skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more a rule of thumb for the receiver; if you send a transaction (based on coins which are already well-confirmed), and don't try to send any conflicting transactions, then it shouldn't disappear as long as it gets one confirmation (even if the block chain forks, it will be resubmitted)
I'm confused. Is there a way in which what you said contradicted what the parent post said? You seem to be talking about whether the patent can be used before it is granted (obviously not), but the grandparent was talking about whether prior art from between the application and granting would be considered (it won't).
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Oh, you could have stayed in the trenches---but don't order any attacks. Just wait for your enemies to be dumb enough to attack first. Just bleed them dry with defence.

(I heard that the Belgian king was held in high esteem by the normal Belgians for not ordering those suicidal attacks.)
Amazingly, it sounds a lot like a successful startup: 10 million in funding, 141 million exit. However, startups usually have to deal with a high probability of failure, while YC achieved this with a substantially lower risk (portfolio theory at play).
The usage of the word "totally" made me think this was an Onion headline.
I appreciate your honest feedback.

I was hoping the event or occasion driven focus of the site would be more compelling then the standard practice. Also the focus on sending the card to the purchaser is not completely novel, but again I hope the focus on a personal hand written note being the most important part of the card brings a unique approach to the industry.

The whole "Create and Event" doesn't sound right.
Do you think it would be better to say "Setup and Occasion" is better?

Thanks again for your feedback.
Aleph One is amazing. Anyone who considers themselves a gamer should play this Bungie classic.
Umm, that back in the time the missile silos were planned, there was no GPS? That combined with the relatively low-yield warheads meant that hardened silos were a viable weapon - they were likely to survive a first-strike.

Thanks for the downvote tho'.
There have been a lot of discussion about problems with patents (especially "patent thickets") in drug development also, see Derek Lowe's posts http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/patents_and_ip/ and especially http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/01/20/freedom_to_o...
For what it's worth, +1 is the best-implemented widget of its type, in my opinion. Facebook is a big baddie in this space; their widget implementations are horribly naive and drastically bog down pages.
Two giants? I'm not sure which you mean. iOS, sure. Microsoft has been in tablets for years, and HP has shrugged them off, rightly as far as Windows goes. It will be interesting once they make a tablet size version of the Metro UI. RIM's PlayBook is just getting started, still waiting for an email client. Android is out, but it doesn't seem to be making much impact. Perhaps once it is good enough for Google to release the source for a wider range of hardware something interesting will come out.

So, the second place looks like it Is still up for grabs.
Except those crypto-card thingies (not the implantable ones) were duplicated as a result of the recent RSA breakin, which is how Lockheed was attacked.
Do you have any plans for an Android port? Nice artwork.
As stated in the article Google already provides 2-step verification as an alternative.
The unemployed 99ers in Silicon Valley - 60 Minutes
Yeah you're right. I think at one point Scientology may have been richer, but they have gone downhill it seems.
Yep, the antitrust settlement handcuffs are definitely off.

Good luck to them - some real competition in the tablet space is needed.
Thank you for posting about this I find it fascinating.
They would probably just use a highly reputable bitcoin bank

Just because a company is "highly reputable" doesn't mean that they aren't technologically incompetant. Just look at the Sony PSN episode, or any data protection leak from any bank.
Bye, bye Bitcoin!
Why are "Senior US Officials" using gmail?
The south most certainly could have won the civil war. Why not?
In investment terms 'return' normally refers to profit. See http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnoninvestment.asp

So I think you should have ended up with 1240%.

E.g turning $1 to $1.50 is a 50% return and $1 to $2 is 100% so $1 to $13.4 is a 1240% return. Still a spectacular return given the short time period.

Otherwise I agree with your numbers. The cost doubling sounds high at first but YC is by definition very hands on.
What functional languages did you see before? Were they pure? Could they guarantee that parallelism did not affect the semantics of their programs like Haskell can?

Did you actually see the use of the "par" combinator?
Interesting read saw yesterday
Apple's malware detection update circumvented in 8 hours
This is one of those things that I can read as both good news and bad news.

I'm really hopeful that the LibreOffice and OOo communities could now get together and work together and even collapse the code base to one codebase again, but I'm doubtful that will happen. It would be a huge shame to see split efforts continue as it would hurt both projects and, frankly, they are both still lacking FAR behind any of the proprietary competitors.

