skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried both Namejet and Snapnames recently. I used Namejet two times to try to get domains that expired and were under redemption. For Namejet you need to place a backorder and state the amount you are willing to pay, though I believe there is a minimum of $70. You do not need to pay upfront and pay only if you win the domain. You just place the backorder wait until the domain is released, when it is released if Namejet is able to get it, Namejet will charge you, provided no one else is bidding on the same domain name. If someone else is bidding on it, the domain will enter an auction. In my case, Namejet was successful for the first domain I backordered. No one else bid on it, so I got it right away. Namejet transfered the domain to eNom, paid the registration fee for 1 year, and gave me the login. The second time I tried Namejet, it failed to get the domain I wanted when the domain was released. I immediately found out that the domain was acquired by Snapnames based on an updated whois entry. Snapnames was conducting an auction on the domain I wanted, which they just acquired. I bid on it and the auction lasted for 3 days. At the end of the auction, there were no other bidders and so I got my domain for the low price of $19, Snapnames' minimum bid for this particular domain. My suggestion would to be to try both Namejet and Sanpnames, since you don't have to pay anything unless you win, though you do need to provide you credit card number. Also, you want to follow the whois records carefully for your domain of interest. I find GoDaddy's domain monitoring service very useful for monitoring whois records for domains I own and for domains I may want to own. It is quite affordable and a very good service. Hope this helps.
Our emotions are not evolved to use iPhones or modern medicine either.

Animals eat other animals because have no alternative. Humans have the knowledge, technology, and (I hope) empathy to eat without killing animals.
Thanks! I can at least see an image. Woot!
Most meat eaters have the option of eating vegetables without violating any code of ethics or health, so there's little point in imitating them. Nonetheless, people do go out of their way to make meat taste like vegetables — or do you take your meat with no seasoning at all?

Also, meat-eaters do have a support group — it's called the whole world. Just mention vegetarian food and more likely than not somebody will come out and slag them or their choices. Conversely, the most likely response when you mention getting some In-N-Out is "Mmm, that sounds good."
It's not something that everything should be able to do, but it needs to be possible.

It doesn't actually matter in the long run what the specific capabilities are, The important thing is for web apps to be genuine apps that matter they need to do anything that would be allowed from native code.

I don't actually mind them making a crippled platform, as long as they admit that it is a crippled platform that can't do much of what I want.

Selectively disallowing certain behaviours is really something that should occur at a different level that affects native and HTML/JS apps equally.
That makes sense and that's what I can see; it's a good first stop. At least in the coming 10-15 years no one probably will fault you for having worked there as an engineer. Maybe longer.

I didn't know they accept non native engineers; that's another thing I forgot about; if a company really would like top talent, what's with the closed-border mentality? If Facebook doesn't have that, then kudos to them. If you want talent, it shouldn't matter where someone is from right?
Totally... but remember that I didn't say that no company ought to have a sales team, I just said I don't want to work anywhere that does. Filtering out B2B companies with products that have frictional switching costs is exactly the purpose of having that kind of a litmus test.
I learned Vim because I didn't always have a mouse. At some point, I started to dislike using a mouse at all; a roommate in college joked that if he glued my mouse to a mousepad, I wouldn't even notice. (And this is true; a year later, my mouse died and I was able to do virtually everything I felt like without it.)
I can help you, I was always interested in promoting education online. this is my email id: korrapolu.rohit@gmail.com
You seem to be very knowledgeable in this area. May I ask what your background is? I would like to take on some self study in this area. Would you have any advice?
> Strategic partnerships?

Job boards are tough. For a one-off board, strategic partnerships are the key - a most reliable way to get critical mass. i.e. The 37signals Job Board would be useless if 37signals weren't pushing eyeballs there constantly. Who will push eyeballs your way over the long haul?

Alternatively, you might try and white label the tool. Then charge newspapers or community activists to set up boards for their chosen vertical/local community. Different market, but much better business to be in.

The design is not bad, but could use some work (a little cluttered). The brand is weak, I'd try again there. my 2 cents!
It's still a sign-in, but it's not a registration. Agreed that they will know more information about you, beyond that which you tell them within their app.
Occasionally?
Perhaps the way to think of this is by going to Princeton, you increase the chances of sitting next to someone from Lehman. So you're not putting yourself in a position to be lucky, you're reducing your need for it.

In other words, we view the odds of an unlikely event as lucky (the chance you'll sit next to someone important) but the odds of a likely (sitting next to someone who can't get you a job) event as the norm.
Great work. Clean UI. Would suggest a basic check on the news links ... I tried a bunch that didn't work.
Why Sean Parker & Shawn Fanning's Airtime Will Fail
Incidentally, it's more commonly written as veg*n among non-nerds.
Absolutely, and for his product a great approach. Classic scenario of under promise, over deliver.
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Hmmm. But I hadn't wanted a special tag.

