skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4) No red tape, this is slightly related to the above but important enough to warrant it's own point. With bitcoin there are no forms, no regulations, no paperwork. You can send bitcoin to anyone, anywhere, anytime, any amount and no one will care or track you, or freeze your account or any of the other issues when dealing with the current banking system.

I'm sure your tax authorities would have something to say about that. I'm pretty certain they'll want to see your bitcoin transactions accounted for in exactly the same way as any other.
StartupBritain website links to malware site
DeLorean DMC-12 is ugly? Uhm...

Also, as a citizen of Russia, I'm disappointed with lack of our vehicles, because some of them are clearly superior in their ugliness.
Sorry, I am trying to get feedback on a site I started www.choicr.com from beta users. I just heard this was the best place to get techie type reviewers.
... then it would be called a "blog" ...

Before downvoting the heck out of me, think about it... How often do you see misleading headlines/titles on blogs vs newspapers? Link baits, flamebaits, etc...
Of course, it is in the rational best interests of anyone who holds bitcoin to disagree with this assessment.

No, it is in the rational best interests of anyone holding bitcoins to have the most accurate assessment possible of their future value.

If that assessment suggests the future value will go down, it is in their rational best interests to sell bitcoins.
"… this is arguably the equivalent of suggesting that users turn off their firewall to run their software …"

Windows application installers do this all the time, except they ask you to turn off or ignore your antivirus software, which is arguably worse.
The argument against Apple, iPad, iPhone regarding openness is more about freedom than it is about usability. So when you banter about it being more open one would assume you're charging back at the notion that it is not.

In other words, you're preaching to the choir - but using a headline that belittles your real point.
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Well, the hope would be to reduce the signal to noise ratio, so, in the event that something less popular comes up, it should have more time to be seen and appreciated.

I would also venture that 'cutting edge' is HN's bailiwick, and therefore, it's really hard to get ahead of the tech curve here.
What is this doing on HN? This is a Digg story at best
Except all the stuff about Dan Snyder was AFAIK true. While it's entirely possible that the Top Gear guys, ahem, exaggerated some of Tesla's failings.

Edit: Still, it seems rather boneheaded to try to solve a minor PR problem from two years ago with a lawsuit that is certain to be very public.
I'll hold out for shtnr... you get 12 characters, but every post must contain the words my, God and Spock.
>You have recourse by contacting authorities.

I'm sorry I would have replied to your comment earlier but I was incapacitated with laughter.

How often have the "authorities" been able to help a person recover a stolen wallet? Or the funds taken from their bank account with a skimmed ATM card? Or any of the thousands of other kinds of fraud and theft or robbery?

The "authorities" file reports, thats about it. What they do provide is the illusion of protection, a false sense of security.

Really what are they the "authorities" going to do that a normal person can't?
I agree. I had to use NDP for solving a few CSPs recently. SICP was a godsend.
i smell mega fail. sorry
Before you quit your day job, read Startup From the Ground Up
It is still difficult to acquire bitcoin for the foreseeable future, so more exchanges will become online to make it easier. There's source code for open source exchanges floating around, so the barrier of entry is getting lower and lower over time.

On the other hand, we have to be patient about goods and services coming online. The community grown a lot in the past few months but it takes a while for people to develop their goods and services and find their niche within the economy. The economy is small, so it's harder to make money as well.

For example, I am just starting to gain back my investment on a niche magazine I made for bitcoin. After the website development is finished, I will be moving on to an ambitious video game project.

Just to be clear, the bitcoin economy is very tiny. It's only about 4.4 million USD economy at best and the real value is probably much smaller.
Remember the mantra: servers are cheap, programmers are expensive. If you have a language that's significantly faster to develop with but at a small performance price, i'd still go with it.

If the app becomes a Google-sized success, then I'll worry about performance. Chances are I'll never have to.
I wonder what exactly the FPGA does, and how they can make it practical and flexible. Of course they could always just test with C and then compile that to HDL.
Career in IT pays off for some (Thought it was funny)
This guide is the most concise and bginner friendly introduction to an active lifestyle I have seen yet... I second the recommendation... additionally (sad as it is) I think a lot of "professionals" would also benefit from reading it.
$2k to find a good hire is nothing. Signing bonuses, referral bonuses, and interview related expenses (air travel, taxis, hotels) are often on that scale or larger. Also, your numbers are way off the mark, you're not going to bring in 15 people for such an interview, you'd be extraordinarily lucky if you even managed to have 15 people that looked good enough to go that far, but even if you did you'd screen it down to a lower number to make it more feasible.
Anyone knows how much something like this costs? My guess is around 20K.
I think Amazon is right. This is just another form of "backup" for the user. I hope that they win the stare down.
Price fixing laws where? This is site caters to an international audience, dollars can be converted to any currency and we're not all part of one industry.
What occurred to me while reading the article was this: There is a value in cities, and much of that value is density i.e. concentration. Not just of people but of industries: NYC and fashion, publishing, finance—everything, really. Silicon Valley and technology. And so on. I've recently read—wish I had the reference at hand—that even smaller cities provide concentration value.

