skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for the efficiency--again, it probably depends on the "mode" I am in (mouse is easier for plain surfing)

Besides plain, what other kind of surfing is there?

Or are you talking about the differences between using those keyboard-only WMs and normal ones?

As far as I know, using only the keyboard for some task is usually about efficiency gains, but in the case of surfing, I'm obviously not sure there's much to be gained, compared to mouse gestures.

On the other hand, if using only the keyboard is some kind of personal preference, that may leave something to be desired in other areas too.. Such as, a mouse :p
How does this interact with the expectation that much spam is sent from networks of zombies? The "From" field is missing or wrong. Who gets taxed?

Seems to me the author doesn't actually know how spam these days is being generated.
I never used PayPal much, but I created an account to pay for a software subscription a couple of years back. A few months later I got an email from PayPal about an automatic renewal of that subscription that was failing because the associated credit card had expired.

Not only there was no indication that the payment would occur automatically, nor were there any way to cancel it. Absolutely unbelievable.

I immediately canceled my account and never used PayPal again.
I think the original hack is maybe the spearhead of the hunter; pitty, those guys were so much like the jocks we detested at high school.
Why is Paypal successful at all? It is really a pain to use, especially if you have a problem. If eBay and a few other sites didn't more or less force me to use it, I never would.
I think the keyword here is "psychological". If you train yourself to control your mental state you can suffer all sorts of physical afflictions but psychologically you can still be as happy as ever.

I used to think that balance was the key, but after some consideration I'm undecided. If spending all your energy on training yourself to be happy actually makes you happy despite your physical well-being, why would you need balance?
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/

Opera has an entire tutorial on ratless browsing.
I find the fees for recieveing payments from ebay auctions kinda stupid. Just eBays way of hitting you twice.
Field engineer for a cellphone/mobile broadband company. You'll need to travel around to mast sites and customer sites to do QA, troubleshooting, test signal strength and do basic IP networking stuff.

You need a head for heights.
Travel writer. Lots of hackers are also good writers. It can involve a lot of research into the history and culture of different places.

OK, maybe I'm just using my dream job :)
This isn't just a Microsoft thing. I've seen the same behaviour in OS X when running huge Applescript jobs. The entire script would excecute consistently faster if I sat there and wiggled the mouse around.

I've never really considered why that may be the case. This makes a lot of sense.
Anyone who is oogling should apologize. I make no excuse for those who refuse to reign in their male urges or who are obnoxious or creepy.

What I don't apologize for is having the urge in the first place. As another commentor well said, you may as well apologize for a force of nature.
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* PayPal makes you spend money that you HAVE. A credit card doesn't.

Not strictly true, you can register a credit card on your Paypal account and charge that each time you make a transaction if there are no funds in PayPal.
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A tax wouldn't stop spam - spammers don't send the emails from their own email accounts, they send it from Joe Average's computer which has been taken over by malware.

If you don't want spam, get a good filter (I barely remember what spam looks like since moving to Gmail). Every time someone does this, the return for spam diminishes. When the return becomes worth less than the hassle, it'll decline.
How about THIS, then?
I've promised myself that if I ever get rich enough, I'll live for years on diving boats. Between dives to the coral reefs, I'd write open source.

(My dream also includes hiring a cook from somewhere with really spicy food.)

Maybe you could get a telecommute job and do that, without too high a cost. (Boats aren't cheap, but if you stay at coral reefs in Asia, it might be OK.)
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So much ado about nothing...

Lacking a rigorous and universal definition of what happiness is, all this talk is pretty much pointless. Maybe the whole feminist movement fed women with unrealistic expectations and their misery stems from the reality-expectation mismatch. Anyways, who cares?
HP recalls 15,000 laptop batteries
Verse 9 is about behavior:

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again

Verse 10 is about things:

Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?

