skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're afraid of turning people away with a "wall of text" or a "big block of text," avoid walls and big blocks.

Keep your introductory paragraphs short. In the rest of the text, put plenty of whitespace, and add internal headers and/or graphical elements where appropriate.

A web in which every essay begins with "executive summary" or "tl;dr" is a web with a lot of noise. These are needless terms from the worlds of MBAs and tech commenter communities, respectively. If you seek out people who have distinguished themselves at writing — for example, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge, or Clark Shirky in the tech world — you'll notice that not one uses "tl;dr", "executive summary," etc. They simply put the information they want you to read first, FIRST.

These explicit summary headers, typically added as an afterthought, are tics of inexperienced writers. They're fine! They're not evil or anything. But they are ultimately less elegant and reader friendly than truly good, considered, well constructed and ordered paragraphs. Putting "executive summary" in front of the summary is like putting a comment like "#HERE WE LOOP OVER THE USER OBJECTS" in front of a simple loop: If something that simple wasn't obvious from the structure of the text (variable name, loop operator) then you're doing something wrong( users.foreach{|user| whatever} is self documenting whereas for(kljk=0;kljk < x.length;kljk++){foo = x[kljk];whatever} is not)
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While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies?

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
Reddit has been throwing around the idea of making December 29th pull your domains day.
For people with experience and multiple job offers which most likely are the types company's want or at least should be trying to hire, there is no incentive to utilize these services in my mind. While I'm sure there are a few great applicants, I'd guess the quality of the applicant pool is going to be quite low in that the cost benefit analysis for a very qualified person is not so great. If anything, I'd probably see it as a red flag on a company that is hiring heavily from services like these.
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Actual URL of the article is http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57346592-281/how-sopas-cir...

Please submit the actual sources, not news aggregators or link sites.
I'm not sure, I thought it was interesting that "You" was posted more often but "I" got more votes. Same with "Your" and "My".
One of us missed the point -- I don't think he was talking about the rate he had to pay.

Programming is a valuable skill. How much does he get for spending 48 hours of his time?
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Maybe they could piggyback on the Eurovision voting infrastructure.
Well according to the Elixir docs it does make a bit of difference in terms of homoiconicity[0] (that famous Lisp property of code=data, data=code), which makes meta-programming easier.

Also, would you rather code brainfuck or C using pointers (both being semantically identical)? ;)

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconic
Makes sense to me.

Just as Android is spreading like wildfire in the developing world via lower-end handsets, I would expect zero-cost free-software desktop stacks to gain share in 'less-developed' countries as hardware prices continue to drop. (The Free desktop stack is already economically viable in the new range of sub-$25 PCs; proprietary stacks are not.)

My impression (based purely on anecdotal evidence) is that use of Free software on the desktop has been growing at a fast pace in the poorest regions of the world for some time, but the trend is still somewhat 'invisible' as the aggregate numbers are still quite small.
I did not hear of Linux until a year and half later and the worst part, I was misinformed about it. They said, "It is expensive and you cant get applications for Linux very easily"

I really wonder how was that possible: Linux expensive? Who could say such a thing in a university??
It's good to be distanced from this kind of crowd ;)
Clojure isn't in the tools list at all? There's Clojure articles almost daily on the front page...
I'm just implying that when the entry price of your product doubles and competition undercuts you to death, it's no surprise your market share goes down - at least in France.

I'm also implying that maybe under Apple's pressure, maybe with their cooperation, maybe against their will, the various french mobile operators settled on a common price for the iPhone that is way higher than when Orange had a monopoly, which is illegal as far as I know.

"The French market is showing increasing signs of price sensitivity" really is an euphemism for "The French see what you did there, Orange, Bouygues Telecom & SFR". Android has nothing to do with it, really.
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This is one uncannily candid interview. In fact, Chandra's answers remind me of Arrington, only less full of himself.
Does anyone know the status of Linex in Extremadura, Spain?
"A point in my guess is that an old civilization won't be trying to use radio to communicate with us and will be using something better than radio we don't know about."

While a popular conjecture in this recurring debate, over the decades we've built up an awful lot of evidence that there really is no better mechanism for distance communication than electromagnetic radiation. We're running out of places for such putatively better mechanisms to hide.

