skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same people who believe that DRM can effectively prevent copying, if the people selling it say that it can. Which is to say, the ones who think of technology as wizardry, and evaluate wizards by looking for social proof. (They can't really evaluate what the guy's selling, but they sure can tell if he's the kind of person that would get respect at a cocktail party.)
First, those that get the coins first aren't "distributing" them into larger circulation. If they generate a block and get the reward, they either save the bitcoins or buy goods/services with them. This is not "distributing", but just normal trade.

Second, how else do you bring coins into the market? Be forced to buy them from the system's founder? I doubt that would catch on. Reserve a set number for each person onthe planet and give it to them when they ask for them? I don't think I could count all of the problems with that idea. Hand them out some arbitrary number of some supply in a first come first serve manner? I don't see how that would be an improvement.

The system needs people to generate blocks in order to provide the security of the system, but generating blocks has costs associated with it (hardware, electricity). Why not reward those block generators that are providing the system's security with new coins for each block they generate, at least until the number of transactions per block grow to a point that block generators can charge transaction fees?

Block generators aren't just generating blocks for the fun of it...they want bitcoins so they can spend them, which means those bitcoins will go to others, who can then further spend them, etc. Anyone can do it. GPU mining is profitable for most who wish to make the investment. There's no central authority choosing who gets to generate new blocks. Each person chooses whether they want to generate blocks or not.

If you don't want to generate blocks, but still want bitcoins, then you offer goods/services for bitcoins.

So far no one has thought of any less arbitrary way to introduce bitcoins into the network while continuing to support the security of the network at the same time.

And the term "proof-of-work" is misleading. They're generating blocks in such a way to deliberately make it difficult for someone else to attack the network by generating replacement blocks in an attempt to double-spend their bitcoins. They're not doing these calculations as an attempt to prove they're not some malicious node. Block generators do the work of creating a block, and if someone wants to double-spend their money, they have to generate that block and every single block that's been generated afterwards with at least the same total difficulty of the other blocks. This can only theoretically be accomplished if they have more processing power than the entire bitcoin network, and even then it would take a long time to do unless they had a lot more. Otherwise they just fall further and further behind as the bitcoin network block generators increase in power and the difficulty increases. Contrary to the opinions of some, these calculations are not wasteful, but are a necessary part of the system's security.
I'm a HN n00b so I don't understand why this is getting promoted up so quickly. Do people not actually visit the links? No offense kreci, but there's no actual info on that page yet. Seems like pure self promotion to me.
Write everything twice.. Two separate codebases.. It's gonna suck but will at least give you the opportunity to deliver the best experience that your users expect from each platform
The article states that "computer are getting faster faster". I personally wouldn't be so sure, have they not heard about the end of Moore's law ?

A more fundamental issue for me is that computer aren't able to think in place of people. If you want to work on hard problems, you have to learn all the relevant information beforehand. Thus setting a hard limit on how much progress can be made, provided we do not find ways to learn faster or to make computers think for us.

Add to this that for me many domains of knowledge nowadays are presented in unnecessary complex ways. We are building (and this is especially true in computer science) a bunch of complexity based on a bunch of complexity. I believe that one day the piled complexity will lead us to a standstill and that we will have to seriously simplify some systems.
This analysis assumes that your manager is not in a position to appreciate your work's value. The solution to that problem is to work for someone who does appreciate your work. That simple change will increase the quality of your work life; if salary is something you value highly, that will increase too.

Negotiation and business analysis skills are all helpful, but if you find yourself needing them to be duly recognized for your contribution, your work situation is fundamentally flawed.

Of course, here I am making assumptions of my own, e.g. you are a top talent in your field with the freedom to pick your employer.
Apple, Amazon, etc. are selling these in numbers that rival game consoles. Based on the market's reaction, tablets are neither a fad nor unproven. They're the next major form factor, and I don't see them going away. This format is on the rise as traditional desktop hardware declines.

Desks are not going out of style, so whether the PC is dead isn't necessarily the right question. People will continue to sit at desks and use computers. Microsoft's style of a desktop OS, though, could be on its way out. The hardware will be changing. Gamers, high performance computing (science, 3d, graphic design) and corporate networks will be the only ones who really need the 'tower' style computers. People who just want to read mail, browse the web, listen to music and use office software could basically take a tablet and plug in a monitor, mouse and keyboard for desktop use. Which OS they are going to use, how much flexibility it has and what sort of interface is the big question.

The real contest will be between notebooks, tablets and mini-tablets (previously known as phones). To break it down even more, the issue is whether you have a keyboard, monitor and display ports built in.

