skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty nifty.
You can:
Do a contest. Get people to twitter their favorite song and mention your store. ie. "My favorite song is Bob Marley - Is This Love, please @MP3Gift, GIFT ME ONE!"
Or they can select an artist or album, and they must create a link to your site in order to be eligible to win.
Then pick out 100 users over a month period and give them a gift. Thats a decent way to spread the word for only $100-$129.

Another contest. Contact a musician, and try and do a contest with them. Give out 10-100 downloads of song (paid by you), the contest should be creative, like the user needs to make a youtube video, or maybe something the artist thiks of.

Ask people to blog about your service, and in exchange, gift them a song. (Win a free song by blogging about us)

These should bring direct users and also boost your SEO. (Btw, you appear on page 2 of google when i search 'mp3 gift')

DO more SEO.

Make your facebook/twitter/+1 buttons more prominent.
Dont forget, when someone buys, they should be given the option to give the gift or a reminder via Twitter or Facebook. (I think you have the Facebook thing already)
Advertise the site. "Give MP3s as gifts at mp3gift.com. Cheap and personal, great for birthdays." Adwords or facebook ads.
Why should the U.S. tax capital, earned outside of the U.S., when it is invested back in America?
I added CoffeeScript support if anyone's interested.

just change your file extension from .js to .coffee

https://github.com/eightbitraptor/dotjs/commit/20c97774eb29f...
A native editor might indeed be cool, but I really would like to make NoFlo a "zero install" system where you can even just run it on a browser.

More native installs with embedded WebKit would be cool for getting it to mobile devices, though. I'm especially interested in HP TouchPad, as WebOS already ships Node.js, and so NoFlo might run fully on the device with quite small effort.

BTW, what FBP tool did you use, or did you roll your own? So far I've mostly looked at JavaFBP and C#FBP for inspiration.
richer in terms of the stock they own based on crazy valuations.
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He mentions sources in the comments section and clears his intention with:

"This article highlights US laws are imminent based upon an increase in research activity into Bitcoin by the US courts service."

We've been discussing this article on the Bitcoin forums and I think we all know it's coming whether we agree with it or not. We can see any law passed against Bitcoin will affect it's market value.

Point 5 at the bottom of the article (Further Work) is worth a look.
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As someone working with Moose recently (and not really loving the experience), can you elaborate why it made your cut?
It's not like Google is known for being any more responsive to questions from people who get affected by its automated systems, though.
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A gas powered car will burn gas now and in twenty years. lectric car burns (mostly) coal now but it doesn’t have to in twenty years. That’s what electric cars are all about.

This is really the key point. Right now, if all cars were electric, in Netherlands you would be driving on natural gas, in Austria renewable energy, and in Spain Nuclear energy (http://bit.ly/m25JwE).

Each country / region has good reasons for basing their current energy supply on a particular resource, and they can adapt over time as new options become available, old ones less attractive, market incentives change, or democracy pushes for something new.
Right, but do I have to manually add a logging handler? Where does my logging.warn("...") end up?
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I hope the idea of circles catches on, and that they are very expendable, I would like to have for instance a Circle called Music where I could add those friends which I share music with and that it would become a central hub which we could all update. I like this idea, rather than the mess that is the Facebook news feed.

Adoption will be slow I reckon as people don't have a huge reason to move this, but thanks to its integration, we will see a number of people use it almost unknowingly.

I like Google's full on approach here, and feels more complete than buzz and even wave.
It also seems to become something more like the Windows taskbar, or the osX dock/menubar. It's the 'Googlebar'.
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It is already clearly recognizable at the default font size.
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If I draw a picture, did I program? Are artists programmers? What if I try to execute that binary of a digital image? I would say: no to the first, yes to the last. I think it's a big difference: the aesthetic and basic syntax qualities of markup, the completeness of a list of invitations to a party, and executable code.

To me, HTML, CSS, XML, etc. are not code and do not have real bugs; they have design flaws and syntax flaws, just as a picture may need more red or blue. (But note that I'm not sure there's a right answer here, and I certainly respect you and your opinion.)

I also think that it's not about abstractions but better abstraction mechanisms which work to reduce complexity at any level. It may get more complex, but you can manage that complexity much more skillfully. I am absolutely confident that we can find better abstraction mechanisms.
true, but at least they're transparent and they allow people to grow with them, which is better for everybody.

that said, I think they could make a fortune out of paid support.
Yep, they even have a demo of this: http://jsplumb.org/jquery/chartDemo.html
Hmm, maybe. The mobile site now has the menu look like tabs. Very cute, like a miniature Chrome.
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The only word-processed files that might be non-confidential I can think of are contracts made in the past couple of decades between companies that have both declared bankruptcy. Either that or public EULAs.
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Hi All,

I'm going bananas trying to get PayPal working. Finding it very confusing, and has constant issues (passwords not accepted, Internal Server Errors blah blah).