I dislike this line of argument in the modern time, because it conflates two discussions, "what we scientifically know about the universe", and "could conceivable be true even though we have no evidence for our conjectures". While the second may be superficially more fun, it's ultimately a waste of time for any sort of serious discussion because you can hypothesize anything you want. It's content-free, despite the haze of words you can throw up. The first is much more interesting, and while 50 years ago one could still hypothesize better communication mechanisms, I think the argument when used in a serious discussion is out of date. We can name some non-EM communication mechanisms (neutrino beams, for instance), but they all suck horribly by comparison.
You haven't said anything new to me here; I took all this for granted and it isn't what I'm criticizing. You haven't actually addressed my summary of the apparent reasoning for why accidental assignments to top-level symbols isn't a pathology of CoffeeScript. The bit I'm criticizing is the failure mode of "if you happen to try to use the same name for two different things within the same lexical scope, it won't work".
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Went to the site - inspirepay.com, Got a list of features but no 'About' page, no 'Contacts' page?
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>Who could say such a thing in a university?
I've heard way dumber things come out of college students mouths.
To be fair, you can apply the scientific method to almost anything, but that doesn't make it "science" per se.

For example: product design. You make hypothesis, create a prototype to test it, and then draw conclusions from that.

Maybe "science" depends on the methods, and not on the fields. Maybe everything can be Science if approached scientifically.
There is some discussion here on why a "bar" variable at top level only affects the scoping of other "bar" variables that are lexically below "bar" in the file, not above it.

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1121
GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers
Killing the Internet to save Hollywood
Mentioned here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3239452)

But specifically in this sub-thread:

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3239844)
Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.
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I still think Microsoft's "Natural Ergonomic" line looks rather nice: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/natural-ergonomic-...

The darkness makes it clash with Apple's aluminum color scheme though, so they're not ideal desk-buddies.
I just realized that the Elixir README file has been trimmed quite a bit. There used to be a good overview of the language there. Here is a commit that has a lot more info on it: https://github.com/josevalim/elixir/blob/530d24dcb173148da2b...
Yes, but I was rather inquiring about whether it was even possible to do so. That list is huge and most likely growing. One of the companies on the list is McGraw-Hill Education. I have to use their products at my school - how do I get around that?
I'm going to piggyback on your comment here, since it's at the top of the comment thread.

From the Reddit link:

"Name Cheap messaged me with a special discount code for reddit users: BYEBYEGD I'm not taking any positions i'm just reporting it. I asked him to give reddit users a better deal."

I'm not affiliated with NameCheap at all, but if you're going to move your domain, this might make things easier.
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He gets the satisfaction of knowing that a company probably solved one of their problems for free by running off with his code while flipping him the bird.
I can't fathom the amount of physicist blood that would be shed in the crusades that would follow.
Is it just my bad eyes or did that infographic need to be much larger?
I think you'll also find it hard to get prosperously employed workers to take a pay cut, especially a massive one meant to rebalance the entire economy.

The goal is not to impose a pay cut on currently employed workers, the goal is to convince currently unemployed workers to take a job at a lower wage. Since unemployment benefits provide a disincentive for finding work, reducing unemployment would reduce this disincentive.

If you do start to see it happening you'll probably have imbalances where companies keep prices high to milk profit while worker compensation goes down.

This is exactly what Keynesian stimulus is designed to accomplish: a reduction in real wages. I'm glad you agree that if wage flexibility could be engineered, then this would make Keynesian stimulus unnecessary.

If the banks foreclose on property but people don't eventually buy that property, that's not very helpful. Also banks have already been foreclosing on properties too quickly & got in trouble for it.

Homeowners and home-mortgagers seem to be the driving force in sticky house prices, not banks. Banks tend to sell foreclosed properties at, well, foreclosure sale prices.

As for foreclosing too quickly, that's why I would (assuming I believed in Keynesian economics) advocate changing the law to make foreclosure faster and easier.
If this puppy had all of the same keys as apple keyboards, id be all over it

http://i.microsoft.com/hardware/_base_v1/images/hero/cat_key...

