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Alternate currencies seem to be legal in the US. There's a minor movement of people setting up local currencies to encourage doing business with local merchants.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency
The fact that some employees have have lower benefits than others is not necessarily outrageous or even that unusual. The fact that Google apparently really wants to avoid having this documented is rather strange, though.
Why so much backpedaling? You didn't say anything wrong. The article of the author is being an extremist baby, so you decided to be extreme in your response. Seems fair to me.
Also don't forget to list your app on http://alternativeto.net
I'm doing the same thing for my iPhone app. Thanks for sharing this. I was thinking about a way to share mine but only partially. I have a column for comments, for example that I might not want to expose.

But I don't think that's what he wants... I believe this is a web app, am I right?
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One Kim Jong-Il is worth all of Pirate Bay combined, and heck, throw in Assange & Manning as well (they've informed the public, helped out the historians a lot, and caused some irritation, but I see few concrete changes to stack up against hundreds of thousands of dead).

So, yes, I did think of the inconvenient people.
Or casinos. Both with the chips themselves and Player's Cards. Or Frequent Flier miles, which are so much of an alternate currency that the IRS taxes them at a certain point.
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I guess I'm not as socially awkward as I'd thought. Within 5 minutes of meeting most people I've decided that they're idiots(usually they don't try to hide it) but I'm smart enough to keep my opinions to myself. There are two reasons why: First, I realize telling people that they're wrong and exactly why isn't likely to inspire anything but contempt; and more importantly, I understand that when you argue with an idiot you don't lift the idiot up, they drag you down. So why bother? Perhaps this blogger isn't smarter than everyone else, he's just a dick and isn't self aware of his condition.
Hard to say if the switch to Oracle (and the resulting expenses) was the reason for their demise, but I was surprised by this:

"In 2000 they were doing around $24 million per quarter with a gross margin of 21%."

Wow. How could you get off to a start like that and blow it all?
Probably wouldn't be that hard to modify. I haven't looked at the local file API available from Safari plugins but should be easy.
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Sybase is a fantastic piece of engineering. Nice code syntax, rock solid in production.

There you go, now you've heard a good thing about the father of MS SQL Server.
I'd be surprised if PayPal didn't see Bitcoin as some form of competition - so, this is fairly unsurprising. Most companies prefer not to facilitate their competitors.
So Google must be careful to maintain a clear distinction between employees and contractors. I suspect the badges and tiered privileges are just that.

This is not true. I have been a contractor at big companies before, and the only way anyone knows the difference is your badge and title in the corporate directory. Other than that, everything is the same.

You get a W-2 and everything.
I have it going to S3 because it gives me the ability to instantly send someone a link or access from wherever I am. Also, I planned on doing larger crawls + analysis. Should be pretty easy though to hook it into a local file API like I mention above if that is more convenient for you.
Last I heard, no JS engine was close to LuaJIT's performance; they were all worse by a factor of five or so. Clojure being in the LuaJIT ballpark would surprise me (do you have benchmarks?) but Racket wouldn't. (But I wouldn't call Scheme a dynamic language!)
It's not illegal in a lot of jurisdictions, including Canada and the UK.
My very limited experience with SBCL has been that, although you can get performance that's considerably better than CPython, you don't get close to C performance without sacrificing dynamism and safety.
The whole online poker kerfuffle is not an unrelated idea here.

The idea is that online poker chips were being used for money laundering, and the first point of control attempted was the exchange of chips for USD via banks.
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You can find a lot of this on Reddit. Hacker News, too. Look, I just did it in this comment.
Don't think so. Chartbeat was affected by the AWS outage and he claims that his company own the server cluster.
No, the implications of this do not include "intelligent chips". Neurons aren't "smarter" than something we can currently create digitally, and if anything they transmit information more slowly.

The primary use of technology like this? Better brain implants (especially interesting considering the reported increased attractions neurons had for the tubes; this is one of the major problems in brain implants right now).
Discussion of this study

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/fish-oil-prostate-cancer/
One guy named Bernard von NotHaus created the "Liberty Dollar" and is now facing a 45 year prison sentence. After a little googling, it's unclear why exactly he is being punished, but this how one article summed it up:

"Congress has exclusive power to coin money in the U.S. and to regulate its value, according to the Treasury Department."
most_common(n) takes an optional argument, which makes a difference. With no arguments, you're just sorting the list, but when you just want the first N, you don't have to sort the entire list first. However, the partial-sorting optimizations are generally not symmetric, so supporting both most and least common would imply that either one direction is slower than the other, or the implementation is not as efficient as it could be for the case where only one direction is important. Only supporting most_common(n) makes it clear which case is optimized for.
link to the paper: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/04/19/aje.k...