I think verse 9 is false. Remember one of the ways Solomon got his pleasure: "I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house." That's the only thing I can think of though.
Where to search – Facebook or Google?
Facebook coupled with other social networks provide a searching cardinal for people to share their opinions, experiences and connect in everyway they can with those that are in their social network. Thus it becomes easier for people to make their decisions based on the opinions made by those whom they trust. While Facebook helps people like this, it’s ominous to Google! Goggle search engine listings are devoid of opinions and friend’s ratings.
Sea/water stuff... that's a good point. There's probably a fair amount of variety there - marine biology, oil surveying, stuff like that. I guess it's not so attractive for those of us who love the hills and forests, but it's not a bad idea at all.
before that fire and then wheel - all hacked.
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I love the look of Tree Style Tabs/Vimperator. I've also started using Hide Chrome (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5737) which gives even more space. Sadly, I don't believe it is maintained any longer, and I haven't seen a replacement for it yet.
Microsoft may contribute to price-fixing of netbooks
For one thing, who said liberty equals happiness? It may be that the animal born in captivity is happiest, knowing nothing of the world beyond its cage. That does not of course cause liberty to be pointless. Liberty may enable you to better provide for yourself and others around you, but it also stresses you by exposing you to the elements. The problem is with the persistent popular narrative that equalises the two, its falsity rendering observations paradoxical.
Many sites perceive that accepting payment through paypal dilutes their brand. Whether this is valid or not is open to argument of course.

I've never had a problem with paypal (or ebay for that matter) but I use both sparingly. Most of my paypal transactions occur on Newegg and other large-ish online shops. I wouldn't use it for a large purchase with a private party simply because I don't trust private parties with large purchases, no way I see for any intermediary to smooth over human nature.
You are kidding right? You do not need an app to access the store. You can access it via your browser as well.

And there is a downloadable app.
* PayPal support leaves a lot to be desired. They lock accounts without reason and don't offer much support as to why

I'm not sure this is what keeps people from using Paypal on the consumer side but from the vendor side I can attest to how damaging this can be. At my work we took PayPal for donations until one day a donor called and told us Paypal "wouldn't accept money" I looked into it and found they had, for whatever reason, decided we weren't a non-profit. They then locked the account with not so much as an e-mail to us.

There is pretty much no way to get an actual person at paypal so I had to upload scans of our proof and just wait for paypal to "review them." All in all it took 9 days to remedy the situation and who knows how much money we lost in the meantime.

Worse yet, I'm almost sure we lost a couple first time donors forever simply because seeing "This Paypal account has been locked" makes a company (us) look disreputable
I read somewhere that before acquisition, they were losing something like $1m/day in fraud? Wasn't it in founders at work?

That level of fraud and cases like the one you highlight seems like a really big problem that isn't easily solved.
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Where's the trial?
Perhaps it's cynical of me, but the real intent of a tax like this would be to fill the public purse. "Reducing spam" would just be a flimsy excuse to get the tax passed.
Graphic design, architecture, typography, clothing design, etc., are also bleeding edge in many parts of Europe (esp. Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands) compared to the US.
Do you mean jobs that don't involve computers and are outside? Many geeky jobs will probably involve some sort of writing utensils, how is it different from computer?

I work as a software development freelancer and often work outside with a laptop or just pencil and piece of paper.
Funny thing... People think fire was the reason for human evolution, over 100 thou yrs old.

Wheel was a few thousand yrs ago.
I like to gamble and understand that the math is not on your side, but when you "win" 40+% of the time the mind plays tricks and you can quickly develop a MMO style addiction. However, with all the negative feedback I can dump 5$ on 180million to 1 odds and still have fun without getting that sort of feedback.

PS: As long as you recognize gamboling is about having a sadistic sort of fun and spend a tiny % of your income, you can get a lot of entertainment for your dollar.
Here in Padova, there is a Via Falloppio:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.405923,11.886435&#...

Named after the guy who discovered the body part, who was of course working at the University of Padova.

Speaking of which, 'ovi' in this corner of Italy means 'eggs' (like chicken eggs) quite literally. In Italian, egg is 'uovo'. My wife had a good laugh when she saw the 'ovi store'.
The way this VC's own blog hints at how he may have overlooked PayPay's historically bad reputation. NoScript reports a total of FOURTEEN other websites embedding images, scripts and whatnot into his page; half of which are user trackers of some sort or another. In other words, this guy is socially promiscuous and hasn't had "his heart broken" yet with regards to being scammed or exploited online. (Or, if he has, he's not aware of it yet...)
http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/winterhill/winter-hill10.php

This isn't far from where I live - I'd quite like to get into the engineering and particularly transmission side of radio (currently in programming although I have an amateur radio licence) but I don't fancy working 1,000 feet above the ground in a little cage... (look at the pics, they are stunning!)
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Flagged as inappropriate to HN
last.fm is from Austria. There are others.