Not to mention Calligra is rapidly gaining ground on both. If Calligra gets the same level of MS office compatibility, it would leapfrog both OOo and LibreOffice in my mind.

This is going to be a test of the two communities and their ability to see the big picture as well as navigate a political situation. I really am wondering how they will both will fare.
How would you launch a thousand anti-ship missiles? And how would you get that launch platform within range of a US aircraft carrier?

Bear in mind that anything capable of launching a thouand anti-ship missiles will be one of the things the USAF will destroy within the first few hours of the war.
None of my words said or implied that acts that help other people are not meaningful. I'm a father, I consider parenthood meaningful. I also consider climbing Mt. Everest meaningful even though I have no interest in trying it. The two are not exclusive in my mind.

My point was and is that testing one's courage is part of the meaning for climbimng Mt. Everest, as are many other things such as testing one's discipline to and sacrifice. I think these things are meaningful even when if and when they are not altruistic. That does not mean that digging a well or planting a tree or raising a child is not meaningful, they are also meaningful for different reasons.

Ok, killing an elephant that would have been culled anyways is not murder. Fine. Buit still, Bob parsons paid for the right to be the one that killed th elephant. The elephant would have been shot any ways, it's not like the Africans were unable to shoot it and needed Bob's help. The man paid for the right to kill something. Whatever word you apply, the fact remains that he killed a living thing for pleasure and then boasted of it on the Internet.
Yes, this is a concern. You wouldn't expect someone to compete athletically without training first.

I like the "gamification" aspect, and would prefer to frame this as self-competition.

The same "being beat down at math again" reaction can be turned around into "OMG I'm getting better at math" with some empathy and debugging. It's a wonderful thing to see.

I have students who can't do exponents and have trouble answering 3 x 5. We're trying to teach them symbolic and linear algebra. Dur. No wonder they can't keep up.

I can debug the exponents deficits (integer exponents) in about 3 hours with a small group. Perhaps another session for radicals and fractional exponents.

It's somewhat addictive, to see them realize "I don't have to suck at math".
Had the same issue, same two languages.
Google Go still feels far from prime time, so I settled on Scala.

Got David Pollak's "Beginning Scala" book, Googled a lot and after several days of coding it clicked. Well worth the effort!
The Web frameworks are not yet there (Lift is complex, Play is slow), but I learnt a lot.

I still keep my eye on Go, code most of the time C++/C++0x, some projects in Scala, and hope one day I can have all the benefits in one place.
There are no 'backdoor' shenanigans, they comply with subpoenas like everyone else (they uniquely provide a transparency report) the Schneier claim was speculative and he dismissed it later.

In this case it's phishing, read the post.
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"Seeking freelance or short term contract iPhone and Android development positions."

That's a dream guy for so many emails I get daily and I'm not even looking for work. From my perspective it looks like everyone wants to hire someone for a 6 month contract in a city nearby (which in Texas seems to mean 3 hours is nearby) for a company whose name they won't disclose. If he said he wanted full time employment and relocation reimbursement I think the number would have been much smaller.

Edit: looks like I didn't read closely enough and I ended up venting rather than seeing that this was a research and discovery project and not an after thought while looking for a job
Where do you want to be message at? :)
It's actually a really nice feature. It's quick, potentially (barring grease smear issues) more secure since you can use all nine points on the screen, and always optional.

This is one thing I've found that my Apple using friends are always a bit jealous of because it is slightly easier than punching in a pin number.
US Pentagon to treat cyber-attacks as 'acts of war'
This is part of what bugs me about the OS mentality. All that effort to clone a commercial release and very little going towards coming up with new ideas and gameplay improvements.

This is true of EVERY important category of software (From the OS on down!), not just games. Until the FOSS movement starts focusing on creating new things and not just cheap knockoffs of original, innovative software it will remain a niche.
It is great that Google is open with this stuff and the security tips were mostly good, but it was inappropriate to only recommend Chrome in a security message. All modern browsers have anti-phishing features. This came off as advertising.
The difference is that startups have a much shorter time horizon on which you can measure success, and their success is measured in different ways. While notoriously difficult to precisely compute, because of the length of time necessary to judge the impact of an 'XYZ Degree,' thorough studies show relatively small or, for many cohorts, almost nonexistent benefits to these kinds of Ivy League educations.