I'd love to have a tiny slab the size of a 13" Macbook with no monitor or keyboard (so, even smaller!) that I could use as a desktop. Oh, oops... I just described a Mac Mini. Looks like someone is ahead of me here.
Recurly with PayPal gateway is a scalable solution for startups through large transaction levels. API approach and extreme ease-of-use key to their strengths.
But then you are still relying on modules available and their versions on the system where the node app is running. Bundling is a much more reliable way of doing things.
Everyone knows that sytropin is top rated without any side effects
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Assuming there's no trivial way of mapping our neural networks to hardware chips running binary code, writing the emulator might prove beyond the human mind.

Can our thought processes be abstracted into blocks of a few hundred thousand lines of high level language we might actually be capable of writing?
> The coder in this story is an hero

Oh man, I'm not sure if this is funnier if you meant it, or not...

> in a just world, this nutjob would end up in prison.

Yup. I'm interested to see what happens in the weeks ahead. I really doubt that anything bad (other than getting his SSN posted to Twitter...) will actually happen to him, though.
SPAM... 2 accounts with 1 comment each....
I'm starting a new project and I can't wait to see what this thing can do.
PyCon 2011: Aggregator and Startup Stories
Instapaper has had an optional $1/mo subscription for quite a while now...
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a music marketing platform which holds a music-oriented advertising inventory on the web that is surpassed only by Google.
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Aspose.Network for SharePoint consists of three sub-products and allows users to convert email message files from EML to MSG or vice versa within the SharePoint’s Document Library. You can synchronize files from SharePoint document library with FTP server and also sync emails from SharePoint's custom list of emails with POP3, IMAP or Microsoft Exchange Server. Other features like; extraction of attachments from email, and FTP servers with SSL are also supported.
C++ on android? I hadn't heard of that.
Here's the actual document, rather than a summary: http://wikileaks.ch/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf
Just take a look at the WordPress' code. "aren't that bad" is like saying shit doesn't smell bad if you get used to it.

Hell, you don't even have to look at the code. Even running some static analysis will tell you how bad it is.
This is nice... for 1997. Don't get me wrong, a curated list has tremendous value, but it's missing one thing that would make it so much more valuable:

A Google search function that would allow you to pick a topic, and then the search would be restricted to the curated sites for that topic. I don't think the Google site filters allows you to do multiple domains, but it probably could be accomplished with Google custom searches.
Well I too read a story in times which mentioned Sytropin is a trusted brand.
I second this. I'm the product person at a startup w/ 5 devs. I know for a fact that rails developers in NY generally command a higher salary than I am making. I can't speak about their equity situation.

My responsibilities are to decide what we build and why. I'm also the shit umbrella for the developers, and end up having to speak with clients. Ultimately it's me who is held responsible for the success / failure of the product.

The myth of project / product people being paid more may be true in LargeCorp, Inc. but in Startup LLC., the developer is king.
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Related:

RoboGamer uses the same interfaces human uses (i.e. video and a joystick)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vH62EEfH6E

There was another project, vArashi, to achieve similar, circa 2001.

And probably you remember rogomatic...
Personally, I don't think you can ever teach "good attitude" often times I doubt the candidate will ever be receptive to your attempts to change their attitude.
I read an article a while back that said after the engineer that wrote GOAL left the company, they stopped using it and went back to pure C++ or something.

Hearing that they use Racket now, that just makes me all happy inside.
That undermines my assumptions. Thanks for the link. I'm very surprised a company of Walmart's size has such low profit per-employee. I would have assumed some accounting tricks were responsible but maybe it's the nature of their business.
If you want the best user (and developer) experience, write 2 different codebases and share graphical assets.

Even though you could write portable C++, the API for getting to the hardware is going to be pretty different. I have worked on a project where we developed an app with identical look and feel on both Android and iOS simultaneously. The UI was basically completely custom (designed in Photoshop by a 3rd party).

My biggest advice is to do the Android UI layout IN CODE. The iOS version was completed in about 70% of the time of the Android project mostly because of the slowness of developing the UI with XML/Eclipse and Android's immature layout API.
Agreed. My family climbs outdoors probably 150+ days a year, including bouldering, sport climbing, and trad climbing. While I've done some things that some might consider dangerous, it really is about minimizing risk and being in control of the situation. Certainly, it is still dangerous, but, again, much of what we do attempts to minimize the danger.

I am far more fearful when I see people randomly scrambling without any regard for their situation. I've seen people get themselves in really bad situations because they don't assess things and think about consequences.
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He has been developing free Android apps for awhile now and has been posting his financial results to HN for some time now.

