skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One is a federal felony, other is a fair use.

EDIT: Specifically, it is against the law to break DRM (unless for few cases outlined by library of Congress), and the law as written makes no exceptions for fair use. The courts have also held in positive that it was Congress intend to make breaking DRM a crime even if there is a fair use case.
Someone on Reddit posted that this could just be the effect of victims not being found, as in the perpetrators got better at hiding bodies.
I wonder how much those fake users really did towards pushing reddit to it's growth spurt.
I think we're mostly in agreement now, just we disagree on our guesses of benefits vs risks.

The key point seems to be the complexity penalty of adding airbreathing to the engine vs the weight savings of less reaction mass. If we're comparing reusable apples to apples, this is really the value proposition. I'm clearly more optimistic on this point.

Also any engine that uses ram effect becomes more efficient at higher speeds. The SR71 uses less fuel per unit of distance the faster it goes, which is a bit counterintuitive. How big a benefit this is for space launch I can't really guesstimate but it's probably minor.

Reaction mass savings means more than just oxidizer material cost though. It ripples through the whole design. There aren't many times when the mass fraction of a rocket is working for you instead of against you.

I think we skipped over that a horizontal takeoff requires a lot less launch infrastructure. But being smart with rockets and launching from a barge in the ocean can equalize things.

As a summary, I think you and Elon may be right about Skylon for space launch. Mass produced rockets can get pretty cheap, and SpaceX does aspire to full reusability.

But space launch is only one of the two applications of a design like Skylon. Nothing SpaceX develops will be used for terrestrial transport. You aren't going to take a rocket to visit your family for the holidays, so Skylon may find a market there.

Skylon also could be used as a WhiteKnight style carrier for a more traditional second stage, which might still be interesting for space launch, but I'm pessimistic on this point because I think if the numbers worked the air force would already be using such systems instead of Deltas.

Skylon can also hedge that their high flow flash chiller is useful in other applications, and apparently they've developed an interesting high temperature composite material.

So on the whole I think it's interesting to watch what happens to them, even if it's not a sure bet.
Did you watch the video? If you watch it through to the end, you see the determination, conviction and sincerity that these guys have, which would have put them ahead of anyone else trying to do something similar (eg, Digg, in the long run).

No one denies that luck plays a big part in how successful any given startup will turn out to be.

But everyone can do things to make their chances of success higher, and the magnitude of that success greater, through the way they conduct themselves and the decisions they make about what they do.
Certainly, and that will always block some web apps from adopting some new technologies. But is it going to block those new technologies from becoming fairly popular even if they are not universal? I highly doubt it.
They're actually (much) more expensive than Namecheap, a generally trusted vendor: http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates.aspx
Yes, stimming.
I'm 33, have two kids, mortgage and have recently left my job to freelance while I bootstrap a startup. Here my take on it:

1. Seed capital seems largely useless, my lifestyle is very modest but the realities of childcare and mortgage mean my living expenses are higher than for your typical 20-something. The sums of money available at an early stage wouldn't last long enough to build an MVP, demonstrate traction, then find an angel. I'd have to go back to freelancing, only then I'd have an investor on my back. Bootstrapping seems like the only real option.

2. Having worked for 14 years as a developer then manager, I have a pretty good professional network. I've been pleasantly surprised by how easy its been to get work that fits round my startup work. I'm booked till Apr 2013 and turning gigs down at the moment.

3. Having kids is a huge time commitment. I simply cannot work at the office for 80 hours or more like some startup people do. However, I share an incubator space with some people like that and without wanting to sound in any way arrogant, I've realised that (a) my time constraints force me to focus really hard, I put in 50 really focused hours a week whereas they sometimes kick back and chat for a while because their energy is low, and (b) I have a lot more experience than them so I'm able to move faster than them on things like how to prep for a meeting with a potential partner or how to architect a system for the future. I think of it like this: if I can't leverage my ten years extra experience on these people to match their output in less time, then I deserve to go bust.

3. Energy: I'm doing what I love, I have all the energy I need.

Basically, you have to be a different kind of entrepreneur, some wouldn't call my product a "startup" because it isn't (yet) a shoot for the moon type venture, but I'm still 'starting something up' and it's still an exciting challenge :)
Well, your Danish looks like Dutch to me ;)

As a matter of fact, people here in NL say regularly that Danish and Dutch are 2 close languages. I'm pretty sure Dutch is not considered a Scandinavian language though.
Pretty cool, it seems to me that the reasons to have large spaces are mostly 1) psychological (this house feels claustrophobic) 2) storage of stuff. Imagine if we somehow managed to get rid of the second one. For people working from laptops this is already how it works, but for homes I think it is trickier. Of course there are people who live as techno-nomads already, but they have to swear by a kind of minimalist lifestyle that most people don't want, or that is economically infeasible. How quickly would one need stuff in order to make a JIT lifestyle feasible? For example: Need to host a dinner party? Rent a space with dining facilities and equipment that you need. I think the biggest bottleneck is that you can get these spaces, but you need to sift through many options, and you don't get the equipment that you would have chosen yourself. But what if you could store your preferences somehow virtually, and get the equipment you need exactly when you wanted it.
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I'd rather hope Chrome open API for its XMPP connection. Which is currently used for Chrome Sync.

