skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Canada (I'm following the trend!), I haven't made a paper/coin cash transaction in over 3 months. I'm afraid future generations won't be able to save pennies either way :(
Both of these are quite the anecdotal statements to say the least. Not really sure what you mean by "of its kind", but there are plenty of other companies in the email marketing space, and to the GP's point we really have no clue why their blog went down (MC has been on the frontpage of HN in the past w/o incident).
The problem is not that central planning fails to build a certain thing (like a bridge or a road), but that it diverts resources from more productive uses. Things that are built or created are visible, but they obscure the things that might have been created otherwise. We never actually get to know the ways resources might have been allocated otherwise; and indeed these other things may be mundane and boring, yet they are the consequence of the free choices of individuals.

Of course, it can be argued that governments don't just do investments, that they can provide services that may be impossible to obtain otherwise. But when we wonder into real investment territory (like a particular bridge), we have to be able to produce a R.O.I.

What we have to consider is that the alternative uses of the capital will contribute to economic growth and in a longer timeframe, the glamorous visible things like a space program may actually pay for themselves. Not only that, these expenditures will be self-sustaining and long lasting. Or otherwise said, money spent on space (and other visible things) without a R.O.I. is actually detracting from future growth and delaying actual practical space exploration.
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> The fact that every 2016 blocks (about 11 days), 100,800 new BTC are minted. That means that, to maintain the CURRENT price of $13.50, we'd need $1,360,000 of NEW MONEY entering the system every 11 days.

I don't know anything about economics - literally nothing - but that doesn't seem right to me.
> In the case of (1) the biggest issue I see is when people from an organization leave.
> [...] when deleting a Google Apps account all of the user's shared docs,
> calendars, emails, etc. are deleted.

Wow, that's shocking. I've only ever used GApps for (2), but I just kind of assumed that deleting a user didn't also auto-delete their data in the organization's GApps account.

> For my personal domain I do want Google Apps features to have parity with GMail.
> It's not that I don't understand the difference. It's that I don't want to split
> my information between multiple online identities.

Perhaps I was being overly simplistic. Presumably folks that set up their own GApps account for their domain understand that they're setting up a different kind of Google account. The disparity is always jarring, though, esp. in the case of Google Plus.
They'll care if it increases the cost of their phone $10-$15.
As far as I know, assets are not taken into account when computing poverty. Only income (excluding capital gains).

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/measur...

Withdrawals from a 401k and SS count as income, so if that homeowner is a retiree they might not be poor.
Your results are likely to be different because of Google's practice of "personalizing" results based upon the consumer's profile. Any discussion of the quality of Google's results should be preceded with "For me."
Scroll to the right. Some exotic CSS thing that happens when your data URL is simply way too long. Fixed in Chrome with:

.dataurl {
word-wrap: break-word;
white-space: inherit !important;
}

But that removes the scrolling altogether and replaces it with a box as tall as needed to support the data link.

EDIT: Just came back from the article explaining how this is done. Very simple and very, very clever.
I don't know why this got downvoted.

With the financial trouble in Portugal, Spain and Greece and the imbalance in monetary and fiscal health (Contrast those 3 with Germany) within the EU, the Euro looks very shaky indeed.
Thank you so much for invite!
Google results have always been crap, they were just 'less crap' than other search engines until the past couple of years, where Google has been overwhelmed by spammers and, frankly, is losing that battle.
I would not mind to enter my password once after starting my computer. In fact, I do that right now with Espoinage (a somewhat TrueCrypt-like software).

I don't want to enter my password every time I want to access one of my files. I am usually always working inside my Dropbox, so that would be a deal-breaker.
The Mtgox hack has kept BTC prices fairly depressed, but in my opinion that is a good thing. There was never a good reason to build something around the BTC currency before because it was going up so fast that you were better off billing a client half your normal rate, convert it into bitcoins and end up with 4x the money in a month or so.

Hopefully BTC will see some medium term stability around the 10 to 20 mark while actual, usable clients get made, and actual stable markets get setup.

(Disclosure I own a nontrivial, although nonmassive amount of bitcoins, but I've broken even by selling some while it was over 30)
Wow, awesome. It shouldn't be hard to create a binding for execvp as well then. I found the pipe() binding, but I can't use those fd's with child_process.spawn if i want to open them as fd 3, 4, 5, etc in the child.
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I use diceware as the article recommends. I suggest using 10 random words. Each word has about 13 bits of entropy, so a 10-word passphrase will have about 130 bits. Write the passphrase down and keep it in a very secure place. After using the passphrase a few times, you'll remember it surprisingly easily.
What's interesting, is that this is what should happen. Since Bitcoins are generated at a constant rate (from my understanding) regardless of how many people are working on them, the market should eventually even out so that its a break-even at best. Likely it will be a little worse than break-even, because there are always some people out there willing to attempt to generate coins even if what they are doing doesn't financially make sense, breaking the market.

