skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wrists are straight when I type on a standard keyboard, placing my hands at an angle to each other. My fingers are "sprawled" across the three alphabetic rows, and I have no particular discipline regarding which finger (or even which hand) hits which key.

Because of my typing style, it is very difficult for me to type on a non-standard keyboard. For example, on any split keyboard, fingers either hand will often strike the center divider in an attempt to strike a key which is in fact on the opposite side of the divider.

However, I credit typing in this manner with a near-total lack of keyboard-related RSI after 20 years of active computer use. (I have had issues with using a mouse, due mostly to grip stress, but switching to a trackball cleared those up.)

I've met at least one other person who types this way (and I haven't asked that many people) so I figure it must be common enough, especially among those who grew up with access to a computer (like I did). I don't know how easy it is to learn if you first learned home row typing.
> Therefore every time you use it to spool one file into a pipeline, that is technically an abuse!

Since everything's a file* in UNIX (and ilk,) it's actually not an abuse.

* Pedantic variations such as "everything's a bytestream" or "everything's a file descriptor" notwithstanding.
Mixing first-order and higher-order control
think carefully about whether that's an intellectually honest argument

Don't lecture me about "intellectual honesty" after referring to file-sharers as if they were an uniform entity and likening them to an "industry".
Do you think consumers care about walled networks? No.
I believe GitHub admins have that little search bar on every repo, while regular joes can only search private repos.
According to http://openradar.appspot.com/8761419 apps that specify that tag cannot do background audio. I think that would be larger annoyance for users of Grooveshark.
That's actually a list of git tags (http://learn.github.com/p/tagging.html), and they're on the current site, e.g. https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/tags
Why you should quit Facebook too
Right, because freezing something is totally comparable to using radiation or anorganic chemicals.

Or are you referring to questionable stuff in ice cream like carrageenan?
Try clearing your cache/cookies. Going to grooveshark.com directly on your mobile device should just work. Otherwise, you may want to try html5.grooveshark.com
Marginal Revolution is a kindred spirit to Hacker News. I view MRUniversity as the economics equivalent to Udacity. I have very high hopes for this site!
^ This seems like it makes a lot more sense to me. Considering the same thing happened when the iPhone 4 released - Apple didn't sell any 3rd party cases at the time. They only carried their bumper exclusively for a short period.

This type of connection is about to be used in a myriad of devices. 3rd party cables will be licensed. This article is blogspam with a sensationalist HN headline that isn't even from the original article.
It's largely a question of messaging this change to customers, dealing with approximately 7,000 existing customers and answering "No, no, don't worry, YOU still get it for life!", changing marketing copy site-wide, yadda yadda yadda... and then, pot-of-gold-at-end-of-rainbow-style, getting a few thousand bucks extra in 2013.

Call it, oh, two weeks of work. Two weeks at my consulting rate is... umm... a more reliable method of getting a fairly sizable chunk of money up-front, if I am interested in getting more money right away. Two weeks of work on AR, by comparison, gets me fairly little money right now but gets me much closer to where I eventually want to be than the same marginal work on BCC. (e.g. I did two weeks of work on AR in the last two months, and increased paying customers by 50%. Not like rate of acquisition, like total. Feel free to guesstimate how much that is worth to either a) my income in 2013 or b) the implied value of owning 100% of the shares in AR. It's a heck of a lot more than either a) how much money BCC could reasonably make in 2013 or b) the delta in implicit sale values of BCC. There are other projects I could spend two weeks on, with a variety of professional and personal goals attached, which all sound more fun to me.

As of September 2012, BCC is a fun laboratory I get to play in (and draw stories from) more than it is a core line of business for me.
Just saw this on Twitter:

@jolieodell: "Best demo day EVER. I wish all incubators were this respectful of startups/investors press folks' time"

Clearly the simultaneous Q&A had appeal. See Jolie O'Dell's VentureBeat article:

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/05/nreduce-demo-day/
Ukulele Lessons, S'Mores Bars, and Wine Tours - The New Zaarly is Here.
You may want to consider clearing your cache and cookies and reloading grooveshark.com on your device. The main features of this release are large screen (tablet) support and the ability to login to access your collection.
AT&T syntax makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

You have to add these suffixes "l" or "w" to all your instructions to tell the compiler how big they are, but of course if you're using EAX you're talking about a 32-bit register; if you wanted to talk about a 16-bit register, you'd say AX, or AL (or even AH) for 8-bit. An assembler that isn't smart enough to figure out something that simple and obvious is a sorry tool indeed.

And then there's the fact that operands are backwards. "subl $1,eax" translates to "eax -= 1" in C-like syntax. Why switch the order of operands? It's completely unnecessary and confusing. It's like someone inventing a programming language where integer literals were negative if specified with no sign, and only positive if you put a + on them -- technically possible, but the sort of thing that serves no useful purpose and defies all prior conventions, common sense, and sanity.

