skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, find a TLD that isn't administered by a company doing business in the U.S. on http://iana.org/

If relevant to your domain's future content, optionally consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_internationa... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_internationa...

Then register your domain(s) with an ethical registrar that does not do business in the U.S. and will only respond to court orders in their own country.

A possible option would be http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/st.html through http://www.nic.st/ . The company (Bahnhof) has a vocal history of protecting it's clients against corporate depredations; see http://www.thelocal.se/18882/20090416/
I'm not so sure their long term view of the cloud is necessarily "file based" (although it's debatable what that means specifically).

Dropbox was originally IIRC developed by a college student who had the problem of sharing files easily between his home and college computers, dropbox was a solution to that.

In the long term however , they have more or less solved the basic problem of syncing files and used this to provide revenue to move into the future.

I see a good business model for them could be to provide a platform for developers to build things that may in the background be syncing files (I think it'll be a while before we have filesystemless servers especially since unix is build around the concept of files) but from the end user point of view are providing services like photo / calender sharing etc.
the results were pretty good, actually
Compared to Jekyll (Hakyll's obvious namesake), it seems to take what is a remarkably simple system (ie. one that puts your focus mostly on the HTML, CSS and JS and does all the hard work for you), and replaces it with something that you need to spend time actually learning to be able to even compile.

While Jekyll offers convention over configuration, this seems to go the other way. For a static website I'd rather focus on the HTML and CSS than a DSL that compiles it in a certain way.
How did the startup that made cheese sandwiches go?
Sounds kinda sketchy...
Peter Willis. Live in Washington, DC.

Looking for work as a Linux systems admin/engineer, C/Perl/Python/Php programmer, or Infosec analyst/pentester. Contract or full time. Experience in large-scale web companies, open source development and working through the pains of corporate red tape. I love weird problems, working with low-level or backend stuff, and closing obscure security holes. My tech hobbies are coding something fun like prototypes of different distributed network topologies or tools for managing enterprise networks of tens of thousands of machines.

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I know at least two "startups" doing this per city, in Brazil. Except you don't need a smartphone to call them... :-)

It's amazing how the obvious in some countries is, sometimes, a novelty in others. Another example: I found out a couple of months ago that, in Chile, there's simply NO ONE offering lockers on beaches. Meaning you have to drive to the place and leave your stuff in the car, or simply not take a wallet/cellphone/etc when you're out to surf...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_World_Wide_Web_protest
A good name for an iphone app?
What would be a good name for an iphone voip app that is optimised for 2g network?
Apple is trying to build a post-filesystem world. When was the last time you thought about file paths, or even folders, on an iOS device?

Whenever I've wanted to move data from one app to another—like when I want to transfer a word from a note or txt to a dictionary, or when I'd like to move a picture.
Why do you use noscript to block JS? I've never understood.

The inconvenience of dysfunctional sites surely outweighs the one in a million chance you will have your login to HackerNews stolen, or something else that's more of a nuisance than an actual danger.
The trend in piracy sites is to register .ru/.me of their chosen domain name.
Yes, please come to NY. I would use this regularly.

Also, more insight regarding the materials your service utilizes (ie soaps, brushes, mits, wax, compound - if any, etc) would be great. If this is on the site already, I apologize, I did not register nor did I really dig around (Maybe I wanted to know a bit more to justify my time spent registering).

People dish out serious amounts to pamper their automobiles. Some take this very seriously and can be critical of the process.

Once established, there is plenty of room to both deepen and widen the product offering here - premium services: compound treatment for swirl marks, waxing, 3m clear bra, paintless dent removal, and so on.

I'm assuming you may be trying to create a labor network of sorts and started with basic car washes. Either way, I believe there is a market here, more details on the execution would be great.

*Provided these are hand washes and you're targeting a middle-upper class market, the price point is actually perfect. In my area (NY) I pay ~$30 for a hand wash, and I have to bring it in. I will not bring my car to a regular car wash, even so called "brushless" as they are terrible for your paint. If you're targeting the general public, it may be a bit high.

Given the whole, "we come to you", makes me think of washing the car in the office parking lot, which could indicate a White Collar demographic. I also see homes, but personally I'd just do it myself if I had a house and driveway.

One more question, how do you handle water at an office building?
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Pick a Ferrari, schedule a $29 wash, grab popcorn and observe owner's reaction.
Diablo II postmortem by one of the creators
It's not much of a performance metric , but I don't really enjoy typing very much in situations where I have decided what I'm going to do and then have to type it out.
I can't generally think and type very well at the same time.

This means for me that trying a random idea I have quickly is much more enjoyable in say python that it is in Java.

Sometimes I want to just try something random in Java but I really can't be bothered to type all the code required to create a new class, handle exceptions and then also do the compile and run.