This one too

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/arc-keyboard/J5D-0...
'Facebook' is the Most-Searched Term of 2011
It’s never been about the open web
The landing page is quite light on details. I signed up, and it allows you to setup a payment page that links to your Stripe, Authorize.net, Sage, or their (Inspire) gateway. That seems to be the long and short of it.
Call your bank and complain. Depending on their level of customer service, they can remove the preauth or shorten it.
I'd really like to see the response curve here so i can do a time series regression with using reddit/hn/interviews as dummies and see how it fits :)
Indeed, the same over here.
Ok, awesome! Glad to see that much commitment.
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Namecheap currently has a deal running just for this: http://twitter.com/#!/Namecheap/status/149919610253213697
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More to the point: http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/go-daddys-position-on-sop...
Read my other link and also this blog post:

http://adii.me/2011/08/online-payments-suck/
I wish I could participate but I moved my domains to namecheap and pledged not to use gd when Parsons went on that elephant hunt.
Spending money in order to expand the limits of usable human knowledge? Pretty good value if you ask me, what better alternatives can you suggest? You might ask though, why they didn't fund megaprojects in less "developed" disciplines, like life sciences, or materials, or brain sciences. Maybe LHC will be the last of a series of non-life-sciences projects, like the ISS or Hubble.
I still find this funny. I used to work for a web incubator called NAME (and had the name.com domain) in 1999-2000 before they went out of business in the .com bust. I always thought they had a great domain name. Not surprised it was snapped up by a registrar.
Thanks for sharing

How much time have you spent doing tutorials / projects vs. pair programming? 50/50?
Seriously? A watch costs as little as $2 and goes on your wrist. You will never need to reach into your pocket or bag for it. It will run for months, or years, on a single battery. You will probably never drop it and break it. Unless it's stupidly expensive, you will probably never be mugged for your watch.

Anyway, Moleskine is nice but Miquel Rius notebooks have nicer grid paper options. :)
Thanks for the feedback! It's very useful.

A couple things: when you exit from a blank line, the blank line is saved because some people might prefer to keep a blank line. I can see that it's surprising, but hopefully it's easy to get used to.

When you unintentionally hit enter, does your entry get saved in addition to moving to a new, blank task? The reason why enter moves to a new task is that it allows you to quickly enter one item after another

I'll look into the tweet this / like this issue.

Thanks again!
Am I wrong for not being worried about SOPA because it's just too stupid to pass? With all the opinions and attention being thrown around the internet, what is the real chance this will go through? What is the real possibility? Maybe it's because I've seen so many "If this law passes it's the end of the internet" cases over the years which never made it through but I just don't see something this idiotic making it through.

So I have to ask, what is the actual chance that SOPA will pass?
You want to outrank Godaddy for the query "godaddy"? Good luck with that one. I don't think Google is quite as malleable as you seem to believe.
Hmm,

In every flight I've been on lately, I've walked past a middle-age man in first class unconsciously wincing as he laboriously typing an email on his iPad with no keyboard...

So, sure the article is a fine general summary of physiological/"ergonomic" principles. But, having a bit of training in body work and movement, I have to say that many people are simply unable to notice debilitating situations until those situations are truly injuring them and then it is often too late - at least too late for a small change in routine to be enough.

So initial advice like asking one's self "do certain tasks or pieces of furniture and equipment stand out as awkward, difficult, even painful to use" are really less useful than they ought to be.

... Which is to say that having some detailed page on ergonomics doesn't make up for Apple's products flagrantly violating ergonomic principles - especially, Apple de-emphasizing the keyboard is bad regardless of their offering alternatives if you look really, really hard. The iPad is a further ergonomic disaster regardless of the fact "most people only use it a little" and "you can attach a keyboard to".

Using a pointing device for input is a disaster compared to a keyboard because it inherently involved more shock-per-byte-enter to the member involved than using a keyboard. Anyone concerned about ergonomics should stop doing that before they notice problems, not afterwards - which is not to say that people can't have other, serious problems around the other issues mentioned in the articles other sections.

Good ergonomics should not be about changing things once people a problem.
I've used pairnic for ten years for personal sites, never any trouble, they'll probably be in business longer than me.
An abuse of the word authoritarian.

Shutting down freedom of speech, indefinite detention, arbitrary expropriation are authoritarian. A non-flat tax is not.

Not that the "left," insofar as it exists in the federal government, is consistently much better on those issues.
Also, just a note that I am not connected with them in any way, just signed up a while back and got an email. I run a little business and it is a pain to take international payments in the same way I can with something like Square.

