skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ASK HN: Do you truly believe GoDaddy is opposed to SOPA?
I find it hard to believe that a company can be a supporter of such a bill and then just decide "Nope, we oppose it now."

I feel they still support it secretly.
Focus Flash (US). Has a red Case-Mate case. On sale for $5. I've dropped it twice without issue.
You sound like you have an excellent foundation for something great. My advice to you is to get something out the door - anything! Do your market research, assess your competitors, and get something out there.

IMO, A SaaS model would be a good incentive for yourself and your future product. Nothing beats the rush of putting a product out there and watching it grow.
Roku unveils Streaming Stick, squeezes box into MHL dongle
Shared Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial [pdf]
Seems weird that the transferred in and new domains spiked right along with transferred out. Is this graph accurate?
There's an opportunity for some A/B testing, not just of price but of service. Another van, parked at another consulate, could vary one thing and the team could measure the gains/losses. I imagine this kind of thing is done in retail all the time.
Vendors can sell devices for less if they violate the GPL. Cheaper devices result in more devices being sold. More devices sold means more adsense impressions. More adsense impressions makes Google more money.

Where am I going wrong here?
Maybe the problem here is the definition of “utilization”. Arguably 100% utilization should be what you get when someone is performing at peak efficiency, not when they're doing work every minute they are at work. And peak efficiency is shown in many places to require NOT doing work every minute you're “working”, both for physical and non-physical work.

Even ignoring serendipitous thinking and the other mentioned advantages of not being at 100%, you have a simple benefit you get from not being at 100%: rest. Sometimes it isn't thinking time. Sometimes you don't spend it exploring. Sometimes you don't innovate. Sometimes your brain (or body) just needs a rest. To think about the TV show you like. Or about what you're doing tonight. Or what your kids are up to at school. Occasional rest during the day is as important, in my mind, as getting good sleep at night. And acknowledging that that's a part of being productive is important, because otherwise you start feeling guilty when you take those short rest moments (or you don't take them at all), and that eliminates half the benefit.
Sometimes. But it would be nice to put them back in circulation.
Thanks for the link. This ia a great resource I hadn't encountered before.

It's true that some sites provide some sort of status blog or dashboard -- more, I now see, than I'd realized. However, most of them provide very little information -- often no more than "service is currently [up | down]". A few go so far as to publish some sort of graphs (e.g. Twitter, Google App Engine), which is refreshing, but even here the amount of information provided is fairly limited.

Third-party monitoring (e.g. http://api-status.com/) is another interesting angle. There is more that could be done here, but ultimately the best information can only come from the service provider themselves. (As a hobby, I've been doing some monitoring of AWS and Google App Engine for the last 18 months, but have not done much to make the results accessible. I've occasionally blogged about it, e.g. http://amistrongeryet.blogspot.com/2010/04/three-latency-ano...)

Another approach would be crowdsourcing -- users of a given service could band together to aggregate performance measurements. I discuss this idea in http://amistrongeryet.blogspot.com/2011/07/cloudsat.html.
It's very frustrating that none of these tools work well with windows.
I wonder how common MHL compatible TV's are. Anyone know?
Unfortunately the logic of this article is ass-backward. Multiple return paths involve jumps and make compiler jump and stack optimizations very difficult. What is easier to read and follow for a person does not always produce good instructions for a computer to follow.
The current state of "design":

1. If it is Apple, it is perfect

2. If it successfully emulates Apple, it is awesome

3. If it tries to emulate Apple, it is good

4. If it is different from Apple, it is bad, devil, unintuitive, terrible, be-damned, should-be-destroyed-and-cursed-by-the-whole-internet

5. If it challenges/threatens Apple's position, or the reviewer's position (which is as described above), it is harmful to humanity, innovation, the economy, and everything; the imperative object of the government/media/users is to destroy such thing.

Just love it.
Here is one for $3300: http://www.audubonstrings.com/oscommerce-2.2ms2-051113/catal...

Here's one for $1975: http://www.homerweb.com/vintage/GREAT-Old-Antique-BOURGUIGNO...

That said, it doesn't sound like either have been authenticated and have been identified only by the label.
that's not the part I meant! Clearly we need good programming languages to manipulate data.
I just think that for the part that touches the OS, using shell commands and piping their output to a parser is more reliable than the equivalent ruby libs.
“What if I told you you were probably getting more value than what you were paying, maybe one and a half to twice as much? Would you be happy with that?”

The Manager calmed down, then turned to me and said, “How do you know?”

I smiled, and said, “That’s a different conversation.”

Welcome to why your manager doesn't understand this sort of thing - because you're passing up great opportunities to educate him. I honestly don't see why it's a different conversation, he's asked about value, she's talking about value but won't support the argument.
Interesting. Having done all the paperwork myself for my wife's visa (thanks to help from visajourney.com) I always wondered how much 'consulting' one could do without being an immigration lawyer.

