skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a rather unsatisfactory way to define moon-hood, because it doesn't depend on any essential features of the two bodies. Replace Earth with something of the same mass but more dense, and the Moon gets promoted to planet, even though its size, shape, and orbit don't change? Yuck!
Gee. I kind of thought HBase & Cassandra had Hadoop integration pretty much down...
In case you haven't seen it before, I wrote up a step-by-step guide earlier this year as well: http://blog.dnsimple.com/preparing-domains-godaddy-for-trans...

Note the tip at the end: you usually have to wait the full 5 day waiting period when transferring a domain out of GoDaddy because they let the domain auto ack at the end, however you can speed things up using the technique described in this help article on their site: http://help.godaddy.com/article/6040?locale=en

Copied here in case they remove it. :-)

To Accept or Decline a Transfer to Another Registrar
Log in to your Account Manager.
In the My Products section, click Domains/Domain Manager.
From the Domains menu, select Pending Transfers.
Select the domain name(s) you are transferring to another registrar, and then click Accept/Decline.
Select one of the following:
Accept — This option might speed up the pending transfer's completion.
Decline — This option cancels the pending transfer, which causes it to fail.
Click OK twice. We process your request within 30 minutes.
I'm not sure I actually feel good about paying those $5 knowing that most of it won't end up in Louis's pocket, actually.

If I wanted to donate to charities, I'd do it myself. I don't want to, I believe there are better ways to use money - so I feel that money is kind of wasted.

More importantly, I felt good about paying $5 because I felt I was giving $5 to Louis CK to support a great effort and an awesome artist. The fact that he's keeping only 22% of it makes me feel like 78% of it was rejected. If so, I might as well have kept my $5.

Honestly, right now what I'm thinking is that I'll probably get the next version off BitTorrent. I'm not happy paying for a download with 80% of overhead, especially if that overhead is voluntary. Most of the $5 should end up in Louis' pocket, and if it doesn't, I don't feel like throwing it down the drain, I have better uses for my money.
A bomb was just dropped! This is a badass stand that sends a strong and direct message to anyone tied to a SOPA supporter. It will be interesting to see if venture funds start to cut ties w/ SOPA supporters.
Just for future reference about "For some reason I can't see a reply link under hir answer".

I believe that the deeper a thread is, the longer it takes for a reply link to appear on a comment. This is to prevent endless flamewars, which immediate replies facilitate.
I agree that is more accurate. I thought about writing that but didn't want to slice the language so thin that it distracted from the main point.
I would need more than that to consider as confirmation. It looks to me like it wouldn't fit under their definition, although it is quite ambiguous.

a product or service designed or marketed for the
circumvention or bypassing of measures described in
paragraph (2) and taken in response to a court order
issued pursuant to this subsection includes a product or
service that is designed or marketed to enable a domain
name described in such an order--
Of course not. I know enough of their business practice to know they were willing participants, but one has to wonder what they thought they would gain by enlisting. It looks kinda naive to me.
Damn, I feel like a dinosaur thinking about 'is there something apart from mIRC or pIRCh?'
Transferring my domains to https://dnsimple.com/ :) A little more expensive than the cheap registrars... but Anthony who runs the company is amazing! Shameless plug: he did some development work from the back in the day, and is one of the best RoR programmers in the world!
2011 can be made from numbers 4 and 5:

5*5*4*5*4 + 5*4 - 5 - 4
The -Productivity Through Chaos- experiment
If moon = natural satellite and if the "moons" of other planets have names, what is the name of earth's moon? Why do they have to use it so interchangeably?
To move to a new country?
I'm 27 and have worked for the last 5 years as a software developer in the United States. I've mostly enjoyed the experience but can't help but feel that I am wasting the prime years of my youth behind a desk.

I cannot take the luxury of quitting work completely to travel but changing jobs is a definite possibility.