On the Inspire Commerce signup, you will see that there are options for both a US or a Global Merchant Account.
switz if he was around 370 years ago:

"Fermat, I have a blank sheet of paper right here."
Actually, “hogan.js is a compiler for the Mustache templating language” –from https://github.com/twitter/hogan.js
This is a joke, right? The design of Apple products make almost no effort to aid proper/effective ergonomic use. Good luck using an iPad or MacBook without destroying your neck/upper back.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hockey+puck+mouse
RIAA would like to be able to reprogram Google's search algo
If I were to trust the traditional German thoroughness (and relative brand insensitivity), I would infer from the article that the Galaxy S2 is finally the best smartphone of the moment, though it is not that clear from the reviews I have read.
Along those lines. It seems pretty important to do what you think is right, even if it's effect on convincing others of your correctness seems negligible.
Thanks for the suggestions. I've already signed up for the stanford course. I'm looking for immediately available resources, since I'll be interviewing soon.
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I always felt that the Dafoe vehicle "The Last Temptation of Christ" was scifi-ish in some obscure way. Thank you, the thing to do was to replace "Heaven" with "Outer Space". Everything goes back into its skin.
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Cause: Unable to touch type Solution: Learn to touch type.

http://www.apple.com/about/ergonomics/baksol.html
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That list would be a whole lot shorter if you removed the names of Law Firms. Why are they even on there? And the Congressional Fire Service supports SOPA? That's "stretching it" for supporters.
Just trasferred all of my domains out of Godaddy a few days ago into Namecheap. The timing couldn't have been better.
Both MasterCard and VISA are there. What to do? :(
Yes, I did - thank you for pointing that out.
Did you know HTML/CSS/Javascript before, or was all that new too?
Check out pairnic (https://www.pairnic.com/faq_dyn_dns.html?dyn_dns_50). They support the the dynamic DNS protocol.

I also run a server at home and use ddclient on Ubuntu to update the IP address of a host on my own domain. Works great! Highly recommended.
This is simply rent-seeking on GoDaddy's part. It's not authoritarianism. It is just greed.

SOPA will increase cost and complexity for all providers. GoDaddy figures they're better at coping with SOPA's implementation than potential competitors. Thus, SOPA will be a useful barrier to the entry of disruptive competition, which will have to develop their
own SOPA compliance systems.
Hi there, I love this initiative. I'll apply but my English is not perfect :S Should I be worried?
I'm sure going to try.

I only have dealings with GoDaddy and Comcast; and while I can't get away from Comcast, I'm going to do my damnedest to get away from GoDaddy.
> The Mint guys seem smart, so if they feel that a fork is necessary then it's probably the only way to do what they want given the constraints.

These are the constraints for him, as far as I know (looking at the gnome-shell code):

1) extensions can't modify the original layout of the shell, because they are loaded after the shell elements are created. You can monkey-patch the shell, but only so much.

2) There is no easy way of destroying the panel (or other ui objects).

1) happens to be true because of the extensions constraint that they should have the ability to be turned on/off. That means that their entry point in the shell gets to be after the main ui objects are created. You can add new behaviors to them, and override them, except for their initialization (obviously).

The extensions system doesn't expose an API that allows for multiple entry points (for example, having extensions derive from an Extension class with Base and Restartless subclasses). This might be a design oversight, but for the most part it is sane, since it creates a base of code one can expect to be there, that any extension could depend on (again, simplifying inter-extension compatibility). Extensions written for gnome-shell won't be compatible with extensions written for cinnamon, which is extremely bad in my opinion. It means the developer community that's been growing around the platform might break into multiple directions, which can hurt users.

If there was a way of destroying the panel (or other main ui objects), though, there would be no need at all for this fork.
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Simultaneous editing isn't a problem Dropbox is meant to solve, or is realistically able to solve given the proliferation of document formats out there. For stuff like PSDs, collaborative editing really needs to be baked into the software (and by extension, the document format). For textual data, DVCS works well.
You do want to sometimes reference outer scope variables from inner scopes, though. The only difference between a leaked local and a properly referenced global is usage semantics.
Things will be fixed through emigration. (At least that's been the traditional solution.)
The answer to this question is probably simpler than author's argument. We haven't met any aliens because there aren't any out there.
-> My suspicion is, the kind of people reading HN/Reddit are also the type of people that get asked 'computery' stuff quite a bit.

This happens to be correct for me, I'm a computer technician (to pay the bills) And I supervise several other technicians. I know for certain that no one will be recommended to go to godaddy if they come to us. And thought it's a local thing I can see it being reasonable that many of the same local shops like mine have employees that visit reddit and HN. It's obviously too early to tell but I think it's going to trickle down until they (godaddy) feels it.
I see. The reason I can't address your "failure mode" with an explicit suggestion is because it isn't a failure mode in CoffeeScript: If you assign a new value to a variable in an inner scope, the variable now has a new value. If you're thinking "I want to use the same name for two different variables" ... the answer is: choose a different (better) name for one of them.

But perhaps I'm still not getting at the answer you're looking for here...