, one of the twenty other template engines out there that support pre-compiling?
This is why I think there needs to be an Amendment to the Constitution that makes all future such bills against the Internet illegal. It's probably the best long term solution.
Mongodb IS web scale: hadoop-mongodb
Being "largely spherical" is (post-Pluto furore) a necessary but not sufficient condition for being deemed a planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_planet
This is awesome, everyone says to transfer, but most people won't because it's too much of a hassle. This helps alleviate that barrier. I've just tweeted this and will email my friends too. We nerds are a kind of multiplier effect. GoDaddy, you're days are numbered.
I really wish I had a spare $754 ($681 with code) to transfer all my dumb domain names.
Which companies on the list send people to Demo Day?
I think someone should make a website that takes the Knockout.js interactive tutorials and use Backbone.js instead.

http://learn.knockoutjs.com/
It isn't. We didn't really like anything that was out there. The mission we want to solve is easy. What are you friends playing? A lot of other services use scraping of third party sites via scraping which we werent really willing to do.
Note that you also have to disable domains-by-proxy (domain privacy) if you have it on any domains before they can be transferred.
Continuous compilation
That's strange. While it's true I have "very" secure fb settings, I allowed your app to use my email address. Anyway I'll try to login with Google.
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Michael suggested it for over-break reading, so a retrospective seemed in order. :)
I take for granted that during a show he says bad things only for the sake of entertainment. I never thought that most of the things he says about himself are true, as I guess a lot of people do.

Making people laugh is hard. One of the way is to point at things that are true. This is also one of the purpose of satire, make people think through a liberating laughter. But people might get offended, so a good way to avoid that is to point at yourself instead.
Google Open-Sources the Stanislaw Lem Doodle
A year is typically added to the expiration, it is not reset. There is a cost associated with transferring a domain. For namecheap it cost me $7.98/domain, with the coupon code SWITCH2NC to transfer.
Is it just me or is it ironic that Apple almost exclusively sells glossy screens, but writes this:

Eye strain refers to ocular fatigue, eye discomfort and headaches associated from intensive use of the eyes. Common causes include:

glare on the computer screen
Micro-chip reading pet door keeps strays out
He only charged too little if his goal was to extract as much profit as possible from his customers.
Check out the HTML5rocks article describing the technical details, too - there's a lot of good stuff for cutting-edge web developers.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/doodles/lem/
Wow, surprising to see Visa on that list. Here's a direct link to the list on the techcrunch article.

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
CPU load becomes more relevant with virtualisation
I recently tried out the G+ exporting functionality; it seemed to work fairly well for everything I had posted. (Not sure if it pulled my comments on other peoples' posts - didn't check that.)
The Official Name.com Blog » Getting on our SOPA Box (and saving you money)
Just a note. The distribution being created here is the Binomial distribution. It just so happens that because of the central limit theorem, you can approximate it with the Gaussian distribution. For a low number of samples (n<20), this approximation will degrade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution#Normal_ap...
How to write your own operating system
Ah yes, the old "if you're anti censorship, you're pro child porn" argument.
Mastercard should be there, too. They even had a "witness" at the first hearing.

Can we get a list for the companies supporting Protect IP, too? We don't want that one to slip past us, either.
I love the golden ratio. It has many applications in design. In fact, right now I’m writing a blog post about using it to cheaply generate non-repeating sequences of distinct colors.[0] And I have some background in typography; I’m conversant with things like Tschichold’s golden section.

But this is ridiculous. It’s making very broad claims without evidence. If it cited studies or provided compelling side-by-side comparisons, that would be one thing, but it’s just a bunch of assertions.

Design on a grid is good: it gives the reader a sense of neatness and improves legibility in a measurable way. And the specific proportions the author proposes for line height and length aren’t bad: following this advice blindly would actually give you something pretty okay. But it’s lazy. The author does nothing to show that φ is necessary at any point.