As I drive into NYC and the skyline comes into view it humbles me as a Philadelphian. But then I think about those infographics—featured on HN, of course—showing how China is birthing a New York every twelve days or whatever the duration is, and I wonder: Will NYC cease to be relevant?

There is more than a little home-town pride at stake, and not the way you think: in the (nonexistent?) fight between NYC and the Valley, I am New York all the way. I deeply want New York to matter.

And so that colors my thinking, but, back to this article, I wonder: Building an city, or even building and filling a city with people, does little if it doesn't sort people and industries out in a way that makes them more efficient, more vital.

Again, I'm a Philadelphia. Everyone from West Philly says, "Oh, I love West Philly. The trees! The parks!" I love trees, I love nature, whatever that is. But I disagree with these people with their love affair with Philadelphia West of the Schuylkill River. I love people, people in quantities and densities that don't exist over there.

I don't discount the benefits of living in West Philly, or even a Chinese ghost city—all night parties without neighbors!—but you—we, society, humanity—lose something, or you don't gain something, when we put people in close proximity to each other in ways the lead to fruitful exchanges.
I really expected to find some mention of quantum computing in this article. Could probability of spin states (or some other state) be used in this paradigm?
The problem with "tell me about your projects" is that it doesn't distinguish good programmers from bad. It isn't even gaming. A programmer who makes a negative net contribution to a large project may sincerely feel he is responsible for its success. All you can pick up on is their perception.

At least when you ask them to write code, you can tell if they got it right or wrong.
I once learned a shocking lesson about the influence of my preconceptions when I accidentally took a developer through three rounds of interviews because he previously worked for Pivotal Labs and had a German (aka technical) accent.

It wasn't until the third interview that I asked him to write an algorithm to sort an array and when he couldn't I suggested instead writing an algorithm to see whether the array was already sorted. When he couldn't do that either he told me I was asking the wrong questions and not letting him show off the code he was good at.

To this day I have wondered and never discovered what type of code doesn't involve arrays, loops and comparisons however I do now ask candidates to write code right at the start of the interview loop. I simply never anticipated how many non-programmers would apply for programming positions.
Yes, but....

The show's main presenter has been well known as having politically conservative views for many, many years. If you watch, the vast bulk of his output is joking in that general direction when it's joking. Frankly, if I were Tesla, I wouldn't have let my car appear; it smacked of a set-up against the green bogeyman who was trying to stop their fun.

There seems to be a growing tendency at the moment in the UK at least for people with politically conservative views to express these loudly, prominently and repeatedly in a more forceful tone than they could otherwise use, with an I'm only having a bit of fun, it's just a joke, can't you just grow up and take it? tacked on to the end, trying to belittle those who might take offence at their assertions. If these people want to express their views from such a platform (by which I mean a prominent one, the fact of this being on the BBC isn't an issue for me), they should have the nerve to stand behind it.
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1) Use Wordpress
2) Make posts "Private" until you are finished with them
3) $$$
Just to make things more complicated, in the U.K. and certain parts of the U.S., you will often here people say things like an historic, because they tend to drop the "h" sound when they pronounce historic; it sounds fine when pronounced that way. If you pronounce the "h" in historic, it sounds awful to say anything but a historic.
Yeah, good luck attributing those transactions to me, or to anyone else for that matter.

Sure if you're an already existing company it's a good idea to keep accurate records, file forms etc. but if your some 15 year old kid with a great idea who cares, go for it!

With the arrival of new businesses operating entirely from within the bitcoin economy and cypherspace no amount of government regulation will matter. How can you tax something you can't even find, or stop or do anything to?
The Computer Misuse Act 1990 makes no provision for intent (this is partially provided through the Police and Justice Act 2005 amendments). Instead, the act talks about unauthorised access, which is an undefined term.

In fact, a security consultant was convicted[1] for using ../../ in a URL after he thought a site had been hacked.

[1] - http://www.out-law.com/page-6207
I tried with IE8
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I haven't read his stuff in a while, but in his book The 10% Solution For A Healthy Life, Kurzweil advocates 10% fat calories. Has he changed that?
While the current financial system does suffer from many of the same problems, the difference is that there is a sophisticated infrastructure that exists to combat this behavior in these cases. Law enforcement, security services, intelligence agencies, government regulators, bank and credit card employees and insurance companies, among others, all work every day to mitigate these risks on behalf of their respective systems.
It's a Lotus Elise that outperforms the Lotus Elise on straightaways. Faults or not, I have a hard time believing that they're aren't going to sell cars based on that fact alone.