Just because you've got a competitor in business, doesn't mean that they are profitable or running good business. Trying to meet them can easily run you into the ground. It just happens in bitcoin-world, everyone has the same 'product'.
you could probably take it even further just by making it a lot more difficult to rank the other types of domains:

1. anything that's not a .com or .org(let's face it...if it's a .net, then it's most likely bought for seo optimization)

2. the .co.uk/.de etc, should only get a bonus in their own countries.

3. anything that's longer than 16 letters. If it is, chances are that its just a spam domain.

4. anything with a dash in the domain(the more dashes, the bigger the penalty).

5. anything with a # in the domain

this way brands would be fine, but those crappy domains that were purchased solely for SEO wouldn't be as effective. Sure, .com exact match would be fine, but that's a lot less to worry about.
I forward my google account to my google apps. My main issue is that all my contacts are neatly organized in google apps and it's hard to use services like Google+ or Google Voice when they pull contacts from my gmail account.
Why buy a new machine after 3 months? Once it makes back it's cost, wouldn't you still be able to earn money from it so long as it can cover the cost of running and storing it?
Oh, I thought they were related until now. This one is actually what I _use_. Yours is what came up in a search.
The thing is, Tarsnap in and of itself is only a backup, but does not sync. And sync really is what makes Dropbox so great.
I was kind of disappointed after the first paragraph, when I realized this wasn't talking about the kind of hacker I thought, as in Hacker News.

If it were, it surely would have mentioned some awesome projects like:

Hack Tyler
http://hacktyler.com/

Civic Commons
http://civiccommons.org/

Code for America
http://codeforamerica.org/

and

Open Plans
http://openplans.org/
How could this be solved though?

There are few easy-to-attain signals that will help you to differentiate search results in a way that approximates the opinion of an intelligent human.

I believe we have reached the point in which Google's search results are only useful for one reason: speed of information retrieval. If you wish to get high quality information you visit sources that you trust. These are either (a) content providers that have provided high quality information to you previously, or in the cases in which you've not had to search for some information before (b) socially curated information from user communities in which you trust and are a part of.

Here's an example:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mp3+player+reviews

Most of the content rated highly by Google has either nothing to do with reviews or is hideously out-of-date, note the 2007 'reviews' in the second result down. It's junk all the way down. For a lot of people the Google search bar has been denigrated to a fancy URL bar; it takes them to places only when they know where they're going: you avoid browsing for fun.

So what can be done... An extension that allows you to join an invite-only group of Hacker News users who will remove any rubbish search results from Google? Using the +1 as a signal to try and make the search results better? I can only see the former idea as being difficult to game. The latter would be unused apart from for very popular searches to the extent that a determined spammer with a botnet wishing to cheat would probably be able to affect many search results.

Better minds might know better ways.
Scientists 'mend broken hearts'
Ad hominem only describes the logical fallacy of saying "the argument X put forward by person P is wrong because of some property of person P"

You didn't make that sort of claim, therefore it really isn't an ad hominem attack
Of ~2.3 million folks who paid for fake AV fewer than 10% requested a refund.
I'm not sure what the time limits are for deleting posts but you might want to consider doing that if you have some sort of pending negotiating/legal troubles. There are not that many 5-10m range startups in Canada and someone might be able to identify you eh.

Good luck! Hopefully things will work out well and you'll get a nice chunk of the money on the table.
I'm starting a new magazine, The Startup Magazine
5000 phishing sites cause Google to block 11,000,000 domains? That's less than 0.5%.

First, is that really "a significant fraction?"

Second, when did collective punishment become less evil than innocent until proven guilty?
Really? Because I think "Don't be Evil" is, if interpreted strictly, impossible to achieve completely. And Google has not succeeded in achieving it completely. But it HAS been a major influence on the company's culture and outcomes. I think "No Egos" is similar: simple, clear, laudable, and challenging.
There's also hack nights in meetup.com and other sites where you basically announce your project/problem/ or just a snippet you need to write and find a pair.

