skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're really interested in alternative currencies like Bitcoin, the book "A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States" is worth a gander.

The US didn't have a centrally issued currency until the mid-1800s. Instead, banks issued their own notes, and more uhm...enterprising individuals "issued" their own as well.

There's an argument to be made that the US couldn't have grown the way it did in the early 1800s without a lot of made-up currencies. The resources to back a gold or silver currency just didn't exist in the quantities required.

There's a lesson here somewhere.

Review here- http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v10n40a04.html
Not at all! I'll clean up the wording. Thanks!
> If the entire email fits in the subject, put it in the subject.

> If you think that's rude, it's not.

Maybe not rude, but awkward nonetheless when you're trying to reply to it.
I'm not sure anyone is arguing over whether people should or shouldn't judge each other, but rather arguing over the metrics used. I'm not for PC in conduct, and I offend people in person quite often. Most people I interact with these days have known me for more than 10 years. It seems hugh3 is from the UK, while I am from the US (4th gen UK immigrant; just inherited 2 portraits of immigrant ancestors from the 1850s); there seems to be quite a few nuanced differences that turn out to be significantly determinate in our ultimate conclusions in a variety of situations. I'm guessing you, too. are from the UK because it is difficult for me to empathize with hugh3 the way you appear to do so.
I got extremely candid advice when I was not selected after interviewing for the w2011 group. It was both unexpected and good feedback.
This is a great suggestion. I'll add this in to the article.

Politeness is so important that I've set my email "signature" to "Thanks!"

More often than not, it's appropriate to leave it in.
> it really wouldn't make sense to me to give someone co-founder equity

The problem is you're thinking of your co-founder as some kind of technical-coattail-rider. But ideally your co-founder is better than you at product and market research, dealmaking, finding advisors and general networking. Your argument only applies to the all-around inferior co-founder, in which case no you shouldn't "give them co-founder equity" regardless of whether they are technical or not.
just because the reactor is open, it doesn't mean the radioactive material is going to fly away.

How is the radiation supposed to be contained when your reactor just turned into a burning pile of rubble?
I have my Mail.app set to only send plain text emails, people still reply to me using Outlook using non-plaintext email.
An interesting quote from AlleyInsider on this:

"They're probably going to need the money for customer acquisition. AirBnB is in the highly competitive travel space, where it's very expensive to acquire customers. From Paris, AirBnB has the top Google ad for "vacation rental", which has to be a pretty expensive click. "

via http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-billion-funding-dst-an...
Funnily, my quad Intel Core i7 (two cores both with hyperthreading) couldn't play the 720p Flash video on YouTube smoothly...

Impressive stuff! The thing I paid most attention to was the way they had figured out at least some way of what to do with those ARM cores. Getting four cores running at 75% (no idea whether they were throttled at the time) means there's some serious work being done. The usual mobile graphics benchmarks don't stress the cpu side as much the gpu side so Tegra3 wouldn't gain as much by running existing demos.
Big ticket items:

* Mainstream promotional marketing

* Direct sales efforts (identifying target markets, staffing sales teams to pursue them)

* Business model changes to ramp up customer acquisition at the expense of profitability

* Rollups of related companies and acquisition of complementary companies.

* International expansion

* Lobbying

And there's just always something to be said for having a war chest; in today's climate, if you can lock in a very long runway at favorable terms because it's obvious you have a great shot at financial success, why not? The saying goes, "when you're hitting your numbers, you're in charge; when you're not, your investors are in charge". Even with more outside investors, Airbnb probably isn't giving up control over their destiny.
After reading the Sternberg and Tenner articles on this topic, I noticed that they forgot one major thing: it's sometimes the business guy who's the lead founder and in charge of the product direction. I'm going to be a little biased here since I'm the "business guy" of the startup I'm working on, but having a guy who knows the product well yet is constantly in the market chatting to people is very important. If the lead founder is also the developer, the product often has a tendency to be technically incredible, but lack the market connection needed to sell. By bringing a business guy along once the product is "ready", he's selling something that he didn't create, which is so much harder to do.