He lives in Poland and is unable to sell paid apps, so he can only rely on advertising for revenue.
You don't have to have anything to do with Anonymous to have some idea of what they're capable of when they're poked with a stick.
Basically, NewTwitter isn't a Web site, it's an app and you have to "launch" it before you can do anything.
Six Reasons Why Big Dreams and Laser Focus Succeed
Why do you need to store a password in JS at all?
Openfiler 2.3 Active/Passive Cluster With Offsite Replication Node
well done buddy.. I wish you luck !
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mono ! - monotouch + monodroid => native toolkit and common base for businness logic
I think it is more likely that Apple would start including mini-touch-pads with new Macs (like a standard peripheral).

Simply dumping touch apps on the screen is a bad idea. Even with my own work, I get tired of trying to click or scroll things that aren't meant for a mouse or a far-away, vertical screen.
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NDK http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

I'm playing with it at the moment. It might seem a bit frustrating first, with all those JNI naming conventions and getting it to integrate with Eclipse, but hopefully it's performance will make up for it.
Pattern based domain-finder script (incl. availability check)
I came to the same realization and that's why I've moved to octave. Octave's a much better "bash" shell. It works much more nicely for integrating tools on unix. I often build things that mix specialized C/C++/Fortran programs, octave and R. Octave makes it so much easier to assemble these things. You can use each tool for its strengths.
We have also dealt with this manually. We'd love to see a more robust API out there that would integrate better with our existing payments solution as we do a mix of subs and license sales. Please post to HN if you get anything of the ground!
Actually, the uproar about UBB specifically is that Bell is allowed to enforce it's own retail UBB on companies who use their last mile lines to user homes. Aka, it forces competitors to charge the same prices as bell does. That's why it's anti competitive.
I like his approach - get others to help him create content to drive traffic and pay them with ebooks.
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I think the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act [1] made this impossible in the US. Instapaper would be a third party seller and would be bound by new data pass rules:

(2) the post-transaction third party seller has received the express informed consent for the charge from the consumer whose credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account will be charged by--

(A) obtaining from the consumer--
(i) the full account number of the account to be charged; and
(ii) the consumer's name and address and a means to contact the consumer;

and

(B) requiring the consumer to perform an additional affirmative action, such as clicking on a confirmation button or checking a box that indicates the consumer's consent to be charged the amount disclosed

[1] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:S3386:
This is actually specifically about comments, so there's nothing to oppose or support for the moment. You should just choose the option "comment".
Could we invest our time in discovering what consciousness is first before we make predictions about machine consciousness?

We used to call this type of behavior superstition: a belief not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, an irrational fear of future events.
http://www.anscamobile.com/education/

How about $49.
I see this as the last nail in Nokia's coffin. Android has a lot of momentum, Windows Phone 7 is "barely" out. Again Nokia plunges into uncertainty instead of competing with other manufacturers on the hardware front.
I so wish SPM ran on octave.... It's not there yet but we've fixed a lot of octave bugs by throwing parts of SPM at it.
Do you mean the Internet? How would that be intelligence?

Or do you mean my brain? That's not artificial intelligence (at least not obviously artificial!).

Edit: Maybe you meant a computer... but that would be quite a long shot. In short, spell it out, guys!
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> One thing I remember reading that really stuck with me - most people externalize failure and internalize success.

I'm not sure of your definition of "most people" but how do you square this with the impostor syndrome that is reported to be widespread among highly skilled people? It's the exact opposite of what you claim as the default psychology.
Soccer hooligans use it as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_brick
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Which version of v8 was being used in 2.x/3.x ?

The v8 change log is very detailed. Anybody got a helicopter view of speed improvements and/or other changes?
It did take more than a few decades to design, however. I wouldn't really expect a new model to ship inside of forty years. At best, that's like expecting the next version of Windows to ship in the next three hours.

My theory of the singularity is that the concept is so popular these days precisely because (a) we've passed a critical knowledge threshold: A significant number of the best-educated people in the world have become aware that not only is a giant collection of self-replicating simple machines possible, it is old news -- billions-of-years-old news. But, (b), the majority of humanity still does not understand that. It is the very definition of irony, but most people -- even the educated ones -- have great difficulty conceiving of a vast, mobile, sentient colony of trillions of single-celled organisms working together with plan and purpose. Frankly, it's easier to believe in elves. Elves, we can grasp.

That gap between hard science and magical thinking is fertile ground for fantasy.

