skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say I almost wondered if this plan was meant as a bit of a joke.

I'd rather spread my income around now on a nice(r) house, some fun hobbies and a bit of abject consumerism, and enjoy life more evenly then save now not have as much fun but end up with more money in the bank later. You'll never get your younger years back.
tl;dr please - is it anonymous?
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I know he said that. I'm following the conversation. I'm just describing an idea for a permission system.
By "backend" he meant something to run Perl 6 on.
keep in mind that the prize is GOLD! As in: https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod%3D6&ix=n...
I thought this was gonna be Hot or Not for babies such as Cute or Not =(
Right now it's a feature phone can survive at the bottom of a swimming pool...after being dropped from a second story balcony and bouncing off the concrete pool deck on its way in.
Building and implementing a Single Sign-On solution
No, not because of typing. Because of reading.
Thanks for this. I've always known about emphasis.js, but not the keyboard shortcut.
As far as I can see, this is just a lot of political posturing. Such a law would have little impact, because the feared scenario is already against the rule. It violates the Facebook T&C for both the account owner to share the password, and for the prospective employer to use it. And surely it's already illegal for an employer to require a candidate employee to violate such an agreement as a condition of employment.

Just because something needs to be done does not mean that we need to have the government do it.
SQL on Nvidia GPU vs. SUN Fire
Notch mentioned in another interview that he was looking to create basically a modern 'Elite' set in a persistant universe but this programming thing seems to deviate slightly. Super interesting!
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when did the Royal Canadian Mint become innovative? drop the penny. start bitcoin 2. go canada!
There lies the difference between Eastern(H. Karthik) and Western(Mike Ryan)approach to personal finances.
Show HN: You can now create custom playlists on Tubalr.com
Yes but a new iPad doesn't make you younger either.
I had this same problem too. With my team, whenever someone needs to edit the project file, we shout it out. 'Changing project file!'. They make their changes and push. Everyone then pulls the new file and go on their merry way. It's a bit of a pain, but it works and we rarely have conflicts now.
By "learn from" BitCoin, I did not mean "blindly clone". They claim there's some ability to transfer value without an intermediary, which implies some sort of... something... which would enable that. The website doesn't make it clear to me exactly what that is, or I'd be more specific.

They do seem to be fixing one of my primary objections to BitCoin by providing it some real backing... or again, so they glibly claim without details.

If it is just "Hey, we'll store monetary values in the cloud" they're going out of their way to obscure that.
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I just noticed this when I tried invoke Instant Send[0] with a modifier tap[1] in LaunchBar. A bit annoying that it blocks the LaunchBar functionality.

[0]: http://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/InstantSend.htm...
[1]: http://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/ModifierTaps.ht...
I refer the honourable commenter to Jumpcrisscross' comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787375,
wherein they point out that to currency traders, Bitcoin's vulnerabilities have been known for a hundred years.
Fedora mulls ARM as a primary architecture
If you're interested, skim through Modern Perl [0].I really like this description from this Amazon review [1]:

"I had a hard time characterizing this wonderful book. It explains the fundamentals, but it's not an introductory book like Learning Perl. It covers almost every feature of the Perl 5 language, but it's not a reference book like Programming Perl. It explains common idioms, but it's not a guide to Perl 5 fluency like Effective Perl Programming. It contains many practical suggestions, but it's not a book of tips like Perl Hacks.

I can only describe it as a "textbook". If I had to pick a single book to teach Perl 5, this is the one I'd choose. As I read it, I was reminded of the first time I read K&R (C Programming Language) and how much learning was packed into it. (It's the only college programming text I still have). In a slim 250 pages, Modern Perl obsoletes most of my shelf of Perl 5 books. It's not intended for a complete novice to programming (any more than K&R was), but in the hands of a competent programmer or a diligent student it will teach everything that one needs to know to write Perl 5 well."

[0] http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/

[1] http://www.amazon.com/review/R1EAHI4GHDLQ96/ref=cm_cr_dp_per...
So they want people to build apps using mintchips? Essentially Stripe/Paypal/Dwolla using this tech? I'm kind of confused by this.

The only differentiating factor here is the currency is "mintchips". How much more creative can you get with a checkout when we are only changing the "backing" of the numbers that are moving around?
Inductive reasoning - do it
This video is a TED talk on how to work for free with impressive people then transition into paid work you love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5qUR3tpEdA&feature=playe...
I would hide the current votes of the paired videos before the user votes on them. (with maybe the option of seeing the scores but without being able to vote afterwards) I'd think it would influence one's vote.
Customer relationship managing. "(...)it's no real surprise that C. S. Lewis received thousands of letters from youngsters during his career. What's admirable is that he attempted to reply to each and every one of those pieces of fan mail, and not just with a generic, impersonal line or two."
It's also open to corporations in the same locations from a quick glance on my side.