Metalab, the hackerspace the author of the article started, is partially funded by the govt but I find it hard to believe it was willed into being by govt committee.

This article is so strange... and it sounds just like the US, except instead of search engines, it's some kind of war tech (whether it's weaponry, vehicles, planes, or spy stuff).

Telecoms and resource companies (e.g. mineral oil), power, postal services, and so on, have a similar history in the US... but who would write about the "US Method of Startups: Waterfall" and use the postal service as an example?

Not to mention the bailouts (of railroads, of utilities, of car makers, of banks...).
digg re-treads now.

Flagged as I think this sort of post is generally unwelcome here.
That's still common. You can't pay with a credit card in most of Germany for most things. Don't expect it unless you're at a nice restaurant, most grocery stores don't take them, bars don't, certainly not at convenience stores and the like.

I can't decide which I prefer. I tend towards convenience, but there's also some comfort in knowing that everything that I've ever bought isn't tracked back to me.

In contrast on my last trip to the US I had $20 in my wallet when I arrived and I never had to get cash in the week that I was there.
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Some of us can't use the mouse for health reasons.
I have always thought that the punishment for provably false accusations should be equal to the punishment for the crime accused.
The difference is that in the cases you mention you know the price you are going to pay in advance. In this case you don't. The price changes as you spend more money to bids. You have no way of knowing what the final price will be and you are gambling on whether you'll get a good price. I repeat, if you have infinite money you will get the item if you want but that's not what you are gambling on.

In a real case, if there are two or more people as determined as you, it is impossible to predict who will get the item. All will be spending money in advance without knowing who of them will get it. That's why it's a gamble.
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Yeah, the countries don't have nearly as much in common as US states, of course, but the longer you spend in "Europe" (whichever countries you pick, it seems to me), the more subtle but serious differences to the US you notice... that seem fairly cross-cultural within Europe.

I haven't been anywhere that reminded me of the US' typical daily grind.
Why is someone using technology to save themselves from a serious amount of unjust jail-time not welcome here?
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The "Get Involed" link brings up a lightbox but doesn't load anything. Is this organization still active, and have you been involved in it?
Why does the case of Solomon's slaves negate verse 9?

There has always been slavery, and there is still slavery today, and lots of explicitly sexual slavery too.
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"Besides plain, what other kind of surfing is there?"

Working with online documentation while coding, for example, is much more efficient for me with conkeror. Or looking up some piece of information while I am typing a reply to a HN comment :)

On the other hand, it's an overkill for me to keep both my hands on the keyboard while I am reading a nytimes story or following links at leisure.
"spreading and survival" are contextual. "Cheater" cells might out-compete other tumor cells locally, but at the cost of the cancer surviving long term and successfully spreading elsewhere.
Somehow it seems a bit less gimmicky and more noteworthy than Swine Flu t-shirts. I think it's great viral marketing. Kudos to the developer and artist for getting on the cover.
how does it follow from this then, that men are happier?
Is Immutable Data Slow?
I think that's the opposite scenario.
In what you linked, what happens is, you hold the mouse down on the window which prevents it from refreshing, which makes the actual task go faster (since its no longer trying to refresh the progress bar)
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Motivational posters might work for some people -- I have a Ralph Steadman poster above my desk here ;) .

He's definitely right about having a nice space to work in where you can feel like you can breathe a bit. Comfortable chair, good solid desk, space to put up sticky notes or a whiteboard... Yes even a plant can help make it feel a bit more welcoming.
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I think there's one fallacy there... you can easily burn out while still engaged in your work. Or rather, you can be fully engaged in your work, happy about it, feeling great and on top of everything, and yet still get to a point where your body and mind just can't take anymore, and then you crash and burn for a few days (or longer, depending on the way your mind works), where you feel totally disengaged and don't do anything productive.

By the time you realise that you're not engaged in your work anymore, imho, you've already crashed.
Chicken and egg, indeed.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626603
Indirectly, yes, I think that was a problem - by buying PayPal and closing their own payment service ("BillPoint"?) they ensured PayPal never had to worry about competition again.
How easier than store.nokia.com ?

Or apps.nokia.com ?

Or nokiapps.com ?
Creating a TetriNET Bot
Grandma errors, and splling mistakes...
Monopoly power - PayPal has no direct competition.
Utus ???

[Bangs head against sharp pencil]
Farmers are forced to continually find new hacks. The labor is so intensive that every little innovation adds up.
Again, how is that infringement?

