skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and distributed file sharing aimed to protect file sharers from the kind of crap the RIAA has been dishing out since it's inception.

I would expect governments first to limit the viability of the currency, possibly through legislation (fines, jail time) aimed at businesses operating within their borders. Get caught dealing in bitcoins, go to jail.

If that doesn't dampen enthusiam I would expect the next phase to target ISP's. Mandated traffic monitoring and/or blocking, etc. Distributed networks don't mean shit when the connectivity medium isn't available.
> declare that dollars are no longer convertible with Bitcoins

Yes, what I was trying to get at (not banning the transfer of BTC). While trading could move underground, making it illegal would probably deter enough people.

Should most governments adopt a similar stance, then it would be nothing more than a collectors item.
He's an idiot.
You should probably seed some interesting political discussions to get the comments going. I'm surprised it took you 3 years to build this-- it could have been done in a weekend and with a much better UI.
Don't you think this is made up? I can't believe someone actually wrote that.
how are you going to run a good game on Mac?
We're "post pc" when it comes to multimedia, but not for anything that requires a keyboard, e.g. word processing etc.... That's a big deal, no doubt, but until we move past our reliance on the keyboard for some essential applications, we're not post-pc.

Granted, we're probably headed in that direction.
I have similar problems, but they are worse. Add to the mix suffered by the author working and having friends in a couple of countries/languages and you get my scenario.

I tried with one twitter account per language and doing groups in facebook, but it was too time consuming. Now I mix both languages with care and some won't like it, but I can't go further.
They've spun up "mega-supernodes," when cascading failures have taken the network down before[1], but they don't need to run them full-time, just when traffic is such that the traditional supernodes can't handle the traffic of a new network.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2048630
Would love to hear if this is supported as well. Lack of content editable is a big pain...
I've been there, the worse is the weight of structures and bureaucracies
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. :)

Aside from the whole function being asinine the only way to know "why" would be to ask him. The answer would probably also qualify as asinine.
The future isn't in news filtering, it's in better news analysis. I think many would say HN is great because it has lots of quality articles. HN is great because unlike any traditional news source, you can have an analysis that no one news source can offer. Oh, and you can add your 2 cents, or ask questions too.

That said, looking at what is popularly called 'news' I'm glad I can apply a filter.
Python has a proper GC to remove cycles in reference counting, it's just not the "main" one.

http://docs.python.org/library/gc.html

Since the collector supplements the reference counting already used in Python, you can disable the collector if you are sure your program does not create reference cycles. Automatic collection can be disabled by calling gc.disable().
Since so many innocent people have been charged with crimes and jailed/murdered in the past, it is wise to limit the effectiveness of systems that can come under malevolent central control with a political campaign or coup. We don't have to identify specifically who will do this to be prudent now.
It's not unreasonable to want our communications media to facilitate siloed interaction.

I look at it this way: If somebody I know avoids talking to me about that things that bore me -- say, pro football or New York Times bestsellers -- I wouldn't see that as a lack of boldness or a species of dishonesty; I would see that as a form of consideration for my time.
I think that ICloud more of an uphill battle for companies like dropbox or the google document application as opposed to Microsoft.
I question whether owning someone's data is really as valuable to cloud providers as the article assumes. Not that data isn't valuable, but if it becomes critically valuable and the companies refused to allow users to reclaim it to move to another service, I imagine a law would fix the problem.

Facebook has recognised that it isn't the data per-se that is so valuable, but the connections and relationships that are between that data and others.. ie the way that your data is able to interact with other people's data. The way to lock people in is when a person's data alone is insufficient for them.

A music collection is just a set of licenses for songs. If people have only licensed the songs on a particular service or device they might find it painful to leave but if that pain is less than the cost of maintaining the service then they will leave. But a music community built around song collections would be impossible to leave, unless everyone did at once, or the person was willing to leave the community itself (much harder to replace than songs).
25 million iPad have been sold. Say 30% of them (with the iPad 2 I see more people bought the Smart Cover though) bought Apple's covers, that's about 8.5 million. Accessories' margin is high, let's assume they make $30 per cover. That's $255 million profit. I seriously doubt Apple could break even for the App Store alone (the huge review team and infrastructure cost).
Will Investors Take Groupon’s Andrew Mason Seriously?
I get a 403 from that link too...I've actually never seen that from Coral before, anyone know what's going on?
I'm not sure why you were downvoted, as your guess was exactly right. The regulatory system for nuclear power (in the US, anyway) is incredibly screwed up, in ways too numerous to list. Just the delays from the bottlenecked building approval process can cause plant construction to run up billions of dollars in loan interest while they're waiting for the red tape to clear.