My guess is that us foreigners could register a company in Delaware etc, and compete.
I noticed the paragraphs after a couple clicks but was clicking too fast to stop when the change occurred. I got sticky keys too.
I have to admit that I'm pretty skeptical.

People have been talking about web annotators since 1994 and we haven't seen one hit the mainstream yet.

Now, "online bookmarking" was one of those things that failed in 1998 and everybody knew it didn't work until delicio.us proved that it did, but to do so they've got to find the "missing link" that other people didn't find.
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It's their scheme that's obscene, not the prices themselves. Pay-per-brush? Pay-per-feature?

I'm not surprised iPhone/iPad apps are moving in this direction, but it still feels like being nickel-and-dimed.
Students protesting tuition hikes pepper-sprayed by police
>>"invented by a local mom"

That is the first flag that it is a scam.
It's really nothing like bitcoin as far as I can tell.

monetary value is stored on the hardware itself it seems, as you can do an offline transfer between two people.

bitcoin needs the cloud as an intermediary to transfer value (cloud acceptance of transactions)

as well bitcoin has traceability with unique identifiers and the text on this site suggests "no user data is transmitted with payment".
Glad to see all the "me toos" here. I've described this pet peeve of mine to others, and get an almost universal "meh" or "what are you talking about?"
There's a sad undercurrent to this, as some redditors respond that they find this depressing. While I understand their plight, I do not understand the sustained pessimism for most of the depressed ones.

I went to work right out of high school at menial jobs. No college, no big family business. Paycheck-to-paycheck, and any minor emergency like a dead car battery was a financial crisis. I did not "get lucky" on stocks or anything. While getting rich has not been a focus for me, I decided I definitely did NOT like being poor. Lots of small steps, and staying on the lookout for ways to improve matters has led me to not be poor. I'm not rich but I'm in decent shape and moving in the right direction: no debt except the mortage, which will be payed off soonish; some money in savings, stocks, 401k, etc. I'm living at a decent level and should be able to retire in some comfort. No magic. No big windfalls. This is doable by most of those depressed people.
Accept the challenge! http://mintchipchallenge.com/
I think the main problem with this article is the assumption the the first AD is anywhere near a 'standard good' ad. It is not. It's absolutely hideous with the call to action at a much lower hierarchy than the shitty pixelated in game screen shot, it has far too much content, and it looks like work EA would never release themselves. Essentially it looks like a scam/spam effort and people are trained to avoid those.

The second image looks cute and personal and much less threatening with the call to action... well... calling you to action.

Seems like the standard advertising conclusion to me. I would suggest not throwing away anything you know about advertising, unless youre a spammer that makes shitty ads and a looking to boost your CTR.
I don't think that is a fair assessment of the situation. While some people may be in a position where getting laid off from their job is a welcomed incentive to pursue bigger and better things, there are also those people that rely on that steady income to pay their bills and keep their families clothed, fed, educated, and healthy.

I also want to say, although I don't mean to imply that this was your personal assumption, that not every person working for a technical company in the valley is a risk taking entrepreneur. Some people just like to program.
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International Moving Companies
We are an international freight shipping company with shipping lines sailing worldwide. We have 25 years of experience in international container shipping. When shipping containers overseas, product ranges from shipping Consumer Goods, Capital Goods, Foods Feeds & Beverages, Industrial Supplies & Materials, and Automotive Vehicles (Cars, Parts, and Engines).
It would probably be easier for the Mikes of the world to be happy not spending that extra 20% on consumer goods if our peers and role models weren't all doing the same thing. Good reason to be a Karthik, I guess.
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses
On Wednesday, Google gave people 20/20 vision about a secret augmented-reality project called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first foray into wearable computing.
I'm not particularly happy with Page's focus on "social." Google Plus shouldn't exist.
Yes, I mistakenly left out "start working at 21" when I referenced the ages. Because even if you have a net-worth-neutral graduate education, you are not saving and investing money during those years.
>You'll never get your younger years back.

While I do agree to an extent, a very wealthy uncle of mine has always told me "the hallmark of maturity is the ability to delay immediate gratification."
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And here I thought you had gone most impressively meta with your commentary.

Essays are often only marginally more journalistic than muck-raking fiction.

