skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you are joking, but the idea is that different levels of service are given by different people, and they may be layered one on top of another. I believe the term used these days is IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service. Amazon EC2 would be IaaS. Heroku or DotCloud would be PaaS. A PaaS company can have their infrastructure provided by an IaaS company.

It's Turtles as a Service all the way down.
So, it took a while to dig up a working link, but there's a memorable/revealing story I listened to a while ago about a visit to Brad Blanton's Radical Honesty workshop... worth a listen.

mp3 link: http://fancyandawesome.com/cm/?tag=starlee-kine

Original source: The Moth podcast.

(( Spoiler: it goes beyond being merely unflattering towards Blanton, to downright disturbing. ))
You don't have to localise it properly, just garble the text. I bet it would be possible to write a Chrome plugin..

(More realistically, perhaps, just having had this experience provides a new perspective. It'd probably do to just use _any_ localised app.)
Well, since you're going to skirt around how the acceleration actually happens, I'm just going to counter with: The defender also has arbitrary time to defend. Couldn't you "store up" a defense over time somehow? Maybe have a counter-projectile orbiting really fast that can be brought out of orbit to hit the incoming one? Or, I know we don't have energy shields, but with the amount of assumption going on in this whole article, I may as well assume we do ...
Momentum doesn't really work this way. The only things that change the difficulty of deflecting something are it's mass, and the remaining time to impact.

Having a lot of momentum doesn't change how much force is required to give something a given acceleration until relativistic effects start to matter.

(I guess distance also makes it harder, because you need to travel further to start deflection, but that's not really a momentum thing)
Alt. He who has the peso has the say so.
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Poll: What keyboard layout do you use?
Since keyboard is a tool we use the most often, I wanted to ask about keyboard layouts.

What do you use, and what are your experiences with alternative?
QWERTY, not considering to switch
QWERTY, considering alternatives
Non-english (French, Russian, other significantly different from QWERTY)
I just queried ns1.dns.rcn.net for an rrset that has a TTL of 120 seconds and it returned appropriate TTLs.

EDIT: It also does the right thing with even shorter TTLs - try `dig 40.2.+.rp.secret-wg.org txt @ns1.dns.rcn.net`.
Ok so his data shows 50 mil users Dec 1 and 62 mil users Dec 27 which is easy to calculate at 460k users a day not 625K.

I'm more then willing to believe that there were 625K+ users for Dec 25 and 26 though to extrapolate users for all of 2012 based on xmas day and the day after xmas sign ups of 2011 is absurd.

Interest in google plus is fairly flat:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22google%20plus%22...

For comparison's sake that is 10% of twitter and twitter is 10% of facebook.
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I would imagine it's because brain teasers test mostly one thing: If you've heard the brain teaser before. (Or, alternatively, how much of a smart aleck you can be. "Why are manhole covers round?" - "Because manholes are round. If they were square, they wouldn't fit")
Information Brokers: What do they do?
Brokers are usually mediators between a seller and a buyer. He has the means, connection and network to let his clients meet, and make an agreement or close a deal. Usually a broker is paid based on a project basis or a commission based on the sale or transaction.
Wikipedia competes with other companies not just on market share and money, but even more on attention from people actively supporting it by editing the information. I see no immediate gain they could get in market share by making money with ads as they are already having the biggest share of any encyclopedia with their current way of working. But I'm rather certain they would lose a lot of editors and would even give a competitor a chance to gain those people. As little as many people might care about seeing Google-ads, no one helps Google for free. Swarm driven websites have to care about attention from people far more than about money as long as they are able to cover their costs (and they are able to do that as long as they have the swarm behind them).
I don't have that problem so it might not be affecting everyone.
Seems like I missed the edit deadline. More free advice: Most flippers derive market price by using pre-existing marketplaces data like eBay/Terapeak and Amazon new/used to figure out where the market roughly sits. These venues have strong incentives to regulate listings into consistent item buckets to make sure people can't (CL)SEO listings like CL spammers ("2011 Macbook Pro" vs "2006 Macbook Pro with Office 2011", or the giant paragraph of hot items in small text and white font to catch your search attention). Once you get that magical price point/band, you can pretty much go to town with some basic clustering analysis. [Disclaimer: worked on a few private, weekend projects in this specific niche.]
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It's fascinating how periodic searches for LinkedIn are -- peaking right before each quarter ends. Looks like a lot of people are looking for news jobs right around then.
>This is how Free Software projects work

Isn't Mozilla a non-profit org with a hefty budget ? I guess it isn't unreasonable to expect improvements from the core team. Sure you can't demand them but I guess once you have a paid team working on the project you expect some polish, especially when it coincides with their goals of helping/enabling developers.
I think your point is that if you want a feature implemented in an OS project, you should implement it yourself. In practice, we're web developers, and it's much easier to just pick up google chrome than it is to get set up with developing firefox, getting into the code and implementing the change.