By the same token, if I am not a tax accountant how much tax advice can I give someone for a fee?

Granted, on the surface the Lucky Dragon Mobile Visa Consultants are just providing an internet and printing service — so there shouldn't be much of an issue. However, would they have to be careful of going from "What form do you need?" to "Hey, before you go in there, you probably need this form instead."
I wrote more about this at http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/9387.html . The summary is that yes, there are sufficient economic incentives to ignore the GPL that it has an impact on the market.
oh sorry. But this graph is mostly misleading than. Look at 24/25/26 Dec. numbers and heights are not consistent.
The rep led me to believe that was my only option. So thank you. I'll try my G account.
From Plain User Testing to an Integrated UX Approach
However, when you look at how many of those are GoDaddy transferring in their own domains from their other properties, it becomes an actual loss.

If NameCheap is to be trusted, they had like 80K come in the week before, and another 36K come in with their anti-SOPA coupon code.

Also, you are ignoring the long-term effects of this - most geeks will no longer touch them with a 10 foot pole. They lost some major customers. This is going to actually hurt them.
In India, there are lots of people who makes their living out of the money earned by helping people to fill out forms outside every Government office. And they are in this business not just for few months but for a long time.
Not bundling a recovery disc with a laptop is a major disservice to customers. Especially when the program to produce the recovery discs requires two blank DVDs, runs into errors on the second disc, and makes you start the whole process from the beginning (instead of letting you only burn the second disc). That was my experience with a laptop I acquired a few months ago. I needlessly burned two or three copies of the first disc while trying to get the second disc to burn correctly.
Google's Cash Machine, the Search Business, Funds Potential Next-Big-Things
I like the consistency and simplicity of this message. I've noticed that when people have a message this simple and repeat it a lot they usually know exactly what they're talking about. tptacek is on point here.

I don't care what your reason is for charging less. I don't care if money isn't important to you. Try it. Talk less about why you charge this or that. Challenge your own assumptions and try raising your rates.
Sometimes, but it would be nice to put them back in circulation.
"This is a critical distinction that even this article seems to gloss over."

It actually seemed heavily emphasized, just with few words. Perhaps that's the point. Competition is so ingrained into the "American" psyche that we can't conceive of something that is not fueled by competition.
SOPA: A symptom of a much bigger problem
Pick a grid framework you like. I recommend either using the grid framework in Bootstrap[1] or Skeleton[2]. Skeleton I prefer because it has sensible typography from the start, and slightly more padding than you usually find in grid frameworks. These will help you control spacing and layout pretty easily.

As for color, you can find a palette that you like on colourlovers[3], then just work by varying what colors you want to use and when.

[1] - http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
[2] - http://getskeleton.com
[3] - http://colourlovers.com
andrewsardone already gave you a hint but allow me to say a bit more:

If you look at the Key Value Observing Protocol you will find two methods that allow you to remove an observer again (remember: You have to remove an observer at the appropriate time - otherwise you will receive exceptions and your app will probably crash):

removeObserver:forKeyPath: and removeObserver:forKeyPath:context:. The first one has been around forever but it does not allow you to specify a context - only an observer and a path. This is problematic and andrewsardone gave you an example. This is why Apple introduced the second method in 10.7/iOS 5 which allows you to specify a (unique) context. The documentation says:

"Examining the value in context you are able to determine precisely which addObserver:forKeyPath:options:context: invocation was used to create the observation relationship. When the same observer is registered for the same key-path multiple times, but with different context pointers, an application can determine specifically which object to stop observing."

Always specifying a context makes your app more robust.
Couldn't come soon enough. IE8 is the new IE6 though with all the people still on Windows XP...
Using AI to design board games
Productivity is just work
been using this one recently: https://github.com/ded/klass
Looks nice and is definitely something I'd get some use out of -- it would be good to provide some more information...

What kind of analytics and visualization are you going to provide?

"Real-time" takes many meanings and for many visualization tasks, particularly on rapidly changing data, requires some computation map-reduction to craft presentable metrics.

Or are your just emitting on a callback updates of the key-val pairs? (Which could still definitely be useful, but then reddish wouldn't really be an endpoint for redis analysis)
I really like JungleDisk (https://www.jungledisk.com/). They have a Mac, Linux and Windows client and encrypt all files locally before uploading to cloud storage providers. You can choose between S3 or Rackspace for your storage.
If you're going to name a post "this is what [thing] looks like", consider including some screenshots, or graphs, or visual data of some kind.
Considering it's pointless and the market couldn't even accept 1 competitor - yes.
You may be 100% correct, but have you ever experimented with his advice? Don't think you're right. Try it. Experiment and know what works best.
“Stop Thinking in Pages. Start Thinking in Systems.”