I guess that a paper won't get accepted in Am. J. Epidemiol without proper consideration of such correlation.

The studies generally try to control for homophilly, contagion and confounding etc.
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This is a donation to a non profit. I think under the typical allocation of government "revenue", at least 40% of the taxes withdrawn from the donation would be used to pay for the war.

Tax rates aren't likely to change in response to how much is actually spent, as your comment seems to assume.
The iChat situation is actually more curious. It differs from everything else in a few regards:

1. Adium was an open source project that had barely started when iChat came out. The "true" competitor in this case was the official AIM client which I'm pretty sure Apple made a deal with AOL. -- This alone should disqualify it from any further discussion.

2. AIM is not the dominant network in most other countries (making iChat useless in those cases)

3. AOL owns the network and thus its pretty hard for Apple to outright "kill" other chat apps.

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Why is the concept of a bookmark that can tell you when it has updates a nerd feature?

I don't know, but it is. I can guarantee you my parents don't know what RSS is. I think the story of RSS is probably pretty interesting, it may be the case that as social started providing better links than one-team blog sites, its use went down, but this is purely speculation on my part.

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Spotlight issues are not anecdotal, they were widely reported. Remember that this feature is now 6 years old, but just search on the internet and you will see that Apple's support forums and articles in Apple sites are full of stuff like this:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2009042206355742...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/507442?threadID=507442

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/467039?threadID=467039

(just a few, the more curious can track it more thoroughly)

It was so bad for some people that a "spotless" application was created to remove it from particularly pesky computers (no zealots ever felt the need to remove expose). It received 4 mice from MacWorld -- http://www.fixamacsoftware.com/software/spot/! This is all very well documented and 'it worked for me' is in this case the far more anecdotal stance. I will completely concede that these problems have for the most part gone away -- but again, its been 6 years. I'd hate it if this kills Instapaper and it takes a similarly long time to get parity.

--

I mentioned iTunes in my original post as something that was successful, and my analysis was that it was because it was a "real" app: in other words, something Apple cared about and created a team around. I don't think Apple cares that much about Dashboard or Safari RSS.

And yes I completely forgot about Sherlock: it does fit the bill really well. Remember how after a while they were shipping it with channels that wouldn't even work anymore? I think its funny that they still have a page for it here: http://www.apple.com/lae/sherlock/

(edits: added spotless link and grammar)
It is not possible to "corner the market" by having more gpu power than other people. The btc algorithm was designed to only produce bitcoins at a constant rate. Adding a million more systems trying to calculate the answer to the next hash block only makes it a million times slower.

Which means you mine them as fast as everyone else used to, while everyone else mines them at one millionth the rate they used to.
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I hope by now those on HN skeptical of Wikileaks have been sufficiently won over.
I feel ill.

Wait a minute, I've just been cured of nail-biting. I feel the glory! Stallman is truly a saint!! All hail St. Ignucius!
I'm planning on submitting my side project to these directories in a week or two (or three) hopefully. (I just have a few more bugs to iron out first =).

Any chance of a follow-up post in a week or so letting us know how you get on - whether you're getting any traffic from them, whether it was worth the time etc etc
At scale, all components cause "bigger" problems: http server, app server, database/datastore, file system, load balancer, etc. Saying the database is a bigger problem is only true in specific situations.
I think you and the article may be operating on different areas of the stack. You're talking about how to live your life with integrity. It's a matter of policy, what should you do. The article is talking about if you do this, then people will react in this way. It's a matter of mechanism, how the world works. You can know the mechanics of how to win friends and influence people, but how you choose to use that knowledge is up to you.

It reminds me a bit of Machiavelli, which has since become a synonym for evil and dastardly deeds. But if you read The Prince, it's basically just a how-to manual for how to get and keep power. Machiavelli was writing for the Medicis, so it was assumed that they would want to stay in power. But questions about whether power was a good thing or not were out-of-scope for Machiavelli: he simply wrote about what one had to do if you wanted to gain power.