Singularity fiction bears the same relationship to modern molecular biology that Frankenstein bore to the work of Alessandro Volta.
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From the mention of Lloyds I'll assume that Two9A is in the UK. The best instant access savings I know about is 2.9% from the post office [1] with better rates available for 1 year bonds or longer [2].

[1] http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content1?catId=1930023...
[2] http://www.lovemoney.com/savings/term-bond-accounts.aspx
Immature as it may sound, pen.io may not be the best choice for a domain name; at first glance I think of body parts.
HBGary is a good company with some insanely great technology

Insane would be to trust security-related products or advice from a company that can't even secure its own mailserver.
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Quantum computation as been explored but as yet we don't have a computer capable of executing the quantum algorithms.

They're in their infancy, but we've already had a quantum computer factor 15. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/chip-does-pa...
(Disclaimer: I worked for Six Apart Services for 2 years)

I don't think MT has "weird perlisms", it's just... written in perl. WordPress took off around the time folks were realizing that you could build big sites in PHP, and so PHP in general was taking off (as Byrne mentions in his piece, more enterprise sites were adopting PHP as well). Perl started a slide back into "sysadmin" land as far as many developers and managers were concerned.

Static publishing is not a "quirk": it's a feature that sold MT to most of the large publishers using it. Yes, you have to make some design decisions with static publishing in mind, but I've never heard of an MT site being Fireballed, either.
This is so great in theory, I've ran the calculations over, and over again. However I feel like the question marks are never filled in.

1.) Put 1k a month in savings
2.) do ???
3.) get > 3% compound interest
4.) enjoy a debt free lifestyle

where do i get > 3% return!
Is the L Train Fucked?
If anyone's interested in doing something similar in Java or another JVM language, check out the AWT Robot[1]. It's one of those hidden gems of the Java API.

[1] http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Robot....
unlike you, i use gmail chat for business purposes, so it would be irresponsible for me to log out of chat during work.
We're using CheddarGetter, they have their own gateway as well. Any positive or negative comments would be appreciated as we're just getting underway.
UI layout in code can be a pain because you can't see what you're doing until you do the compile-install-run which can be 30 seconds. That's a hefty amount of time if you're just tweaking one visual element and need to run through 1-10 possibilities.
I've received some outstanding feedback, both here, on the IRC #Startups channel and via email. I really appreciate you folks helping us improve our product!
That only applies if a Tesla sports car makes you happy.

The things that make me happy, don't exist as commercial goods. I have to create them.
Know of another product by the name "Voice", in use by as many people? And people always seem to be bi-polar with Google Voice, some saying it's the best thing since toast, some saying it's pointless and they hate it.
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Only in the U.S., the last country with single carrier exclusivity. Android isn't doing as well internationally.
http://www.openjs.com/scripts/events/keyboard_shortcuts

shortcut.add("Up",function() {
// code to go up
});
> But at least they're out there doing it, venting, and participating in some mostly rules-free shenanigans.

You're obviously starting from the viewpoint that this is a noble activity. That's not necessarily the case. Fight Clubs are romanticized, and who hasn't wanted to try to put one together after watching the film or reading the book, but it's only awesome until some guy shatters a cheekbone or something.

As the saying goes, the only place a gunfight is romantic is in a James Bond novel.
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Why Don’t Usability Problems Get Fixed?
I did the same thing a while back; you might want to look into the actual braintree gem itself, it's pretty solid. AM is now (for BrainTree, anyway) a pretty simple wrapper on top of it: https://github.com/Shopify/active_merchant/blob/master/lib/a...
Its very difficult to explain why you would use MongoDB and why its becoming so popular. The best way to learn it though is to do a project with it. Im actually working on a few right now, mostly games, and would be open to having you involved. If youre not into that then just read the mongodb books and understand what it is. Also learn what couchdb, riak, and membase are and why they are different since they are all "nosql" datastores but are very different from each other. Also a good way to learn it which is how i learned it is to learn jquery/ajax and specifically developing the json api that it will call and use. Once you understand json and key value pairs then why mongodb is so great will become apparent.
That Wiki link is rather devoid of information about the Marathon des Sables... I would know, as I ran it in 2009. I'm not sure how the Foreign Legion factors into the race, as it was started by Patrick Bauer in 1986(who still oversees it).

People of all ages and from all walks of life participate in it. It's a life changing event in which you learn so much about yourself and develop deep friendships with people you've only known for perhaps a few days at most. The participants also suffer.. a LOT-between heat, physical exertion / exhaustion, and being fully self-sufficient for a week. It's a damn grueling event that definitely earns it's spot among the world's toughest foot races.

More info here at http://www.saharamarathon.co.uk/ and
http://darbaroud.com/index_uk.php