Now I'm not going to say that every startup must have a business guy leading from the beginning, there are a ton of developers that have incredible business sense. What I am saying is that it can often be a disadvantage to have the guy coding the product be the guy that leads product design. Your decisions become jaded by what you like doing and what you don't like doing, and a customer focus is hard to maintain. Taking a step away from the code and having a guy who understands software dev, yet is focused solely on market intelligence can make all the difference.

I previously worked with a successful startup that had a CEO who had never actually seen the code of his company's platform. It didn't matter to him. He was talking with the customer every day, knew what they wanted and was able to convey it to the developers. As a graduate of Software Engineering, he still knew how to code, but his vision wasn't hampered by the day to day grind of actually coding it.

Obviously there's many ways you can be successful in a startup, but creating a great product is really only half the battle. If you can have a software-intelligent, externally-focused "business guy" leading the charge, you can make sure that your great product doesn't go to waste and you have a market for it when it's complete.
An update that includes blocks would be nice.
America's House Party
It is said that these "flaws" are deliberate in GCC, to prevent it being reused as a component (e.g. as a syntax highlighting engine) in someone else's IDE that hides that it's using GCC under the hood.
I wish the point about adding and removing people to the thread had some more rules, like:

* if people are added to the thread, the body of e-mail should start with [adding A and B so they can {do X}];

* if people are removed from the thread, they should be BCCed and the first line of the e-mail should read [BCCing C and D for now to minimize the noise].

Also, can't really agree with the breaking up e-mails point. It's usually costlier to follow extremely branchy thread than to filter the relevant points from a linear thread.

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Yet, you (reportedly) weren't fond of the idea, either ...
I did have a recent-ish use for something like this. The 2006 ICFP contest, which was awesome, took the form of a virtual-machine image you had to write an emulator for in order to get at the problems. The image was a self-extracting compressed executable. After the contest, we had to submit our source code. For kicks, I made a self-extracting compressed executable generator at the last minute so we could submit our stuff in the same form as the contest image itself. To make this, I needed an assembler for their VM; I made a Forth DSL just like the OP here.

Russell O'Connor was working separately on a DOS-like shell to wrap around my compressor. He needed an assembler too, and wrote his as a Haskell DSL which he later expanded and wrote up in http://www.haskell.org/wikiupload/1/14/TMR-Issue6.pdf

(Just one assembler might have been sensible, but we had to make this submission in a few hours overnight after 3 days of contest hacking and weren't up to more than minimal effort on coordinating.)

For assembler coding Forth syntax really is no worse than Lisp-syntax assembler -- I got pretty comfortable using it in practice back in the day. And as Kragen notes, the underlying Forth system is more powerful than a macro assembler. (I'd agree that Forth is not a comfy general-purpose language by modern standards.)
I didn't say it was worse, I said it was pointless. I would have more accurately reflected my thoughts if I had said "you obviously don't think he is very competent".

I could learn to be more careful about people's feelings regardless. Sorry tom, I don't know you and I shouldn't have commented.
When you link to a video, show it in the title. I am on a slow connection and am getting tired of waiting for a page to load, only to find out it is just a video and totally useless to me.
Difference in Female & Male Brains Reflect Funding Issues
PBS.org hacked
And so does the consumer's concern at that point, who is paying for a link with a guaranteed bandwidth. How they accomplish that beyond my home wall jack is simply not my concern, just like I don't care where the electricity in my sockets is being sourced from.
Congratulations to everyone involved. This is way cool. Super inspiring.
Cool - feel free to email me (email in profile) as your landing pages move along. I've done hiring at small startups so I get the product and the value.
Microsoft pays someone to spam Quora with fake product recommendations
Not sure if I would use tables for layout and probably wouldn't remove the html5shiv js that is there because of html5 compat in IE. But thats me.
I think it matters who tells you it's a stupid idea. If it's investors, you can safely ignore them; they aren't looking for what you're selling anyway. If it's potential customers, however, you probably have a problem.