In my mind, it is the kind of project you could pull off.
The MintChip is not even comparable to Bitcoin: it's not decentralized; it's not resistant to a Byzantine Generals-type attack; the supply of coin is not fixed; security is implemented via "tamper-proof" (ha-ha) hardware... the whole scheme looks rather hackable. IMO it's not a real alternative to Bitcoin.

This strikes me as an attempt by the Royal Canadian Mint to disintermediate credit card companies by offering a new, low-cost, "irrevocable," centrally-controlled payment system.
This reminds me a lot of Google Sidewiki [1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki
Startup Digest does a decent job of this on a city by city basis.
Summary: use SBCL or CMUCL, declare your types, hire good programmers, and don't commit to a deadline without getting a commitment to a specific set of requirements.
This comment is why I stopped reading reddit. The person mentions they "noticed a couple of GOOD POINTS"...

Get lucky, either through a series of serendipitous events or through birth.

Be old enough to have lived in an era when you didn't have $50K or more in student loans to pay off and could get a good job.
You can also highlight sentences across all the text too
As the author of pry-nav, I'm really glad to see more people using it! Thanks and please file issues if you get any odd behavior. I've been trying to improve the tracing.
Actually since the beginning of the year bitcoin's price has been relatively stable, around the $5 mark.

Whether this is the natural market price or if there is manipulation going on is hard to tell.

Certainly bitcoin is more volatile than the dollar, pound or euro but those currencies fluctuate in value too.

Bitcoin will be volatile whilst new coins are being minted, it is in an inflationary phase and the only upwards pressure will come from demand outstripping the supply.
If you guys think this ad is on to something, you really should see the ads put up in the SomethingAwful Forums (general subforum: http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=1 ). The interesting thing is that many (I'd estimate more than half) of the ads are put up by forum members themselves, making for a range of very informal, hilarious, parodic, often obscene ads that play to every stereotype ironically and knowingly, sometimes made shittily with MSPaint.

And where do those ads lead? Usually to a forum thread where members are playing/raiding an MMO together, or discussing a topic of great interest, or selling a service like painting portraits, web hosting, or resume editing (and in one or two cases, to a discussion of a particularly zeal-inspiring anime series).

Some purely parodic examples can be found here:

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?2332472-A...

And here is the current roster of ads, though many are from external advertisers and hence less funny:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/adlist.php

(Note that "goons" is the moniker for forum members, and many ads target them specifically with "goon discounts" and so on.)

Marketers with an attitude and something of a free hand could take a leaf from them.
Well, you'll be glad to know that it changed over a year ago. See for example: http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Mixers-Small-Appliances-Kitchen/...
"No personal data is exchanged in the transaction" implies it, but I'd be astonished if there wasn't an auditable device ID trail.
But that doesn't mean 9/10 of startup founders fail. Most of the successful startups I know today are not the founder's first startup. Everybody says doing a startup, even (especially?) if it fails, is extremely educational.

The most common pattern I see is doing a startup, failing, but learning enough about how to do it right, and then trying again and having moderate success with #2 or #3.

9/10 of startups failing could be explained by "virtually all first-time startups fail, and 9/10 founders give up after their first failure, and those that stick with it, succeed". That would actually be rather encouraging.

Almost nobody I know working for a big company is working for their first big company, so you could also say "9/10 of all employments fail", but that's hardly an indictment of employment.
The more I think about it, the more I like this metaphor. Because you CAN make SOME estimates based on what's in the closet. If it's a huge closet, you could guess that the house was fairly large. If there are a lot of coats of different styles, you might infer that many people live in this house. But you're still making a guess about something you can't actually see because you haven't been given enough information. Brilliant!
There are a lot of stupid numbers flying around. The problem is defining "business" & "failure."

Some businesses are only meant to last a couple of years. Lots of owners start several businesses and eventually focus on one. Most numbers you hear are based on the number of businesses registered & renewed/not renewed, a terrible way of measuring both these things.
I'm not noticing any delays. I usually am impressed with the speed of HN. When I notice delays, I assume it is temporary network issues. Interested in other theories.
Syrup -- A whitespace-significant Lisp, in CoffeeScript, for funsies
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Entrepreneurs won't spend their time reading reddit.

If they do they won't reply to those questions. I have friends that are terrible rich by earning it and the first thing they learn is that life is better when few people know about it. (Thieves, kidnappers and envious get out of your life). They life normal lives.

Those that inherit, well, that is another story.
Nope - it allows you to link to individual Paragraphs as well as Highlighting sentences (just click them to toggle the Highlight).

As you do this it updates the URL so you can share it.