I mean how hard can this be? All I want to do is accept payments on my site. Can anyone recommend a service that will:

- Allow my site to accept credit, debit card payments

- Is third party, so I don't process the transaction myself

- Doesn't require a merchant ID

- Allows me to move funds into a linked UK bank account

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Many thanks
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It is a pure speculation that any law is imminent. There is still no source that says the US courts are "doing more research". Lastly, "we all know" is his own opinion, not the opinion of any group, let alone the bitcoin forum.
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Then you miss the tagging information.
How can there be so much in fighting within Microsoft?

Surely there must be a manager somewhere that looks over both teams and makes sure they aren't trying to shaft each other.
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You really think the US will sit idly by as Bitcoin use increases?
Ah yes, but how do I keep track of my firstCousinsTwiceRemoved() ?

(Maybe if I saw the code, I could actually keep straight how those more distant relations work...)
Thanks for that hack. I'd never seen that one before but font smoothing on Windows has always driven me nuts.
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Agreed. My problem (and it may just be mine) is that my 100 or so friends on Facebook (mostly IRL friends) are not that active on Facebook groups. They will update their status and post photos but will not share content on groups. I am part of a number of groups around my interests (tech, photography etc) but tends to be me and maybe one or two others that contribute content. Very little discussion occurs. I wonder if Google+ will change that with the ability to add in non friends around an interest (ala twitter) but without broadcast to all.
In Italy, you have to have thousands of Euros available to start a limited liability company and it sucks. It's just a complete and total negative in my opinion.

We can all argue about the ideal level of taxation, but don't tax companies until they're actually making money.
It's not just a lawyer failure, but a legal system collapse. People are being denied justice.

The lawyers themselves are not necessarily to blame. There are two or three interlinked aspects:

1. The growth in regulations, which draws away limited legal resources toward big companies, leaving less (or higher fees) for criminal or civil defense

2. The growth in criminal prosecution of victimless crimes and especially ramping up the war on drugs

3. The collusion between politicians and the prison industry, which has created a monetary incentive to incarcerate people (looking 'tough on crime' has more than just electoral benefits)
Error-prone because it adds stupid complexity and many additional steps for just getting some simple information which Google probably has stored already along with the mail. With additional complexity, you always get further things in your algorithm which could go wrong. Such unnecessary complexity should always be avoided.
But wouldnt this enhance the bubble-ification? I like that on twitter I often see other sides of personality and new things from people.
Because it is a crock of shite, that's why.
Ask anyone who ever used an actual (general-purpose) "visual programming system" for any (nontrivial) real life task. I have extensive experience in one, and a little in another, and both suck balls.
The problem is that, while the diagrams you are constructing might look fancy and intuitive to a layperson (i.e. your pointy haired boss), they do usually not help you to structure the complexity of the task at hand in any meaningful way. Usually, they make everything worse.
Having said that, there is a rather big exception: Domain specific visual programming systems, if they are well designed and the problem domain lends itself to it, can be quite useful.
Right there with you pal. Anxiously waiting to google's APIs. (they are mentioned here http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/)

I can't express how sick i feel doing facebook apps in the past year, it has been nothing but disappointment and anger (but still makes the money due to huge traction).

Google has a much better track record of fostering developer ecosystems and a much better understanding of how to deal with app spam. Hope they do their best to create a good web app ecosystem.
the really annoying bit was when you had figured out what to do, but had to play "guess the verb". (i remember the otherwise very fun "unkuulian unventure" having a few frustrating examples, e.g.). and later, when graphical adventures got popular, that was supplemented by "hunt the pixel".
a tortoise. just like totaltab's web server :-P
Submitted yesterday, flagged dead, same response there as here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2705077

With regards items being resubmitted and repeatedly flagged dead, I offer the following quotation:

"Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana,
The Life of Reason (1905-1906)
Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

(Copied from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana)

Last time I pointed out that an item had been submitted earlier and flagged dead I got downvoted, so I then provided a further explanation. I reproduce it here - it will be slightly disjointed as I don't have time to go through and re-edit it for a single comment.

========

Firstly, this item is a repeat submission. It was submitted earlier, and so there is some earier "discussion" to reference. I thought it would be of value to point that out.

I especially thought it would be of value since it that discussion seems to highlight some concerns about the item in question. Rather than simply repeat them here, I thought it better to point to it over there.

The quotation was intended to point out a problem with items like this getting flagged. Several times in the past I've seen items get flagged dead, only to be submitted repeatedly, then flagged dead each time. Deleting the items by having them flagged dead just means that the same thing is submitted over and over again, and hence came to mind the given quotation. Paraphrased:

If you delete things, you can't learn from them, leading to the potential for repeating the same errors over and over.

I thought people would find that interesting, relevant, and potentially a useful tidbit.

Spam certainly should be flagged - no question.

The problem is that there are stories that people think will be interesting, but which then get thoroughly discredited. Initially, no doubt, they should be flagged, and therefore deleted. Fine.