In AirBnB's case, they had already validated the market. They had their first 3 customers before they even thought it could be a business. If people are willing to pay you money for your idea, it really doesn't matter what investors think.
Ask HN: Anyone know why searchyc.com is down?
This website has helped me out on various occasions to figure out what was going on: http://cdecl.org/ (it won't say if something is illegal though or not)
You should work on your reading comprehension.
Skylon space plane gets a thumbs-up
What is their revenue? How much profit are these guys making? How big is their team?
In line with tomdale's quite constructive multi-framework suggestion (and yeah I gave it props on the pull's comment page too), everyjs site looks ready for a third pulldown at the top: "Render this page using <JS-library-list>"

Maybe with some loadtime stats and other statporn too
If you had $1.5 million to start a tech company what would you do?
Hiring as well. I remember that Twitter was about 25 people when I was looking for jobs in 2008, just as they'd closed their mammoth $50M+ round. They're now at 400+.
Quick aside, if you haven't seen this TED talk, definitely check it out: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
If the attacker has enough physical access to pull out your memory, I doubt they'll be very disappointed by AES-in-CPU-only protection. They're still getting 8-32GB of other private data (passwords, everything in your page cache, etc). The real solution is to physically protect your computer.
This is technology that looks very promising but is not, from my research, mature.
Learning by doing is a good approach. I recommend that you ignore all the plugins and add-ons for Django and just write your own code. You will often find that it solves your particular problem better, and writing your own code will give you the exercise you need to become competent. Start with small ideas and work up to bigger ideas.
it can, you are doing something wrong
Circuit Cellar Ink
> Meanwhile, their less enlightened, less capable, and frankly less humble competition just assumes that most movies will end up losing money, and that what REALLY matters is getting a handful of hits that can offset endemic failure.

Without having watched the talk, isn't that the fail early, fail often startup mantra?
Firefox 4 ditched WebSockets for security reasons. Does anybody know the justification to add it back now? More specifically, do they fix the security issue of WebSocket, or do they just give up to the popular demand?
I don't think anyone can predict what's going to be big, and what isn't, and that's why bad VC/investor/coach advice is so pernicious.

Let's look at the progression: Google shows up, makes a big splash among the tech elite but attracts little attention in the popular market until their obscene IPO, and investors collectively say, "Damn, well, I don't want to miss out on the next Google!" Then there was Facebook, and again, investors collectively say, "Damn, well, I don't want to miss out on the next Facebook!" Now there's Airbnb, and investors are saying what now?

(I'm skipping over a ton of other big to almost-big examples in this progression; hopefully someone more knowledgeable will fill in some gaps, but I don't think it will diminish the point.)

The thing is, Facebook wasn't the next Google and Airbnb wasn't the next Facebook. None of the breakout hits have been entirely original ideas, nor would an early-stage pitch have been compelling to anyone with the ability to be a significant early investor. There were zero signals that would have worked as a strong early indicator of future success.

The more I observe this industry, the more it strikes me that any investor that's investing in the hopes of being part of The Next Big Thing is simply gambling. Just as in gambling, if you study the game and the rules carefully enough, you can tip the odds in your favor a bit, but there's still no such thing as a guaranteed win. When I hear people say, "We're looking for the next X," my eyes roll back into my head a bit.
I think the point is, AES is what you normally use to protect those 8-32GB of data, and there are well-known attacks that subvert AES when your attacker gets access to the hardware.

