skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the answer is some combination of (a) getting device drivers to work on highly specialized hardware in spite of extreme memory/CPU constraints; (b) developing a user interface (and the widget toolkit for developers to use, etc.) that doesn’t suck.

When my company was acquired by Nokia we had a choice of company-issued phones, and of course most of the geeks picked N900s (which ran Maemo, a Meego predecessor). After a few weeks using the N900 I was like “well, as a handheld Linux computer, it’s OK, but as a phone... meh.”
I'm pretty sure my housemates have had multiple simultaneous streams on their shared account.
To call Bitcoins a scam outright is the sign of a person who may not have tried putting money into the system to see how it actually works.

lol. (I don't usually say "lol" but it seems appropriat here.) So the only people worth listening to on the subject of bitcoin are people who own bitcoin and hence have an incentive to further talk it up?

Is it really a "scam"? Yes and no. It's not an outright scam in that the inventors really hope it will work (and that making themselves short-term rich off other people's money is just a side effect).

Smart psychics are a scam -- they know they're lying to people and they're taking their money by selling 'em something worthless. Bitcoin is more like a dumb psychic, one that doesn't know she's peddling bullshit.

On the other hand, from the point of the view of the person who has given up real money for the insight that they will meet a tall dark stranger, the intentions of the originator don't matter.
Netflix sharing will be a crime in Tennessee
yes, I saw that. I just cannot believe that this is simply the digested work of a (yet special) decompiler.
Set A may be a strict subset of set B, but that doesn't mean the elements in B are in A as well.

Alternatively: the profits generated by Apple and Google would argue otherwise.
There are a ton of images that Tineye still doesn't reach. I tried his latest comic, for example, and got zero results (http://www.tineye.com/search/70c1fd774b0bf7bdb500c19e59a98e6...). I doubt his comic isn't hosted other places on the internet!
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If having good teachers is a priority, then teachers should earn whatever is required to lure qualified people away from private-sector employment.
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In theory, a government-approved client could be implemented that is restricted to only send BTC to other government-registered addresses. There would have to insane restrictions on using and authenticating to the client software. And they would probably require the implementation to safeguard against unregistered addresses sending you money as well. All in all, shoehorning this into something approaching legal compliance would require stripping away every single point that makes Bitcoin worthwhile for end users.
The article does say that it is mostly to combat people harvesting and selling large number of accounts/passwords which seems reasonable to me. It is scary that they could go after people sharing with a friend with up to a year in jail though.
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Has having numerous models from a variety of manufacturers really hurt Android in terms of sales ?
The Fed does not have accountability to anyone as seen in their resistance to being audited. After they are confirmed they can do what they want, as a board, without any direct accountability.
That is not entirely fair. Median income is the position of low-skilled labor, not work that requires a college degree and a position of trust and responsibility for children.
Income is closer a power law distribution, not a normal distribution bell curve.
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"Republican Gov. Bill Haslam [who signed the bill] told reporters earlier this week that he wasn't familiar with the details of the legislation, but..."

I feel like this says it all.
Rackspace Cloud Servers and of coz Slicehost are also based on Xen.
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"Microsoft has for the first time realized that the ultimate device will function in BOTH modes and to be efficient the OS on that device also needs two distinct methods of interaction. And this I think is what is brilliant."

I hardly think this is the first time they or anyone else has realized this. A swiss army knife would be in principle the ultimate tool if it were as good at each of its functions as a dedicated device, but in practice it turns out not to be. Anything great is built to meet constraints, perhaps even transcend them, but not to try to be all things to all people. Much of what you say is compelling, but here I think you're drinking Kool-aid.

"You'll never see an iPad as the primary device on an office desk in its current form and UI. Your accountant or DB admin or whatever will always be more productive with a keyboard and mouse when it comes to heavy "business" style applications. This is what the existing touch UI's can't provide."

This immediately reminds me of people who said EXACTLY the same things about the Mac UI relative to the command line. In a sense they were right, because the Mac UI evolved. But they were wrong in a much more important sense, because the UI they considered indispensable simply became a tiny little-used relic tucked in the corner of its successor.

In the end, a computer is a device that provides information to a user and allows that user to make and express decisions. There are fundamental bandwidth arguments we can make about UI "paradigms" -- e.g. mice are spectacularly more precise at pointing than fingers, and keyboards allow a user to input textual information far more quickly than other devices.

Imagine when displays become cheap and flexible enough that your entire laptop is a display, so keys can change their appearance and so can your trackpad. Which UI paradigm will adapt better to this situation?