Also reminds me a bit of Feynman's views on technology and science, particularly the Manhattan Project. Feynman thought that technology was just a tool - it gives you the ability to do things you would otherwise be unable to, but it's up to you to decide whether you should do them. But wouldn't you rather have the ability to choose? It's the same with social hacks - you can do good things with them, you can do evil things, but at least you're aware of the effects of your actions.
I think this is actually the crux of the issue. Some really unique ideas were replaced with "adequate-enough" ones that ultimately had the (unintended?) consequence of killing those other special features. Some may say this is a good thing, but it a phenomenon that exists nevertheless.
hey, sure. I'll post the results on http://thisisquitepre.posterous.com

send me an email & i'll let you know when it's out!
just click "click for preview" when you have a valid address in the boxes.

now that you're bringing this to light, i may turn it into a live update.

thanks for the feedback!
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If you enjoy TED talks, you might also like doLectures (http://www.dolectures.com). They aren't "life changing" per se, but some of the talks offer new and interesting perspective.

For example: http://www.dolectures.com/lectures/why-you-should-have-a-par...
I faced the same choice circa eight grade. Gave up my academic life for my social life. Miraculously made it into Amherst, then nearly flunked out of Amherst twice. Made the opposite choice when I was 23, giving up my social life for my academic/professional life. Worked great, wrote some popular computing stuff, got into Google, worked on high-profile & high impact projects. I was miserable.

I'm still trying to figure out a balance between them.
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When was the last time you crawled? Probably much longer ago than that cursive paper, yet crawling, like cursive handwriting, is an important age-appropriate skill to learn. Sure, you could skip cursive and teach kindergarteners to type, but the motor skills kids learn THROUGH cursive is so much more important. Similarly, children that walk without ever learning the motor skills of crawling often have difficulties learning other things later in life.
I don't know that it could really be called a reference, but Joe Konrath has a blog that gives a decent overview, A Newbie's Guide to Publishing http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/, unfortunately the information is pretty scattered through the posts. He also wrote an Kindle book, The Newbie's Guide to Publishing (Everything A Writer Needs To Know), http://www.amazon.com/Newbies-Publishing-Everything-Writer-e....
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Depending on your level of interest, a Yale Law student published a 40+ page paper on Bitcoin. It is a preliminary draft at this point. http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=6247.0
Also worth a mention for a Spotlight replacement: the fantastic and successful Launchbar. http://obdev.at/products/launchbar
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Um ... yeah. Anything that Microsoft touches.
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How so? Those that have argued against Wikileaks on here have argued against the 'shotgun' approach to releasing all of the cables regardless of whether or not they contain incriminating evidence.

How is finding bad things within the deluge of cables going to win someone with that opinion over?
> The biggest optimization happened when you decided to use Nginx and ran that apt-get install...

I recommend against doing this on Ubuntu Lucid without first installing the unofficial nginx PPA, unless you want to get stuck with v0.7.65.
Exactly ... they CANNOT trademark the word Node. This word has been in the dictionary since the 16th century derived from the Latin word nōdus, meaning knot.
I'm an awkward smart guy, but I'm not an egotistical ass. I'd really love a guide for social situations that would actually be of use.

Mainly it would address:
-When in a social situation, other than silence, how am I suppose to participate or excuse myself from participating in a discussion about american idol or some other topic to which I have no knowledge and may perhaps despise? Neither being quite, admitting I don't follow said topic are well received. Isn't there a positive way out of this dilemma?

-When some one brings up something sad or bad that has happened is "I'm sorry to hear that" or "Don't worry, it will get better" really enough of a response? Frankly I find it hard to offer these "words of comfort" when I find no comfort in them myself. As a realistic person, I realize that sentiment does not alter a situation so it's hard to be encouraging. Should I just say them regardless?

-When discussing something with some one there are occasions when I'm genuinely curious as to why they have a certain line of reasoning. I want to ask "why do you think that?" but it always comes off condescending. This is especially true when perhaps we are discussing a problem and I know the solution and they do not. I want to know what the reasoning behind their solution is rather than just telling them it's wrong or what the correct solution is--however when trying to ask them their reasoning I can't come up with a way to do it without sounding condescending. Should I not bother?

-When walking leaving my office and entering the hallway, how close should a person be entering the hallway from the opposite direction be before I wave or say hello. If I wait to long, they think I ignore them. If I do it to early, then theres a great length of time that we are both still walking down the hall and having used my throw-away "Hey" I have nothing left to offer them. It's awkward.