Check out resources like scala-user, which is designated newbie-friendly, railsbridge.org and codereview.stackexchange.com.

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/199

Also relevant: remote pairing tools

http://blog.tridgell.net/?p=111

http://blog.coryfoy.com/2010/08/technically-distributed-tool...

http://www.smashingapps.com/2011/01/10/7-coolest-real-time-c...
I don't really care, but when I see these things I think about what would happen if the situation were reversed: how would the store react if the total came out to $19.38 and I decided I was only going to pay $19.35 because it's a nice even number.
Now we get to the annoying aspects of Go
It is easy enough to use Google+ etc. by enabling simultaneous sign-in of an Apps account and a regular Google account.
It sounds like you're a college student; I assume looks don't matter too much for you.

Go to a hardware store and pick up some cinder blocks and countertop. Cut the countertop to fit your area, place on cinder blocks.
I think clojure is lovely, but my current circumstances are such that I can't be selfish. I have no "technical" supperior, I'm the "it" guy at work, the sole arbiter of everything software, and the trust placed upon me is far too great for me to take lightly. So I decided to man up & do everything as formally as possible: for my employer, for the responsibility, and for my own sanity should I decide to walk away.
I find it ironic that the article claiming that "Facebook is maimed" and "Twitter mortally wounded" is on a site that has "Like" and "Tweet" buttons, but no Google+ interaction at all.
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Shyness is hard for me to over-come. I feel a lot of pressure to conform to expectations of me when I meet new people. It doesn't help that I think I'm weird and so very different than everyone else. I might say something stupid or strange and no one would want to talk to me. Often I just don't even bother going out. I'm that shy.

Here's what I've learned from meeting lots of smart people over the years:

Just be yourself. It's simple advice I know, but here's where it hits home: nobody can fault you for learning. If you try and act really smart and knowledgeable but someone catches you faking -- that's bad. But if you're just honest about what you do know then people will trust you and want to help you.

It's a big hurdle and not one I always make successfully; but I know it's always worth a shot. You just have to get out there and try it.
We were one of the few households in Germany that had BTX, the German equivalent of Minitel. It wasn't free but pretty affordable and had some very useful services. Since banking in Germany never heavily relied on checks everyone was already using direct bank account transfers for payments as long as I can remember, certainly in the 80s. You filled out a standard machine readable slip and dropped it off at your bank and the transfer would happen immediately.

I frequently used BTX to make payments for things I ordered and I seem to remember having a list of one-time use numbers to enter as a security measure. Must have been some kind of electronic signature.

Germany was pretty anti-technology in those days. Instead of hailing early adopters we were frequently criticized as harbingers of a cold and inhumane new world order.
it may be flawed math but it is solid engineering
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Now that the hype is dying down, maybe people will start thinking more about how to make bitcoin easier and more available and less about how they can profit off of mining and trading.
Google blocked one domain that was reselling subdomains.
Mathematics axioms aren't arbitrary in the same way philosophical axioms aren't arbitrary. Mathematical axioms are chosen for many reasons, one of which is that they are useful.
> Are the so-called hacker/advocacy groups somehow noble in

> their purpose? This, I doubt -- at least to date.

I totally agree with this. We've seen a number of groups (Anonymous, LulzSec) claiming to be noble but exposing tons of private information on 'innocent' individuals with the flimsy justification that that was showing that companies had poor security.
> But π=3.14159265358979 is a time bomb! Sooner or later it will fail you when it’s not accurate enough anymore.

If you know the exact diameter of the sun, and calculate the circumference with 3.14159265358979 as an estimate for pi, then your error will be about 10 microns. Using a 14 digit estimate of pi, is never going to be a timebomb for any practical task. If the earth was round to 14 significant digits the highest mountains would tower 10 nanometers above the deepest valley.
send me an email (in profile)! :)
Judge rules Righthaven lacks standing to sue, threatens sanctions
Paid vs. Unpaid Internships
That's just playing a video of a location in the same location?! There is no augmented reality whatsoever, just watching videos...
Start? People have been thinking (and working) on that even before the hype began (see for example the Android client now on the frontpage, or the new client UI being developed, wallet encryption being tested now, and various web payment services), it just gets drowned in all the trolling, mining related talk and price speculation.
An interesting idea, but I'd rather not have cinder blocks sitting in my living room.

Yes I am a college student, but looks do matter. I'm quite picky.
Defendant: Righthaven should pay $34,000 for legal fees
Seems pretty obvious to me that "mining" is a loser's game, you are fighting over what slice you get of a fixed size pie. By contrast, selling stuff for BTC actually grows the "market cap" of coins, that seems a lot more sensible.