If I had super fast typing skills or a more concise language I would find much less friction is doing that, this would make my programming time much more educational and make me better in the long run.
It's waterless apparently: http://sachinhd.posterous.com/cherry-com
In case that's really a novelty in the US, here's the mobile washing "thing" they use in brazil: http://valparaisodegoias.olx.com.br/lava-jato-movel-carrinho...

It uses a sort of mobile water "pump" - a lot faster and more economical than hand + towel. But I suppose they use something similar (if not the same piece of equipment) there
"Think before you speak" makes it very difficult to hold a normal conversation. Of course I'm not anti-thinking but it's very difficult to express yourself (in most media, but especially talking) if you hesitate constantly.

If you're having trouble speaking well, the solution probably isn't to speak slower, but to learn over time how to speak better at-speed.
This is why I could never buy into the comment Steve Jobs supposedly made that Dropbox is just a feature.

I'm still not convinced about the Dropbox developer experience though. I would think web integration is key to them winning. Similar to the way FB wants Like buttons everywhere, Dropbox wants Dropbox This everywhere. And yet, there's no way to pass a URL and say "store that". Dev has to pull the URL and copy it across, every time, and Dropbox has no idea it's the same URL.

A bit specific, but an example where Dropbox needs to invest its new capital into making life easier for developers, especially if similar products from say Google or Amazon emerge...which would presumably be cross-platform, unlike Apple's offering.
A valid criticism, and I apologize, as I'm very interested in progressive enhancement. It was an omission, and I believe you will find that the page is readable in its default state without JavaScript now. (Mind you, I threw this thing together in the middle of the night last night on a creative whim, and wasn't exactly expecting to end up on ycombinator.)
I agree that it could be a fad, but couldn't it also be the start of a widespread and permanent change? Seems both situations would start the same way.
"Hann called the [conveyor] belt company... and learned they were adjusted to 2,500 foot-pounds of force"

Somewhere there is confusion, either from me or the journalist. Depending on the context, foot-pounds are a unit of either torque or work, but not force. Who's confused here?
The biggest disadvantage from Dvorak is that it moves characters such as Z,X,C,V. I was not able to effectively re-learn the "undo cut copy paste" commands. I was not able to find a good way to categorically customize them across applications (which is really disappointing -- why can't the OS handle mapping physical keys to common logical commands like undo?)

Colemak was designed explicitly to get around this problem. http://colemak.com
Paul. From New Zealand originally, currently in Singapore but I'll move anywhere for an interesting opportunity.

The languages I know rather well are Clojure, Scala, Python, Javascript/Coffeescript, C++, SQL though I've worked with many more.

I've worked in finance, academia/research and publishing. Was the CTO (and pretty much sole developer) for a failed enterprise software startup (Scala/Python/Web).

After my first job I wrote a 3D game by myself: AI, graphics, sound engineering, modeling, procedural textures etc.

Have recently created a number of small, automated web-based businesses on GAE, but I'm hungry for a larger challenge.

I'm mathematically inclined, and my next gig will definitely utilise my machine learning skills.
pretty much guaranteed to appreciate in value

Well, that's not how an efficient market behaves. But then this isn't an efficient market. It's a market with gigantic...gigantic...inefficiency. What price would I put on a strad? 500 dollars maybe. After all, it sounds about as good as other 500 dollar violins, worse for wear and tear.

At some point, the evaluation of real value and the romanticism of history are going to collide. This is more common in art, where the name "Picasso" out-values all the beauty that man ever produced. You can buy many thousands of prints for the price of single original. Why? Romance.

124 thousand pounds:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_shit
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Nice effect, may want to use your no-script version in IE, as it appears quite broken in IE 9.
I wonder if their model is to franchise out the cleaning to local companies/people, since having 1000s of staff around the country would seem to be impractical for a startup.
I'm incredibly excited about Plover - but only for English typing, not coding. I guess for typing strings in code, maybe. But coding? No. The ratio of typing to thought in coding is vanishingly small.
I've never seen lockers on beaches in the US, Australia, Canada or Mexico, either.
My name is Joseph De Wolk, I work in social entrepreneurship and I will live anywhere for the right job.

http://about.me/josdewolk

Thanks Andrew for starting the thread, it's an interesting experiment.
According to what I'm reading, speech is only about 180 WPM and steno can be 240-300 WPM. Speech-to-text will actually be less efficient than steno. And for me, typing 1.25 million words of English per year (in technical translation, mostly from German) - if I tried using speech-to-text my larynx would be burnt out in a month. No way. I've heard some people get mileage out of it, but not me. I'm learning me some steno, starting today.
Cherry.com washed my car for free 3 months ago, and I didn't even ask them to. They did a great job, really, it was a excellent car wash. I intend to use them in the future.

http://www.antoncohen.com/2011/10/what-cherrycom-washed-my-c...
Very clever, but that was horribly slow for me and as soon as I moved the mouse on the screen the spotlight moved so I was no longer able to read the text.

