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I mostly agree with your second statement -- building GNU tools on a proprietary OS was pretty much the only way to get started, especially considering the ongoing state of HURD, although I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to call that "compromising". Can you give me a reference for the proprietary-friendly licensing? Depending on exactly how friendly you mean, I didn't think their contributor agreement allowed them to do that.
I wish it had octaves above and below though. It's hard to play anything in a minor key, because the relative minor starts on the 6th and then you only have like 4 notes above that.
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The most absurd aspect of EULAs is that in many (if not most) legislations, either the entire concept is legally invalid, or most of the clauses are (and most of the others are superfluous due to existing laws). Yet companies keep paying lawyers to write the things.

It's some sort of combination of a wishlist and jurisitcal masturbation.
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It just hit me that Eliezer Yudkowsky's Methods of Rationality's Parseltongue bears a resemblance to lojban: its limited vocabulary force its speakers to describe complex concepts with simpler terms, which makes the whole extremely readable.
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You can see the discussion that led to its deletion here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deleti...

It looks like the deletionists decided Cat wasn't notable enough to deserve a Wikipedia article about it.

You can read about Wikipedia's notability criteria here:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Not...
Ad. 1 all bitcoins operations are stored in a public ledger - the government does not even need to OCR that.
Google pulled out of China for refusing to cooperate with the regime. But .. it has met its match in Kazakhstan, world's next super power~
I'd suggest

Do farming in your back yard. You'll be self sufficient.
Become a truck driver. Talk to your parents.
Become a VAR e.g aliexpress.com amazon.com ebay.com geeks.com
Become a trader e.g. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/printthread.php?threadid=221668
Forget a job in services sector. Too much of irrational competition.
Great job on the Metallica one :D
I really don't see how they can regulate Bitcoin -- that's kind of the whole point. Unlike e-gold there's no central authority to take down. The exchanges could simply move to a friendly host country, much like The Pirate Bay.
There are some indications that at the moment the real limiting factor to Bitcoin's ascent is the ability to funnel USD into it: this is purely anecdotal, but I've noticed that every time a batch of Dwolla transactions clears through MtGox, BTC spikes substantially, and in between these times it does relatively little.

That's not necessarily a good thing for BTC, since it means that the theoretical unrestricted market is, in fact, heavily bottlenecked at the USD faucet. From what I've heard it's just as difficult, if not more, to get money out quickly, which means this market is effed up in all sorts of ways.

IMO, the best thing Bitcoin could do would be to enable an identity-connected sub-system that directly tied Bitcoins to individuals, so that transactions could be better tracked and regulated - the fact is, most people don't need anonymity in their transactions, and the legal shadiness of the current approach means that it's never going to be simple to move money in and out.

When BTC is as easy to get into and out of as euros or yen, that's when things will start to get seriously interesting...
Harder to do with C. Either you'll just add a small syntactical layer on top of C, mostly for cosmetic purposes (similar to python indentation tools for C or #define END } ), or you'll basically have a language that compiles to C (like p2c, f2c, Vala, SmartEiffel etc.).

Haven't seen a decent "transformation" of C that actually gets you more than it is worth, especially when it comes to interfacing to existing C libraries.

Edit: If you ever decide to make a Chess language, please make an IDE called Bangkok.
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This is nuts. I received 5 Bitcoins about a month ago, and didn't really think twice about it. I just checked, and if the current trade price holds, then I now have $146.50.

That's a phone bill payment, for just being lucky. Pretty sweet.

I'm trying to sell them right now on MtGox, and I'll post how much I actually walk with after fees.

EDIT: Since typing this, I've "lost a dollar". Trade price now $29.091 * 5BTC = $145.45 ... I've sent my 5 bitcoins to MtGox, but the site says it probably won't register for a couple hours. Then I have to place a trade order.

EDIT2: While typing the above edit, price went to $29.685 * 5BTC = $148.42 ... extremely volatile right now!

EDIT3: That's odd. This article has completely disappeared from the front page, with 26 points (and posted 1 hour ago).