It isn’t shown that, let alone why, 1:φ would make a better base ratio than, say, 1:3/2 or 1:5/3.

It’s like one of those rhapsodic pseudoscientific health articles about how great some food is that never makes an actual claim beyond “said to be beneficial” and “may have restorative properties”.

0. Draft visualization: http://vimeo.com/34069290
> So suddenly I need to worry about mutexs and two processes accessing the same data.

Only if you're implementing higher-level concurrency primitives and want to maximize performance.

Did you completely ignore the context in which mutexes were mentioned in those slides?
Wow, that is a slick tutorial! I'm a complete user of Backbone and wouldn't switch, so I hope the Backbone community can "compete" with this.*

* I of course don't mean compete in a negative way... just trying to get at the way open-source projects play off each other in creative ways.
Creating more social in the real world using social media...
Why? The KKR portfolio is independent companies with independent political standpoints...
You have to appreciate their sense of humor. The only way canadian tar sands could even approach ethical is if they build reactors there.
exactly what we are trying to do at http://tripl.com
Buy used textbooks whenever possible. If you're stuck in one of those situations where there's a new edition every year, make sure to ask the instructor if you can use the previous edition.
After you get your EPP codes entered and GoDaddy is notified that you intend to transfer the domain, you can either wait 5 days for GoDaddy to release the domain, or you can go in and immediately accept the transfer by following these instructions: http://support.godaddy.com/help/6040?locale=en

Then it's just a matter of waiting for everything to finalize. I started the process this morning and it still isn't finalized.
There’s no empirical basis for the mystical claims about the golden ratio, and most of the examples from ancient buildings, famous artworks, attractive people’s faces, and so on are a result of selecting examples which match the pattern while ignoring those which don’t – yay numerology!

It just happens to be a fairly reasonable ratio for a lot of purposes (and happens to be the ratio ϕ = a/b such that ϕ = a/b = (a + b)/a), and sometimes therefore an easy rule-of-thumb. Use it or don’t use it. You won’t be missing some secret of the universe.
""If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?""

That is a brilliant point.
PG, if you're reading this, I don't know which list you saw, but here's one with SOPA supporters that is probably the most comprehensive:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/the-439-organizations-s...
I have yet to meet anyone in person who has had a bad experience with acquiring a domain through GoDaddy. I've used them for a few years now and have no negative experiences to report.

However, I moved my hosting from GoDaddy to EC2 some time ago because I couldn't get the customization I needed from them. After their voiced support for SOPA, however, I'll no longer be registering/renewing my domains through them.
The Higgs is something we have to spend 7 billion dollars (admittedly a pittance in the grand scheme) just to have the potential to observe it, so surely you can see why I (and many others, I'm sure) might be a bit skeptical about ever having a use for any knowledge we gain about it outside of academia.

Similar arguments can be used to suggest that we should rid colleges of literary theory, gender studies, philosophy, sociology, large swaths of psychology and economics, most fine arts, probably half of research-level math, and so on, leaving only the fields that consistently give actionable real world results (basically leaving only the pseudo-vocational fields like CS, education, and engineering, and a very trimmed list of research fields like chemistry, bio, medicine, and the few cherry-picked bits of practical physics that we need so that the other fields can still progress).

We reject these arguments, though, because as a society we value (and fund accordingly) the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, even in cases where it's highly disputed whether there's any "knowledge" to speak of at all (I won't name names, but that list above...).

Of course, then the matter of cost comes in, and I certainly wouldn't claim that 7 billion is an amount we should shrug our shoulders at, whether information about the Higgs alone is worth that amount of money or not is definitely up for debate...as much as I might like to bitch about how inconclusive, statistically flawed, and poorly conceived most psychology studies are, they're not costing billions of dollars to run.
Any other nice demos of using accelerometers in webpages? Its a really nice little effect I think.
In my experience it took around 12-36 hours for the entire process with 30+ domains.