That being said, I'm seriously considering cowboying up and contributing to get the ruby tag implemented in firefox. This is not because I use Firefox myself, but my users do, and faking it with js/css is brittle as hell.
Different situation, different level of public sympathy, different level of justifiability based on the shared ethical views of the people. Basically, the situations are not analogous.
will try
angry emails saying what exactly?
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Since when were the words honest and tactless synonymous? There are plenty of ways of telling people something they don't want to hear without being incredibly blunt. This man appears to get off on the while confrontational part of not lying.

I consider myself pretty honest but I don't tell people truths unless they ask my opinion or its a problem for me.
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qwerty.

If the alternate layouts do give any real speed advantages (which is open for debate, I've heard of studies proving both sides), it isn't enough to be non-standard, IMO. YMMV but it isn't uncommon for me to be typing at someone else's keyboard and I don't want to have to mentally switch modes, so I just stick with qwerty.

Also, as much as some hackers like to focus on typing speed (advocating dvorak, the essays by Yegge, Atwood, etc), speed of typing has never been my bottleneck to writing good code, so optimizing for it never seemed very useful.

FWIW, I don't even touch type, I have a very odd 5 finger no-look (but not touch typing) muscle memory system (3 on the right hand -- thumb, index, middle and 2 on the left, index and thumb) but that gets me about 90 wpm when I've timed it which feels plenty fast enough.
if anything they probably would be pro SOPA because leaked information could be censored more efficiently (at least thats what lawmakers would claim)
If it weren't for vim, I would have definitely considered switching. I know you can map keys and all, but, it just doesn't make sense going through all the hassle.

Are there any bi-layouters out there?
This is dated 1999. It seems that agile methods have become more popular over that time, and upfront approaches (like formal methods) less so. One could interpret that unpopularity as the failure of formal methods... or as suggesting an untapped vein of problems that are too complex to solve without formal methods. Popularity != Merit (see Knuth: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390760)

[myth 2] No program was proved [...] [The] process of formal development of the TD helped a lot in finding omissions, ambiguities, inconsistencies and incompletenesses in the informal descriptions.

[myth 4] [Mathematicians'] solutions were so short and tricky that nobody else [...] could read them. [...] If specifications are not written using the same style it is almost impossible for implementers and testers to read them efficiently and effectively.

BTW: It's striking how lisp combines aspects of agile and formal methods, in terms of hacking and a mathematical-like approach, combining both good and bad aspects.
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To what extent do you think GoDaddy should be held liable for?
Thanks for that. I actually remembered their color scheme/design, but couldn't find the website back when I was looking for a new registrar. It looks like they have a much larger selection of tld's compared to Namecheap. That will come in handy.
Did you read the pastebin text?

Line 30:

"In reality, for the past few months, we have been in possession
of approximately 14,000 passwords and 8000 credit cards from
SpecialForces.com."

Line 36-37:

"http://[redacted].gz <- orders/addresses/ccs
http://[redacted].txt <- just the passwords"
QWERTZ is the default here (Germany) however I've switched to QWERTY simply because that's the most convenient if you're using vim as an editor.
I hope he's getting paid well for this. It's a masterful way of keeping attention, if indeed he's doing all this intentionally.
...we've lost our focus on the real problem.

This isn't internic. It's just a company in a commodity market whose service and policies people seem to dislike, but are about as far from a monopoly as you can get. They are relevant because we keep talking about them.
Legitimately funny. Reminded me of my favorite Futurama quote:

"You're just jealous."

"No I'm not! Oh wait, I am! But my point remains valid."

I don't know if your jealousy remark was accurate or not, but this whole thing is definitely amusing.
Colemak was a lot of fun to play around with, however my frequent use of Vim makes any alternative keyboard unusable. Just scattering H,J,K,L throws my productivity for a loop.
Unfortunately so far, the G+ API is read-only. There is no way to write any third party tool to post to it. It would be interesting to hear from someone with internal knowledge on what their actual plans on opening it up are.
a colour picker is likely something the developers would simply never think to add in a product that is not specifically a web-development tool. you should write and suggest it.
Yeah except what you're doing with this comment is so painfully obvious. This isn't anything close to Radical Honesty. You're just saying something vaguely taboo, in a space where this is already accepted, and to absolutely no end.

Nothing is gained from your comment, and I can picture you sitting there with a stupid smile on your face thinking, "oh aren't I clever! I understood something enough to copy its form." It's pissing me off but no one here should care about that.