I am considering moving to Europe to work as a developer. Basically finding a development position like my current role but overseas. I feel this will be enough adventure to keep me sane while allowing me to explore new and exciting cultures. My question is the following:

How has moving to a different country affected you? Are you considering gaining citizenship in that country? How did you first go about setting up your move? Did you regret it?

Thanks for the help in a difficult time in my life.
For me, the issue with switching from Godaddy is cheap ASP.NET hosting - Godaddy's shared hosting is fine because bandwidth is not an issue, however ASP.NET and IIS7 are.

Any thoughts?
handlebars is a pretty inelegant lib, a parser generator for a grammar as simple as mustache is just silly, even this current twitter implementation could be significantly smaller. For large deployments like Twitter I imagine these savings are quite important
That's a misrepresentation of gun control. There may be certain individuals who'd prefer to do away with the second amendment but as a group, gun control supporters are more about making sure guns are owned and used responsibly. What you said was such an oversimplification and oversimplification or "bumper sticker politics" is what's wrong with political discourse in the US. Without getting into a whole gum control debate I'll just say I think we can all get behind keeping guns out of the hands of known criminals, the mentally unstable,
I don't know how you took that away from my simple sentence. You're like my wife that always reads "between the lines".

You're also either building a strawman or you're losing yourself in your own arguments to somehow reach your original point - interaction with a desktop computer, featuring a keyboard and mouse, also relies on "touch, sound, speech, vision and gestures" (again, stay off the weeds).

First of all, let me quote Wikipedia:

A common misunderstanding of the "Natural User
Interface" is that it is somehow mimicry of nature
or that some inputs to a computer are somehow
more 'natural' than others.

In truth things that feel "natural" to us are things that are familiar to us, just because we interacted with similar things before. If moving a box from one screen corner to another with our finger feels natural, that's only because we've been using our hands to move objects since forever. However, that doesn't mean a keyboard is not natural. Quite the contrary, because of repeated usage I can now type at 100 WPM, which is a speed that can't be matched with a touch-screen or speech recognition. I never think about the keyboard in front of me, but the on-screen keyboard on a tablet is definitely not "natural".

Touch-screens are not natural when you want to write text (a trait essential to humanity as a whole btw). Touch-screens are also not natural when you have complex interfaces with functions organized in a tree-structure. For example you can use a simple word-processor or a simple photo retouching app with a touch-screen, however, try imagining how Adobe Photoshop would "feel" on those tablets.

Bill Buxton, of Microsoft Research [2], says in his own essay "Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved":

Everything is best for something and
worst for something else

Also, see this essay published by Don Norman in the ACM CHI magazine: "Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural", which explains with detail how interactions based on touch aren't a panacea [1]

[1] http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/natural_user_interfaces_are_not_na...

[2] http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
How many moons does the Sun have??
I'm talking to my Congressman on the phone right now. What do you think should be altered so the bill can achieve its original purpose? Or will nothing help?
I just transferred my 47 domains out of GoDaddy. I've been meaning to do it for awhile --- primarily because the price keeps inching up and because I find their advertising and use of spokeswomen sort of distasteful.

Seeing Jillian Michael's face when I'm buying a domain or setting up DNS records for a client is pretty much the last thing I want to see.

I guess you could say SOPA was the last straw. Transferring 47 domains cost a pretty penny, but it feels really good to leave that circus behind.

I went with Namecheap, primarily because I've heard good things about them and this blog post made it easy. I like how simple and snappy their web site is. Much quicker and easier to use than Godaddy...and no Jillian Michaels staring me down.
Bill DeRouchey (Creative Director at Simple) on Designing with an Opinion
Oh, I totally misread that sentence.
I guess my blog will be shut down as well for having an article about using the hosts file to aid domain routing.