EDIT4: This article was killed? What for? Um.. Oh well.
Just that it doesn't cost anything to use proxies whereas middlemen generally take a cut from the transaction in real world.
Venkatesh is entirely supported by book sales (Tempo) and blog donations: he doesn't have regular income nowadays.
The Curry-Howard isomorphism states (and this has been proved) that for each formal proof in math, there is a corresponding computer program that halts, and reciprocally.

This means that it is possible to express the proofs of your statements in code.

On the other hand, non-halting programs are AFAIK beyond the reach of formal logic, and as consequence, the set of logical proofs (or more accurately, its isomorphic twin) is a subset of the set of all computer programs.
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I remember reading that the word courriel is in fact a Quebecois invention.
Keep smile on the face 24x7. It helps.

[Edit]

Emotions are controlling our bodies. But is works in opposite direction too. If you will keep smile on your face, you will send clear message to your body: "Everything is fine", so your head will start to produce ideas. You will notice huge difference after about two weeks.

BTW:

My situation is worser than your.
In China you target elites to make noise, target the grassroots to make money.
here some details: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/doodle-for-instrument...
And previous works by Chen Alexander, one of the leaders behind this: http://www.mta.me/
http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/
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Italy is one (limit is 5000 Euros):

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/italy-banning-cash-transact...
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Now add the fact that Richard Dreyfuss' fame and fortune comes mostly from the entertainment industry with its ridiculously restrictive licensing (which doesn't allow me to see his film work online, since I'm in a "wrong" country), and the irony comes full circle.

Personally, I'd rather click "Ok" on a absurd (and unread) EULA than to not have access to the product at all.
Four dudes from my school thought that it's too complex problem to calculate by hand the amount of gravel needed for road construction.

Dynaroad is their business and it's doing really good.
http://www.dynaroad.fi
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I think your editorial headline doesn't really do them service. They made an entirely rational business decision based on prevailing conditions. They sound more disappointed than pissed to me.
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The government can declare the use of bitcoin illegal. This won't stop regular users, like it doesn't stop them from using the pirate bay. But no business will be able to accept bitcoins anymore and as such bitcoin's potential will be severely limited.
Exactly. He uses Disqus for comments, so it could actually be a static site. No worries about performance, caching, load, security anymore (almost).
exactly, for sensitive data I use a different service that does client-side encryption: CrashPlan

More on their encryption options here:

http://www.crashplan.com/blog/tag/crashplan-encryption
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Ben Rooney was wrong. At the time the article was published, BTC was trading for ~$30 not ~$15. Also, here is a site that uses web sockets to provide real time order info and price resistances: http://mtgoxlive.com/orders
In fact, controlled studies show that video lectures are rather ineffective.

I would assume that studies comparing a competent physics teacher to a video instructor would show the former being more effective.

However, there is a shortage of competent physics instructors. There is a (possibly bigger) shortage of competent maths teachers. I am speaking from my more extreme experience in South Africa, where most of the teachers are abysmal. Expensive video-based instruction helped me achieve a respectable mark in physics/chemistry, most of my peers lacked that privilege and did very poorly. Even at university, things like differential equations, linear algebra and calculus were not particularly well taught - most professors are not really good at teaching, and in my case, they were teaching in a second language (Afrikaans speakers teaching English speaking students). The Khan Academy would have helped me even at the undergraduate level.

I have posted to HN in a related thread about video instruction in South Africa [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351100 ]. People have been doing it for years here. I would recommend a controlled study in South Africa using KA, or The Learning Channel videos by William Smith (NOT run in an elite private school, but at an average township school) before we write off video based instruction as "ineffective".
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Just an idea, no clue if it has any value: I know that at least a fair bunch of US startups have teams that are highly geographically distributed, incl all over the US or even across contintents. Bandcamp, Banksimple and Stackexchange come to mind, probably many more.