Or imagine if your display could subtly change its tactile properties to eliminate most or all of the text entry advantage of keyboards.

Anyway, you've made good points.
Remarkable - browser-based games are due an overhaul in the near future if this kind of stuff can be achieved.
Did you have programming experience before your cs degree? I am thinking about gOing into cs now to help switch my career track and want to know if it's wOrth it. Thanks for your post.
Windows 3.1 and 95 were _fantastic_ in their day. You might not be old enough to remember DOS programs...
I think his arguments sum up to, "It's not a government currency", and represent a fear of the unknown.

Further, after I spent some time reading economics books, economics sounds nothing so much like some people with suits on giving opinions, and then having their opinions proved wrong, then claiming that people should still listen to them.
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Worst title ever? Possibly.
Most parent that can already do send their kids to private school. But we have to admit that public schools often get the short end of the stick in most state budget discussions. Even if parents contribute more (taxes) it ends up not being used properly. Also, the bigger the house usually means the more taxes you pay to the school board ;p
Looked at in another way, think of Bitcoin as something more like MMORPG loot. If people are willing to spend vast amounts of "real money" on items for their WoW character, spending that money on Bitcoins instead makes it seem like a sane investment rather than just flushing it away.

What is the intrinsic value of Bitcoins, then? That people are willing to spend money on Bitcoins?

As an investment vehicle these are terrible. Commodities (diamonds, zinc, gold, wheat, oil, etc.) will always be demanded as factors of industrial production or farming. Equities generate real-world wealth for investors in the form of dividends. Both are demanded because they generate real value for investors.

Bitcoins have no intrinsic value. If you're in to make a quick buck, that's fine--this is a big arbitrage opportunity. But for any decently-sized time T, Bitcoins --> $0 as t --> T.
"Coolest" math book on my shelf (I'm a Math/CS Major) is "Street-Fighting Mathematics" by Sanjoy Mahajan. It's about "the art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving". The author used to teach these topics as a class at MIT.
The current rate is insane, yes, but it's almost solely because there's been so much attention around it lately. People want to get in on it, but don't have mining rigs handy, so they buy from an ever-decreasing supply of sellers who were around earlier. The rate will slow down significantly if it gets a lot bigger, until it's just a trickle.
The tps bandwidth argument is a great argument in relation to bitcoin. I think that that is a flaw that will have to be mitigated.
I agree that deflation is probably the biggest criticism of Bitcoin. The finite supply means that there's more of a temptation to sit on your heap of gold rather than to participate in transactions. This could lead to the currency becoming increasingly static and difficult to obtain over time. A better system would be to have a modest but constant rate of inflation, such that there is an incentive not to stash your cash for too long.
What's interesting is that Inman just wants attribution - which appears to be the one thing he can't get, and the one thing that seems the most reasonable.
Yes, this is a rather strange thing to say. I do know that they rebooted maemo/meego architecture multiple times, losing independent devs and also didn't give it resources, symbian was the thing... Think what would have happened to microsoft if NT hadn't worked...
I honestly don't know why they feel like need to release a huge number of devices to compete against Apple and Android. Apple releases one every, what, 15 months? And for Android, it seems you really only need ~3 devices (one with a keyboard, and two without at different prince points) to make a dent into the target market for Android.

It maybe that MeeGo was going even slower than that, but that's also their fault for deciding to more or less completely ditch Maemo instead of investing resources into that back from 2008 onward. If you look at what they had with the 770 a year and half before the iPhone, and the N800 5 months before, Nokia could have been huge. Instead they stuck with Symbian without really putting the correct work into it. And now they're stuck with Windows Mobile it seems.

I'm not sure what it all really means, besides a reminder it really doesn't make sense to attach yourself too much for companies. What they do can change on a dime.
well, i prefer left to right and "map". clearly it's subjective.
the vast majority of conferences we get here in Miami are for at least some part due to the weather being nice here vs snowy elsewhere. October isn't super cold in most places yet, but its very pleasant here in Miami. That being said, many medical or other high-end (cost wise/market wise) conferences go to vacation spots so their employees can double up and work then play.

Coming to florida isn't a punishment for most people.
Great, now they are now inventing new crimes to protect Big Content's old business models.
A bit - some Apple II Basic and 6502 assembler at high school. Just enough to know that I really enjoyed developing software.