"Physically protecting your computer" is kind of a non-statement. Computers get stolen, full stop.
Userland processes can't directly read the debug registers.
Huge congratulations to Airbnb. That's incredible.
ACM ICPC Final Results
The complexity of the applications will be far greater than Windows ME. Good article on The Long, Dismal History of Software Project Failure - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/05/the-long-dismal-his.... Before we let everyone's self-driving mashup on the road it might be good to figure out if they work first.
I second this approach. Instead of building a laptop from scratch, try rebuilding existing laptops. Start with minor upgrades and repairs. Work your way towards major ones, and eventually do a complete tear-down and rebuild.

I suspect this is the way car mechanics learn. There are some further similarities. Like cars, and unlike desktop computers, laptops are heavily constrained by portable form factor concerns (size, thinness, total weight, efficient and safe cooling, low power usage, ruggedness). This wider variety of problems leads to a wider variety of solutions. So like cars, the guts of a laptop can differ wildly, and for learning you're best off picking a "line" that's well-engineered and has been relatively stable over time.

I've been slowly working towards laptop building via re-building existing laptops. Specifically, old IBM T4x Thinkpads, which you can pick up for about $200 these days [1]. There's a wealth of information about how to take them apart and mess with things [2], the user disassembly manuals are excellent [3], and I believe even the more recent T2xx Lenovo line is still pretty similar in terms of components and how they all fit together.

[1] http://www.iobound.net/laptop-prices/

[2] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

[3] http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/3...
I listen to a lot of music, or Fresh Air/NPR. I would do the exact same thing if I was riding on a train. I listen to a lot of music anyways (i.e. go to record stores, buy albums etc... ) so it's great for me, especially because I don't listen to music or other things at work because it's distracting for me.

Also, I know I couldn't handle the drive to Cupertino from SF, and I've had an imposed limit of 45 minutes for a commute, which is why I even moved to Menlo Park when I first moved to the bay. But, I get off at Sand Hill Road, and honestly, living in Menlo Park is much more soul sucking than an extra 20 minutes of commuting each day. It was too far to walk anywhere from my house when I was home, and that's a huge dealbreaker for me.
Computers get stolen, but they're usually already off, or turned off during the theft. But let me get this straight: you're worried about an attacker reading out everything on your hard drive, but not worried about them reading out all the unencrypted stuff in RAM? I'm not against disk encryption, I just don't see the point of this specific protection.

Edit: now that I think of it, if a company laptop with customer data had full disk encryption and was stolen, do you still have to notify everyone? Does it matter whether it was off or on/suspended? Maybe people will be relieved when they find out that "8GB of data was probably not stolen" (with AES-in-CPU-only) instead of "300GB of data was probably not stolen".
"Mind boggling indeed, but totally absent in the text and demo was any mention of power usage."

That is because NVIDIA is really bad with power usage. Like Intel, they are optimized(the graphic chips) for being faster and faster, not taking less power.

It is not so easy for them to change that. The same way ARM was created from scratch for mobile devices so was OpenVR (the graphic accelerator behind iPad and iPhone).

OpenVR started in the desktop developing low power graphic cards, I used one of them but NOBODY CARED back on the day. People do not care at all about the Nvidia card consuming 200Watts because power on the grid is cheap.

I guess they will make mobile devices for gaming with huge batteries and people that want high quality games will buy them.
I was in a similar position a few months ago. I settled on a Netgear WNDR3700 for the following reasons:

* cheap - $79 refurbed @ TigerDirect - http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-det...;

* gigabit ports

* lots of ram - 64MB

* lots of flash - 8MB

* expandability - USB for more storage

* 80211.N support with 2.4GHz and 5Ghz bands

* popularity - well supported by OpenWRT (I'm a former DD-WRT'er and like OpenWRT so much more)

So far extremely stable running OpenWRT trunk and a lot of fun to tinker with :-)
IIRC in c# you can abuse selectmany and it's inline linq syntax to achieve more or less the same effect. (google "monad selectmany" for examples)
In my opinion, for a two person team, both have to be technical founders and at least one of them has to have some product sense to build anything useful.

