skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the work, but I've found that all my dotfiles (including .ssh and .screenrc and .vimrc) linked into a directory on Dropbox, as well as my Development directory (containing all my local copies of git repos) goes a long way toward achieving this.

I _really_ didn't want to build a computer, and the iMac is _substantially_ faster than the equivalent-costing MBP (and also frees me up to travel with an Air).

It's a useful tradeoff, I think.
The big difference is that the best coders keep more of what they have produced, while the worst constantly have to rework whole sections.

Whoa. Either I'm a worst programmer or this is clueless.
If you're in a larger organization where others are paid more than you in your company, you can kind of look at it as a way to get them to expect less of you, such as give you less stressful tasks, etc... I know this isn't good long-term, as you obviously want to advance your career, but for example, if you were still finishing up classes or something part-time, it may be beneficial to have less stressful tasks so you have more time to focus on schoolwork, etc...

If the entire company underpays everyone then I don't think there is any upside.

If you're compensated at what they feel is "too high" a rate, or just too high for them (where other companies might be fine with it), it can be stressful since they think they are paying too much and it could even lead to them eyeing you for a lay-off, I suppose, to cut costs, so I guess in twisted way being underpaid can give some job security.
My apologies, I just corrected that. Thanks for the heads up!
That analogy would only make sense if you torrented a film and then turned around and sold it to somebody else.
Great name. :)
I think the net effect of this explosion in TLDs is that the individual appeal of each will diminish, as the novelty wears off. This will simply accelerate the erosion of the address as the primary means of access of a web resource (from a consumer point of view.)

I see some obvious parallels between domains and TLDs in how they become limited to singular entities. After all, it's non-trivial to obtain a scripting.com subdomain for myself, and I see no reason why someone is more entitled to such a subdomain than I am, besides being first to have registered the domain itself.
Salesforce? :)

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/26/salesforce-ceo-benioff-gifted...
Perhaps they realize how futile this is all going to be.
Is that really the standard in the US? In Lloyds (UK) same-bank transfers are free and instantaneous, first time requires two-factor auth (mobile call confirmation). It works pretty well actually. Web / mobile enabled. I haven't seen a check in years...
agreed. I think Live Chat is a great idea (I use it for my own product) for the customer development aspect. I was just saying there is an opportunity cost involved as well.
these are not cats: http://i.imgur.com/Bc89L.png
Yes, here in the UK cigarettes are legal but smuggled cigarettes are a massive (£multi-billion) business because taxes are so high.

Obviously there is a point at which taxation is virtually equivalent to prohibition (1,000,000%?) so the aim of a good tax in this arena is to (1) discourage consumption (2) provide some revenue to offset against social costs of the activity (healthcare costs of smokers, for example) while (3) not being so outrageous as to push the activity underground altogether.
seeing as stone walls have been around for minimum 20000 years, and wooden fences likely much longer, I find his comment kind of funny.

Catapults are cutting-edge tech compared to a fence..
yeah, this is how i try use it too. the problem is that at the end of the day it's really hard to sift through the stream of fwd:fwd:fwd junk to get to the real updates you care about, because it all lands on you at once, so most days i find myself avoiding it, and in practice i end up checking a few people's walls individually once a week or so. i wish facebook provided a precise way for me to set up filter rules (e.g. filter out anything that has been reshared without comment); i don't really trust their automatic signal-versus-noise balancing algorithms to craft me a stream.
I'm not talking about current U.S. copyright legislation.

First off, I don't agree with the concept that anyone has the right to 'own' information in the first place (especially lines of code).

It isn't 'stealing'. It's not as if they have deprived hackermonthly of their site. At worst they copied.

I'm not sure what you are saying in regards to CSS being 'open source'. My point was that between syntax and formatting standards, CSS has very little creative control (in terms of the actual writing of the code). Sure you might decide to do 4 space indents, choose one line rules vs. multiple, etc. But usually there is a best way, or most standards compliant way of structuring and styling the design.