The CS course I did provided almost no "training" in the practicalities of software development - you had to do a lot of development to pass the courses but you were pretty much expected to pick up sensible development habits by yourself, we never had any classes in it.
Found this project for printing out your bitcoins
https://github.com/bitcoin-labs/paper-keys
Nook Color hacked to run MeeGo - SlashGear
Well then, trolls would start 'hiring' these inventors (maybe as a contractor for just a period of legal battles) and keep pursuing their lucrative business.
The USD is a terrible store of value. Gold is a store of value. Govt paper is not.

What makes gold a "store of value"?
While you are correct about this particular instance of RE, I want to just take this opportunity to remind you that hands-on black-box RE is the technique used to create many of the drivers you see in Linux and BSD. Prior to AMD and Intel releasing video card documentation, every video card supported through community drivers was usually best-understood through RE experiments.
I can't believe it! They are actually using CRT monitors?
Non-Technical co-founder here. Looking for a technical cofounder for an education SaaS based in Waterloo, Ontario in Canada.

My expertise: Business. I've taken my past companies to global scale and one in the midst of accomplishing one of the biggest deals to date. I am a hustler .

Co-Founder desired skillset: Must be able to understand a little bit of the business end but mainly know how to code various languages. A web developer/programmer/software developer knowledgable in HTML, CSS, jQuery, Javascript, MySQL, etc. If you can design, it's a plus. But I can design pretty well myself.

I'm pretty committed to my idea, but i'm open to suggestions. I have a gem here.

Contact email is chrismars10@gmail.com
RIAA is criminalizing a lot of things these days. When will it stop?
Aside from myself, most of my friends are creatives and through that I have found it EXTREMELY rare to find stellar designers who can also code just as quickly and proficiently as front-end developers who have dedicated themselves to the craft.
Ownership of a stock is a claim on the net value and future profit of the company. In a theoretically efficient market with perfect information, stock price would be fixed; its value would be the same as the net present value of all income streams associated with that stock. But we don't have perfect information, especially about the future; so a certain amount of the stock price is formed from expectations about future profit.

It is of course possible that there can be a bubble of expectations in a kind of echo chamber that cause a stock to act like a Ponzi scheme, but ultimately over time there must be returns. The return can be as a stock price rise (but that can't go on forever) or dividends; if the cost[1] of the money invested in the stock doesn't match the return over time, then people will sell the stock and it will fall in price. If too much of the stock price is formed from aspirational expectations of the future (i.e. a bubble), then the price fall may be drastic.

[1] Money has a cost; for example, compared with the interest rate on a risk-free government bond. If an investment isn't making at least that much, it's losing money.
How does C's version compare to the approach in C++ of using composition (instead of inheritance) to combine several objects into one?
I guess C allows finer-grained "monkey patching" of one function pointer?
Also, for 1) this is not original binaries. This is obfuscation and anti-debug features removed.
Would it different if this were HN instead of CL?
> There is absolutely nothing preventing people from taking the open-source code and creating an alternative "Bittoken" currency which changes problematic design elements such as the minting/issuance model.

Yes there is. The protocol is not documented at all. That's one of the reason I'm a little hesitant to touch it.
Rdio has done it this way. My wife and I share an account. If I am listening to something and she starts listening, after the song I am currently listening too ends, it stops. If I then play another song, hers stops.
Are you suggesting that the number of models of an item that a company produces should in some way be comparable to the total number of models on the market?
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I am a coder that can design. Maybe I should move to the valley
I agree that university is useful in that it makes you take classes. I was becoming a reasonably competent programmer before I started university, and for every topic that I was interested in, I believe I could have learned it on my own.

I had no interest in database systems; it looked boring to me. My schedule and class requirements had a hole in it, and I took a database class. I'm glad I did.

I did want to learn Lisp, but I wasn't getting my head wrapped around it on my own, and was content to not push myself and just stayed with C. Then I took a language interpretation class and was forced to use Lisp. After a week or so the basic concepts clicked, and now I greatly enjoy Lisp. But I wasn't forcing myself to learn it.

I also ended up studying a bunch of other totally unrelated things that I wouldn't have on my own, at least not any time on the visible horizon: Russian history, economics, Spanish language, development of jazz music, public speaking... and I feel I'm overall better for it, partly because of what I learned in these classes, and partly because it made me realize there are interesting things to learn all over the place, not just in my favorite areas of study.

That said, if I've ever used any of this stuff that I didn't learn on my own in my actual work, I'm not aware of it. But that doesn't mean I'm not happy that I went through university.
>Bitcoins have no intrinsic value.