China is currently building CPR1000 plants cheaper than coal plants of the same capacity. These are not meltdown-prone clunkers; they are upgraded versions of French designs with a good safety record. They're also starting a buildup of Westinghouse AP1000 plants, built to the usual western standards of safety and redundancy, and they're doing it a lot cheaper than the US and Europe. We see similar things in South Korea, which gets a large portion of its energy from nuclear plants, and is now beginning to export them.

Considering how much safer nuclear power is than coal, paranoid regulations are actually making us quite a bit less safe by crippling our ability to build nuclear plants.
Nintendo's WiiU: Touchscreen, coming 2012
Nintendo Announces The Wii U, A Unique Controller/Console Combo
I understand that however the point of my post was that I disagree with his process, and by extension the handling of the situation.

And no, his advice is not "obviously correct". It might work for some, but not all.
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Oh, so it isn't a visualization of how ARC works. It's just an image of something else that coincidentally has the same name. I would've never figured that out. Thanks.
Like iAd?
Thanks, that's exactly the post I was thinking of.
From what browser? I had no problem with either Mac-FF or Safari.
One of the main differentiators of price for Apple products is the disk size -- in fact, for iPads and iPods, its the main differentiator. They want to push to all of your devices, because they want you to use up your storage and pay the $100 to $300 markup between model A and model B. If everything was accessible from the web and it used smart caching like spotify or google, there would be much less need for bigger hard drives.
I found that weird too. It seems like a low number.
Different Calculators in Windows 7
Apple's iCloud data centers: May the guessing game begin with HP
Where do you suppose one gets all of the legislative data to a site like this? Saying this can be done in a weekend is a huge underestimation.
Uh, the tax is on items purchased by Cali residents from the internet, right?

As in, the vast majority of the effect will be to tax (mostly) out-of-state businesses while creating a level playing field for local retail businesses that have to pay sales tax?

Why would that drive anyone out of state? They'd have to pay the tax anyways if they're out of state and selling to California residents.

As expected, the article provided no reasoning. Ctrl-F found the word "tax" once and it was a non-sequitor about how great the company is and they're gonna leave because of this tax.
> I'm not sure why you would say this isn't garbage collection.

Because it isn't. Garbage collection is something that happens at run time by a garbage collector via an algorithm like mark-and-sweep, tri-colour marking, etc, and as a block of code that's called at runtime it A) has a lot of information about your program and B) has a nontrivial performance impact.

Unfortunately I can't talk specifics (stupid NDA), but schrototo has said that it's a compiler-level feature, which would automatically disqualify it as being a bona fide garbage collector.

Speaking generically, any static feature is going to a great deal less powerful than its dynamic equivalent. Thinking of compile-time memory management as garbage collection is not just a leaky abstraction, it's a broken water main flooding into the street.

Think less "auto pilot" and more "cruise control". You still have to understand the accelerator and the break, you just don't have to use them as much.
Lets say for a moment that this isn't made up. The questions that struck me immediately are as follows:

1. What was the motivation for creating this function? Was it (hopefully) to show off how "smart" he was? Was the company he worked for doing any kind of calculations related to (dear god no) financial or medical data that he thought he could improve?

2. How does anyone in this world escape grade school without knowing that one cannot divide by zero?

3. Someone thought dividing by zero should be a recoverable error?
This looks great, but the license includes the Creative Commons non-commercial clause, which basically makes it unusable, since it's not compatible with open or closed source usage!

I wrote the author a note via Github asking him to consider changing the license.
Not too sure about what the point is, or maybe it is just my limited knowledge of javascirpt that's playing me tricks. In any case I didn't know of a prototype.handle function and can't figure out any way for it to intervene in the usual way of calling functions on an object.

var f=new Foo()

f.bar() //Just says that f.bar is undefined and therefor not a function

//If I add

f.bar=function(something){return "nothing"}

//Calling

f.bar("ABC") //Many times always answers "nothing"
HTML format email is an abomination.
Since it's an AMOLED screen and any black pixel is essentially "off", you can substitute the notification LED for the entire display with NoLED: http://www.devasque.com/noled/index.php
Introducing With, a Path Short.
I would understand if the decision was that patents coming from federally-funded research couldn't be assigned to a third party. That could be a good idea! But if the conflict is between two recipients of that funding, I don't see how I as a taxpayer have a horse in that race, except insofar as I think people who sign contracts should continue to be bound by them.
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Is it premature or unnecessary, if the methodology comes natural? Why not get into the habit of reading and writing Javascript with optimization naturally ingrained into the first pass? The optimization(s) may not be immediately necessary here, but there's no harm in practicing these patterns in all facets of language use, unless we want to have a separate conversation whether the patterns are detrimental to syntax.
I'm not sure I like this:
- http://www.dwolla.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/uuiy.p...