Let's just keep this simple, do away with the mousemove following spotlight altogether, if you want to make the page more interesting then embed a youtube video explaining the issue.

The text is kind of hard to read too. Personally I would just do a white background with dark text and possibly an amusing cartoon image or something to visually illustrate the concept of a blackout.
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Getting up to typing speed of 100 WPM on steno reportedly takes you six months to a year - so almost certainly not.

Ask me again in six months to a year, though.
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They need to define what's in a wash. A detail usually involves a bit more than a basic "wash", if that is in fact all they are offering. Maybe their MVP?
Doctors that work for other doctors, though, are probably making pretty good money too.
You're pretty much completely wrong.

1.) String instruments (possibly others too? I've no idea) generally improve by being skilfully played, a cello that has been played for a long time by Yo Yo Ma will actually be better than it was before he played it.

2.) As with any piece of art, or antique, age is a factor, and as such instruments appreciating in value as time goes on is pretty understandable.

3.) It's exactly how an efficient market behaves - items are valued at what people are willing to pay for them. That's how markets always work.
1st 2 dead, Grammatikformalismen und Parsing has the material (can you read German at that level?) try these,

http://search.mit.edu/search?site=ocw&client=mit&get...

(same courses)
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_coursefind...

(nothing CL yet)
http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php
I was actually complimenting you for setting the spotlight to the centre of the page by default, not criticising you. :-) What did you change now? I revisited the page and it looks the same to me.
Someone above questioned shortage, but nobody seem to question the Want more money part. And here you come up with " a great standard of living, " but really I think people with much less may have a greater life, even if they have no car and no washing machines.
I think this is weird. Lets say, Wordpress is a commercial product. You won't even think a minute, that you didn't have to pay for it, even if you just use one feature. The same goes for the GPL.

And if I understand those "app theme" correctly, they use the backend of Wordpress. For storing data, for administration of the data, users, rights.

So I think the FSF is right. But the GPL doesn't say, you can't sell your themes, it just says you can't deny other to do, what you did. That is all.
One of the reasons why I chose a .is domain for my personal blog. A few gotchas though: registering a .is domain takes a while (think days/weeks instead of minutes) and your TTL needs to be high. http://fr.anc.is
And backup OFFSITE. S3 is onsite if you use EC2.
Limited time helps us manage better
So do hobos. Just saying...
When I worked at Lloyds of London I met some of the guys that focus on antique instruments - and one of the claims they had was a professional musician that ran over his 300 year old violin with his car. oops.

(and yep, the "no strings attached insurance" puns never ended)
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This is like saying that a $100 bill is worth no more than it's "real value": the value of a quarter sheet of paper.

Provenance, rarity, and psychology play a significant part in the value of any object. What's worth $500 to you is (apparently) worth many millions to others. If you ever find yourself on the receiving end of a genuine Stradivari, please let me know -- I will gladly purchase it from you for your perceived value.
I don't like the way you put it. The spouse of a teacher might make more money, ok, but he or she is not a "banker".
I tried looking for programmer, and this is what I found. I really hope this is just a poor job on the guardian's part!

22. IT strategy/planning professional £43,667 -8.5%

10th pct: £24,000. 80th pct✝: £63,693.

Also known as: Analyst-programmers; computer programmers; software engineers; systems analysts; systems designers. What they do: Provide advice on the effective utilisation of IT in order to enhance business functions. Well I never: A recent poll suggested IT consultants have unusually adventurous personalities.
I'm not a security guy. I don't know what reasons other people might have. I actually started it as an experiment, and grew fond of it for no specific laid-out reason.

Actually seeing what trackers and other such spyware are embedded in most pages these days is interesting, but I could live without the granular control. I think what I'm most interested in is just really seeing how different pages will break (or degrade gracefully) confronted with the missing functionality of javascript.

If you haven't yet, I suggest you give these add-ons a ride for, say, a week, if anything for the sake of learning.
I've found that there is a segment of people like you who would rather pay for a premium ad free experience up front, and then other people who would not, so I think the point is, if you can have separate versions of the app to address both groups, that tends to work the best.
shit... I should have read your whole comment.