They are sending you data. You have the right to put it in a file. That is not infringement.

If you aren't legally allowed to put it in a file, they weren't allowed to send it to you, so Hulu is infringing, not you.
Somewhere along the way, feminism (a necessary and vital political movement whose work is not done) got conflated with antimasculism (Sex and the City) and a lot of people were left too confused to tell the difference. This led both to a misguided pseudofeminism among women who became casual-sexing whores in an attempt to be "liberated", and also to a backlash against feminism that revived a lot of the stupider male traits (Maxim).

For both genders, the quality-quantity tradeoff is real and inescapable. You must choose between having a good marriage (later in life, for most of us) and casual sex, and they're essentially mutually exclusive, since the best partners of either gender do NOT want to wind up with someone with an unscrupulous past. This fact is somewhat harder on women, largely because men are less forgiving.

Sex and the City glamorized a lifestyle that a large proportion of men, and an overwhelming majority of women, will find unfulfilling, and one that makes it so difficult to find a decent marriage partner later in life as to be mutually exclusive with that goal. Of course, since most people of both genders want to find "the right person" and get married, this is a travesty for them. However, antimasculism conflated female promiscuity with power (ignoring the fact that, for men and women, it's unfulfilling, often degrading, and sometimes dangerous) and marriage with submission to patriarchy, so this is what we get.
Apple Planning $1 Billion iDataCenter
I am going to try to program while outside.
What should you ask the VC?
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I've had Paypal since 2000, and it was a boon when actively dealing with virtual properties. More recently, I've come to love their virtual credit cards for making one time purchases on sites which may not be entirely trustworthy.

That said, when things did go wrong it was a major PIA to correct them. When their fraud detection kicked in because of my traveling, the hoops to get the account reactivated were enormous.

When doing business through Paypal, I had to take in account the fraud rate, which for virtual properties was quite high.

Most likely, for normal people selling normal things, the hassle is just not worth it.
As an addendum to this comment I just want to say how much it frustrates me that there aren't more companies like these in Europe. These are shining examples of what we could achieve if our mindset was a little different. There is huge potential for disruptive business in Europe, but no-one's taking advantage of it.
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Reflecting on Three Years as a Bootstrapped Startup
In the meantime, you could try IT on a cruise ship.
Posted earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626576

No discussion yet. The duplication wasn't detected because the case is different.
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When we were developing a VB product at a previous company, we ended up throwing in the towel and calling the LockWindowUpdate function to improve our applications performance so that it was acceptable.

>LockWindowUpdate Function

The LockWindowUpdate function disables or enables drawing in the specified window. Only one window can be locked at a time.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd145034(VS.85).aspx
Here's one possible explanation:

Apparently, women are happy with their lot earlier in their lives, whereas men have bigger financial goals and tend to be unfulfilled during their 20s, both financially and in their family lives, which makes them miserable.

But by middle age, men have fulfilled their financial and family life goals and have cheered up, whereas women are more likely to be unfulfilled and unhappy.

The authors think a major factor underlying this is the shift in the proportion of men and women in relationships: men are more likely to be single in their 20s, and women are more likely to be alone in middle age.

They admit that this rests on the assumption that being married actually makes people happy, but they point out that if marriage is something you really want (and they found that 90% of both genders did), then being single might get you down.

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/07/a...
A single threaded Redis instance on a 300$ Linux box performs 100,000 operations/second. Assuming a quadcore and running N instances to approach 500,000 op/seconds in cheap hardware should be not hard, so I'm not very impressed by this numbers, especially given the hardware used.
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there isn't even a search box on the main page.

this needs a lot of work.
Oopdate - twitter-like but poor and simple
There are a few sites I came to avoid on principle. nytimes always has very well written and interesting articles, but with no long-term value. And science daily... well, there is very little science in there. They sound good, but they also lack meat, and honestly they're not that well written.
I don't have anything against computers, but it seems using them to code usually involves being sedentary. Sometimes I feel kind of imprisoned and think I should be moving about more.

Maybe it is only about balance, so a job that involves lot's of field work (eg for data collection) and some "home" work (data processing) might be good.
A similar-looking symptom I've seen with IE6 is that links won't "take" if I click and then move the cursor away. IE will display a message in the status bar when I click, but for some reason it is noticeably less likely to actually load the page if I don't keep the mouse on the link. This was particularly bad on dialup.