You can build p2p video, audio, multicast, real-time notification, etc. wrapped in a industrial level message channel.
> Someone on Reddit posted that this could just be the effect of victims not being found, as in the perpetrators got better at hiding bodies.

The quickest way to support this would be to check the number of missing persons cases; specifically, check to see if the people who used to get murdered (presumably young minority males) are now going missing instead.
Bookmarklet to embed inline diff view on Github commit log pages
> that the reasons to have large spaces are mostly

Actually, one of the most compelling reasons is building regulations, and minimum home sizes distorting the market.
FWIW, Firefox handles alert() much better than Chrome does. In Firefox, you can navigate away from the page, and switch tabs. Chrome won't let me open a new tab, and keeps the alert in front of other pages.
They're probably referring to the scare-o-grams posted at and recited by employees of copy shops.
>I love that I don't have to remember my page or use a bookmark

Is keeping your place really a problem for you? I've never found it to be. Those rare times I lose my place serve as a quick and easy review. And, actually I tend to use whatever is handy as a bookmark, which also adds to the charm of any particular book, now that I think about it.

You are absolutely right about the weight!
Tiny nit: the code examples seem to be using a variable named `l`, which is one of the "names to avoid" per PEP-8.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#names-to-avoid
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Just a quick script I threw together because I was annoyed with having to open a new page to see the diff of a commit from the log view.

Quick way to get an anchor that you can just add to your bookmarks: http://jsfiddle.net/zdJ9f/embedded/result/

This abuses the DOM and good CSS practices to make things look reasonable, and does not try to prevent being called multiple times. This was actually my first time writing a bookmarklet so I don't know if there are any glaring issues that I should fix. Hope others find this useful!
It wasn't a huge problem, but it's a problem I'm glad I don't have now.
I am not American, and I have no idea how American politics works... The bottom line to me is that despite (or because of) the things this chap is doing, he got reelected. Why are Americans voting for him?
I'd like to see equivalent diagrams on a Dvorak (or colemak) layout. The "touch typing" diagram would be much closer to the "robot" one, demonstrating you don't have to be a robot to type efficiently.

Oh, and It'd be cool to have non-slanted keyboards. My hands don't both lean on the left. http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/better-keyboards
I hope tptacek chimes in. It sounds like a terrifying situation.
France-based Mailjet raises $3.3 million for its cloud-based emailing platform
Clickable link to the product (which I'm trying out):

http://www.mailjet.com
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I agree and I would like to add that undubbed Cartoon Network is spreading English probably much faster than the BBC.
I taught himself how to type and was lucky enough to use a split keyboard for a while - really awesome for improving technique. My technique is probably somewhere between touch typing and "The Robot".

But the 110wpm rate is worth it. And people look funny when I blast away at the keyboard without a screen in sight (I often type on a bluetooth keyboard attached to either ipad or iphone)

edit: The funniest result of being a quick typist is that I use copy+paste less than I did a few years ago. Often the context switch between typing and selecting is too much work and it's quicker to just type things twice.
Are you allowed to do that in the US? I thought backing up a (movie) DVD would be considered circumventing DRM (CSS in this case) ?
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You should check out TypeMatrix[1]. I've been thinking of getting one for a couple of years now. I guess I'm just being lazy...

[1]http://typematrix.com/
There is a big Drucker fan over here in Europe, Fredmund Malik. He is hit and miss in his observations, but his riff on Drucker's insight into 'learning' management fits my personal observations.

- MBA... Master of Business ADMINISTRATION. For some reason this morphed into management material, which it isn't. the whole thing teaches you about the administrative side of running a company. awesome, useful. it does NOT teach anything about making a company successful or how to make people within it successful. it is NOT a management course.

so where can one learn management then?

1., the product success side you can't learn anywhere. hence all these shitty companies with shitty products and services. the product side is sort of covered in engineering. technical founders, for example, understand the core principle of what works and what will be an issue down the line. what is right and what is wrong.

a generic 'manager' armed with an MBA and technical background of 5 years of XBox Live just doesn't. the concept of 'wrong' or 'down the line' does not exist. excel has no formula for that.