-Is there a method/statement for suggesting an attempt at becoming friends with some one? "Hey, want to be friends" is unutterable for me. No matter how I imagine saying that line it feels pathetic. If I don't drink beer or coffee is there anything else to ask someone out to do in order to have some bonding time?

-How to accept a compliment. Thanks or agreement feels egotistical. Trying to act as humble by playing it down doesn't seem to be received well either.
My most-used fountain pen is retractable. It's called the Namiki Vanishing Point. The Pilot Fermo and Pilot Decimo also retract. (Namiki and Pilot are different divisions of the same company.)

Even a $100-$200 fountain pen is far more cost-effective than gel pens in the long run due to their longevity and how inexpensive bottled ink is.

I actually kept track one year. I went through $418 in gel pens my first year of college. That's more than my four favorite pens and my entire ink collection combined, despite my penchant for exotic and limited edition inks. It would take me about five years to use up all these inks.
What language uses "ee' sound for "y"?

And who pronounces blue, blur?
I can't honestly think that anyone is surprised? PayPal plays it safe and this has been proven again and again.

At the end of the day, this Bitcoin hype is getting slightly tiresome. I do apologize for being negative here, but the only thing I take away from this whole spectacle is that investing in energy is a wise move. The amazing thing is, that was news a long, long time ago.
Thank you for pointing this out, I always tell people to do this so I should really take my own advice.
That's the same one I linked to -- but it's much less expensive on the authors' site than on Amazon. :)
I hate how much play study's like this get in the media. Anyway, some links discussing it:

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2011/04/prostate-canc...

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/?p=3309

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/fish-oil-prostate-cancer/
This exact argument was discussed in depth recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2451302

Start treating those casino chips as currency and the government will step in and stop it.
Tell HN: Someone should build a site that sorts Mixergy videos by topics
This came up because I am trying to find some good resources on how to get my first paying customers after having recently launched.

I love Andrew's interviews, but there is so much data there that it's hard to quickly sort through.

If someone wrote a script that, say, parsed the transcript for each of the videos and sorted them into a variety of buckets.

"Getting first customers", "Sustainable Customer Acquisition", "Marketing", "Learning Programming", "Hiring", etc.

Just many different buckets and topics that might be useful to the community.

I think that would be a nice value-add, and I (for one) would definitely use it - a lot.
Even if your app does not use a database then you've still got bigger problems. Optimizing Nginx is often a bit of a joke as you don't really get a lot for your effort. I think reducing the IO impact of Nginx is probably the best thing you can do. CPU wise you're kinda stuck with the awesome stock performance.
First impressions:

* This is just nifty.

* You want people to agree to an empty ToS? WTF? Fill it in or eliminate the checkbox.

* It would be very nice if OpenID could be used to create an account / login.

* This is something I'd actually use.

* Can moderators ban trolls from a channel by nick and/or IP?

* Can moderators choose individual posts to make "featured", (i.e. sticky at the top of the channel) for a limited period (12 or 24 hours maybe?)
I chose to focus on his last point:

"CoinCard will be easier to bring back, minus PayPal payments. ... A possible PayPal freeze was one reason I focused on "gift cards" rather than PayPal exclusively.
This whole situation has reminded me once again why distributed, resilient systems like Bitcoin and OTC are so important."

Paypal frustration led Michael to Bitcoin, and his service ended up dependent on it. That was probably not his original intention.

This makes MtGox's integration of (ACH) Dwolla even more important to BTC's liquidity. MtGox is receiving record traffic right now, nearly on the order of a DOS attack.
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That was a really interesting analysis.

"To top that off, this study derails the otherwise consistent train of research showing that DHA seems protective at best (and neutral at worst) when it comes to prostate health. In 2001, a study of over 6,000 Swedish men found that the folks eating the most fish had drastically lower rates of prostate cancer than those eating the least. Another study from New Zealand found that men with the highest DHA markers slashed their prostate cancer risk by 38% compared to the men with the lowest DHA levels. And yet another study tracking Japanese men in Japan and Brazil found that omega-3 levels in the blood were consistently linked with a reduction in prostate cancer."

(I'll keep taking my fish oil supplements until I hear something much more concrete)
> But I wouldn't call Scheme a dynamic language!

Care to elaborate?