And putting dollar signs on constants and percent signs on registers? I can't even imagine any possible explanation for that, other than a lazy parser author who didn't care about making extra work for their users. It's the type of corner-cutting that you'd expect to find in some prototype thrown together by a single person in a single evening.

Please, for the sake of your own sanity and those around you, use Intel syntax instead!
If you're right, you did everyone a favor by pointing it out. But if you're wrong, no amount of arguing about the quality of this guy's website is going to make you look less dumb. The way you wrote that comment, you've gone "all in" on the prediction that this is a scam.† I think that was imprudent, but either way: let's let it play out instead of wasting time backpedaling.

† Message board nerd pro-tip: avoid the word "lolwut" if you want to maintain the pretense of evenhandedness.
So the two are different because awk's call to read() is effectively the same as a read directly from a file, whereas copying is taking place through the pipe with the pipeline approach?
I wonder when apple will start offering their own Internet and not allow Apple users to connect to the Internet that we all know and love.
They are creating non-standards to squeeze more dimes out of its very loyal users.
While pitching Coinbase to investors today, I got asked several times about early use cases. Opportunity?

FYI, users are not anonymous on Coinbase.
You are technically correct about the anthrax case, but that's because the guy who most likely did it killed himself.

I know that the original suspect was the wrong guy, and that the government basically tried to ruin the guy's life anyways, but the second suspect (the dead one) seemed to be the real deal.

This doesn't really detract from your statement about the post office though, I believe they found the anthrax guy because they can trace the source of the anthrax.

EDIT: It's been a while since I looked into this case, but apparently in the last few years a lot of the evidence has been called into question by external scientific organizations.
Try rhapsody - its similar to spotify but works without facebook.
Of course there is no way to know it was not the 'hackers' who made these BC transactions.
It is extremely unlikely that GMO animal feeds have any measurable effect on the meat you end up eating.. i have no doubt that your diet is healthy, but it seems like you are irrationally excluding more sustainable foods in favor of less sustainable ones. Would you be willing to do a blind test on GMO fed vs non GMO beef?
I'm going to guess that you were using your computer at the time. If you're using a desktop browser you're going to be directed to the site which relies on flash.
If you're in a Webkit browser you can use html5.grooveshark.com and get the html5 experience on your desktop.

On a handheld device, we automatically direct you to the html5 site when you visit grooveshark.com
Bitcoin or paypal.
Not sure this extension is necessary. Chrome and Safari have this built in, so I suspect you're using Firefox, in which case I'd expect them to clone this functionality soon.
The risk here being? That Romney will sue the guy in civil court? He's trolling the media for bitcoins, how much do you think he has to lose?

I guess there's an extortion case to be made.
It's not half-ass if you're achieving excellence by some other metric. I personally take pride in my ability to recognize tradeoffs. I encourage my peers to see things in the same light.
Thanks for your response. So, do you feel the need for a more efficient tab manager? Or are you satisfied with the built in one for chrome?
I love the html5 version of grooveshark though it's limited I can still use it on my iphone. I really wish there was a directory which showed all html5 apps kind of app store style. Does anyone know if there are any?
It's not like the html form does anything special. Forms don't have funny markup you have to scrape or produce. It's just a POST.

I guess there's mime/url encoding or whatever, but that's hardly an issue.
independentlabel.org
and schoolofprogramming.com/net/org

I plan on developing both but if anyone's interested, I can be bought :)
Could end up as a profitable honey pot.
That's pretty much all (especially frozen) chicken in supermarkets; the vast majority of it will say something along the lines of "contains up to 10% chicken broth."
All bitcoin transactions are public.
You should not force yourself to quit X/Y/Z, rather, you might want to choose a balanced approach: limit the use of such sites to 5-15 minutes a day, a have best of both worlds.
"You can use it only by the grace of Apple. If Apple decides you shouldn't use it anymore, it's bricked."

If Apple bricked my phone tomorrow I would return it for nothing less then a full refund. So yeah, you're just making things up.

"If Apple goes out of business, your iphone is worthless."

Why does my iphone stop working if Apple goes out of business? This is just silliness.

"Maybe your definition is different."

