skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even if you take a given rate you cannot be sure that you can really sell your coins for this rate. E.g., assume that you are one of those early miners who currently owns at least 400.000 BTC (see http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.com/2011/01/latest-bitcoin-top...). How do you declare this on your tax statement? Yes - in theory that's worth 4 million dollars. However, as soon as you try to sell your BTCs you will crash the market.
I agree. Hook your users using operant conditioning. Give them random positive rewards for using your software.
working longer smarter is an edge over working shorter smarter.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist. If you read to the end of the article, you'll see why--he specifically called out this title if you'd like to take him out of context.
But it was the Siegfried Line[1] in WWII that let the Germans concentrate their whole army against the Poles and defeat them before turning west, and that let them attack where the French weren't rather than have to defend the current border. So German tactics in WWII were dependant on the same static defenses that the French used, but they took that and added a maneuver component instead of replacing it entirely.

Manuever warfare often relies on a static force to pin the enemy in place while the mobile elements do their thing. Saying "Maneuver good, static bad" is just as silly as the reverse, whats needed for success is to understand the advantages and disadvantages of the various tools available and intelligently choose the right tool or combination of tools for the task at hand.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Line
While this has no bearing on the law, I've always thought that works of software that represent an actual effort of development comparable to physical invention should enjoy the benefit of patents. This is precisely what the patent system was designed to do - protect large research investments.

The abuse of the system for things that really don't require research and development is at issue here. I think proposals to abolish software patents entirely are probably wrong - but granting patents on XOR, or 1-click, or doing something obvious but on a computer system, are equally wrong.

Put it this way: if I have a problem to be solved by software that is really hard (such as your algorithm), then I'm going to research it before spending five man-years developing it, find you guys, and happily license your solution. No question. And if somebody reverse engineers your solution and sells it, then by God they should be penalized for violating your patent. This is why we have patents.

But if I have an idea like 1-click and pay an Indian developer $10 an hour for a week to develop it, this is simply not worthy of monopoly protection; your disclosing your solution isn't that valuable. If, seventeen years from now, after I've built an online shopping empire while you haven't, you sell your patent to Lodsys and they sue me for a billion dollars out of the blue, that is highway robbery, and it's not in any way helping society - and that is the situation we actually currently have.
What is Multiplexing
Multiplexing is the form of sending multiple signals through a device and then receiving nominal or separate signals at the end of the device by the user. The main function of this is to send multiple
I don't think it's necessarily condescension to second guess decisions made 100 years ago. I can think of plenty of examples of clearly horrible decisions agreed upon by the consensus of elite thinkers 100, 50, 20, 10, or 5 years ago...
Seriously?

They sell the product to customers, other people spend a small amount of time reverse-engineering how it was done, and copy it.
First, you can easily leave old company behind and establish a new, clean one, transfering all assets. Second you can have a separate company (like an agent) for doing business in US. Third, why do you need, as a software company, to do any business IN US anyway? WITH US residents you can without any worries.
The problem is that if the cryptography is broken, in regards to #3, you have no idea if a token created with the 'old method' is real or counterfeit.

In a decentralised service you would need to convert all old tokens into new tokens before the old cryptography was compromised, which requires work - you would be generating new coins, and would have an exchange rate. Or you could setup a centralised validation service for coins as the article suggests, before the cryptography was broken, to ensure people aren't creating fake money.

I am not sure what you mean by accepting a bitcoin vs voting for a bitcoin, can you clarify? "Voting" doesn't look like a method they normally use for validation...
This is a toy I built in the last couple weeks to scratch an itch I'd had for a while. It's a Scheme-ish take on stack programming with purely postfix operations throughout.

It's not hugely pretty, but I think it has some nifty concepts: unthunk, unlambda, self-closed variables ("static symbols").

I'd like to think I'll find time to port it to LLVM as an adventure in writing a compiler. We'll see how that works.
That's right, they believe they are doing the world a favor by "financing innovation".
Does anyone live in a place where crime is a problem as you describe it?

I have.

It seems that the Westerner attitude is that "somewhere else" things are really bad.

If I lived in a place where crime was a problem, I'd say so.

New Orleans has close to the highest murder rate in the world.

Cape Town was higher, last year.

And? I don't especially care about New Orleans: don't live there, wouldn't want to live there. It's a problem, but there isn't anything I can _do_ about it, so why worry?
Hmm, ok...

[Note: The best way to quote me out of context is something along the lines of “Cartoonist recommends increasing taxes on the poor!”]

I'd he called out against this title, but I can see the temptation. Still... don't editorialise!
Good feedback! Fixing right now :D
Hats off to tap*3 for creating a moneymachine once again. Too bad there is no word about the amount of time it took them to develop the app.

Edit: in their previous blog post they say it was "Nearly two years in the making…", but that still doesn't mean actual development time.
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You're right.