That they got covered on Top Gear is the car equivalent of a startup getting featured on TechCrunch -- good or bad, they got a LOT of eyeballs on the car, and while the review wasn't 100% positive, it wasn't entirely negative either.

The flip side of the equation is whether or not TopGear actually exerts any purchasing influence whatsoever. Since most of their reviews are of Aston Martins, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, etc., do people buying cars at that caliber actually buy based on practical reviews? I'm guessing not.

The Murcielago is a very impractical car, and I doubt anyone who was interested in buying a Lambo has changed their mind because TopGear exposed that its windshield wipers make noise over 100 miles per hour.
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Some people do want some money than love. But not all love can be bough.
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I think this blog post title doesn't cover everything in your post.
Yes it is evident that brilliant people worked together and made something brilliant. Then you go on to say if you have no friends or family use the social web/world. None of the successful partnerships you mentioned met through YOUR recommended way of finding partnerships.

Personally I don't recommend going out and look for partnerships. Its an easy way to get into a co-founder battle or have different interests that you only discover 2 months later. All those successful partnerships named early on are people who knew each other better than they knew themselves or just worked really well together. Going out and just networking isn't going to get you such a relationship. What you need to do is form a deep relationship and constantly shoot the shit and work on projects together, that way you can determine weather you work well or not (schools and living together are all things you can do this at, and is also common among all the successful partnerships mentioned above).
I think those good stories that generate good discussion still get more points than comments. With the really good stories, no matter how many people comment, more people upvote, because there are lurkers.

It's not perfect, but I'm finding it a pretty good predictor.
Unfortunately even real newspapers are having more and more misleading headlines. In some newspapers you can even read facts taken from Twitter.

Sometimes it seems we are going for the democratic truth.
Knowing lawyers, probably not. Look at the crap SCEA is putting infront of the court against an 18 year old kid. Also, 25% is known as a quarter tank where people who don't like to run out of gas decide that it's time to fill up, since you can't 'fill up' a Tesla, that means you have to go home. It also means that if you drive your car 55 miles away from home in track like conditions you'll be pushing your car home.
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but part of the hype

The gulf between hype and reality rarely converges.

One of Clojure's primary goals is to allow sane mutation and out of that falls a facilitation of concurrency and parallelism. However, it does not solve the problem of effectively utilizing multicore processors automatically. How would it ever do that without programmer intervention?
By the same logic, the Sony Walkman also turned people into loners in the 1980s.
Modular functional programming - 'find' command using enumerators
Apparently this has changed:

http://www.fantastic-voyage.net/ShortGuidehtml.htm
Articles can be flagged though. Perhaps a heavy penalty per flag?

I think this is actually a pretty complex issue (social dynamics, reputation, incentives) so let us keep Mencken's Law firmly in mind

For every complex problem there is an answer that is
clear, simple, and wrong.
Downvotes denotate demographic homogeneity.
People still use it as basis for forming their opinions. If they staged the Tesla going into the garage, then it undermines every bit of work engineers have done to make sure that would ever happen, and undermines the hard work engineers have done to get electric cars into the mainstream.
I would remove the word "simultaneously" from the concurrency definition. Two threads can be executing concurrently on the same processor - strangely, the next sentence seems to acknowledge this. My personal definitions, based on my experience in systems and high performance computing research:

Parallelism: simultaneous calculations executing in the service of a single problem, usually with the goal of improved performance.

Concurrency: executions in the same time granularity, but not necessarily simultaneous. Also not necessarily in the service of the same problem, but some form of synchronization is required.
If your team cannot wait to leave at 6 you have a problem, but if you send your team home at 6 because they worked efficiently and achieved something, that's some work life balance then.
I guess our political views differ. I find the idea of cheating on taxes rather distasteful.

In any case, morals aside, I don't really see why this is different to cash for taxation purposes. Cash is also basically untraceable, and while there are certainly plenty of under-the-table transactions that mean it's not taxed 100% accurately, it's pretty hard to get away with avoiding taxes indefinitely if you're handling a lot of it. I don't understand why bitcoin would be any different.
Good point. I didn't mean to say it is in the rational best interests of anyone holding bitcoins to not understand the market forces involved. You make a good argument that it is in their interests to understand what they hold. However, if you buy my argument that the BTC market is nearly wholly speculative at this point, it is probably not in the interests of speculators holding BTC to have it publicly understood as this would seem to lead to an evaporation of upward pressure on the market.
I find that stuff I write in Ruby is
faster than that I write in clojure.