My definition is the same as the lay definition. There are radios you can buy that only tune into the NOAA Weather stations. Conversely most radios aren't able to pick up these as they are broadcast outside the normal AM/FM bands. However no one claims they don't own their radio because they can't tune into stations on a different part of the band and no one claims they don't own their weather radio because they can't tune into commercial stations. Instead people realize that when they bought a weather radio which only plays one station that was part of the purchase decision. Anyone claiming non-ownership in this context is just flat out wrong.
This has already hurt Romney because we are talking about his wealth and taxes and implicitly -- if we can trust him. He obviously does not want to talk about these subjects.
Agreed. I think the real goal is getting a mention of bitcoin on major news outlets then hope increased interest means increased demand and prices. Seems like it might be working already: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5ztgMzm1g10zm2g25...
Smartphone? Presto, 2-Way Radio
create a markov chain 4chan slang generator.

track usages of phrases over time. (thinking of the recent evolution of "rustled my jimmies" derivatives)

See what topics are trending

Fuck maybe I should build some of this...
I stridently reject any "lone gunmen who commit suicide before interrogation" explanations.

(edit for adverbs)
Thanks for your response. Yeah, I'm using firefox, that's why. Just tried out Chrome, seems they have already solved this problem.
Glad to see such amazing stuff happening at Zaarly! What a team you must have to pull this stuff off :)
We actually got a quick primer on RSI in college. There are a lot of tools and equipment out there. But the simple fact is that you need to do at least one of two things to avoid RSI:

Stop stressing your poor wrists and hands.
Vary it up.

Stop stressing your poor wrists and hands:
If you take your hands off of your damned keyboard when you're not using it, and use your brain instead for a bit, you will not stress your hands. You can reduce stress to your hands by getting special keyboards, varying your sitting height, adding padding, etc. But just remove your hands from the keyboard, and there is no repetitive stress from keeping your fingers hanging in the air.

Vary it up:
Don't keep a static posture for too long. Doing exercise, etc, will strengthen your core and your arms, or whatever, but actually having something different going on as far as your body kinematics throughout the day is probably better. Drape a leg over that armrest. Squat. Lean back. Lean forward. Type with one hand. Humans are not meant to be statues.

And, the unspoken third rule:
If you are experiencing RSI, you need to ramp it down or take a vacation. RSI gets worse over time. You can treat inflammation with drugs in the short term, and you can point to mental components if you like, but the first two points don't mean very much if you don't give yourself time to heal, which means not hovering over a keyboard for an extended period of time.
Very very interesting, particularly the part about the ego. I'm homeschooling my 9 year old daughter, and I'm trying to get her to be self-motivated (at least to a degree).

And I think your tidbit about the ego and its fear is going to help me. Thanks.
I'm taking a partial break from Facebook. I consider it a tool for broadcasting information to a network of people who know me, and I ignore everything else (especially the part where I could spend hours each day consuming all of the information that my friends broadcast). That way I can get some eyes on my personal projects and give others a chance to passively keep up with my life. (I would miss this aspect if I were to leave Facebook entirely -- I don't feel like emailing a group of people everytime something important happens.)

Occasionally I break my rules and skim the news feed, but since I'm not on the service all that often, most updates just seem mundane, so I zero-in on the bigger things like life events and stuff that people might not always email me personally about (but that I wish they would). It's nice to feel a little connected still, without letting it become a huge time-waster.
>(e.g. Google+'s buttons)

They actually have slightly rounded corners, an outline and subtle gradient going from top to bottom that hint at three dimensionality and offers affordance. There's also a slight darkening on mouse-over which suggests they're interactive and can be pressed in.
What I learn from a hot air balloon story?
Everyone tries this for a month because they feel the need for productivity, tells everyone for the first week they quit, eventually comes back.
That would be amazing!

I got an invite for Work at a Startup at the start of the year, but couldn't go because I live in Australia. To avoid the plane ticket I looked at other ways of getting there, like via cargo plane or cargo ship. It turns out the first one is illegal an the second one is more expensive and takes longer :D
I have a few helpers--writing blog posts, creating contests, etc.--for my website, Scribophile, and they're all over the world and I've never met them. So far they've all worked out really well. Maybe I've been lucky.

I basically set a goal and let them do whatever they want. After any initial emails to get them up and running it's not uncommon for me to not email them for weeks or months. If I do email, it's to make a small course correction. People who care about what they're doing don't need to be micro-managed, and like having the freedom to solve problems on their own terms. The trick is finding those people in the first place!
It's not the pixel resolution I'm complaining about, but the physical screen size. The Retina display has a much higher dot pitch than it really needs IMHO. Back off on the dot pitch, keep the resolution the same, and give me a bigger screen.
Keep in mind that this article has one unnamed source. Don't ready your pitchfork just yet.

EDIT: Actually, they don't even have that. It's a report on a report that had an unnamed source. Not exactly a shining example of journalism.
Thank you, I did not know that. That changes the picture quite a bit, though I'd be curious by how much.

This is quite a long article, which I can't afford the time to read right now. Can someone answer the critical question for me, which is: is aging found to be a causative factor in cumulative genetic damage and also cancer, or is it only known to be correlated at this point?
Don’t miss your 14,000 eyeball opportunity like I did
The SAT is too Easy
Lawyer submits 5 pages of cartoons to meet judge's 5-page brief limit
Either you are confused about the definition of astroturfing, or you are confused about the nature of the raspberry-pi foundation.

