skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are Mechanical Fishdollars different from US Dollars? US dollars are legal tender in the USA. Which means that if I'm in the USA and I give you some US dollars to pay off a debt, the debt is legally defined as paid. This is not necessarily true for Fishdollars: One can agree to accept them as payment for a debt, but one is under no obligation to do so, and if you go to court to claim that your mortgage payments aren't late because you mailed 10,000 Fishdollars to your bank the court is going to be considerably more skeptical than if you'd paid in US Dollars.

Legal tender is, of course, a fluid concept. If the Fishdollar becomes legal tender in a country with a microscopic economy consisting of two people, it's not very useful because you might not be able to cash out your collection of Fishdollars: The citizens might not have anything that they'd like to trade for Fishdollars. What you really want in a currency is an issuer which has a really big economy with lots of money moving around. That's one reason why everyone loves US Dollars.
Of course they will - just not very many of them, and not very much, and not if they discover one of the many free services that do the same thing.

I know three groups of people who at one time looked hard at producing a paid ad-blocker. All three of them independently decided it was a terrible idea for the above reasons.

The problem's compounded by the growing number of sites that just don't work properly if you block something that 'protects your privacy', but interferes with their business model. Sometimes this happens inadvertently, but not always.
Which cookies in particular? Tracking cookies?

If so, why not use one of the opt out plugins, rather than search over http?
The real backing that a US dollar has is not its gold. It is the fact that the US government has declared itself obligated to accept tax payments in terms of US dollars, and it will not accept anything else. That's the dollar's base case, and the reason why coming off the gold standard didn't bring the house down is that was really always the true value of a dollar. The gold was an illusion, suitable for an era in which people couldn't think abstractly enough to understand what the true backing was, but one that we can now be rid of. The recursion of the value of government fiat money does indeed have a base case.

This is why a government is so tied to its currency. In some sense it isn't a true cause and effect relationship, both the stability of a government and the stability of its currency is tied to the same third factor, its credibility.

"All a currency really needs to be valuable are two people who have faith in it"

Which is an equivocation game, in that "have faith in it" must itself be motivated by something at least locally rational or it won't work. I have faith in the ability of a dollar to buy off the men-with-guns who will come and take all my stuff and ruin my life if I don't pay my taxes.

All government fiat currencies are thus in fact backed by something real. I don't entirely disagree with the BitCoin community that that is a more tenuous backing than one might abstractly like, but I do not see anything in practice that would be better; value stores are intrinsically ephemeral and there is nothing you can do about it.

The reason why BitCoin is crashing is that it was built on the false premise that currencies have no backing, so we might as well create a cryptocurrency with no backing. But that's false. BitCoin is actually special in having no backing of any kind, and that is why failure is and will continue to be inevitable. The whole thing was built on a false foundation.
Dollars are backed by the full faith and credit of the united states tax payers and required to be accepted by everyone, bitcoins are backed by nothing and required to be accepted by no one. That's quite a big difference.
Ask HN: What do you use to manage your server login info?
I've found Keepass to be a good solution for person login information, but I find it falls short when it comes to capturing the login credentials and notes related to web hosting.

I looking to track a variety of different types of information (email id's and passwords, FTP accounts, CPanel login info, etc.) tied to accounts across a diverse range of client sites. I've tried text files, spreadsheets, and some other custom tools but haven't found the perfect solution for managing credential and hosting notes related to sites I operate for myself and others. Does anyone have any great suggestions?
It was a close call but I survived.
It looks great, but its error handling could be improved. When I forgot to copy a bracket, it emptied the text box and gave me a generic error message. It would be helpful if it could at least give a line number for the error, and refill the text box. Also, putting "jsonifier" or something in front of the title would be great. When I have 15-20 tabs open, I only see 5-6 characters of the title, and "auto-f" doesn't allow for me to easily switch to something.

Other than that, it looks like a useful service, and well done.
As long as we're being pedantic:

1. The first word I ever sounded out on my own (at least in an adult's presence) was "Mobil"—from the sign above the gas station near our home in Glendale, CA. (Très Américain, non?) For all I know this was before I turned two.

2. Most of the "embellished" stories regarding my memorable reading tricks come from family members who joined us on a trip to Lake Tahoe in the winter of 88/89 and were astounded/terrified to see me reading things like the snack bar menu. This was beyond the point of sounding out "Mobil" or "Maltodextrin"—I could read the menu, I comprehended that apples were available, and I wanted one.