Heck, what if the Justice Dept. wants to file an injunction against Microsoft and Apple to hijack my hosts file. If they don't comply they could be construed as "in concert" with copyright infringers.
I think he's referring to Saturn's rings, which is largly composed of objects like the “moon” in this article.
Mystery "Space Ball" Crashes to Earth
SOPA is also against counterfeit products and drugs. But if they really care about that, they should separate it from copyright infringement.

They probably lumped them together just so they can show off with a long list of companies supporting it from different markets.
You gave the money to Louis, he spent it however he felt like, which includes giving to charity. Where's the problem?
In practice there is usually a world of difference between apis that are used to build a service's main website and apis that are written outside of it. Forcing yourself to use your own apis is one of the absolute best ways to ensure you improve it.
If you want to donate five dollars to charity, by all means do it yourself. If you want to buy a stand-up film for $5, then do that. He made no promises that he would use the money for charity, or for anything in particular up front.

How does the fact that he's giving some of the money to charity affect your purchase in any way? Do you also feel bad that he's using some of it to pay his employees and care for his children? Would you be happier if he bought a hovercraft or something?

The value of the thing you bought doesn't change no matter what he uses the money for.

As long as he's not like, using it to fund terrorism or something. Then I could see being upset that you supported him.
Show HN: QR code to allow iOS devices to easily connect to your wifi network
Today's project:

This is a web page that allows you to create a QR code that you can print out and put somewhere in your house.

When someone with an iOS device scans it, it will automatically download a wireless profile to their device to auto-connect to your wireless network (SSID & key automatically inserted).

If you enable geofencing and someone gets a hold of the QR code or URL that it links to, it won't work unless their browser reports their location within 1/2 mile of the original location where you created the QR code.

http://www.getonmywifi.com

(Yes, you will be trusting me with your wifi ssid & key for this to work)
Actually, I felt very similar to you. That 280k he gave to charity should go towards funding his next venture, or funding another comic's venture.
But we're not talking about just any odd collection of investors. As I understand it, Y Combinator specifically relates to Internet-centric business models.

SOPA seems wholly destructive to this sector of the economy.
I think you might be wrong.

According to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier

Internet Service Providers have argued against being
classified as a "common carrier" and, so far, have
managed to do so [...] Because ISPs are no longer
prohibited from discriminating among different types of
content under common carrier law [...]
A question for you: Why did you decide to offer these travel guides worldwide instead of concentrating on one city first?

It seems like you should test out your ideas on one city (which is much easier to market), then once you find a successful model, start branching out into other cities.

You could spend some money on PPC ads on keywords such as "San Francisco tours", "San Francisco golden gate bridge", etc, and test out different landing pages and different types of guides.

I also think something like this would work better if the information was all free, and people get to rate the quality of each tour. The ones with higher ratings will be shown higher up - maybe offer prizes to authors who have highly rated tours.
I've tried numerous Apple mice, as well as the new trackpad. Every single one of them caused severe wrist pain, and I ended up going back to my cheapo ugly Microsoft or Logitech mouse within 1-2 days.

More subjectively, Apple's emphasizing mouse input over keyboard input was a mistake in hindsight. Easier for learning, but harder to use long term.
> Those people just have an ability to tolerate or ignore their own cognitive dissonance because their religious beliefs are so strong.

In other words, one possible answer to the original question is "cognitive dissonance". The point is that it doesn't matter what the answer is; there clearly is an answer.
My understanding is that they did try and stop the real estate bubble (to some extent anyway) but regulating bank loans, but the German banks stepped in to fund riskier projects.
You couldn't know that without information about demand elasticity on his product. Decreasing the price could have increased the profit he extracted from his customers.
the orbital period of the satellite isn't as important as the orbital velocity of the planet around the sun.

the earth goes around the sun at 29 785.8944 mps, so for a satellite to appear to stand still (from the sun's perspective) it needs that orbital speed (i'm assuming that everything orbits in the same plane to make things easier/cleaner).