Zaarly is requesting permission for the following:
"Allows money to be pulled out [by Zaarly] and sent to your contacts."

Seriously?

I want to opt-in for each purchase. I want only one-time use transactions, I refuse to grant some third party the ability to suck money from my account. That's why I'll never use ACH or a debit card for subscription-based services. This sounds like that is exactly what I'ld be doing?
also "more on that in a moment," but there was nothing further. Perhaps you're supposed to refresh the page continually while the writer updates the page.

EDIT: It's on page 3 of the article.
Nothing! The extreme opposite to Smalltalk in this respect is the APL/J/K family of languages where everything is expressed as mathematical operations on multidimensional arrays of data. For example, a K programmer wouldn't use an array of rectangles, preferring to have separate arrays of widths and heights. It's a very eye-opening programming style in its own right, and a curious programmer would do well to get acquainted with both.

Here's a nice page of "K finger exercises": http://kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html . To someone who grew up on modern OO languages, it's unbelievable how much K manages to accomplish in one line of code.
For a good laugh? Certainly. On the other hand, such delusion coming from this guy (probably a genius otherwise) is painful to see. He still completely lives in the illusion that energy is free and will remain so.
I suppose you've never head of Dialyzer which gives much better coverage than most static type systems.
Like in these videos? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
Ask HN: For Android devs, how is the 'Top Developer' badge treating you?
It's been a few weeks since the badge system was implemented, anyone reporting higher sales or downloads because of higher visability/credibility?
Cloud storage makes hard drive size largely irrelevant.
Making money occurs when you divert resources from a lower-valued use towards a more highly-valued use. Making money is the root of all prosperity. If your culture despises the making of money, it is philosophically sick.
(Physical, Virtualized and Cloud) Security Automation – An API Example
Er, that's why you don't go around exposing people to high-level radioactive waste. You stick it in a cooling pool to let the really nasty isotopes decay, then store it with radiation shielding. If you want to get really fancy, and have enough excess neutrons, you can even get rid of worst of the waste by turning it into something else.

On the list of existential threats, mass radiation poisoning really doesn't rate very high in likelihood.
I will agree 100% regarding the job postings. 'Carpet bombing' companies rarely works. However the same doesn't always apply to dealing a recruiters and/or friends, your reality isn't everyones.

I'm only expressing that there is validity to not narrowing your interests, fields or industries and that dismissing someone out of hand because they are 'unfocused' is just as bad and unhelpful as dismissing someone because they don't have a degree. (an entirely different conversation)
Life in the Crosshairs
Tutorials for beginning Ruby on Rails developers
And in case my original point lacked context, I was talking about marketing for a business to customers - even B2B has to assume a variety of customers that have little to no technical skills and aren't opening emails on their 19" laptop.
I don't get it. Most of what iCloud does is already being done on smartphones for free. Gmail and Exchange Server both already sync contacts, calendars, and email quite nicely across devices. I haven't had to manually transfer any of that to a new smartphone since long before there was an iPhone.

The music thing is nice too, but it's either a paid solution or an incomplete one. Apple once released a stat that only 10% of the music on iPods comes from iTunes (most of the rest is either pirated or ripped CDs).
what does it take to get your T-Shirt. I have seen yours in the wild and really like them. Could you tell here what supplier you use?
You're looking for Calder v Bull where the Supreme Court decided that ex post facto only applies to criminal law and not civil law. It makes a distinction between a law that changes punishment and law for criminal proceedings or a law that is merely retroactive.
Sorry for off topic: You can align windows perfectly every time with SizeUp (http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/).

Disclaimer: I'm just a happy SizeUp user =).
Support for a social safety net and anti-market ideology don't necessarily have to go together, but in practice they do.
Even in the very article at hand, it points out that there is a standard economic criticism applicable to deflating currencies that BitCoin may be vulnerable to.

Yes, the armchair deflationary spiral theory. With the exception of labor theory of value, I do not know of any other economic theory whose premises are a) so thoroughly laughable b) lacking any kind empirical evidence.

In an attempt to reduce the noise/signal ratio (usually high) in such debates... Yes, I know the usual arguments in favor of Deflation Scare and I devoted a fair amount of time thinking and debating these matters. Done my homework, so to speak.

But feel free to surprise me, with an argument I missed.
Are there any alternatives worth exploring? Has anyone used Oovoo? (not affiliated in any way, just curious)
I didn't. I said network effects are among the things that make products easier to differentiate, because users aren't just shopping for 80% features, but also care about the community of people already using specific products.

That is clearly not the case with MMS functionality.

Your objection is isomorphic to the claim that IP has "network effects", and phone numbers, and zip codes.