They Keys to identify the text are generated dynamically and tolerant to change (so if a Paragraph is modified or moved later on - rare) it will still link tot he correct one within a given tolerance.
Good for them to be opening an office Downtown.
Not rendering for me, running Windows 7 and chrome
I don't think so, obscure but not anonymous.

Here:
http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/devguide/developing/c...

Each transfer message has both the Sender and Receiver encoded within it. These are opaque but generated by your mintchip provider.

Looking here:
http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/devguide/ecosystem.ht...

Suggests that your provider ("trusted broker") creates your mintchip ids. It might be possible to associate many keys to your physical person but I believe all of them could be traced back with the co-operation of the providers.
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for me, it is either from 11pm to 4-5am or from 4-5am to 11pm.
Net worth when you are talking about businesses gets interesting too, since it's actual assets rather than savings like an individual has. And business assets tend to be much more volatile than savings... many more million dollar businesses have gone bankrupt than million dollar people.
To sum up the average discussion about jobs and money on reddit: a victim mentality and belief that we live in the hardest time ever to get a job because of events outside of our control.
Just a brief note to say I totally agree! There's a long list of people who've built similar things and failed.

There are two really tough problems in web annotation: 1) changing content and 2) reputation. I freely confess that Annotator/AnnotateIt address neither of these major issues satisfactorily, but work is already underway on problem 1 (assisted greatly by http://mementoweb.org), and we're working closely with http://hypothes.is/ who have assembled the world's experts to attack problem 2.

In short, we're aware of the history, but we think this is an idea whose time has come.
Yeah, someone is going to figure out how to give themselves 20000 billion by working around the hardware and Mintchip will die real quick.
>Why should I even waste my time worrying about supplying spaces or tabs every time I go to a new line while programming.

What are you talking about? Why wouldn't you have your editor just insert the correct number of spaces when you press the tab key? It's worked fine for all my python work.
That's quite funny. I love that book! (The first half, at least.) Keith Johnstone lives in my town and I've occasionally crossed paths with him at the local grocery. Anyway, sure, his chapter on status games is brilliant. But not as a guide to living. There are much better guides to living in there than that :)
ok... now that is pretty nice. I'll be adding that to my tool box. Thanks!
I feel like many of the comments here are focusing on "what does this solve that hasn't been done before" type of comments. I think those are largely missing the point of instagram. Instagram's value is in the network, and its pairing with easy to use tools.
Do it yourself DSL bonding with no Telco coordination.
Why I’m Returning My New iPad, and Why You Should Consider It Too
I can see cases where the delay before the bitcoin network approves your transaction would be problematic.
How Open Source Is Disrupting Visual Art
On the positive side, when that implementation of Perl 6 does arrive, it will be delivered to you by flying car free of charge.
Sexiness only matters when it comes to PR. It'll be hard to get featured in Mashable, TC, or any other popular blogs if you aren't providing something cool or attractive.

if you're doing an enterprise startup, it doesn't really matter though.
When I started working with Xcode last November I was planning to jot down every one of my frustrations and make a blog post just like the OP did. However, I decided against it... must be old age sneaking up on me.

I do have one additional point: Xcode's code completion abilities are underwhelming. Emacs does a better job with hippie-expand IMHO.

For code completion I do not know how Xcode compares to the much hailed Visual Studio (I have no experience with it) but compared to Emacs + Slime + Common Lisp it is awful.
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There's a middle ground between not spending and spending extravagantly. So many people with large incomes just waste it away and end up with nothing at the end. We're not talking about a single $500 iPad. We're talking about a $500 night at a club.
Microsoft seeks more programming language support for Windows 8
lots of electronic music - I find I don't listen to the words (if there are any) and just enjoy the noise in the background.

Classical music also works well for the same reasons.
http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/devguide/differentiat...

So current hardware solutions like visa and debit are secure because they use a trusted 3rd party. And not anonymous.

Bitcoin traded trusted 3rd party for trusted cloud (its p2p nature) and so was still not really anon if you put in any effort.

This is supposed to be 3rd party-less, fully anon. So thats a lot of trust in the hardware. It does seem uniquely vulnerable in ways we haven't before seen with visa and debit or bitcoin.
Interesting to see him talking about multiple dispatch. I wonder what the thinks of Clojure? And CLOS, of course.
And now I'll introduce the editor flamewar: in vim, moving from anywhere on a line to the first non-whitespace character on that line is just ^, moving to the very first character of the line is 0. In general, navigation in vim is whitespace agnostic (inasmuch as you move around by chunks of text, not character by character)
That's cute, but also pretty inconvenient.
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