But even non-trivial ideas tend to occur to several people at once, which is a part of the problem.
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I see. It all comes down to morals. With all the Open Source Community has given me, I'm not interested in stepping on toes. Not sure what the future holds but thanks for making your perspective crystal clear!
From the title, I really really thought this was going to be about paying for downloads to force your way in to the top charts. I'm very glad to see that this is actually a great success story instead.

Congrats, guys!
I think the hassle of typing, versus scanning is the purported advantage. But the advantage is offset because an app needs to be launched.

Are there any devices that can recognise something as a QR code, as soon as it they are switched on?

If you could switch a phone camera on (an easy operation on most phones), and, when pointed at a QR code, it automatically figured out that it was looking at a QR, and decoded it, I think QR codes stand a chance. Otherwise, I would tend to agree with you, at least for consumer consumption.
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> They were so heavily armoured and gunned that for a long time, from the late 19th Century to just before WWII, the only realistic defence against a battleship was another battleship.

German U-Boats demonstrated battleship's obsolescence during very early WWI (U-9 sank 3 battleships in under an hour in September 1914...), and this was confirmed in the early 20s with aerial torpedoing (which Admiral Percy Scott had predicted would end battleships in 1914).

The only thing which let battleships "survive" into the 40s were navy brass conservatism and inertia, and the lack of military conflicts.
You are living dangerously with federal labor law if you are not paying the interns anything at all.

http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf

If your internship program doesn't meet the Department of Labor regulatory test, you may owe pay to all of your interns.

A subsequent reply to the submission here said,

I really believe in paying interns if they are doing meaningful productive work

Well, that's not only a good idea, it's the law. Interns generally must be paid if the value of their work to the employer exceeds the value of the training program to the intern--which certainly appears to be the case described in the original post here.

Anyway, interns who work without pay while possessing computer skills are chumps. In the job market in my town, anyone with serious programming skill can get a paid internship readily at a company with a genuine future--whether that is a start-up or an established big corporation.
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I don't think that postcard picture is giving a wholly realistic view of the Grand Fleet at the time. It seems like there's twice as many capital ships in the picture as there should be according to the text.

EDIT: Actually, if you click on the picture, the description does mention it's "likely an artist's vision".
Answers are pinions until pinions are unanimous
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The phalanx was a really bright idea for its day. The Greeks were able to defeat much larger Persian armies (Marathon, Plataea) with their phalanxes. And the phalanx was a crucial part of Philip II and Alexander's combined arms system and their maneuver warfare. "Phalanx" vs. "maneuver warfare" is, at best, a false dichotomy.
I was asking this question because protection against others independently developing a similar algorithm is what the patent system provides, and that's why many people, including myself, are opposed to it.

I wasn't assuming that you personally or even your employer actually wanted that kind of protection. So my rather rhetorical question was intended to highlight that discrepancy.

You want to prevent others from copying your work but what you do by patenting it is more than that. You prevent others from making or benefiting from their own original invention. Of course, as long as software patents exist, you don't have much choice.
We were actively developing the app for over a year and a half, in part due to a reboot midway. (The safe, prize and much of the game didn't exist until midway through!)
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Yes, well, I'll at least have enough foresight to avoid AGPL or similar code if possible. Its just a good thing to understand what I may encounter once I've invested a year and a million dollars into something which might have unwanted public rights.
Nice idea, but a sample of what you would be signing up for would be useful. Good Luck!
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And the author overlooks the long, long history of bigger ships with bigger guns bringing victory to European forces.

In the Battle of Lepanto the Christian alliance was able to use big ships with cannons mounted on them to crush the Ottoman force before the Ottoman's flanking force was able to get in position.

In the European expansion into the Indian Ocean large boats with big guns were able to easily defeat hordes of smaller, lighter ships that they faced letting the Portuguese, then the Dutch and English take control of some of the most valuable trade lanes in the world.

In the Opium War the British were able to easily win because of big guns that could out-range anything the Chinese had and fast steam engines that let them set the pace of engagement.

And if things at Jutland had gone just a little bit differently it might have been the Germans who had won the war.
Can the customer compile the source?
Hey, you guys remember when the Danger server would suffer an outage like every week and how it would render the Sidekicks as bricks? No contacts, no text messages... nothing. The Sidekick was so damn great, right?!

Oh, and who could forget the laggy UI! It took ages to open up applications, but imagine all the things you could while you wait. And don't even get me started on those sweet third-party applications. Alarm clocks! I loved that the Sidekick LX didn't have a native alarm clock and so you had to purchase one for $1.99. Awesome!
Encirclement was by no means discovered at Stalingrad! The Germans themselves created plenty of kessels in '39-'43. And the classical example is, of course, Hannibal's strategy at Cannae.
Might want to fix the title--it's the June issue.
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You're not alone, it was my first thought too. Loved that application!
MacHeist, on which this is apparently based, sells a bundle of software for far less than their usual price. It's not the same as paying for downloads, but...
I think it does matter, because it means certain behavior is more likely.