2., the people success part is very much a soft skill which needs to be learned through practice in an enforced learning environment. current organisations that do this are the various Armed Forces (NCO and Officers) and similar orgs like the Boy Scouts. some companies emulate this through trainee programs - Siemens has a structured way of giving you a team early on, then giving you challenges. which include firing 2 people from that team after you have worked with them for a while. for real. but now you KNOW first hand how a layoff looks like. not just a spreadsheet anymore.

the armed forces gradually give you more responsibility, group, platoon, etc. you have constant feedback loops focusing on your leadership abilities, not just the pure outcome of a task. after action reviews, the whole spiel. nothing grounds you like hearing in an AAR that your team had no clue what you told them, etc.

in austria we have technology and crafts-oriented higher colleges, which have an interesting concept. i completed one for constructional engineering. not only do you learn how to calculate a large construction project (both from a structural and a economic side). you actually learn to build it with your own hands. now you KNOW how much work it is to build 1m of brick wall. so shaving off a few minutes per 1m to make a project 'viable' to build 1000m of wall in a week with 5 men doesn't come so easily anymore, because you know that the workers will simply get exhausted and produce errors and accidents. no MBA on earth teaches you this insight. backache and blisters on your hands do. humans are stupid in that way.
Those sites bug me too, as a heavy user of highlighting. It also causes me problems reading editable text, for instance in a text editor. Sometimes I'll accidentally click and drag a selection to a different part of the text without noticing. I usually notice, but if I don't it can cause problems later, especially with text that is code, where it can cause mysterious bugs to show up.
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Interesting! I'm actually trying to eat a hypercaloric diet to increase my weight at the moment, and that's one less thing I have to worry about.
Having had to get my hands dirty in the murky world of Adobe DRM, I am pretty sure this is actually an implementation problem with how Barnes & Noble have implemented it.

As crazy as it may seem, I believe in the B&N case the DRM licence is based on the credit card details.

Hence no more credit card, no more licence.

One day I may do a longer post how horrifyingly awful Adobe DRM is technically, (never mind the ethics), but knowing what I know, this is not any sort of surprise.
I'm trying to find some middle ground. For example, I use Ghostery to block Facebook comments and like buttons, so they're not aware of my activities on the web. And I've used a special email just to sign up for Facebook, so people don't find me there unless I want them to. I'm not friending everyone I know, only the weak ties I don't have a better way to keep up with (i.e. they aren't on Twitter or something else).

Not sure how it'll work out long run, but right now Facebook knows very little about me.
> The result is a compact, muscle-memorizable repertoire of just over 50 unique motions in total.

Typing for me isn't much about speed(that's an added advantage). The muscle memory and ability to type without looking at the keyboard alone is worth learning it even if you experience a slowdown in the beginning compared to your one tap, two tap or what have you.

I am a bit surprised typing isn't emphasized enough. Techie or not, if you use computers a lot, learning to touch type is worth it, specially considering that if you aren't a techie(i.e you don't need all the special characters), it doesn't take much time to learn. For anyone trying to learn touch typing, I would suggest stick with the rule 1 - concentrate on accuracy, speed will come with time. And if you are a programmer, don't worry too much about speed. You generally don't type code at full speed anyway.
I thought it was The Onion at first..
> My technique is probably somewhere between touch typing and "The Robot".

How do you learn "The Robot"?
... Except that's wrong. It's not fair use to photocopy an entire book and it never has been. Let's not lose sight of the actual laws in our blind rage against DRM.
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>the media attention to this topic is most likely premature.

The media attention to this topic is most likely planned, not premature. The point is to get the discussion about this issue happening now, and - as you say this could possibly be a false start - but the purpose of media is to agitate the subject and motivate discussion of the issues at hand.

Its no small thing that technology to extend lifespan, who knows - 20%? - in humans, may well be within the grasp of our generation, or perhaps the next. This will be, absolutely, one of the major issues of the 21st Century if it turns out to be a real technology, applicable to the human animal.

The media are stirring this pot, and should continue to stir this pot well and truly in advance of any such achievements as giving rich, wealthy, technologically advanced societies and groups the ability to extend their life-spans, artificially ..

Just think of the consequences. Thats what the article is trying to make you do ..
I've always been curious why mice were seen as a good filter for testing potential medications.

Isn't it just as likely that medications that seemed promising and would actually work in humans would be ineffective in mice, thus never making it to trials?

If, as you suggest, medications that work in mice don't usually work in humans, why should we expect the opposite to be true.

Of course I understand it may be the best we can do in some circumstances, but might it also be counterproductive to have such an unreliable signal?
I don't doubt that Adobe DRM may be awfl, but when the customer isn't allowed to download the book, how does the DRM implementation enter into it? The DRM (as embedded in the ebook files) isn't in play here.
You touch type without moving your fingers back to home row every time.