What I'm saying is two people coding the same design could easily produce nearly identical code, with the only differences being small irrelevant differences in formatting.
> I don't understand why there is such an obsession with their margins.

Me neither. Their business model is their business, not their customers.

If they put in big letters on the website "if you install Linux, you can'tr return this machine for faulty", then i would have no objevction to them. But their behaviour of a one-off refund strikes me as an attempta at fraudulent damage limitation.
Dropbox probably does take care of the biggest issues. But I really do mean absolutely zero. The reason I quit using an external monitor is that I'd organize my windows differently on it and then have trouble readjusting to the laptop. Especially when lines of code started wrapping that didn't wrap when I wrote them!
EFF files legal motion to halt Washington state online sex ad law
They saw the applications coming in, therefore had information the rest of us didn't have.

I didn't write an objection, I wrote a blog post.
In my university years I worked at Best Buy part time and the HP rep who visited always openly acknowledged (and joked about) batteries as being overpriced as it's easier for people to justify a new laptop when the battery is approaching 1/4 of the price of a new one. Granted, this laptop we're speaking of is worth a lot more than $200 x4 but I think the point is clear.
Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as patronizing.
More $$ for ICANN
Need US work permit? Hide your Masters - better chance on a GED.
How Depressives Surf the Web
An economist finally admits it why they fail so much.

"let’s face it: Econometrics is a travesty! While its heavy reliance on statistics often confuses us into believing that it is a form of applied statistics, in reality it resembles computerized astrology"

"the reason for this unavoidable failure? None other than our inability to run experiments on a macroeconomy"

The theories are never tested. They just get implemented. A thousand other things are happening at the same time and its impossible to get anything approaching the clarity of a double blind experiment. But the adherents act as if they've got exactly that.
I typically used "Wizard People, Dear Reader" for this task.
I think you're a bit confused. The issue is not teens posing as adults, but sexual predators posing as teens. Appeals to the sense of honesty of perpetrators of sex crimes are likely misguided.
<tinfoil-hat gasMark=3>Preferential network treatment for corporate TLD's that are willing to pay would be the obvious starting point for telecoms providers. If they are popular enough you can then place heavy restrictions on standard domains and try and sell the result as a 'safe' internet.</tinfoil-hat>

Not that I think that this would work very well in the long run.
800,000 people to be granted work permits based solely on their age. Yet only 85,000 people are granted work permits based on their professional qualifications. Oh, and by the way, 20,000 of the 85,000 must attain a Master's degree or higher. In the mean time, tech companies are hurting from a talent war and the H1B quota for the year got maxed out in 2-months. I find it odd that a qualified professional who a company would hire due to lack of comparable US talent will not be allowed in the country; yet an unqualified person can be granted a work permit (without the need of an actual job offer?) based on age.
The concept of top level domains seems a bit outdated. I can only guess that under the new system "store.apple.com" will become "store.apple", "myname.blogger.com" will become "myname.blog", etc. So why not go the other way and just drop TLDs altogether? I know there are a few cases where a ".net" domain would clash with a ".com", but the people in those cases are already used to the conflict, so let them work it out which one keeps the TLD in their name and which one becomes TLD-less.

The way it's going seems like a money grab by ICANN.
You have to admit though, a LOT of people who were critical of the new policy have been saying this is how it will play out.
So when the public regulates the Internet via their elected officials it is bad (a.k.a "socialism"). But when private corporations regulate to merely secure their monopolistic position, that's "no kidding" ?