using the equation v^2 = GM/R gives an orbital radius of(G = 6.673 x 10^-11 N m^2/kg^2 and M = 5.98x10^24 kg, 1N = 1kg * 1m /1s) 449, 777 m or 449.7 km. Of course, the radius of the earth is 6.3 million meters (6300 km), so this isn't exactly possible.

the only way for a satellite orbiting a planet to appear to move backwards with respect to the thing the planet orbits is for the satellite to have a faster orbital velocity than the planet's orbital velocity.
The more straightforward argument is the moral one: SOPA is wrong, because it privileges the few over the many. But that's not quite as snappy.
Lamport's papers are exceptionally readable, I should note. His discussion of e.g. Paxos is still current and interesting and still has implications for distributed databases even though that algorithm is too expensive for frequently (like, order of magnitude hundreds or thousands of changes a second) changing data.

The Dragon is mostly old and hoary by today's standards; we frequently use GLR instead of LALR(1), it has no discussion of interesting modern developments like packrat parsers, there is next to no discussion of any part of the compiler that isn't parsing, etc. A product of its time, but not an edifice for the ages in the way that SICP is.

If you find a good stats/probability book, let me know; I've been looking for one for years and come up short. Russell and Norvig is ironically superior to most texts in the field.
Use cash as much as possible and use wire transfer for online payments whenever you can.
Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself.
I get a kick out of some of the replies to this post. Hungry Academy is pretty clear what they are looking for. Don't like it? Don't apply. Don't like Hungry? Too bad. They want people who will work their tail off. If you're that good of a programmer or think it is a waste of time you can still apply to living social or elsewhere. Nobody is forcing your hand here and they are simply extending their hand to a broader market and teach a skill set that is in demand (both to Living Social & elsewhere).
I think Hungry Academy is an awesome program for someone like myself who is interested in learning Rails but could benefit from a taught environment. Also, I believe this is brilliant marketing. Just as you see more articles saying programming is becoming the "2nd" language to know, so to are traditional introverted programmers (and of course, I am not suggesting all are like this) will benefit from rounding out their personal skills. Living Social and other companies don't want a code monkey, rather they want people who can work with others and hold a reasonable presentational skill set while cutting it as a solid "rails" developer.
I would have applied and encourage others in my "not so technical" shoes to jump at this, however I have already invested in and will be attending the January Code Academy class in Chicago. It is a better & more "independent" path for me despite of how awesome I think Hungry Academy is. Sure, it is not certainly cheap but it was my decision. Further, the Code Academy gang is very up front about their cost to participate ($6,000USD for the Dev (Rails) & $6,000 for design). Also, I have never once been promised a job or a comment close to that effect. I view this as a vehicle to launch my rails development (I have been prepping for the course). Many can learn this on their own. Go ahead and great on you. I think the output of this program as well as hungry academy is the result of your input and how are you network the class and surrounding communities.
To J3 & the Hungry Academy / Living Social Crew --> Brilliant!
CodeAcademy --> Brilliant (I wouldn't be surprised Heroku/Salesforce & Marc @Benioff doesn't get involved somehow).

@JaretManuel
Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal
He gives 25% as a bonus to people who made the whole thing happen. People who, as often as not, don't get any bonuses at all (at least in this magnitude). This will be a huge thing for them. That alone was worth the $5.
Not for the ones typically cited, such as Leonardo’s work, or the Parthenon, they didn’t. Some artists certainly did. Le Corbusier (architect) based a lot of his designs on it, for example, as did Jan Tschichold (typographer).

Anyway, they weren’t working from anything empirical, but from their own mystical preferences.
Maybe it's too late and you're not checking back but I did find out you can request that your app be white listed by Twitter using their process and they'll let you go over any http request limits and other API limits. I'll try to get in touch with you by email to let you know.
There are, by definition, no good scientists who allow their religious beliefs to dictate their science. Some religious people are able to separate their personal irrationality from their professional rationality, and that's just fine.
I've read quite a few comments on HN recommending Appel's Modern Compiler Implementation (ML, Java, and C versions exist) over the Dragon Book although I haven't read either so I can't vouch for it.