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0186.ht...

Maybe in the mildest sense imaginable, because he thought there was a better way of implementing it.
With gvim, you can use a mouse just fine. Personally, I don't use it because I don't ever find myself wanting to use the mouse; I find searching a more convenient way of jumping to particular places, and scrolling can be done just as well from either the keyboard or mouse. But then, I'm the type of person who uses ratpoison - some people use the mouse more, and good on 'em.

I do not know a whole lot about sublime, but from a skim over the first few relevant google results it looks like it's got some power to it. If someone wants to learn that, fine. What I object to is the "just use gedit" in the article. That means no syntax highlighting, and frustratingly little power in the editor.
I can confirm: Binoculars-on-a-stick is really easy and rally great. The only problem is that the darned Sun keeps moving out of alignment. Curse you, rotating-planet-Earth!

(Oh. Shameless plug: https://twitter.com/fennecfoxen/status/210152019980333056 - with a barely-visible sunspot to boot.)
Very cool - where are you getting your data (links, location, language, etc.)?
When Netflix did this back in 2006 you could win a million bucks!

Now all you win is a job at post-IPO Facebook.

Talk about a down economy!
They launched on the intertubes. Why do they have to have a party in a city?
Airtime video chat service suffers glitchy launch
A great example of fake meat that isn't actually anything like meat is Morningstar's black bean burgers. They taste nothing like meat (which is good, because overly realistic veggie meat is uncanny valley to me), but they still give the effect of a hamburger and taste delicious.
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it's either evidence they're passionate or they're forced to work long hours. given the context i'm assuming the former. which is certainly a good thing...
Yes I've been thinking of partnerships I could propose.

I agree that the design is so-so. There's still much I want to fix/add/subtract.

Thx for the feedback Dylan!!
Yeah, because we all know how degrees prove how smart a person is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
How do we know this isn't state-sponsored propaganda!?
Why Google Acquired Meebo
YOU TURNED IT DOWN?! Didn't see that twist to the story coming..
I can't recommend The Well-Grounded Rubyist higher myself and totally agree regarding it's accessibility in comparison to the Pickaxe. This is the book that taught me programming.
Just want to add that, despite its name, you can do the same things with publish_actions as you can with publish_stream. It is poorly documented though. The only caveat is as described in my other post.
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I think this depends on what you mean by "the less popular things that need to get done." In my experience, things that were less popular at other places I've worked, are often tackled with enthusiasm at GitHub. When the company culture leads you to feel passionately about building something lasting, going back to clean up old rotting code or fix tests that were not written well or debug obscure issues become things to be proud of.

Also, I believe that often the less popular work corresponds to things that are subtly judged to be less valuable work. At GitHub, I see people praised for tackling the types of things that have been less popular at my other jobs, and everyone here, even the most prominent GitHubbers, participate in most every aspect of maintaining the product. Internally, the message is pretty clear - doing the things that "need to get done" is a huge part of what makes everyone else here proud of you and is valued highly.

This is not to say that people don't tire of working on particular areas, but that's a somewhat different issue and probably a large enough topic for a writeup of its own.
Years back, my lab changed buildings, and I had to break down my computer and reassemble it on the other side. I went over a week of productive work before noticing I hadn't plugged the mouse in.

There are some things the mouse is very good at - picking from a visual display, describing relative motion. The mouse is only useful in programming to the degree that these things can be made relevant. I have every expectation that this fits some people better than others, but I do think that people frequently overestimate ease of use with the mouse and underestimate ease of use without.
I am personally immensely frustrated at the game. It feels pointless to me farming act 1 Inferno over and over just to buy 1 piece on the AH.

I think it's intended though, soon as the RMAH rolls around all us terribly frustrated people can just buy our way into progression, without even having to farm for the gold!

It's not just the gold farming that bothers me though, I feel like it is gimmicky, not genuinely difficult (as compared to Heroic WoW bosses anyways). Blizzard learnt through WoW that 1-shot deaths, even on tanks, was a horrible prospect and toned down burst damage a lot. They really need to figure out a way to make D3 more difficult without the monster just killing you because you looked at it.
This seems somehwat similar to the way that Intamin (a rollercoaster company) builds their wooden coasters. They machine all the sections of track in their factory, then send them to the construction site, just like with steel tracked coasters. Before, the way they did it was to just build the track using boards, which led to a rougher ride that made it harder to do some things like crazy banked turns and sharp drops.