I actually prefer browsing pages than systems.
This used to be common in Brazil: a guy in a VW van with a typewriter to help you with bureaucracy. I see the fact that these characters are gone as a sign of progress, so it's funny that this has shown up in the US.
I believe that award goes to ed, the standard UNIX text editor.
I agree, and it frustrates me more, because -- as the article points out -- they don't innovate.

That said, lack of innovation could be related to the historic divorce from distribution channels; their business is content, not medium, and that's why they don't put resources into medium development. I don't know enough about the industry to say for sure, though.
“Scott’s primary focus will be on the core business"

That's good (even though I don't know that business that refers to) because they botched the entire mobile entry.

http://m.yahoo.com/w/frontdoors/ provides a decent mobile experience. So they developed their own android app, which only acts as a branded web browser for the above URL. The only "features" the app seems to add are Posting to facebook (not a yahoo! property!) and Sharing a url via the standard email/message/text/etc.

The mobile site looks well designed and easy to navigate, but cuts essential features to get there.

* For instance, Sports team by conference, but you can't see records or standings http://m.yahoo.com/w/sports/ncaaf/teams/ncaaf.i-a.2?.ts=1325... Guess I'm going to ESPN

* The mobile calendar has no month view and requires a 3 drop down date widget to navigate beyond next/prev week. Can't see which weeks in February I'm free for vacation without navigating through each week. Guess I'm sticking with google calendar's native app.

* Yahoo Games has a huge offering and user base and nearly every game should be playable on a phone, but I can't play Yahoo chess. Why not? Too busy cloning youtube and myspace I assume.

* http://m.yahoo.com/w/movies?.intl=us&.lang=en Check out the mobile movie page. An incredibly useful feature! And it includes reviews! Go ahead and click reviews for a movie to see what yahoo users think. Wait.. brings you to the movie page. Ok, click reviews again... oh wait it isn't a link. How do I read user reviews on my phone? Guess I'm going to another site for that content.

Simple stuff that just screams "We aren't using our own products!" I don't for a second believe Yahoo uses their own calendaring system for work. Tons of stupid broken features they should clean up, but it seems no one cares to pay attention.

Yahoo has tons of content but they refuse to deliver it. The above issues aren't really that bad, but I have options so I will gladly go to a provider who delivers a better experience.

Meanwhile, running paypal should not count as a positive credential. Perhaps if yahoo swears fealty to ebay then they too can benefit the same way paypal has.
Paypal Shreds Ostensibly Rare Violin Because It Cares
Scott Adams had a take on that recently: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/
Yahoo's new CEO is Scott Thompson, PayPal president
Yeah, I'm sorry. I first entered a comment saying that the website was down due to "Error establishing a database connection" and I saw your comment and decided to comment on it.

I then forgot to say I couldn't read the post since the site was down:( I will read it when it gets back online.
It's different in that expression1 is always evaluated whenever control enters the twixt and expression2 is always evaluated whenever it leaves. A simple example is that if statement1 throws an exception, then expression2 is evaluated before the exception is handled. This is how finally works in Java.

More interestingly, Nickle has support for continuations, so if statement1 generates a continuation and makes a non-local exit, then expression2 is evaluated before that exit, and expression1 is evaluated before the continuation is resumed.

In other words, statement1 is always bracketed by expression1/expression2, even in the presence of non-local control flow.
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Yes, it is homegrown[1]. I have quite a few little utilities that use (or abuse) iterators to get something like RAII in C# (I don't like relying on using/IDisposable and I especially don't like requiring it in my public types).

Another one that I use a lot [2]:

SqlCommandEx sql = "select * from person";

foreach (dynamic result in sql)
{
var full_name = result.first_name + " " + result.last_name;

DateTime dob = result.dob;
//do other stuff

} //connection automatically disposed.

[1] Relevant source: http://pastebin.com/LwHD8MHc

[2] https://github.com/noblethrasher/Prelude/blob/master/SQL.cs
That wouldn't be the idiomatic "for line in file" loop.
If I understand the distinction you draw between deallocation and destruction correctly, then in .NET a well-designed object that does not maintain unmanaged resources is effectively destroyed the moment the last reference to it goes out of scope. After all, it's disappeared from the world, never to appear again.

All the garbage collector does is comes through later and deallocates the memory it consumed.
It depends on where you work and what stack you worked on.

As an intern working for Nortel we had HPUX machines, and vi was frequently used. These days at my current job it's an all-Windows stack, so I'm in VS all the time and don't really have a need for vi.