That said, I have a technical question. What happens to the BTC system if people mostly quit mining?
Hey, I come here to offer useless kvetching and complaints, not solutions :). Seriously, if I knew how to solve it, I'd be the CTO of Google.

But I'll make a couple of guesses. I think they need to go for a lot more human input. It goes against the grain of everything they do, they want to solve everything algorithmically. But SEO is just too good at abusing algorithms. I think they need to get more humans involved, and force the SEO guys to tone it down.

And one tiny specific suggestion: drop the strong signal of a search term being in the domain name. Maybe leave it for proper names, but drop it for all generic words, please. It used to be a good signal. It used to be that when you saw your search echoed in the domain name, you knew you found what you wanted. Now, I cuss and skip it, because I know it's spam. It's been abused beyond belief.

EDIT: Yes, lots of people suggest "going social" on the problem. That's a lot harder for most people to manage than just using a search box. And searching for "trusted social group for reviews" is just going to take you to mytrustedsocialgroupforreviews.com. Guess what's there.
No, because of the increased difficulty. However, nobody said anything about buying a new machine. It should be sufficient to upgrade the graphics processor...
Ask HN: Where to find Sales people?
Simple question, complex answer. We have a product, pricing structure, and product documentation, but no one to sell it. Has anyone been able to find an amazing sales person and how did you find them?
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In fact, it's worse than that, because the global rate of BTC production goes down over time. After 2025, hardly any new bitcoins will be generated. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bitcoin#Monet...
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We can avoid this by indulging in research about the product we are looking for. For example if you are looking forward to buy a digital camera, you should know what would you be using it for, would it just be clicking casual pictures or you are looking for professional photography. You should also be aware of the technical aspects like resolution, lens types etc. so that you can make an informed shopping decision. Now you must be thinking it will take a lot of your time and efforts and would be a boring job.

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"My conclusion is that the root cause of high prices is a lack of competition. That means that operators can continue to charge outrageous margins, with significant mark-ups for crossing from one EU country to another – even though these internal borders are not supposed to exist any more." - Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner Digital Agenda.

http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/roaming-in-the-eu-a-n...

I would like to add that it's true, I have an "unlimited" data plan inside of The Netherlands, but when I cross the Belgian border I get informed that it will now cost € 5,95 per megabyte (!!!) to use data services.
If I remember correctly, they are being generated at an (decreasing) exponential rate, i.e. first n years 7 million, next n years 3.5 million, etc...
Paid vs. Unpaid Internship
Bitcoins are not generated at a constant rate. The difficulty of generating bitcoins increases exponentially over time, so the number of bitcoins generated by the pool (assuming the pool remains the same size) will decrease accordingly.

However the pool didn't remain the same in the past. All the BTC press (and $10 USD rate) substantially increased the number of people mining. This sped up the discovery of bitcoins but it also gave each miner a smaller cut.

At this point the only way to mine a non-trivial amount of BTC is to invest $ in a GPU-heavy mining rig.
Google News, like a lot of their services is a black box that no one really knows how it works or what criteria they use to pick sites for inclusion.

Generic Google News talking points are:

You need at least 3 or more editors/staff, with some sort of bio page detailing who they are.

You need to push a lot of content through your site. What "a lot" is, no one really knows.

Content needs to meet a certain quality level. What the criteria are for "quality content" is anyone's guess. If you're big enough you won't be held to this as strictly.

Content should offer an independent viewpoint and not be slanted to one side or another. If you're big enough you aren't held as strictly to this.
Because as everyone else joins and upgrades, the difficulty of mining gets increased to match, and after a few months that machine is no longer efficient enough to pay for its electricity and cooling.
Only if more performance/watt machines haven't driven the output of your machines below the cost of electricity.
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An invitation probably isn't enough. I've already got two and still cannot sign up.
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unique idea but way too easy, repetitive, with too many breaks in the action.
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What you call "trolling," others call "pointing out the obvious flaws in an unsustainable system."
Power and wifi are free at many coffee shops and fast food joints. When I'm in one, spending the time between my work and martial arts training group, I mine on my laptop. If I were especially ambitious, I'd bring a tower with a bunch of ATI cards in it; but the McDonalds manager might complain when the lights dim.
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A bunch of folks at keyboards are not an army.

http://xkcd.com/538/ contains some relevant wisdom.