Can't you apply with companies like that and work from home? It gets you into contact with the kind of cool guys that you can't find in your area (which might help you stand the local folk better too), gets you some income, and gives you some additional purpose because you're working on a cool product.
You misunderstood my response. I use Dropbox for syncing of non-sensitive data across devices.
For sensitive data, I use something else entirely: Crashplan with client-side encryption
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This looks like a major breakthrough. Love the nickname - "Cambridge crude". As with all flow batteries, power density is low. But you could possibly compensate for that in vehicles with ultracapacitors which could also recapture energy from braking.
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No please don't - trashy pseudo-science at it's best :-( Some very enlightening reviews on Amazon if you want a second, third and fourth opinion (http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Rhonda-Byrne/product-reviews/15...)
I'm not terribly familiar with private key formats, but it appears to be encrypted (the `Proc-Type` and `DEK-Info` lines). Is the `localKeyID` the password used to encrypt?
Doesn't work for me (in the UK).
Profile of 2 Chinese internet entrepreneurs, of whom the one selling to the urban poor is much more interesting. Partly because of the skill of building a website for people without computers or smartphones, but also because of how he got there:

"Rather than concepts of Web 2.0 or mobile internet, he follows the tens of thousands of migrant workers and the “ant people” [marginally employed university graduates] on the outskirts of cities. How does he follow them? He drinks beers with them over midnight snacks from street vendors, spends the night at internet cafes in the Foxconn factory district, and chats with the convenience store owners who got their BMWs by selling to them."
On this comment, for example, I'm unable to tell if you're the only one who thought this was neither well thought out nor well written.

I disagree with you - I have no way of knowing if anyone else showed up and upvoted your comment.

Are both comments on this page 1 point only? I have no way of telling.

you can make a pretty good guess of the second variable based on the result

If I can make a pretty good guess anyway then what's the point of making me do the work to guess? I scan a story, I just want to see what's going on in the comments. Why not give me all the information required to do so?
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I think that's pretty much the model of every "freemium" business SaaS app? See Basecamp, Zoho, Google Apps, etc.

You can use it yourself (or in small groups, 5-10 people) for free, but if you want to grow it into a 50 user service, or 50000 users, then you need to speak to a sales person (or dig out a credit card).
I suspect another reason is that many self published authors want to use Creative Commons licenced works for book covers, and (depending on the licence) you would not be able to use DRM on a CC book.
top voted comments on the top inflate them so much that later pertinent comments goes to oblivion

Unless you sit there refreshing the page, you don't see a comment's progression to oblivion.

I don't think that showing something is towards the top only because it's new defeats the purpose.

I agree that comments should be posted at the top to give people the chance to read new comments, but seeing how much others agree with a comment, new or old, influences my perception of the comment. Without exact points it's hard to gauge, unless everyone who agreed upvoted and then submitted a "+1" comment!
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I have the same impression about Evernote - I used Windows client, iPhone app, and online version (website), and all three kind of sucks (bloated UI, slowness...).

I myself migrated to simplenote. It's more lightweight and text-only, but I can live with that. iPhone client is quite decent and for Windows there is ResophNotes, or one can just use the online version. Everything is stored in text files, which is another advantage.
The progression of Facebook's demise:
http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html#facebook

NoSQL, popular but less high voted stories recently:
http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html#NoSQL
Hey guys, what would be the most sane way to work with this dataset? If it's 173GB, it's probably hard to load it up in a single machine.
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Tell HN:  Bitcoin currently trading for $30 USD
I received 5 Bitcoins about a month ago, and didn't really think twice about it. I just checked, and if the current trade price holds, then I now have $146.50.

That's a phone bill payment, for just being lucky. Pretty sweet.
I'm trying to sell them right now on MtGox, and I'll post how much I actually walk with after fees.

EDIT: Since typing this, I've "lost a dollar". Trade price now $29.091 * 5BTC = $145.45 ... I've sent my 5 bitcoins to MtGox, but the site says it probably won't register for a couple hours. Then I have to place a trade order.

EDIT2: While typing the above edit, price went to $29.685 * 5BTC = $148.42 ... extremely volatile right now!