It doesn't mean I don't miss it, though.
Comparatif mutuelle,comparatif de mutuelle
Unlike GoDaddy, there is no 100% comparable replacement for PayPal's services. You can get 80% there but they're not a commodity, there is value in their brand, their 230 million registered buyers and the dozens of countries they operate in that no other 3rd party processor does.
'Seems like a bad business decision' sounds like you think that's a decision to make in the first place. Basing your company on operating systems/database systems/tooling that you got from bittorrent might be a 'business decision' in the same way, if I understand you correctly?

Not complying with the license of the software you use is not a good business decision. I said otherwise in my previous post and that was incorrect. My bad.

However, if you're operating in an environment in which you know that your compliance with said license will not be reciprocated by your competitors, then I can understand why one would be reluctant.

How are there three choices? It's either complying or not using. Everything else is not a business, it's a shady/illegal way to make money off other people's work. Again: This isn't a (real, legitimate) choice in the first place, so I don't see why this comes up at all.

It's clear these companies have no issue with not complying with the GPL. If they did, they would be in compliance right now.

If your goal is popularizing a new operating system, and you know you're dealing with people who do not care about such trivial matters like licenses or laws, then not taking measures to enforce the license is good for business. That, while shady, and perhaps evil, is not illegal.
The Python standard library has gotten worse over time, as it got loaded up with more and more features, obfuscating the common use cases. The irony now is that to do simple, everyday things (like http requests) you are now better off installing a third party package like "requests" than using the standard library. So much for "batteries included."

The standard library needs a reboot. Why not do it in Python 3? Nobody's using it yet anyway ;-)
They do. It's called your privacy.
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Do what you love.
Somebody on HN once described the state of the music industry as a transfer of wealth from the record labels to the internet companies. That made a lot of sense to me.
A knife is useful for different people in very different ways, but it's a very, very focused tool (unlike a spork).
foursquare is a very focused service. The fact that users find different usages for it without them having to release tons of unfocused features only proves it's well designed
I generally have little faith in the success of petitions in general. But the fact that one is being signed says something about the petitioners.
Maybe she should browse the stacks of books that surround her for information?
is not necessarily harming that rights holder.

If my neighbor comes by and borrows the ladder from my garage, it probably isn't hurting me. Probably. There are a number of scenarios I can think of in which it does in fact harm me, some morally, some financially.

That doesn't change the fact that it's my ladder, and my neighbor has no right to take it without my permission.
Link to the source

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
I could see the same thing doing well outside the US embassy in London.

Offer a US-visa sized passport-photo service, a locker to put your phone when you can't take it into the embassy and some tissues to wipe away your tears of joy/despair and you'd be in business.

Add to that a £10 glossy file to give the assorted papers of your $2,000 application that final touch of gloss and you could make a wonderful income.
Oh my, this site failed so miserably on my browser (luakit)... All the animations just went wrong, bits of the page were missing or cut beyond the screen, stuff got jumbled and hid the text... Maybe I'm just too textually oriented, but that's not the way I would like to browse the Web.
they have the "specials".
speaking of which, has anyone actually successfully redeemed a "special" lately? I got 2 in my last trip to SFO, showed them on the counter and no one there knew what it was/gave me anything... :(
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You're talking about the control of information, of which privacy is just another facet. Hence I asked. But you also seem to be treating copyright (rights) and publication (intentions) as synonymous, which is confusing.

Suppose I create a film. I screen the film in the privacy of my own home to anybody that gives me a hug. One day, somebody brings a video camera. They record the whole thing and puts it on the Internet for all to see.

At what point would you say my actions indicated a desire to contribute to the public debate?
"The Goal" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel) - is an excellent business "novel" that digs into this topic. Recommending just because I found it such an eye opener.
If they are talented, tell them to email me (my first name at identified dot com). We're trying to grow our dev team rapidly at Identified, but we're limited by the number of good developers we can find. If they're good, we'll hire them.

Edited to add: We're located in the SOMA district of San Francisco.
I have no idea what this graph is trying to tell me. Less Javascript, more actual information, please.
I started using it few months ago and I love it.
My usage patterns are very basic and still I can write code faster then in any visual editor.

In our office 3/10 engineers are using vim as primary tool.
I immediately thought of Python's context managers when I read this. What the article appeared to describe, which shouldn't be lost on any programmer, is "do stuff then clean up after yourself".
I get it now.

You also could use [object class] instead of an arbitrary static pointer.

I never had issue with a class and a subclass using the same observer keypath. Whenever I use it I always call super to make sure everything underneath is called. But that's a good thing to know for sure, thanks.
This is one of the most “creamy” UIs I’ve seen! Thumbs up and greetings!
No, he's American alright. Talking about George Coulouris, mid-way and in the end of TFA, and also here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Coulouris_(computer_scie...

"""He was instrumental in the development of ICL's Content Addressable File Store (CAFS) and he developed em, the Unix editor, which inspired Bill Joy to write vi."""
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