For, as in the case of YC, the success is first and foremost attributable to the participants - and whatever other value there may be is easily confounded and exaggerated. The only fair way to establish a comparison is to consider those who were accepted to YC, but chose not to enroll, for whatever reason. This is reasonably clear when X is 1300 students a year, harder when it's less than 100 startups.

Anyway, a rather belabored way of saying that the higher education comparison may be accurate... but not necessarily in the way that you think!
Sad. Tragic. Selfish. Stupid.

In that order.
It's their personal accounts.
Interesting that the article makes no reference to the Abortion argument put forward in Freakanomics (and defended in its sequel) which argued that making abortions more available in the mid-1970s led to fewer crimes from the 1990s on as those criminals weren't born (that's a bad summary of their detailed argument; don't attack my straw man).

In many ways this is why economics is the dismal science, as are its offshoots in the social sciences. There's excellent data to support the lead claim. Excellent data to support the abortion claim. It could be either, both, or neither in varying degrees, since we're backloading outcomes rather than making predictions.
If you want anything destroyed, get it involved in the American drug war. For further reading, please see Mexico.
No official Android plans as of yet, but it is something we are thinking about. Also thanks for the compliment on the art. We do all the art in-house and I passed your message on to the team.
Tech Founder here, looking for possibly 1 or more additional Tech co-founders, and possibly a non-technical "business guy/gal" co-founder.

your expertise (startup and/or prior work)

Software developer for the past 10+ years, 4-5 years of generic IT before that. From pulling ethernet cable in drop ceilings and administering Netware 3.x servers, to writing code in Java, Groovy, Scala or Clojure and all sorts of stuff in between... I've worked at firms ranging from "so small you'd never have heard of them" to some you might be familiar with, such as IBM, Red Hat and Lulu.

desired skillsets of a co-founder

For a tech co-founder: programming ability in some combination of languages that should probably include at least one of Java, C++, Groovy, or Scala. Experience / education / skills related to information retrieval, machine learning, social-network-analysis, text-mining, data-mining, etc.

Alternatively, same thing about programming languages, but deep knowledge of business intelligence, master data management, SOA, etc.

For a non-technical co-founder:

Deep knowledge and extensive experience in marketing related to B2B enterprise software would top the list. Understanding of market segmentation, positioning, differentiation, etc. would also be important. Some experience as a sales person, with demonstrated ability to close sales wouldn't hurt either. Beyond that, any skills / knowledge / know-how related to business model innovation, fund-raising, business development.

whether you have an idea that you are committed to or you are willing to explore other ideas

Pretty deep into something right now, but never say never. At the moment, the current initiative is based on open source "Enterprise 2.0" software (although perhaps taking a broad view of what "Enterprise 2.0" means). Basically, enterprise search / information retrieval / knowledge management woven together with social-networking & machine-learning to solve problems related to finding, filtering, retrieving, analyzing, and routing information in an organization.

areas of interest

JVM languages: Java, Scala, Groovy, Clojure. Big Data tools like Hadoop, HBase, etc. Machine learning libraries: Mahout, Mallet, Weka, etc. Information retrieval, including libraries / tools like Lucene, Solr, OpenNLP, UIMA, GATE, etc. Semantic Web / Linked Data. Inductive Logic Programming.

Ping me if you're interested, and I can send you the link to a more detailed "executive summary." and/or answer any questions.

Edit: also, for any co-founder, tech or otherwise, Good Things would be: a bit of a brash attitude, a healthy dose of skepticism, dislike for authority, convention and tradition, and at least a passing interest in heavy metal music. If you consider yourself an SMF, we'd probably get along well. \m/
As I recall, Rob Hall was a mountain guide leading a team. He died, doing his job, staying with a team member who was in trouble to try to help.
The objective meant little: majority of the positions were for contract to hire and full-time.
I see- I agree this wouldn't work if there was a _catastrophic_ break in the crypto algorithm... My post assumes that if the algorithm is broken, it would mean that questionable bitcoins could be created at a higher-than-expected rate, but that there would be time for people to backstop it by updating their clients. I would think that a less catastrophic issue (leading to only an order-of-magnitude improvement in hash solutions) is more likely, but I suppose a fully catastrophic break is also possible.
I love this cartoon style game art.