There's this list: http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/gprp0/is_there_a_li...

I would add Lisp In Small Pieces to the compilers section of that list.
He didn't know how many people would pay $5, I imagine it was just an arbitrary number he felt was reasonable. Only 25% went to charity, so really it was a pretty good guess. Maybe next time he'll charge $3.75.
Old school Toughbooks were tanks. I had both a CF47 and CF61 way back when and they were indestructable. Of course, those were old P1 era machines. I know I've seen some Toughbooks that didn't really look any more rugged than regular consumer stuff, so maybe that's what you were dealing with?

EDIT:

I will add that I did do some repairs on newish Toughbooks owned by the Army maybe 3-4 years ago. The big plus with them is that they were repairable; all the ports were on separate daughterboards so they could be easily replaced when broken, whereas they're soldered directly to the main board in more typical laptops.
Louis CK: Over $1 Million In Sales In Just 12 Days For DRM-Free Download
Years-old security flaw gives attacker full remote control of Android devices
The Entrepreneur’s Handbook: 101 Resources for First Time Entrepreneurs
Yeah, the process for band posters is : recognise a band (or in this case, maybe a genre). If so, then check the details. That's all the poster needs to convey, and the most important way for it to do it is by being cool and by appealing to fans of that band/genre/club night/promoter/whatever.
Sounds like it doesn't really matter. They could do either. They might have done it on the client specifically for those people that want to see the code.
I get a kick out of some of the replies to this post. Hungry Academy is pretty clear what they are looking for. Don't like it? Don't apply. Don't like Hungry? Too bad. They want people who will work their tail off. If you're that good of a programmer or think it is a waste of time you can still apply to living social or elsewhere. Nobody is forcing your hand here and they are simply extending their hand to a broader market and teach a skill set that is in demand (both to Living Social & elsewhere).
I think Hungry Academy is an awesome program for someone like myself who is interested in learning Rails but could benefit from a taught environment. Also, I believe this is brilliant marketing. Just as you see more articles saying programming is becoming the "2nd" language to know, so to are traditional introverted programmers (and of course, I am not suggesting all are like this) will benefit from rounding out their personal skills. Living Social and other companies don't want a code monkey, rather they want people who can work with others and hold a reasonable presentational skill set while cutting it as a solid "rails" developer.
I would have applied and encourage others in my "not so technical" shoes to jump at this, however I have already invested in and will be attending the January Code Academy class in Chicago. It is a better & more "independent" path for me despite of how awesome I think Hungry Academy is. Sure, it is not certainly cheap but it was my decision. Further, the Code Academy gang is very up front about their cost to participate ($6,000USD for the Dev (Rails) & $6,000 for design). Also, I have never once been promised a job or a comment close to that effect. I view this as a vehicle to launch my rails development (I have been prepping for the course). Many can learn this on their own. Go ahead and great on you. I think the output of this program as well as hungry academy is the result of your input and how well you network the class and associated groups.
To J3 & the Hungry Academy / Living Social Crew --> Brilliant!
CodeAcademy --> Brilliant (I wouldn't be surprised Heroku/Salesforce & Marc @Benioff doesn't get involved somehow with something like this).

@JaretManuel
You have just as much glare on a matt screen, it's just defused. If you angle a glossy screen correctly, you'll have much less glare than a matt screen.
Most of those posts are related strictly to hosting issues. Websites going down and whatnot. That's a complete non-issue for me as I simply use GoDaddy to purchase domains on the cheap.

Not everyone's experience with GoDaddy has been negative. Personally, I wouldn't trust it with a critical website, but if I had a personal website, I'd definitely consider using it. It's cheap, and sometimes that's an individual's number one priority. It may not be yours, but humor the rest of us for a moment.