3. My 2nd birthday was in July of '88. So yes, I was between my second and third birthdays. But no, I wasn't closer to three, or "in fact, three."
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Not quite; e.g. the Google+ rules are somewhere in between, where you're supposed to use your real-world name but that isn't necessarily your legal name.
I'm still a TH newbie, but i collected a couple of tricks for working with TH interactively in GHCi on my blog:

http://coder.bsimmons.name/blog/2010/12/working-with-templat...
Well, sizeof(int) (and short, and long!) could also be 1, and %p could print out the pointer address as a roman numeral. All legal according to standard.

What commonly used platforms have a 64-bit ints? The only one I vaguely recall are really, really old versions of Solaris. After a while IIRC they decided that ILP64 was too much of a PITA and went with LP64.
>I don't remember seeing any job for non-engineers.

There are certainly fewer non-technical positions posted, but there are some. For example, ZeroCater has posted customer support and sales openings.
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In the UK Bitcoins are classified as a commodity.

It falls under the same rules as buy and selling gold which basically has no formal regulation.

I heard somebody define "money" as the most liquid commodity.

The commodity that can be exchanged for goods and services the most easily and efficiently is money.
Very smart, but is it against the TOS to bid directly on the trademark/company name? Often times it is.

That being said, they likely will not care with you being an extremely small player and bringing them 32 new customers.

Solid Hack, congrats

edit - CPC are going sky high after this :-) people might want to wait for a few weeks to let others forget
Why can't scratching an itch be part of the process of finding your passion? With many interest you're not going to understand if you're passionate about it until you dive in.
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This comment doesn't even reply to the original question, and the site doesn't even use Twitter Bootstrap.
In his machine int size is 32Bit - should have told the same before.
> An iPhone launch across all the major carriers is huge -it's not unimaginable that people will just "buy Apple" without the carrier restrictions

How boring that world would be.
I thought this looked familiar :) Looks wonderful dude! Can you make Siri play nice with this?
I've had some success with putting an AT&T GoPhone SIM directly into an iPhone 4 with no jailbreak/unlock.

Couple that with Google Voice (and the Talkatone app), and you can barely use cell minutes.
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One important thing that people forget is that if you move to outsource something, you still need some way to do quality control and oversight of contractors who have little incentive in your success.
Accounting for this often blows away the cost benefit in my experience.
FPS games have had wallhack support since Counterstrike was released.
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> At less than three months of age, he had a fit when pulled away from the television, under the watch of in-laws.

Really? My son was not even able to have a fit at 3 months old. He was pretty blob-like...
I bet the key difference here is that now people are much more likely to use google specifically to find dropbox.
I think this is the most interesting part: "websites you visit from our organic search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't know the exact query."

I wonder if Google Analytics will still list the queries. (They mention that Google Webmasters' Tools will give the top 1000 queries, but not individual results.)
It's not staggering because of the PPI, it's staggering that we're carrying a WXGA display in our pockets. It displays 50% more information than the iPhone 4 screen, which is already pretty amazing.
Pretty cool.

The cynic in me wonders if this could be a clever viral campaign by dropbox to get cheap online ads.
Might be easier to run it through Mechanical Turk
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I use 1password, I have a folder for the admin credentials / ips, and another folder for FTP accounts.

The only problem with 1password is they kind of gouge you, if you have mac + pc you have to buy it twice and then again if you want it on iOS.
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Anything less than $50 billion rounds to zero.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/lot-of-bull-about-goldman-200...
I guess shelling out 5$ in mturk, could more effectively do the job, in less time.
If you notice, a lot of my clicks were through the keyword 'dropbox'...it may not be helpful for them to be bidding on their own company name.

I also think that this was a couple years ago before the intent to search for a product like this may have been lower. It's possible they would get completely different results today.
post your invite-link here and I'll put it in www.dropbox.it for free.
I'm not intending insult your status as a prodigy. I'm just cautioning that you aren't interpreting the recommendation properly. One data point doesn't do much to disprove the existing studies that show a clear anticorrelation between speech development and screen time.