Well, it was broken earlier. I guess you saw it after I fixed it. =)
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It's tough to tell how RESTful your API is when it's wrapped up in a client-side library. One of the ways I evaluate this is to ask: if I'm using a compiled client-side language, and the service api is modified in a backward-compatible way, will I need to recompile my client? With SOAP the answer is often yes because the client-side library generates code that is binary-dependent on the datatypes in the wsdl. That's bad, and one of the huge advantages of a RESTful api is that recompiles aren't needed. Your resource representation can change, so long as the informationn that was there before is still there and can be found using the same expression (eg: an id lookup in an xml document, or by a key in json data.)
FWIW, a counterclaim on YouTube took about two hours to process when I had to do one due to an incorrect DMCA claim. That may not be representative, but it was pretty quick.

It's certainly possible that actions like those you outline (which essentially amount to barratry) could happen. I never said that the content provisions were perfect; I'm not a big fan of some language and some behaviors that are in the content takedown sections of the DMCA. It could certainly be modified and improved, and I'd be all for that. But I'd argue that it, as-is, remains a useful course of action for the "little guy" IP producers who essentially have no other recourse, and that that outweighs the abuses perpetuated by a small group of content creators.
you're referencing a (completely static) webpage that was last updated 9 years ago. i think "graceful degradation" by today's standards would be using fallback fonts, avoiding cutting-edge html 5 stuff, and maybe some ie6 css hacks if you really want to support that extra single-digit percent of users. html, css, javascript, and browsers have evolved enough that if you want to remain in that tiny fraction of a percentage of users that want to use noscript, you're going to wear out your fingers complaining.
Yea - I know - just wishful thinking by a user/very occasional contributor to the bad minorities.
| Why do you use noscript to block JS? I've never understood.

Because when you hit an infected web site, the script loading from xyz.ru will not get loaded and you will be safe. NOSCRIPT FF & NOTSCRIPT Chrome FTW!
Cab rides have substitutes: your feet, mass transit, your own car (including the costs of parking), up to being carried around on a litter[1], which would be a very expensive. This limits the "hojillions" available to single cab drivers.

If there was 10x the supply of programmers, we could have 10x the number of jobs for them to do: they could be coming around to your house and offering to automate various bits and pieces of your life, they could be hanging around at traffic lights helping people stopped in cars optimize their phone usage, etc.

The profitability of the business is in part a function of its costs. That the business exists at all is based on an assumption of a certain level of costs, where at different costs other options may be more viable.

What I'm getting at is that there is a circularity in your objection. You assume things about the current state of supply and demand based on the current market mix of businesses, but the current market mix of businesses is the way it is in part because of the current state of supply and demand.

Yes, there is certainly a lack of elasticity in salary. The market isn't perfect. People aren't fungible. But the market is efficient enough to value e.g. doctors and lawyers quite highly. It simply doesn't value software engineers in the same way. That's just the way it is; I'm not saying it's right or wrong, and nor am I moaning about my wages (actually, I deliberately choose lower wages in return for more interesting work and flexibility in where I live).

What I am moaning about is people talking about an excess of supply or demand, like it's a plain fact.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_%28vehicle%29
In your example, the demand for cabs would decline. People would find other modes of transportation or not travel at all.

You are right that an engineer's pay can only go so high. However, when the rate exceeds what you can afford, you simply bow out and do something different. Hire someone who does not have talent or refrain from doing the work.

Ferraris exceed what I am willing to pay for an automobile, but you won't hear me complaining that there is a shortage of Ferraris. Instead, I will buy a lesser car (an unskilled worker) and make do, or forego car ownership altogether.

A shortage implies that all the money in the world can still not allow you to fulfill your needs. If the fulfillment is out there, but you are not willing to pay the prices, that is not a shortage.
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i think you may be better suited with an add-on like ghostery which specifically blocks tracking scripts, rather than cutting off javascript completely.
they're quite common in brazil and spain (on the most touristic / surf beaches) - some times operated by companies, other times by the city hall itself
Wonder how much they paid for that domain.
> But how many companies do you see really focusing on their image and consumer experience?

Not many, because it's hard and risky and - drum roll - difficult to replicate! Which brings us back to why I feel a direct comparison between Dropbox and Apple/Google is flawed: Dropbox presents comparatively little consumer value that is difficult to replicate. Hell, they don't even handle their own storage, Amazon does.
Well....sounds like you are agreeing with me. I said I didn't think he was well prepared enough. He should have spoken about SPECIFIC issues. i.e. highlighted SPECIFIC ways the legislation recommends that things will be implemented, or other specific ways that the internet (and our way of life) will be impacted via language found in the legislation.

None of which he did. I felt like that could have been me talking - when it shouldn't have felt like that. It should have felt like someone that is intimately familiar with the legislation and have talking points about why it is bad with specific examples. i.e. what you said :)
I think the point is to replace the specialized languages used in frameworks like systemtap and dtruss/dtrace
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