Companies that create patents are more likely to invest their time, money and effort into actually making things that will eventually be sold (in whatever fashion). This activity adds value to the economy. While it is possible for such companies to aggressively pursue their patents in the way that Lodsys has, they don't need to do it to survive, and I hope that the people who work there would rather spend time on more productive things. That's not a guarantee, of course.

Companies that merely collect patents, and exist solely to collect and profit off of the patents themselves, do not add value to the economy. They are parasites. Because they have no other way of generating revenue, we can expect them to behave in the way that Lodsys has.

If it was possible to design the IP laws so that patent trolling was not profitable, then I think that would be a good thing. I'm not sure if it's possible - but I think it's worthwhile to recognize that there is a relevant difference.
That'd be http://oppugn.us/ , where the rants go.
That is merely an accounting issue. Multinationals are dealing with currency translation all the time.

In your example you would of course pay tax from $15.
Thanks! Have to say the idea of paid downloads has always been gross to us, definitely hurts the ecosystem and tips things over in favor to companies like EA who have cash to burn. We work pretty hard to pick up new fans, then produce apps that they'll actually find cool and pick up on their own :)
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You're right, that was a poor choice of words.
thx, I'll update the site and I'll include a sample of the newsletter.
Bigger books sell better.

Is this true? I was always under the impression that bigness was used to justify a higher price point.
I don't think filling in a form online will ever be glamorous. The thing I strive for when designing a form is that it is usable by anyone and instantly recognizable as a form.

This is a great plugin, but consider the consequences of using non-browser-default form elements and the potential to confuse your less technical customers.
I think you are right in what you are saying but that means that QR codes would have to be widely adopted to make them native to the device you are looking at them on. And as the other commenter noted, what if the device dies?

Airlines have been using QR style codes for years for bags etc so they can probably find a use for them.

I'm all for advancements in technology but I somehow feel that this is a fad that will pass quite quickly unless they find an actual use for it
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Quick update: Microsoft's head of communications said "no comment" when asked about this. Nokia's CEO will be on CNBC later today. I'll update later based on what he says.
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> IMHO it's an overwhelming act of condescension pretending to be smarter than thousands of admirals and military advisors, many of them with lots of real world experience fighting wars and stuff.

I thought the same thing, but then I remembered that the military leadership and tactics during The Great War were pretty damn lousy (e.g. trench warfare). For some reason it seems like it's surprisingly common for wide varieties of armies to repeat history.
Paying them.
except they are extremely expensive and hard to defend. They are great for projecting power against countries that can't defend against them, but extremely ineffective against a remotely comparable force. They are an obvious high priority.

Ever see Independence Day or, more recently, Battle LA? Didn't you find it stupid that once the command ship are destroyed, the enemy essentially dies? This is what aircraft carriers represent.

Take the $23 billion dollars it takes to build the first Gerald R. Ford Carrier and invest that into various decentralized, independent, small technologies, and your army is considerably better for it when it comes to any serious threat.

It's like our military planners never read Ender's Game.
Yes, submarines managed to sink a few battleships when they had the element of surprise on their side. As soon as anti-submarine tactics adapted, the battleships were again reasonable safe against torpedo delivery systems. (Even in the 1890s, battleships had been vulnerable to torpedo boats, a challenge surmounted by the adoption of secondary, quick-firing armament.) It was only with the arrival of strong naval aviation that battleships lost their supremacy.
Nokia really fell behind this last generation and microsoft is not getting anywhere with their diversification into other areas effort.
Android would probably be a pretty good starting place. They have (nearly?) no GNU code in their distributions.
Open source remakes of games you're still loving
The sad part to me is that you need media attention (albeit new media in this case) for the police department to do their job.
Again, playing devil's advocate, Lodsys is contributing to the economy by rewarding the original patent owners for their innovation.
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WordPress custom metabox listing all audio files from media library
The thread title is awfully linkbait-y for something that is a) just a rumor, and b) coming from an "insider" that is significantly less than solid.
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The thing is that this is amazingly rare. The handful of times it's happened, the 'victim' most likely just removes the repo (which has always been possible) and that's the end of it. Others might say to their friends on IRC "Hey, can you see dongml in my projects list on github?" and sure enough the answer will be 'no'.

It's easy to say "oh just add it to the UI", but to actually do it is another story. Before you know it you've got hundreds of preferences, and then people will be complaining that there's too many options and it's too confusing (a-la facebook privacy settings). Honestly, GitHub's preference pages already need some work, so I for one am glad they don't add drop downs for every person's pet feature.

Regardless, it doesn't matter now. Now you just remove the project and block the user (or, presumably, just blocking the user might remove the repo... either way), so that's that.