I especially do this with my index fingers who will often jump from, say, Y to U directly without hitting J in between. It looks very funny because they often hover above the keyboard because of this.

But I do tend to move my wrists too much when typing.
I wanted to buy it until I read this: http://a3nm.net/blog/typematrix_review.html

Dvorak is cool, but you don't need typematrix to feel its benefits. I use normal keyboards to type dvorak, all you have to do is to change the keyboard layout.
Corridor width regulations and such are probably more tolerant in places with limited land area like HK, but while I'm not an expert, I'm not so sure a metal box on sticks would qualify as real estate in most parts of the bureaucratic modern world.
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True. Great for bringing it up.

As for why facades are so narrow in Amsterdam, if people wonder (there are many more below 3 meters). It is because people used to have to pay property taxes based on the width of the facade of their house.

(so the owners of the house in the article got a good deal by being able to have a small facade for a wider house)

Maybe (not letting depth run wild either) something similar could be an interesting way to ensure walkable cities ;-)
After 18 years in front of a keyboard I'd hoped my typing would be better than it is. But I'm stuck between a "Pointers with Thumbs" and a "Von Style"

Does anybody have recommendations for a good online touch type training program? Specifically for developers.
The scary thing is indeed that most software companies do not have security experts nor the means to hire ones and are basically defenseless against such attacks. Kind of reminiscent of patent trolls.

tldr version of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b6e4acbb22039977000f5b
Meh. The schoolyard bully isn't getting my sympathy. PeopleBrowsr is doing little more than squirming in Twitter's grasp. It's not like there's some great injustice about their legal case. It's more like a last ditch attempt at trying to prevent getting their butt whooped. But don't loss heart, I'm sure Twitter will still give PeopleBrowsr a good beating.
Just buy a split keyboard. It will force you to learn how to type properly :)
I agree on your point about visual indexing. There's one more reason I prefer paper books - when I read a book, I take something from it, be it technical knowledge, be it "self help" type of advise. When this book is sitting there near my work desk, in a bookshelf, a small glance at it triggers back those memories and values gained, therefore I find it easier to apply the knowledge from the book, when it's constantly reminding me of it's existence. With ebooks, it would just end up somewhere hidden deep into the folder structure or in an index of some app (iBooks for example) and the memories of it slowly fade.
I grew up in a part of the mainland UK that is closest to Scandinavia - North East Scotland and as a child (at least out of school) spoke in the thick local dialect known as Doric.

I was highly amused when someone pointed out the Norwegian terms for hospital and vacuum cleaner - støvsuger and sykehus are pretty much exactly how you would say "dust sucker" - "stoor sooker" and "sick house" - "seek hoos". Hardly surprising when you consider that considerable chunks of Scotland were part of Norway for a while (although not the part where I grew up, although there are quite a few battles in the area between Scots and Vikings).
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After a few days of use, I customized my readability (actually I use clearly now. http://evernote.com/clearly/) style to make highlighted text easier to read. After I moved to a theme with dark background and light text, the contrast between selection text and selection background was annoyingly low.
What are the alternatives, effectively?

All I want is:

- a profile page where I can post something personal

- comments to the posts so that my friends can share what they felt

- sort of a like button or flag to let friends mark posts they like

And maybe these are pretty useful as well:

- ability to post links and images

- ability to create topic specific groups and invite friends there to discuss things

- ability to create events and invite people there for rsvp

And last, the must-have feature:

- my friends are there, also the non-technical ones

While the first items are technically easy (Google+ could do it!), Facebook is winning on the last entry. I don't particularly like Facebook but keeping in touch with friends using email just doesn't work either anymore. Some people don't even have email. Personally, I either make a phonecall or text if it's a close friend, or write nice comments on Facebook if it's a not so close friend.

To free ourselves from the shackles of vendor lock-in, a generic social media protocol similar to email should emerge at some point. It shouldn't matter if I'm on Google+ and you're on the Facebook: if we're connected we're connected and the protocol translates the news between the two implementations.
Put your hands on home row and keep your eyes on the screen and just go, with discipline... it's how I learned, sorta. A friend and I competed to learn how to type without looking.
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All I need is a John's Phone, which I've been using since it was released.
Thanks for the link. When I first discovered TypeMatrix, there weren't many reviews of it. By the sound of it, maybe I should save my money for something else.
Try the "retinizer" utility: http://retinizer.mikelpr.com !

I used this to "retina-fy" Mathematica and it worked, the notebooks are clear now.
I'm not sure what DRM your publisher is using that actively prevents you from backing things up if you're willing to exert a modest amount of effort (probably less than photocopying an entire paper book).