We don’t claim to have all the answers. We don’t think that the Raspberry Pi is a fix to all of the world’s computing issues; we do believe that we can be a catalyst. We want to see cheap, accessible, programmable computers everywhere; we actively encourage other companies to clone what we’re doing. We want to break the paradigm where without spending hundreds of pounds on a PC, families can’t use the internet. We want owning a truly personal computer to be normal for children.

From here - http://www.raspberrypi.org/about
Or Apple could just be cautious about the new connector.

This is their first new dock connector since 2005. They may want to see it (or third-party accessories for it) in the field before approving third-party adapters. There may be electrical details that are tricky to get right. And so on.

Normally I'm quite willing to believe the worst of Apple, but here there are too many reasonable explanations for limiting third-party adapters and cables for the moment. If the limitations end up not being temporary, that would be another story, but until then...
What path would you suggest to someone wanting to make a game for ios/android?
What path would you suggest to someone wanting to make a game for ios/android?

Game Type: 2D simple american football game anyone can pickup and play.

Hoping to include: NFL licensing, stat tracking, Finger Swiping capabilities for special moves, user customization including: player editing (abilities and name), team editing (uniform color and name).

Informative sites?
Programs available to develop ios/android games?

Anything else that you can think of is auto awesome. Thank You!
Can 'FarmVille 2' save struggling Zynga?
font looks fishy
Looking for a few awesome coders
Description: We are looking for motivated and hard-working web and mobile developers that can help us create software tools for the entertainment industry. Local to Los Angeles a plus but not a requirement.

What we’re looking for in you:

Web Dev - Solid working knowledge of Python (Django), JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Experience with object-oriented JavaScript is a big plus. We are looking for people who can learn quickly and can build on top of what we have already created.

Mobile Dev - We’re looking for someone with some experience in iOS and a solid background in programming. Ability to create an awesome mobile version of our web applications.

About us:

We are a start-up making software tools for the film and television industry. We have been developing a sophisticated web application over the last two years that will change how the work behind films and television shows are created. This is cutting edge technology in a niche market with major studios signed on to use the software upon completion...

We’re located in Los Angeles but you can be from anywhere in the US. We are a smart and flexible little company trying to create something that hasn't been done before - an overused statement that can truly be applied to this project. The positions are freelance/contract jobs until project completion and could turn into regular contract or full time work.

What Now:

If you’re interested, send us an email to programmer.inquiry@gmail.com with “Interested Programmer" in the subject line. Please include a resume.

Thanks!
It's been a year since I deleted all my photos, removed all friends, changed my name and iirc swapped in a throw-away email address on fb. Haven't missed it a bit. Was doing some fb integration for work and logged-in to test out a few things. Seeing the timeline layout for the first time made me miss facebook even less.
That sounds really cool!

Sorry but could you please send me the link to the extension? Or if its an inbuilt thing a page of instructions? I Googled it and I got back your post as the first result.....
Neither Romney or Obama care about civil rights. It is a one party system. The only thing that Obama has done that is any good is the Affordable Care Act, we still have a military empire running most of the fucking world. Why are there bases in Germany/Italy/Japan/central Asia/...? We have more social [race relations/healthcare/education] problems here in America than Western Europe does, yet we are fighting wars halfway across the planet.

Neither Obama nor Romney will change that.
Free app allows public to anonymously report, share info on sexual behavior
Twitter drops RSS and Atom support
Nokia: An apology is due [for faked Lumia PureView ad]
There's a webkit bug that is pertinent here.

We can't accelerate animation on a mobile app that uses position:fixed for persistent headers due to http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20574

This makes for some jerky transitions, unfortunately, but the alternative is forgoing the simplicity and performance afforded by position:fixed for persistent nav.
There's a captcha
No, because it provides a useful service... It's like saying Uber is unacceptable because it may violate (the outdated) laws in New York.
From the v1.1 API docs:

> API v1.1 will support JSON only. We've been hinting at this for some time now, first dropping XML support on the Streaming API and more recently on the trends API. We've chosen to throw our support behind the JSON format shared across the platform. Consequently, we've decided to discontinue support for XML, Atom, and RSS, which are infrequently used today. For historical context, when we originally built the API all major languages did not have performant, well vetted libraries supporting JSON — today they do.
Here in Vietnam you can get unlimited 3g access for $2/month and once you've paid for that using something like WhatsApp is much cheaper than paying the SMS fee for every message.
I love these posts that purport to tell people what to do. Not as bad as the ones who aim to tell you what you are thinking, but almost.
Amazing programm(ing|able) console. Mindblowing