Wood. Good stuff.
Or maybe it's assuming that the write once, run anywhere paradigm is superior to creating apps in different languages for different platforms.
Maybe this is more consumable as "remove as much complexity as possible from the code". In this case, both the code and the DB become considerably simpler, and it doesn't sound like there was anything fancy at all going on in the end result. I think derwiki just meant the DB will handle this, so you can leave the implementation there, not in custom sharding code.
When answering technical questions or writing code on the whiteboard, think out loud as much as you can. Getting the right answer is often less important than showing that you're smart and know how to think through problems. Think about it from the interviewers perspective - they're trying to figure out whether you're smart and someone they'd like to work with. When you're silent, it's hard for them to gather information.

Also, draw pictures! Before you write code on the whiteboard, discuss your approach, and draw any appropriate data structures/ui/etc. Once you've got buy-in from the interviewer that the approach you outlined sounds reasonable, then begin to implement it. This will not only score you points from the interviewer for taking a methodical approach, but will also make it more likely that the code you do write is well thought out.
This post feels more "why you should use Shopify after you successfully get your kickstarter campaign done." than it does how to run a successful kickstarter.

Nice to know that there is a follow on for folks to keep their newly launched endeavor going but we might cover things like Double Fine Adventures (also successful but not using Shopify so not included apparently) which is publishing their game themselves.
No matter how you slice it (no pun intended), raising an animal for human consumption is a net energy loss. AFAICT, it's just a mathematical fact. Unless you have magic cows that photosynthesize, you are taking resources that could have gone toward supporting a human being and instead using them to grow an animal.

I mean, if you're happy with your Neo-Atkins Diet, that's cool, but enough already with this looking down on people who don't eat as trendily as you do.
Did you look into eBay integration? There are a bunch of companies that offer store management and templates. It should be a great feature for them.
I believe that we all have unique metabolisms and the real "science" is the personal study of how we feel physically correlated with what we have been eating, amount of exercise, lack of tension, etc. I ended up as a vegetarian (with a little fish) because I kept track of how I felt and compared with recently eaten food. I have friends who thrive on high meat diets. We are all different.
I agree; I think the main thing happened is that a good chunk of the cyberpunk world arrived, and we found out that it sounds way more interesting on paper than it ends up being in the real world.

Chinese kids sell their organs to buy iPads -- sad, but predictable, not some novel dystopian problem.

The CEO of IBM holds a meeting in a virtual world via avatar -- sure, a shitty pixelated avatar in a ho-hum world kind of like the one my Sony PlayStation 3 boots into

Hunter-killer robot drones swooping out of the sky to kill citizens (and nearby children) with no regard for law or constitutional rights -- ugh, again? Change the channel.

It's not all here of course; if Chinese black ice could kill me through my computing terminal, that would still be pretty interesting. But by now we're all familiar enough with the matrix to know that it can't really kill me, except maybe through a heart attack induced by annoying popup Flash ads for erectile dysfunction pills. Boring.
On normal it's not just possible, it's easy. Incredibly easy. I personally didn't feel the game even started until Nightmare mode.

My experiences were with Witch Doctor & Demon Hunter.
I am able to open PB @ https://thepiratebay.se/ but can't get isohunt :(
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What I'd like to see are some hard scientific studies on whether vim, emacs or something like eclipse with
pydev are more productive for python. I have a strong feeling that people who emphasize on the editor so much are missing the point: programming is not about the editor. It's about your inner design process.
Going beyond the obvious jokes about genitalia and advertisements (or both...), here are some ideas I had while playing with it.

* An enhanced WYSIWYG for online editors or blogs. You could eliminate the need to go to any back end to create or edit content. The pulldown above allows for custom templates to be used to populate the page with boilerplate, or to even change the theme used, and then exported to the website to be "published"

* Online collaboration of websites and content beyond Word and Google Docs. Because it acts as an overlay, you could make some comments or changes to a live site and send that to another designer or copyeditor without changing what other users see.

* Visual successor to Greasemonkey, allowing users to recreate a page as they see fit. These enhancements could be distributed to others for new widgets or themes for existing sites.
Re 30 days. I get it. If you want to argue that the general mass population doesn't benefit from salt restriction, I wouldn't argue very strongly against it.

But he seems to suggest salt restriction harmful to the masses? I want more data on that than what's offered.
Just because he isn't going it personally, doesn't mean that backend processes and features designed by him aren't fully automated. Thats almost worse - a robot Zuckers spying on me. At least if he was doing it himself he wouldn't be doing it perfectly and constantly.

Personally, I dont want a middle man for every social interaction. Then I don't own my relationships, Facecbook does.
We'd love to hook you up with an account so you can integrate screenshots of these urls.
Interesting to read the comments. They should just rewrite the C resolver library for UNIX. Let's face it, the Plan 9^W^WGo team would probably produce a more elegant result than what we're using now, which has had its share of bugs over the years.
This is just like TalkBin...
Most large mammals other than humans sleep or relax a large portion of the day and are only active a relatively short time for hunting (work) and eating. So one could interpret his statement as saying that they work short, focused hours and then go home to relax.