But if they are submitted again then they should not be flagged. It's likely that they will be submitted again and again and again. Instead, the original should be pointed out, the fact that it's discredited recorded, and the submission left so the dupe-detector prevents any further submissions. In that way we learn from history.
I would also be wary to build a business on Googles good will. They are shutting down many API from finance, news search and translation.
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Adoption will be slow, right now its just a playground of possibilties, but I think a slow ramp up of the userbase is more likely than the suprising amount of nay saying I've seen. I remember when Facebook was that thing I was getting an account on just to take a look around even though I'd never actually use it because all my friends were on MySpace.
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sorry i should have qualified that with a "for me"
You mean, not responsive by humans. Facebook's responses, even when given by humans, are appalling. I thought it was just me, but here:

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=100175

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=103438

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=91182

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=88452

On the other hand, i never had problems with google that were not solved in a reasonable timeframe (but i am still waiting after 9 months for facebook to unspam our domain that was an empty page). Adsense will even assign a human to correspond with if you have enough traction.
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If you haven't been genuinely wronged and don't have an actual case that needs to go to trial, you can't realistically expect to win

The premise that only deserving cases win isn't self-evident to me. With increasing awards and settlements, the expected value of a spurious case might be quite high.
What's an interesting segue to this is that fundamentally the "language understanding" issues are mostly red herrings. The gold standard within the legal profession we are constantly led to believe is to pursue a standard of objective fairness and justice which would be better defined by deterministic, logical languages like programming languages rather than fuzzy, broad languages like English.

It is far, far easier to have laws written in code and execute test cases based on those laws before even investing any capital into a venture which may require edge cases of a given law, rather than the current scenario of hemming and hawing around a fundamentally subjective and fuzzy area and eventually subjecting your endeavour to the rigors of being a legal "test case" consisting of much ado about nothing and the outcome is as close to random as anything else.

When you reduce the legal profession to coding and writing test cases though, hell will freeze over the next day. Such a politically powerful faction will never allow themselves to be marginalised in this way, even if they claim to desperately be striving for exactly the kind of scenarios that this would allow; universal access to a completely objective justice system with etc etc etc. The extent to which this is actually impossible is somewhat depressing because it's something of an expose on the hypocrisy implicit in the claims of the legal system to actually serve the public, rather than itself.

But hey, that's life. If it ever does happen my wager is it will be because it is forced on them through market forces, the public at large simply uses alternatives venues for mediation and the legal system is forced to compete with it. I predict much artificial legal protection to prevent this from happening before it actually comes to pass, though.
An interesting post, though the Redditor inside me barks "repost" at the pattern matching. Yes, pattern matching is nice, and it certainly shines when you do things like red-black trees; on the other hand, I'd more rather see a description, or paper, or something, on Qi's type system and where I'd use the Turing-equivalent features. And I'm not even a type geek. Or a summary of the new license, but, well, that might be too much to ask.
But at least I get paid lots of money to talk and think about this stuff ;)
Agreed, my group of friends organise stuff using email threads. Events (theatre, concerts etc.) are put in a Google Calendar for us all to see. It's really useful to e.g. keep track of people's travelling plans, birthdays and other such stuff. Unfortunately, Calendar does not have some desirable features such as seeing that an event is added, changed or deleted and by whom. I hope some of these features will be available in Google Plus.
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It might defeat the benefits of using the web interface for you, but you could connect to Talk using Pidgin, or something similar.
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The grey on black text works better on good monitors than on my laptop. I lose contrast when the viewing angle changes, so if my laptop screen tilts a little to much, the text becomes unreadable. I wonder if the designers tested on a non high-end laptop.
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I'd imagine that that manager is Steve Balmer, or only 1 level below him.
The heads of WinDiv (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/ ) and DevDiv (Not sure who that is - Scott Guthrie or his boss?) are pretty senior.

Has the infighting gotten worse since Bill Gates handed over?
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Sorry, I had not seen it submitted previously and your link says deleted, but not by whom.

It's not blatant spam selling counterfeit footwear or similar and I'm inclined to think it was the submitter who deleted it fearing downvotes from the bitcoin mob rather than a good old flagging (it has 4 upvotes right this minute and is worth a read).
What I would like is the circles feature to encompass this, so that you would have the equivalent of Twitter wide spread for instance a circle on Node-JS, a music circle which I share with friends as previously mentioned and another wider circle of friends which is more like facebook, a more general taste circle. I think this makes a lot of sense, and I want these groups to be explicit, I don't particularly want any groups to be "We thought you might be interested in Penguins seeing as you are in the Linux group"
".NET would be the way to write Windows applications. Win32 would still exist for backwards compatibility, but it would be frozen and left static."

OMG, Another non-technical person trying to write about technology again <sigh>
If I understand this article correctly, I think it's pretty crazy how an investment of less than $7 million has caused FB's valuation to go up 20billion.
Almost off-topic: I voted you up because I am also interested in knowing a little more about this and thought by voting you up other people would see there's more people interested in it. Then I realised points are hidden...