For a three person team, however, you can afford a dedicated business person. There is certainly value in having somebody around who is _willing_ and is _looking forward to_ taking on all of these things.

Having said that, to me a business guy is defined by his experience. Loosely defined, I can call myself a business guy just because I'm willing to take on responsibilities that are not coding. And I believe I will be as good (and bad) as any other inexperienced business guy. Our respective backgrounds and education will mean absolutely squat when it comes down to getting the business off the ground. This is why a business guy with no experience is just an empty term to me. Until he has started and ran a business he is no more of a "business guy" than I -- we're both just "aspiring businessmen" and only one of us can code.
First of all, I didn't link to any analysis, just to a bunch of screenshots. Screenshots aren't balanced one way or the other.

But, on the link you posted. The conclusion in that article is actually a fair conclusion to make. It's just not one I agree with. The trade dress claim hinges on consumers being confused between the products, and I don't see it happening. If you can find me one person, anywhere, who bought a galaxy thinking it was an iphone, I'll admit fault and move on.

Any way, my point was more generic than that. Basically, I think everything that's in the iphone had been done before, so the only thing apple can lay claim to is the combination, not any of the parts. Take for example the white slanted phone on the green glossy background. On the face of it, it sounds ironclad, since it's an unusual and unique style of phone icon, right? But, then you look at the skype icon from 2006, and surprise, it's clearly the same icon, except with a round border. You could just as easily argue that apple copied skype's phone icon when they designed the iphone icon. Given enough time, and google image search, you can do the same thing for every one of the iphone's icons, and for any part of its design.

In the end, you end up at the heart of the matter: how different does a phone have to be before it's no longer infringing according to apple? If samsung changes two icons and uses a gray bezel, does that magically make it ok, even if it would still have the "feel" of an iphone? Sounds wishy-washy logic to me. Still though, I do wish samsung hadn't copied the iphone to such a degree. It cheapens a phone which could have stood on its own merits.
That's exactly what this article reminded me of. While I would love to only see an internet filled with stimulating intellectual conversations, I don't want an algorithm deciding what I see and don't see.

While a personalization approach could work, I believe that a better solution is changing the way the discussion forum works, not hiding and censoring certain content from certain people.
What are some potentially practical uses of WebSockets?
Erlang Project Power Levels
Devious was also my first thought, possible self related "me being devious". You may have some people who think that but many may not as well.
What Motivates An Entrepreneur?
List of forums for backlinking and page rank purpose
Extend Redis with LUA
It's not a strawman, because any meaningful claim of isomorphism between computers and brains depend upon there being a mappings between computer states and brain states, i.e. such claims rely upon Turing equivalency. Unless one continues to make up definitions as one goes along.

Incidentally, the claim that the distribution of Tiki Bars is normally a component of the scientific definitions of "beach" is the most patently absurd use you have made of a sophomoric definition strategy so far in this discussion.
Realtime web apps. No need for long poling when you can have a live connection open
Thoughts on using the word "process"
Because chances are that they'll be stolen by a guy who dropped out of high school and hasn't had a regular job in years.

If a three or four letter agency is coming after me, I have bigger problems.
He's comparing the highest quality film known to man. It's also a very slow speed ISO50 film.

Higher speed (i.e. more light sensitive) film has nowhere near that level of resolution.

Plus his doubling at the end because of RGB is wrong. So the real number is 87MP for this super film, and 36MP for more ordinary (but still high quality) film.

More typical consumer film goes even lower.

Also his source data of 160 lines is only for very high contrast source material. In more typical scenarios the number is half this (so the MP count is 1/4 of what he said).
Yes, the security concern has been fixed using masking. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketproto...
A/B Testing and Local Maxima
Public domain? Based on what exactly?

Unless there is license granting you some rights, you don't have any rights to that code (you cannot legally download, use, modify, copy or redistribute it).
Yea, using flash to play the video.