How is the artwork for a game like this done? Do you draw it by hand and scan it in and color it in Photoshop? Is it all all done on the computer?

I'm just curious about technique. Creating graphics is one of the hardest things to do as an indie game developer.
Yes, I know that. It's right at the bottom of the email:

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So how did my contact info get from Google to Gilt? Did I explicitly give permission for that when I signed up? Does Gilt and/or Google profit from this?
Yeah, I really don't understand how that happened.
Isn't calling this the Libertarian dream a bit of a strawman fallacy? The title is needlessly provocative and potentially insulting. It's an interesting enough topic/piece with out the political slander mixed in.
Thanks for posting that, it's good to see some other explanations for reduced crime. Crime in a society is a very complex phenomenon and not easily explained. I remember a few years ago when Freakanomics popularized the theory that crime went down because of Roe vs Wade increased abortions, in particular abortions of troublesome minorities who cause crime, implying that criminality was correlated to race. This idea is now a widely held belief even though there are lots of things that have changed over the years that you could just as easily also correlate but are not necessarily causal.

At least with this one (lead) there is actual known scientific data showing that lead exposure does increase violent behavior and there is a causal link (lead poisoning leading to a specific sort of brain damage).

edit: ah and having just pressed post I see that someone else here was thinking of the same comparison.
So governments are going to shut down bitcoin- as I understand it, this is done by making it illegal to use bitcoin in otherwise legal transactions. That seems like the kind of thing that'd tank the value of bitcoin, making it useless. On the other hand, there aren't too many places that you can spend bitcoin right now anyways- maybe it'd be an empty gesture?
I was diving at sea last weekend. I don't dive air at 40m. Your other comments about narcosis are sheer nonsense, completely off base. Don't breathe narcotic mixes.
Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler (Backdoor)
Keep the email on hand, it could be used as his recognition of prior art.

You may also want to talk to a lawyer and/or navigate the USPTO to get your site added to prior art for the application.
Yes, it's centralised (to a degree), but when people talk about decentralised protocols, they usually mean that the protocol itself is decentralised. There's still usually an official or de-facto standard maintained by a relatively small group of people.

Your argument that Bitcoin is not decentralised could easily be applied to any P2P protocol. I don't think there's any P2P system around, except perhaps natural language, which has a decentralised specification.
My complaint exactly. I use Opera almost exclusively and it deserves a much larger market share than it has...
My all-time favorite is d2x-xl, a re-work of the Descent II engine (which isn't quite a clone, because you still need some of the original game files to play):
http://www.descent2.de/

Stratagus/Wargus is a clone of the Warcraft II engine (which you also need original game files to play). It's no longer being actively developed, but the last release was stable and only had minor bugs (you can play all of the way through with no problem, plus multiplayer):
http://wargus.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

There's also a glacially-slow effort to re-work the Homeworld source code to openGL (and cross-platform):
http://homesource.nekomimicon.net/sourceforum/
Well yes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallism

Currency has, in fact, never been a wholly stable affair. Before paper money, allowing non-gold monies was a way of inducing inflation. But silver or platinum or cigarettes are clearly exact matches for gold while Patiocoins could automatically be that (and Patio is "famous" - that should be enough for a few people).

So this should only reinforce the point that money and currency can't just exist as a "natural" abstraction generated by an algorithm but rather must depend on social conditions (any society's currency system is transparently dependent on the overall configuration of that society's member's beliefs about the world).
"Review the security features offered by the Chrome browser. If you don’t already use Chrome, consider switching your browser to Chrome."

Nice subtle suggestion.
Behavioral economics for startups
Exactly this. There needs to be a bookmark function for interesting projects and the people that produce them. Some tagging on top of that would also be excellent for people with multiple contexts (work, hobby, side etc.)
Can anyone here share some ideas about how all that recruiting activity can be automated?

It is already partially automated (keywords search), but that's obviously not enough.

Better matching algorithms are needed, so neither job seekers nor recruiters would be overloaded with poor matches.

Anyone?
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It's a real man though. I'm a libertarian and I regard this as a positive development.
I agree that public key authentication is an improvement over passwords. Now show me a system that my mother-in-law can use (passphrases are out, she can't remember them).