With history of 2008 bank bail-outs you should have known better.
Why not opensource your code? Less drama, more profit for the community.
For future reference: http://status.heroku.com/
I guess I didn't notice until the applications were there in black and white. :-)
Does it really matter? It's kind of a big data problem at the best case. How do you detect who is a smuggler and who is a just lost in the desert? Do you send patrols to stop every single person? My intuition is that's cost prohibitive and an arms race with the cartels. They'll just get more sophisticated and buy off the drone operators.
League of legends is having massive success with a similar model too. You can do and experience just about every aspect of the game for free without annoyances or interruptions about paying and many players start playing for just that reason then invest a great deal of cash into the game a few months or even years down the track when they're hooked.
He's not confused at all. He's saying that by forcing teens to pose as adults to continue using the app, they can no longer help educate teens about how to avoid predators, nor offer them specific features to help them, because they won't know who they are. It's not the sex predators those features are for, it doesn't matter that they'd ignore them.
I was paid less than someone doing the same job at the same company as I was many years ago. When there were layoffs, one of the reasons they kept me instead of him was that I was cheaper.

I understand you're the sole tech guy at your company, but the same dynamic may apply.
The link I provided is for an example of a tree view. Isn't it obvious?
Agreed. This will just add unnecessary confusion for a lot of people. Might look good for marketing, but I bet most of these will just redirect to the '.com' site.
OMG I tweeted this before 8am and it's 6pm now and there's no news stories about it.

What's the difference between Google keeping .blog for itself, and some other company charging $50,000 for their normal registration fee? (Some already do that.) Not much.
I had my last laptop (a Thinkpad T42) for 8 years without upgrading the HD or (I think) the memory. Admittedly, I wouldn't want to do that with most manufacturers' laptops, but Apple's are pretty sturdy too.

I don't see any reason why a MacBook Pro bought today shouldn't still be perfectly usable in three or four years.
Or explicitly making the wrong friend.

CNBC has this show I like to watch called American Greed where they talk about people who do scams from large to small.

They had a great episode about the guy he got caught dealing with Raj Rajaratnam

Episode summary here:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45555924

If you scroll all the way to bottom you can even here a recording of one of their conversations
Cash is generally hard to steal in bulk. You can't just get a bunch of numbers from people surreptitiously and then empty their entire life savings in effectively untraceable milliseconds.
I've been curating a collection of hacker workspaces on and off for a year now in a Gimme Bar collection: http://gim.ie/ccN . These aren't generally workstations of "famous" hackers, but rather just people that would send me pictures of their setup when I asked nicely.

Edit: Ah yes, there are a few in there that I pulled from a .net Magazine article.
I don't have anything to do with anybody or anything really, but I think he's saying Zach is NOT a cofounder of iDoneThis. He's the founder of AwesomeReminders, who iDoneThis teamed up with for a promotion a few months ago. Otherwise, nothing to do with iDT and should probably not be a factor in using their service.

Do I have that right?
The US didn't win the cold war, the USSR stopped playing due to an insolvency of mostly their own creation. And the same could happen to the US if it is not extremely careful over the next decade or so.
It's more likely that some of these are defensive applications, to lock competitors from getting them (eg: blog, tunes).

Winer is right, and I'm surprised nobody is writing about this or calling much attention to it. There's enormous potential marketing value behind domains like "beatles.music" or "harrypotter.books" or "superman.movies".

With the advertising and reach of companies like Amazon and Google (or even Warner and Sony), I think these new domains have the power to split the web, and potentially turn .com, .net, and .org into something of a ghetto (sorta similar to how .biz and .name might be viewed by Joe Consumer now).

On the other hand, it may well be meaningless. I'm continually surprised to see big companies use facebook.com/[companyname] in their advertising too.
"Tech press ignores expected next phase of ICANN's gTLD sales."

would be a more accurate title.

Like a public good, the dilution costs of issuing gTLDs is externalized and paid by everyone (other than ICANN).

ICANN has an exclusive license on this valuable virtual real estate, little accountability and a well demonstrated intention of making all the money they can.