What people should take away is that RH doesn't just mean be a little dickish all the time. It means that when you have something important to say, something that has a direct impact on the people around you, you should not worry about spinning or softening it. Don't just tell the hot girl you were trying to look at her tits. Tell your wife about it. It matters to your wife more.
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Looks nice. I like how fast the UI is. Took the free registration, may register some with you.
I'm quick with QWERTY (over 100 WPM), all my laptops use QWERTY, my tablet and my phone both use QWERTY, my TV uses QWERTY... It would be silly and pointless for me to switch. I might be able to increase my WPM slightly but my WPM with QWERTY is good enough.
German Mac default QWERTZ, which is different from German PC QWERTZ. The most defining characteristic is @ being alt+L. Windows users trying to check webmail are bound to hit cmd+Q (and quit the foreground app) and Mac users on a PC will hit win+L from muscle memory (logout). Fun.

This might well be the reason why I never liked TeX at all. But I just love the placement of … and many other 'alt' glyphs that have nothing to do with coding.

I have also mapped the caps lock key to ']', which is the single most useful key ever for iOS dev in Xcode 4. Helped me more than switching to Dvorak would, I guess.
Many consumer contracts in the U.S. (for example those for my credit card and my mobile phone) do require binding arbitration. Why doesn't your argument apply to them?
qwerty with spanish layout, because I'm french and really need all the accent chars (spanish qwerty is a perfect mix).
The article mentioned tungsten, which has an absolutely preposterous melting point. I doubt it would melt moving at typical orbital velocities, but even if it were to be moving faster you could easily make the front of the projectile ablative.
Agreed. Usually on these kind of things I find that the crap gets hidden, but here it was very much present.

Only thing worth seeing:
Employee: "... everyone I speak to at GoDaddy either opposes SOPA or doesn't know enough to have an opinion."
Redditor: "That's odd. Among redditors it's usually both."
This is not a new idea. In Vedic philosophy this has been preached and practiced only by realized person. In fact, practicing telling only truth one becomes realized. For e.g Gandhi adopted this practice of speaking only the truth as that is one of the limb of Yoga.

What happens is the moment you take this resolve to speak only truth, your actions and thoughts become aware. So there is a very subtle refinement going internally as you keep practicing speaking the truth.

But I think it is more appropriate to speak only when you are asked about it. Just telling your thoughts just for the sake of speaking truth does not make sense.
typing speed has never been a limited factor for anything I've done. so I don't feel the need to optimize it.

did start learning shorthand once, but I found the simpler solution to my particular problem (nobody agreeing on the meetings conclusions) was just to have the discipline to write a short summary meeting email to all attendees.
I read the article. He does sound like an arsehole, but you know what, it's probably because he is one. Many people are arseholes, they just don't tell you about it. You don't find out about their true nature until after the contract was signed, at Christmas after five years of marriage or when you notice their phone has applications on it they are using to cheat on their partner with. I prefer honest, abrupt arseholes. You can choose whether or not you want to associate with them or form a relationship with them. Most people have some minor failing or another, wouldn't you prefer to know what it is so you can act accordingly?

I'll be honest with you, I have a handful of close friends and a couple of hundred acquaintances who will answer my calls if I ask them to come out for coffee. I really don't care much about what others think of me. I wouldn't say I am an arsehole but I have been one at least once. If people really want to associate with me, then I'll be pretty frank about who I am.

Honesty doesn't mean being an arsehole, but if you are an arsehole you probably should be honest about it. Some people are truly terrible people, I've met quite a few. I appreciate their honesty but I know for everyone who reveals such details many stay in hiding. It's the arseholes who stay hidden that are the bigger problems, like the ones who will read this comment or prowl online communities looking for leverage against us.
Qwerty and Colemak. I sometimes use Qwerty when I am chatting while gaming or when on someone else's computer - though about 2/3 as fast.

I find that I don't have to actively think about what layout I am typing in, it just flows. I imagine bilinguists have a similar experience.

I chose Colemak primarily because it doesn't mess with common shortcuts (Bottom-left keys "qwarzxcvbm" remain the the same positions).
How about an e-reader and an account at library.nu, have him check out http://www.khanacademy.org/ and http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm too.
The Nexus is 599 with a 24 month contract? That is definitely not worth it. The Galaxy II is supposed to get the 4.0 upgrade, the not will most likely get it as well. I'd say if you don't want a gigantic phone, go with the $99 Galaxy 2. If you want a phone so large that it doubles as a tablet, go for the Note. If it is $599, I wouldn't recommend the Galaxy Nexus unless it is off contract.
Because people are irrational. Why did Hitler try to kill all the Jews? Because he felt like it and had the means to do something about it.
You're right, but money already is involved in these articles. Authors and actors (and agents, I've suspected in a few cases) are keeping a biased eye on their articles.

I think it would be difficult for Wikipedia to be corrupted by money. There's too much transparency, and there's too large of a community. The admins have already discovered with dealt with large-scale attempts to game the system.