And nameservers will transfer.
I need a similar guide for register.com
I have one very old domain stuck there because I lost access to email address with which I registered there.
Am I the only one thinking that this is censorship too?

edit: censorship
I used the opportunity to do some house cleaning. I had to quit being sentimental and be honest with myself about what I would _really_ use. Then I just let the ones I didn't want anymore stay with GoDaddy to eventually expire.
Ask HN: Can university sites be shut down by SOPA?
It's common to post full pdf of one's own publications (have done it myself during my grad school days). Most of these are copyrighted by the corresponding organization (like ACM/IEEE etc) where the publication had appeared/about to appear. This is common practice and usually considered "ok" if you authored/co-authored the paper. Does this violate sopa (since it's technically copyrighted material and you need to pay IEEE/ACM to access it)? Can university sites be shut down?
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FWIW, this is a common (and excellent!) practice. So no matter which registrar you transfer your domains to you should get an extra year added to your registration.
Jason, do you find the MoodThingy useful? and if yes, in what way?

You are the only one I know who uses it so I am curious to hear your experience.
https://dnsimple.com/ has a 50% off special for transferring domains off of GoDaddy. They may not be the cheapest (it's $3 a month to host 10 domains + yearly cost for the domain registration), but they have fantastic support and are super simple to use.
We recently moved most of our domains from GoDaddy and various other registrars to Safenames. And vased on reading their list of support TLDs they do support .it.

What I like about Safenames is the simplicity of their user interface, not the huge number of clicks required by many of the other registrars. Simple text areas where you just can paste the list of domains or a DNS zome file for example.
I was wondering if anyone was going to mention that. If you're already working with jQuery I would think the tmpl extension would be a much better choice.
They seem to want to dumb down the Internet. Their reasons for support, with all the "safety online" rhetoric made me want to vomit. The number one registrar obviously doesn't get the Internet. The Internet isn't about safety and we don't need anyone to protect us online. That responsibility should fall upon each of us. They're playing off people's ignorance to try to make us all believe that they support SOPA for out own good.

I don't want to be protected online. I'll take my chances in exchange for being able to decide for myself what is safe and how I behave even if I decide wrong.
Slippery slopes notwithstanding you could easily make a case that anything lower than the lowest age-of-consent is at least clearly child porn.

After that you're in a gray area, but below that you definitely should get into a lot of trouble.
Yup, we both might be correct!

I had a 'qualification': "Usually the CEEB, SAT, and GRE", and with that we both can be right!

For those tests, at the level of detail of the distribution of the scores, it can be tough to get solid data.

But it is easy and common in educational testing to scale 'raw' scores so that the 'scaled scores' are Gaussian.

Also in educational testing, it is easy and common to have enough data on individual questions so that the distribution will be known fairly accurately for a test made of such questions -- my father did that for years as the main 'educational architect' at one of the world's largest and most important technical schools, with 40,000 students there at any one time.

Having those tests be accurately Gaussian more than
2.5 standard deviations away from the mean is likely challenging. I've often suspected that on some of the SAT tests they didn't give any 800 scores.

There have been suggestions that those testing companies have not always been very open about just what they were doing in their details!
Employee here. GoDaddy does care very much about their registrar roots. The fact that we have over half of all registered domain names is a source of tremendous pride, and unlike the elephant scandal I'm willing to venture their registration will not go up because of this, namely because there doesn't seem to be any support of SOPA from consumers, educated or not. And Godaddy's users are decidedly less technologically educated, generally speaking.
Erlang is actually done right for its use case. Hard to tell about Go yet...
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That's not the reason stocks have value. For one thing, many stocks don't return dividends. They are valuable because legally a stock owner owns a piece of the company, therefore a piece of its assets (and future revenus which will help grow its future assets.)

Secondly, Bitcoin's decentralized nature, unfrozable assets, etc, is inherently valuable because unmatched by any other system.
Yes.

This is not censoring, this is capitalism in action.
Censorship involves speech or other forms of communication. Withholding an invite or discouraging of certain investors in not censorship.
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