Basically, you're saying essentially that parents should ignore clear science and let their kids watch ("non-bullshit") TV because you know a kid who watched a lot of TV and is really smart. That's bad science, and frankly it's bad parenting.
They will use it as a valid excuse to finally badger their folks into getting them one.
Pragmatically though, you'll never be able to stop new advancements from seeing the light of day. Blocking MIT from researching this won't stop the NSA or defense contractors, and even with a fair government, it wouldn't stop criminals. So far, the best path for dealing with potentially dangerous tech has been to keep it open and studied.
"A correlation is still a very real statistical thing. It doesn't automatically imply causation, but it doesn't rule it out either. In fact, it's usually pretty good evidence in favor of causality."

If A and B are correlated, it might mean that A -> B, or that B -> A, or that there's a C that leads to both A and B. Without further data, there is no way to distinguish between these possibilities. And often the actual causation is different from what you'd guess based on intuition alone.
I'm sure he's flying high right now, but I think he's foolish to turn down an offer like that in the same way Groupon was foolish to turn down Google's 11 digit offer.

Sure, one could argue that money is less important than achieving a vision, but with that kind of money, Drew could work on 5 additional visions of similar size, knowing his product was in good hands.
"But the nature of media and technology has brought extensive changes to the electoral system, and I don’t believe that we as journalists devote enough attention to understanding those changes."

So much truth. The statement "journalists don't devote enough attention to understanding" is also pretty defensible.
But everyone else is using it now so who needs encryption anyway?

Sorry for the snark. I agree with you but trying to raise a raucous about client-side encryption seems to be useless at this point. I only hope they use some of that funding to implement encryption at the very least for those who want and would use it. Even to make it an add-on price is better than no client-side encryption. But then we still have to trust the actions of the binary executable to not do some other nefarious things.
I like the approach this piece takes, as it avoids the usual 'learn $foo_language 'cos it's hot!' approach. I hire people who genuinely love their chosen work and who love open source, and who really understand how it works. A good coder can learn any language-- I look for people who understand that any programming language is just a tool, a means to an end. They need to think and reason well, be resourceful, know how to learn, and be dependable. Most of all I look for people who place the end user first, which is something I wish the article had touched on. I also like that it mentions the myriad other disciplines that are part of any software project.
Have you considered sponsorship deals with a phone company? I could see this being a way for phone companies to get their first customers:

"But, Mom, I have to get a phone now!"
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I'm not sure. I didn't bother looking at this. I spoke to someone at Dropbox about this and he's seen the numbers, he seemed to be more interested in what I did rather than reprimanding me for doing it.

Thing is that everyone maxes out at some point. You can only have so many referrals. Once you give them 32 new customers, you stop running the ads and move on with life.

Also, you're just re-routing the new customers. They would have signed up potentially on their own (as you can see the multitude of clicks from the keyword 'dropbox'), so I imagine that could be the only problem for them - acquiring customers by having to give you extra space that would have signed up without having to give anyone extra space.
In my humble opinion the only challenge here is guessing what sizeof(int) the author had in mind. A mild challenge would be asking about something that is not a part of the pointer arithmetic basics such as a[i] === i[a] and obfuscating a bit (e.g. "const char* i[] = {"Hello","world"}; char c = (2&*i[1])["Hello world"]; what is c? The guess about character encoding is as good as the guess about sizeof(int)).
There are "activator" bootloaders that trick a pirated copy of Windows into thinking that it's licensed. Of course, any machine with secure boot will already include a licensed copy of Windows 8, but secure boot could prevent people from installing pirated copies of Windows 9.
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While I completely agree with you, the one thing I question about the restaurant tv example is, does the child zone into the tv because it is something they rarely experience and provides changing imagery that catches their eye?

Again, I don't disagree with the overall point, I just wonder if their interest that you are experiencing is due to the intrigue of something new and not necessary zoning out just because it is a tv.
There is a huge difference when you do something because you think it's just a feature that'd be nice to have than to dedicate yourself to something and do a great job implementing it because you think that it has to be done, dropbox is doing the latter.
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Didn't think of that.
@hsparikh is right. This looks an awful lot like Imagine K12-backed Remind101 (http://www.remind101).
No, facebook has a special place in my heart, which is why they got 'special treatment'.

Other than the usual suspects and FB my host file is empty.

I can see how a huge hostfile would impact performance, and I would advice against using it to block a very large number of hosts.
wildly out of context (comically so if you know me IRL) -- oh well :)
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I think their Wikipedia page does a good job of showing their record. They've done more investigative journalism than all of the other papers combined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehelka
nnoremap <F2> :<C-u>FufRenewCache<CR> " Updates cache, useful after adding or removing files

nnoremap <C-t> :<C-u>FufFile /<CR> " Makes the search recursive
C99 specified stdint.h, which includes int16_t/uint16_t. So compliant compilers are required to support it even if it doesn't map to a built-in type. So you won't lose the short.