Part of the value is in their utility as an anonymous currency: try taxing the guy that's paid in Bitcoins.

Another part is the integrity of the currency: the currency is backed by math, rather than men, and not subject to hyperinflation resulting from corruption (i.e. the US Fed can create money out of thin air, but there is no authority that can create Bitcoins out of thin air: they must be mined).
How big is the market size? Entrepreneurs need to evaluate this before jumping into the water.
> The article does say that it is mostly to combat people
> harvesting and selling large number of accounts/passwords
> which seems reasonable to me.

It seems reasonable that there be a law against that?

Reasonable: Netflix TOS allows them to terminate your account if you're found in violation.

Unreasonable: TN law allows criminal charges to be brought against you, potentially incurring fines and jail time and almost definitely incurring legal fees.
The point is that as twitter has become more popular (more people using the service), the volume of the service's transactions - tweets - has risen exponentially.

The volume of bitcoin transactions cannot rise above a certain level if the supply of bitcoins is fixed, which would seem to prevent mass adoption.
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Yes LWN is an excellent publication. I've been reading their articles for years and I've recently become a subscriber.
Read the update.
HN has turned into bitcoin news because bitcoin speculators (enthusiasts if you'd prefer) are constantly spamming social media and other outlets to drive the price up. Hopefully sometime soon HN editors will see their way to giving it a manual penalty similar to politics, or re-evaluate the definition of a voting ring to include this minority spamming and voting.
Really? Please don't blame the teachers for this.

This line of reasoning has never made any sense to me -- why does everyone blame the public employees and want to take away their (hardly that great when compared to the rest of the country) salary and benefits? The solution isn't to cut them off at the knees; the solution is to raise everyone else up to the same standards.

If you want someone to blame for this, start with the No Child Left Behind act that forces schools to waste their budgets on meaningless standardized testing, and then penalizes them for it when they do poorly, creating a vicious cycle where a failing school can never become successful because it loses more funding each year. Or you could just go back to the root of the problem and blame the robber barons who, through well-paid lobbyists, have convinced the federal government to dismantle itself and its services year after year since 1980 in the name of the free market. We forgot what happens when corporate influence runs unchecked; we're learning again, and we're learning the hard way. The American experiment is dangerously close to failure.
thats a LONG drive. 11 hours or more. flying from RDU is like $200
Code is about 8.5% of our pie. You?
it ends up not being used properly

Here is the key. Plenty of school districts get tons of money yet it never reaches the students. The money ends up stuck somewhere in the administration.

Where I grew up the public school district took tax money and built a huge administration building on prime real estate in the cities posh downtown area. This all was while textbooks were falling apart, school buildings were falling down and there was a already a working administration building in a different part of the city. The new building was dubbed the 'Taj Mahal' by local media and it's still a joke.
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Pretty stupid move as companies could actually use this knowledge of consumer behavior to adjust their pricing and increase their profitability.

See Bakos, Brynjolfsson and Lichtman (1998) http://digital.mit.edu/erik/sig.pdf and Varian (1994) http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/sharing.pdf
> The bill, which has been signed by the governor, was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing.

If what this bill criminalizes was already "illegal" sharing, then there was no need for an additional law.
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It's a commodity designed to only be useful as a unit of trade. How does this differ from a fiat currency?
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They could reverse engineer and document the firewall/nat negotiation bit, which could then be incorporated into the GNU client.
Have been using railsapi/sdoc for many months now. It's fantastic and I highly recommend it.
> Deflation for a primary store of value in an economy is definitely a bad thing

How can having your assets increase in value be harmful? Traders already account for many stock variables, why would deflation be any different?

> and think about what that would mean - the bank pays you to borrow money from it.

Oh no, not that :P

> "when something goes wrong, it will die"

Sort of like hyper inflation?

> they don't understand that the value of money is a product of supply and demand

They also understand when supply is in control by a few bankers, so is the demand. Who do you trust to ensure supply isn't ramped up: your friendly banker, or math? This isn't hypothetical either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
If only there was something like this for jquery-mobile.. :)
He flat out states he won't sue, which means funnyjunk will keep the content up. If he wants it to stop he needs to bare his teeth a little.
A response: http://willwhim.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/fsharp-one-liners-t...
You know, I grew in the society which had a lot of problems and a consequence grew a very good sense of humor (and that without laugh tracks).
If someone thinks that Zed's writing is funny they still have a lot to discover.
Good luck proving that without a receipt.
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We shouldn't be looking up to PG as some sort of moral authority.