Do you actually disagree that MMS is in a different position that Instapaper? Or are you just infuriated by my silly ASCII graphic?
This reminds me of the classic "What Color is Your Parachute?" which I cheerfully recommend to all. One-sentence summary: You have to have a particular goal in order to achieve it, and boldness and politeness are of the utmost importance along the way.
You can opt-in for each purchase... it's optional to grant 3rd party permissions
Apple understands that one of the core benefits that they give to consumers is consistency. The PC world is wildly inconsistent, while iOS provides enormous consistency - I can pick up any device and apps will function the same. This is really the goal of demoting the PC and the Mac.

Its akin to Facebook's garden vs MySpace's wild forest. Web apps simply can't provide the kind of consistency that most users want. In the battle between Linux and Windows, the freedom of Linux to allow the user complete control has not been a selling point for most users.

Apple knows this and knows that a controlled garden of iOS apps will be preferable for most people, compared to web apps (particularly with the browser standards starting to slip again)
They are all on the web (such as http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/bills0001.asp) - I would just create a bot to scrape the content automatically.

I hope you didn't do it manually...

EDIT: Also, the amount you have may not be necessary. It just makes your site look dead when you have 350 pages of legislative bills with no comment activity or voting activity. You would have been better off starting with just a few and building it up from there. Personally, I would have done medical marijuana bills because everyone has something to say about that.
All these bitcoin articles are getting more than old. Here are some major issues I've been seeing with all of them:

1) Assigning some fixed dollar amount to coins for the purpose of demonstrations in the article. This will never happen, it's in flux, and it's a scarce resource. Does gold or any other precious metal stay at a fixed resource, does anyone hoarding gold make it any less valuable?

2) As mentioned above, bitcoins can be traded in almost any fraction thereof, simply having each coin be worth 2 million dollars, is irrelevant.

3) If too many people start hoarding and there is no exchange of coin, it is possible that the value of coins will decrease instead of increasing. Please remember that the only value assigned to the coins will be the value that individuals are willing to assign to it, or pay to acquire it, or amount of coins willing to exchange for goods or services.

4) We've had commodity backed currencies for much, much more of recorded history than we've had fiat currencies and yet we've brought civilization to where it is today. Can we please stop assuming that any commodity backed currency is destined to be a failure because we currently favor a currencies that are by definition even more worthless than Bitcoin?
IOS5 Has Been Jailbroken
Phone carriers already have this data, and Facebook does as well every time you access their website over standard methods
Scott Adams popularized this construction, which suggests that one's co-workers are likely to ork cows (but he didn't originate it:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Coined_phrases).

EDIT: As far as I know, the definition of "ork" as a verb is left to the imagination.
> Part of the purpose of news is to create an educated and engaged citizenry, not merely provide a funnel for our natural predilection for the stuff we like (which the Internet is already stunningly good at).

Is that a euphemism for brainwashing the public? One of the reasons traditional journalism is dying, is precisely because they are trying to shove content down the throats of their readers. Content that nobody wants to read. Get off your high horse. Journalism is entertainment. The citizenry educates itself, by means of things called books ... not through muckraking.
Exactly. Add to that a propaganda stream, "Only Evil du jour will use Bitcoin. Are you Evil? No! Then you won't use Bitcoin either!"
Greplin hiring Javascript hacker - web, extensions, mobile, and Node
San Francisco, CA

We're looking for someone who loves Javascript in all its incarnations. We're working on browser extensions, a highly interactive web site, a fast and effective mobile site, and we're planning to use Node in parts of our backend.

We take JavaScript seriously - in a former life one of us was a major contributor to Google's JavaScript library, compiler, and linter.

We're flexible on experience and education (though it doesn't hurt!) - we care most about your ability to build clean solutions and make a lot of progress on hard problems. You should know the fastest way to do something - which sometimes means the least CPU cycles and sometimes means the least programmer cycles. Your knowledge of data structures and algorithms should be as solid as your knowledge of the DOM.

You'll be a part of a small motivated team that loves nothing more than building things that solve real world problems. You'll commit code your first day.

Email us at jobs+js@greplin.com - more info at greplin.com/jobs
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There is value in being wide open to opportunities, but there is no value in being wishy-washy when asking for a referral.

You are imagining every conceivable conversation you could have with someone in a position to help you network for a job, and searching for something that breaks the pattern of "being specific and actionable". Lo and behold, there are cases where "specific and actionable" doesn't fit! For instance, if you're asking for advice about what kinds of roles fit your skills and interests, maybe you don't want to lock the conversation down to a specific title.

But that has nothing to do with asking for referrals.
Seeking HN Input: Fastlayer - an HTTP accelerator for the cloud
Yes. But you forgot that WWDC is the time of year that Apple takes old technology and calls it new and magical when then release it on their ecosystem of products.
Same happened to me when I had NoScript enabled.