My info is anecdotal from my wife, who has spent a significant portion of her life working with bears. But from the zoo keepers I've met, that mammal breakdown is true for most of the felines and primates as well.
Nice!

Have you seen http://newspapermap.com/, which builds on http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/?
That was a reference to the fact that the election related PR is focused around Obama being tough, having a kill list that he oversees and the successful drone strikes against "militants".

Because the definition of militant explicitly includes civilians in the area surrounding the targets and this was recently highly publicized I tied the two together in a flippant comment.

But I suspect you knew that already and now want to argue about the US use of drones. I'll save you the time, it's terrorism dressed in Orwellian doublespeak and it's pointless to have internet arguments about it.
I don't really see the relation with the pg's letter unless facebook' ipo and valuation. It's interresting anyway.
In emacs, its M-x help-with-tutorial.

I realise that you weren't actually advocating showing this to a beginner programmer, but I can't help noticing the irony that the above would be meaningless to a newbie learning emacs for the first time. Indeed, exactly that kind of WTF moment can stop a fledgling programmer in their tracks, even though it has nothing to do with programming.

As you say, there is no sense in complicating the problem. If someone wants to learn Python, and they're working through beginner exercises, a REPL or at most a simple plain text editor will do just fine.
It's not rent control that keeps SROs around - there are separate SRO controls. You're not allowed to eliminate SRO beds without building replacement beds in another part of the city (or paying into a fund to cover the cost of someone else doing it, and it's a significant fee.)

Many of the people in SROs have substance abuse or mental health problems or other disabilities, and most (?) SRO tenants are paying their rent in federal housing assistance vouchers (which is why SROs can be so profitable - the government pays you a high price to house people that otherwise wouldn't be welcomed on the rental market, housing discrimination laws notwithstanding.)

Any zoning plan has to make space for this population somewhere in the city. If you let people demolish SRO beds, you're just going to discover that you have to build new ones at public expense.
I agree with you.

But, honestly, the same thing can also be said of electricity (or water/national defence/public transport/roads/sewerage/etc.).

You lean on your provider completely just to keep you running, and even a slight dip in their performance can take down your entire cluster, and completely ruin your day/calculation/work flow (outside of temporary UPS).

Not everyone needs their own generator tammer :D.

Different strokes for different folks!
DWRE? BV?
I think the reason is a combination of different aspects, with varying proportions of each for different people.

I would agree that one of those aspects is surmounting obstacles.

For me, and I would argue for the majority of hardcore Diablo players, the main aspect is market manipulation. It feels GOOD to buy cheap and sell, or find some inefficiency in the market and exploit and profit.

Diablo is essentially the free market at its best and worst, and I find it amazingly addicting to go from rags to riches, and the power that comes with that. If you are rich enough, you can essentially create a niche market by yourself.

There was this insanely rich guy on d2jsp that offered large amounts of currency for the most ridiculously bad items. This "make people do stuff for me" power is even apparent at lower levels of the heirarchy. I remember finally reaching "middle-class" status and going into trade games and offering somewhat valuable items to new players in exchange for them doing inane things like bringing me tedious (unnecessary) quest items, or answering trivia.

Other aspects are pride in skill builds (I want to try this ridiculous skill build and show it's viable), showing off items ( through faster PvE, more wins in PvP, etc )... many more probably.
Haha, I can understand that the intersection of hardcore Diablo 2 players and startup enthusiasts is small ( I'm well aware games are fun, but are a completely unproductive use of time :) ).

I guess this really isn't the proper place to discuss this topic, as the longevity of Diablo 2 can only really be understood by players who contribute to that longevity, ie put in many, many hours.
without an explanation your whining annoyed me and your comment added nothing to the discussion.
Spreading more FUD on the internet is not likely to help a cause in the long run, it won't even make it stand out from the background noise. And you aren't really scaring the shit out of people by telling them that the government can read their emails, which they already think anyway, when they also know that the same government has nukes and has been happy to play brinkmanship with them against other countries with nukes, for well over a generation.
I don't see how gedit is simpler than emacs for a complete beginner: open an editor, start typing (letters, arrows, delete produce the same result), press "save" button (I think emacs shows toolbar by default).

emacs gives you the power to do much more but it doesn't force you to use it.

To be fair making emacs a complete Python IDE that has the same features as Eclipse for Java has a steep learning curve and it is not trivial. But for the book you don't need it (some don't need it even for professional work with Python provided that there are other useful features in emacs).