Have you considered the possibility that the problem is not with Clojure?
I'm actually still new here, but one suggestion I've heard is to directly apply to companies you are interested in.

But be prepared to deal with a borderline byzantine visa system, though ... about the only thing I can complain about.
Well the fact is that, at least there is a reference and while we have to critisize it in order to impove it, we have to achknowledge the fact that they are trying something compared to many others. Just take a look at the TechCrunch post where they talked about how bad the Startup Visa was and later a new redefined version of the US Startup Visa is in the works. There's a start with StartupBritain, why not contribute?!
This sounds similar to the Stack Overflow model [you take a penalty when you downvote]
I believe it was the same deal with at least "iPhone", which was also Cisco-owned at time of announcement. Maybe one other, too.
"What if it was Apple" in the headline clearly indicates that the article is speculative and not fact based. Would that all his headlines were so appropriate.
It looks nice. A couple of issues occur when using Opera 11 on Vista. The pieces are not centered on the square, they're about 5px up and left. And when pieces move they leave blue or green backing square artefacts for the next turn.
Dalrymple's article comes from a weird persecution complex Apple journalists cling to despite Apple's insane success. We are talking about a story that revolves around the complexities of the definition of open source, and got pretty good play in the sites that care about such things. Sorry CNN wasn't putting it on the front page.

It isn't the 90s anymore. Apple is doing fine. You don't need to stand up for them by taking petty attacks against their competitors.
A month or two ago I spoke to someone working in these shops. Apparently, they're using the FPGAs to run many of the high-bandwidth algorithms, because going from NIC to motherboard to CPU and back again added too much latency. So they program the algorithms into the FPGA (which has its own Ethernet port) so it can receive, process, and send the data without ever hitting circuitry not dedicated to the task.
I wonder if such places will end up like Kowloon walled city. When there is no one around it's easy to sneak in. And the poor are in need of a home (because they demolished there home building these cities).

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City)
I think your statmend is missleading.

1. I guess you compair small programms and clojure suffers from the JVM startup slowness not because of the clojure implementation.

2. You can use java objects, collection or arrays from clojure its just not often used.

3. Clojure has very good Java bindings and I think the C bindings arn't that bad. (there is a wrapper ofer the normal java stuff)

I guess ruby only performs better for scripting.
Not much time to reply right now, but I really, really recommend this book:

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The design of the Clojure code can be clearly seen from the Python code. But I'm not sure if that's idiomatic Clojure. I'd like to see what the Clojure version would look like if a Clojure programmer solved the problem without looking at the Python code first. That would give me more insight into the differences between the languages.
While sometimes it's great that you have the option to use C bindings in Ruby, my take is that if possible you should write stuff in Ruby when doing Ruby. If that's not the case you are not doing ruby, you are doing C.
What exactly is the site supposed to be about?

I'm not going to sign up to any beta on a site that tells me nothing about itself.

No, "Ask, Decide, Repeat" doesn't tell me much. Also, the logo being an image, I couldn't even copy & paste the slogan from there.
Such as? I'm saying that trying to come up with a catchy headline is one of the main goals of blogging, but on newspapers you only see linkbaits and misleading headlines in the opinion/editorial pages, which are clearly labeled as such, or have the editors name on them. (ie, "Herbert: Amurkka is best country in the world")

I can imagine some cheap papers doing this, but I cannot remember seeing such a headline on a newspaper.

I could be wrong, though :-)
Isn't this just the prolog-ism of backtracking imported into other languages? Especially as long you just evaluate the options in order?
Normally Tesla's lawyers are busy in Washington, D.C., fleecing U.S. taxpayers for handouts. The company is one of the biggest welfare queens in America, they have almost no revenue and yet the government has given them hundreds of millions in unsecured loans.
Getting to Germany is the easiest when you are a student here.

Do you want to think of getting a Master's here ?
This
i) helps you get here
ii) gives you more access to startups who would be hesitant to take the burden of visa processing
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There is an excellent presentation by high profile short seller James Chanos on betting against China: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99HNFCn5RP8

(from a year ago). About an hour long, but well worth it.

Edit: I meant to say, the focus of his talk is mainly details of the property bubble. Great information.
> Alien vs. Predator.

Few might prefer predator over alien for making efficient use of tools and gadgets than resorting to sheer brute strength.

Confirmation bias at work?

Am wondering how it works the other way. Non-technical founders looking out for technical co-founders asking similar questions. Or, maybe the banksters asking apprentice traders on what they felt about Gordon Gekko?
I totally agree - it was a joke on color
Anyone can work a crowd
The democratic truth is usually what matters, this is why China puts so much effort into changing the truth and our governments so much effort into making the truth an issue of national security so it can be suppressed, err.. classified.