EDIT3: Sold 3 BTC so far. MtGox says I have $89.21

EDIT4: I sold all 5 bitcoins for a total of $150.21.

MtGox uses a money transfer service called "Dwolla", which has only a $0.25 transaction fee. This means I will walk with $149.96. Not bad for a lottery ticket payout.
Thanks for your idea. Yes it should have an option to just enter your destination city and email so we can greet you when you land.
this is good idea. i wonder if there is such adapted texts for other languages. it sure would make learning experience better.
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Thanks. The Mailchimp thing happens when you are not a programmer and new to find a way to build something up fast :)
Very nice but very frustrating that you can almost play "Happy Birthday" except for 1 note missing!
same in China.
More info on GTBI once you subscribe btw :)
Check out the geckoboard and statsmix blogs for ideas.
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A better interpretation might be "probability this would happen if results were governed purely by chance". Note that the distinction is important if the process is in fact governed by chance!

Lets say I roll a dice two times and get a six both times. The probability of this happening is 1/36 or about 3%.

Would you say I have established with a 95% confidence interval that the particular die I'm using always rolls six? No, because you have good reason to believe that the the results are in fact random. Or in other words, you have a strong prior belief that the hypothesis you're testing is false.
Something is not ok for me. On all my browsers, I can play the chords and hear the sounds, but I can not playback the recodings you guys shared. What gives?
Recording and replaying sounds works only for US IP addresses.
Also Firefox 3.5.8 doesn't work.
Which is exactly what the South Park episode parodies. Oh, the meta-irony!
yeah, I think I looked at the price a few weeks ago. However, it was on 7$ or 8$. I just downloaded an app, which shows me a graph and my jaw just dropped. 48 hours: +12$ or something. I think I should buy some rigs...
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Actually as far as I know this is solved by using "exchanges" outside jurisdiction of feared country, where you can send some bitcoins and receive other.
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large parts of the us are still quite spoilt in terms of available land resources. in order to preserve the beautiful landscape of california it would be more reasonable to build more densly populated office areas. apple is just doing that, by increasing employee numbers to 12000 (or close to that). yet it´s a far cry compared to the density we deal with in the greater zurich area, let alone some asian cities.
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I think the bitmarket.eu approach works quite fine:

The seller stores his Bitcoins at the bitmarket.eu (free) escrow service. The buyer wires the money via bank transfer directly to the seller. The seller releases the Bitcoins on bitmarket.

At least in Europe bank transfers are easily possible between foreign countries and even free (or at least very cheap) between European countries.

Saying that I wouldn't buy any Bitcoins right now. While there is a huge demand, I do not see any indication that those coins are used for any significant amount of real trading (i.e., buying services). Seems that most of those people just buy the Bitcoins due to speculation. When the hype is gone there is a very good chance that the market crashes again - if the real market does not grow with the current bubble.
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Gavin isn't the founder. He's the current maintainer of the open source software. The founder was Satoshi Nakamoto who is apparently no longer involved with the project.
Actually cash dollars require it and digital dollars have a lot of restrictions.
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I think I misunderstood your meaning. Google could of course attempt to present the same sort of Kazakh specific google search as google.kz would. I meant that google shouldn't filter results from kazakh IPs whether on google.kz or google.com.
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A program, just like human intelligence, is always means to an end. Whether it passes the Turing Test or not does not change this.
Yet another reason why you shouldn't use domains from other countries who could change the rules and block traffic to your business. The .ly and others are cute but you're building a business on sand.
just block duplicate accounts, whoever is going through the trouble setting 10 fake accounts, won't be paying you any time soon.
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Hebrew isn't such a great example. The language was still in use as a liturgical language and for reading religious texts, it just wasn't being used (or at least, was barely being used) as a modern spoken language.
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Doesn't work for me either (Germany)
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I know, I know, it's difficult to discuss Kazakhstan without reference to a certain movie from several years ago, but we can try, right?

edit: Also "whom" is completely wrong here.
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What's with his impatience? Scala isn't that hard.