Don't blame smart buyers who get in early - they're not the ones who created the situation.
Yes, I completely agree. Why do you mention it?
I said the same thing and had an interesting conversation with the author of the Thrust/Drag post cited in the article.

http://plus.google.com/110440139189906861022/posts/84784VhCm...
Your assertion is that the press is missing the story. Which seems accurate. But wouldn't it be better to file an objection rather than just writing a blog post about it? Isn't that more useful and practical?
This is amazing. I was just discussing this with a friend, and quitting Facebook was one of the first things we considered. Interesting coincidence.
Travelling Salesman: Thriller movie on P = NP
I wonder if people are overvaluing these gtlds. Of the general public, how many people are going to see "great.books" and think "Oh that's a URL I should type."
The smuggling can be stopped in less than a year. A country so powerful and resourceful that sent a man on the moon, waged wars with countless countries, played nuclear chess with the soviets, influences and spies everyone with satellites & drones, can't get to the roots of this drug octopus ? Bullsh*t. They don't want to. They went in Iraq for a bunch of imaginary weapons and in Afghanistan for a terrorist that killed 3000 citizens. If they really wanted to stop the drug dealers they would have invaded Mexico and Columbia 3 times by now, and no one could have stopped them because drugs kill tens of thousands every year. It's all politics and the politicians can play limitless dumb when they want to and no one can arrest them for that. They never admit conspiracy, never admit betrayal of citizen's or nation’s interests, they only admit incompetence cause that is not punished by law and the fools still buy it.
I had a UUCP feed through the early 90s. Fun times!
"Consider the Libraries feature"

My gawd, I can't even figure out what's where in the Libraries context.
that's OK; we all choose what we want to believe in. I go in accordance to the Bible's word. You don't have to.
for over a decade, I've never kept a apple notebook longer than 3 years. It is best to not just upgrade some of the components, but to upgrade the whole unit to the latest technology. period.
That will be someone else's problem. People will still pay a lot of money for used MBPs.
800,000 pro-Obama voters in one blink. not bad!
You don't want to do it because it's hard. If it wasn't hard, you'd do it more. It shouldn't be hard. Our collective reaction to websockets shouldn't be flipping out at how cool they are, it should be "it's about time you gave me back the things you took away".

Of course you want a strong page framework built on top, but the point really is it's easier to start with the streams underneath and build something that limits the streams to the request-response cycle than to go the other way, not that request-response isn't an important simplification that is frequently useful or that it shouldn't be very strong itself.

But you shouldn't go and write it into your WSGI standard or hard-wire your shiny new web server to insist on what are morally CGI pages, and break down crying if somebody wants to stream a little bit.
The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US$666.66. Given that this was 36 years ago, that implies roughly a 19% rate of return.
hangout is pretty much the only good thing about google+
All of this has happened before...

Actually, Usenet worked amazingly well even under the limitations of computers and networks in the 80's. Shared information streams strike me as superior to isolated data motes and walled gardens.
You're just making stuff up. You mention alcohol regulations; how many people are running moonshine from Canada these days to get around all those regulations and tarifs?
Nah, ephedra.
I really agree with Dave, private gTLDs shouldn't be allowed. One thing is to open new gTLDs as .data (interesting!), .kid, .book and another thing is to get it and use it for yourself. That's not how the gTLDs should be run. Those gTLDs have not public interest!

Google and Amazon should be ashamed of themselves for trying to buy .blog, .book (etc) and just want them for their own interest when those gTLDs, used wisely, can be really useful.

We should write a public letter to ICANN about this issue and email them through here https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/applicationc...
Because you can get behind what they do.

I like making things for people. At Etsy, for example, I like that the sell side of their audience are independent makers. I could easily imagine doing some user interviews, discovering something in their experience that can be improved, and then going out and making it happen.

Working with others can be preferable to working alone in that it's a lot easier to release something that helps a large audience. Because I'm not an idiot I would insist they pay me fairly, but my primary motivation would still be helping the users.
I seriously hate GTLD so very, very much.

I want to run an online bookstore. Dare I say I want to start an amazon competitor.

Well now amazon owns .books -- Amazon owns books on the internet.