What's actually at stake here is the appearance of objectivity. Affiliate links, which are nearly universal across the web, should be minimally objectionable.
I agree. They are frustratingly quiet. Any ideas why?
QWERTY with caps as control.

Ctrl+[ is considered escape on older keyboards so vi style software includes emulation/acceptance of this behaviour.

Lets you hit escape easily, one finger on each hand, while still having easy access to other ctrl modified behavior (page up, page down).
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Doesn't RH require you tell anyone who happens to be in earshot at the time. If the hot girl is in front of you, you tell her about the fantasy. If you kind of don't trust Blacks, you say it when you come across a few of them when you're walking to the bus stop -- if it crosses your mind.

If you think your boss is a jerk, you tell him everyday. If you think your daughter is not cute enough to get a good boyfriend, you tell her that whenever it pops into your mind.

The article notes its is if there is no filter from your brain to your mouth. You say it when you think it.

Personally I think it is a stupid idea. There's a reason that the filter exists -- otherwise we likely would have evolved to have no such filter (the filter was probably an evolutionary development as I suspect the default is to have no such filter).
I understand that you like your computer, but you should determine what platform you want to develop for, and then make your decision based on that. If you want to develop for the iPhone, having a cheap second computer is a viable option.
Tor just isn't that important.

It was a comparatively minor project from a minor agency where it is no longer developed.

Not only that, but Tor is too closely associated with the seedier sides of the internet for any elected politician to stand up for it specifically.

Thinking that the President will override a bill because of a minor thing like Tor is grasping at straws.
It is, but think about it; all the developers that know how to fix this also know how to fix one of the other million bugs in Firefox. And those are probably more important "to developers" than this one.

All bugs and features are important to someone; the reality is that there is an infinite amount of stuff to do that would be of great benefit to everyone, but only a finite (but perhaps large) number of people that are able to act on. The only way to act purely in your own self interest is to do something yourself; then you get one task and one person to implement it that you have full control over. Acting entitled doesn't get you anything other than the ability to stop giving Mozilla money and switching to Chrome. (But I'm guessing that 99% of people wanting Firefox features aren't giving Firefox any significant amount of money. A feature like this probably takes someone skillful 8 hours to implement. At $100/hr, which is a reasonable rate for an employee with overhead, you should be donating $800 to be entitled to a fix. And that's not even how donations work.)

I'm saying that if this enhancement was truly important, it would have been done sooner. What people think is important and what is important are often very different. "Let the market decide," is my philosophy.
Dvorak user.
I also use vim heavily (I switched to dvorak before I started using vim, so I've always been used to having h,j,k, and l being separated.
This is why Carl Sagan argued against projects like Spaceguard that purported to defend against rogue comets or asteroids. He felt that the risk of a space collision was much smaller than the threat of humans turning the technology around to hurl asteroids at our enemies.
There's a lot of "I type fast on qwerty so why would I bother switching?" Speed isn't even the main reason I use dvorak. The primary reason is that it's more comfortable to type in.

In addition, as a programmer, a lot of the characters actually happen to be in more useful positions than in qwerty, even though that's not what the keyboard was designed for. '-_' especially is in a better place (home row, right pinky). Brackets are next to parens. '=' is slightly more convenient. Even in VI I find I like a lot of the key positions better.
Here is a paper http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7529/1352

"A total of 1 486 800 prescriptions for methadone were issued in 2003" and "A total of 1 486 800 prescriptions for methadone were issued in 2003"

These are both methadone substitutes.

I have done time in community psychiatry and addiction psychiatry.

My best friend is a psychiatrist that spends a lot of time with drug addicts.

I have seen the results, and the HUGE costs, with my own eyes.
Amazon will also almost always ship their product within a day. I can almost always order something with my Prime membership Monday and have it on Wednesday with no extra shipping costs[1]. The 3rd party? Who knows. It might take them a day or two to ship. Or more.

[1] Ignoring the $75 annual fee for Prime, of course.
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I found as well the Spanish QWERTY to be the best designed keyboard if you type in English, French and Spanish.

The French AZERTY is so poor, it is strange it is still the default keyboard for French speaking regions.
I think being honest, and talking about elephants in the room would open up some relationships. It would make people feel less alone in their thoughts. We all share similar thoughts but sometimes we feel we're weird as heck b/c we're the only one with such thoughts.

For me, it's less about talking/gossiping about others, and judging others. I'm talking about universal stuff like the unfairness of life(genetic lottery), death(do 80-year olds go to bed thinking this might be the day? do older parents wake up, thinking this might be the day their parents are dead?). Opening up about what we're thinking.. not about others, but about life.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=vim%2C+emacs

edit: this is misleading, "vim" seems to have more unrelated meanings than "emacs"

edit 2: this much more narrow but less biased comparison is more reliable: http://www.google.com/trends?q=vim+editor%2C+emacs+editor...
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