That said, it wouldn't make it any less insane; so no one does this and in fact int is 32 bits everywhere except microcontrollers (and 8086, for the tiny handful of people writing BIOS or bootloader code).
Even on 64bit machines an int has 4 bytes. I don't think this is mandated by the standard, though. I guess that many implementations believe that this is better than having a huge size difference between 32 and 64 architectures. There is always long int if you want a 64bit integer.
Fun tidbit - this equivalence also means you can write it as 1[x]:

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int x[5] = {1,2,3,4,5};
printf("%d, %d\n", x[1],1[x]);
return 0;
}
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Phones are the new razors, pants are the new blades.
Whatever it was they should have anticipated the popularity a bit better, they seem to be down/very slow for hours now.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but this could have pretty big implications for people tracking query terms on anything that has been self created (for SEO purposes etc). Other analytics packages (self-rolled/3rd party) won't have near the amount of data that Google Analytics will correct?
Hooray! I invested in this one too.
Wrong questions to ask about digital pedagogy
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I think the magnets on the track piece may be arranged NSN like this:

NNNNNNNNNN
SSSSSSSSSS ==>
NNNNNNNNNN

Which allows movement as indicated. In the part of the video where it's just locked stationary above a square magnet, it appears maybe the magnet as this arrangment:

NNN NS
NSN or SN
NNN

Which locks it entirely in-place, not allowing movement. And then in the part where it's spinning, I think maybe the magnet is S on the inside and N on the outside or something:

NN
NSSN
NS SN
NSSN
NN

Allowing it to spin. But this is speculation based on my limited understanding (but I noticed no one else was answering, so I thought I'd give a shot).
In the Vim world plugins don't really have to be maintained.

I like both FuzzyFinder and Command-T, but right now I'm using the former; gets the job done quite nicely and occasionally I use modes other than the basic file search.
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I have to think that your odds of getting hit by a car crossing the street would be lower than driving an hour each day. Anybody have any statistics?
The key is that "&" gives a pointer to the declared type. If you have a variable of array type (int x[100]), the pointer is to the array type (pointer to int[100]), not pointer to int.
Indeed, watching TV is not a passive, structured experience, as the experts claim. No more than is reading a book, or playing with lego.

If it were then TV shows would not be interesting.

My guess is that there are two factors which may harm children's development. One is that watching TV until exhaustion, if done too often, may divert resources which would otherwise have gone into growing the brain. This applies only in the very early years when that growth is rapid.

The other is parents using TV to pacify children instead of helping them and paying attention to their problems.
Well, you could also install a Cookie filter at the browser level.
From the near-final draft of the C99 standard I happen to have sitting around:

"Except when it is the operand of the sizeof operator or the unary & operator, or is a string literal used to initialize an array, an expression that has type ‘‘array of type’’ is converted to an expression with type ‘‘pointer to type’’ that points to the initial element of the array object and is not an lvalue. If the array object has register storage class, the behavior is undefined."

In short, the moment you write a variable of array type and it's not one of those very limited cases, it immediately becomes a pointer to the first element. x+1 is completely valid.
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@gallamine, @brlewis done. "it" stands for "italy"
A similar thing happened to me with Sprint. Due to a glitch in their system, my data plan got dropped completely. I was supposed to have an unlimited data plan with a 3G broadband card for my laptop, I unknowingly racked up several thousand dollars worth of charges. Sprint quickly reversed the charges after realizing their mistake.
In AIX on POWER you can choose between LP64, LLP64, or ILP64.
Referer headers are still sent when you go from one SSL page to another. So, the greatest impact of this development will actually be to force the rest of the web to use SSL, because they need it for analytics.
I'm curious about how many paying customers that they have. I know of very few people who use the pay service, most people seem to go with the free version. I wonder if they are profitable yet?
This sets a good precedent. It will provide more thrust towards making SSL the default communication mode.
Let more people know you. Though Google is giant, Its their advantage, and may the disadvantage.
Google Analytics won't have the queries either:
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-sec...
I'd suggest braking rather than swerving. Don't know how much better that would be.

In any case, you're right, it's possible for them to pose a danger, but it's still much less than that posed by drivers.
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Nice tip, thanks! Vim is full of treasures :)