That is bullshit.
The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US$666.66. Given that this was 36 years ago, that implies roughly a 19% rate of return.

Assuming you could invest $666.66 in Apple in 1976 at a generous $10 million valuation, it would be worth many tens of millions now.
My impression is that the govt sees the internet as a Constitution-free zone, and the only question is how quickly they can boil the water without us frogs getting active.
I think a more interesting story is the gTLDs applied for by Dominion Enterprises.

- Apartments
- Autos
- Boats
- Cars
- Forsale
- Homes
- Motorcycles
- Rent
- Yachts

I wonder what percent of US GDP sales of those products represent.
Well that was hilarious. My browser is fully locked down with Ghostery and such. The website insists on giving me cookies to feed to Google Analytics. I said no. It kicked me out.

I guess I will never know what Austrians think of the Euro.

Meta point: I'm not sure what this website proved by being so anal-retentive about cookies. They lost a reader.
An absence of chargebacks does not mean "effectively untraceable". Even cash is potentially traceable, and this seems quite a bit more traceable than cash (which represents both a feature and a bug).
Rare Apple computer up for auction
"And legalizing drugs only strengthens the cartels grip on that profit (see OPEC)."
OPEC is powerful because they are an oligopoly. The current drug situation is an oligopoly because there are a limited number of people willing to risk their life and liberty to produce and sell drugs. By legalizing the production of drugs in the US, you allow honest US citizens to compete with far less risk. This will break the drug cartel's oligopoly. Whether they maintain their power depends on their ability to compete in a fairer market.
Is it hilarious that Geico aspires to hire the best developers because they're not elite enough and working there would injure a rock star's ego?
Now just Google left to declare a company worth $1B and buy it.

It's getting expensive to keep up appearances.
That, and having to have a dedicated ip address due to IE on XP's lack of SNI support.
Dunlis by Olivier Weiter.

http://soundcloud.com/juan-bass/olivier-weiter-dunlis-origin...
Fascinating. I remember that comment very well, but have forgotten about it since reading it. Thanks the reminder.
Anyone who sees Google and Amazon as AI companies should know that this is the next logical step. Imagine owning and selling the authoritative meaning of Modern English and those valuations start making a little more sense.
Both Sage and Salesforce applied for the 'Appstore' trademark, not 'App Store' as Apple uses it. Also, they describe add-ons that one can buy/rent for their web platform -- that's not what I think of as an 'app'. In any case, I've found no proof that Sage actually used the name, and Salesforce's add-ons shop is named AppExchange.

Let's go further back in time. Software programs on NeXTSTEP have had the extension .app since the first release in 1988. There are plenty of videos around from that time in which Steve Jobs refers to software programs as 'apps'. At the time, it wasn't a common word at all with Mac and PC users. Only after Steve Jobs came back to Apple, it entered Apple vocabulary because he would refer to software programs in that way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_bundle
Full-stack here seems to be about mindset not skill set.

I have a different criticism: it's hard to own the stack without being empowered to change it, to make wholesale changes. And that's hard to do as software grows and ossifies, as deployment gets more uncertain. To do full stack right you need to limit team size, I think.
Can we please skip the "I don't use Google+ so it sucks" meme? Great, thanks.
What Do We Now Know, after Nokia's Latest Profit Warning & Layoffs
The takeaway ...<p>"Yesterday the Nokia share price fell 18% in one day, the biggest fall it has ever had. The share price had climbed 11% in the first 5 months when Elop was in charge, when he executed the previous strategy. After his magnificent new strategy unveilled in February 2011, Nokia share price has fallen by 74%. Today we heard that Moody's has joined the two other ratings agencies downgrading Nokia to junk. All three ratings agencies rated Nokia one notch below perfect when Elop took charge. I think we can see the pattern here. The Captain sees the iceberg. He knows he could save his ship. But he would rather go fire 10,000 engineers and buy a Swedish company. He's rather rearrange the deck chairs. Full Steam Ahead!"