skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been analyses of western and eastern warfare strategies that hypothesize westerners use chess-like strategies (frontal assault), while easterners typically use go-like strategies (surrounding the enemy).
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There are more than a couple of attempts at this. First is CoderWall - It basically let you list each software/engineering achievement and gave you badge for it.

Another one is Skills.To by Joshua (founder Delicious). It's a bit of an abstraction vis a vis your idea, but its definitely in the neighbourhood.

EDIT - Remembered the name -> CoderWall :P
Netsuite has a different url for each new version of their API (and they keep the old one live as well).

This was great for me because my code never broke, which was important because It was running the back-end of an e-commerce site. It gave me more than enough time to upgrade when I wanted bug fixes/features.
"Even the most ineffectual government employee is more valuable than another mother or father on the dole when unemployment is already high."

That would suggest that the solution for unemployment is to simply give all unemployed people public sector jobs - which doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.
Just to expand on what Rich said: we try to build products that solve people's problems. We're very focused on making sure additional features solve a lot of people's problems (our feedback forum helps us figure this out: feedback.uservoice.com/forums/1-general-feedback), not just single clients (even if they have a lot of money). It's a lesson we've learned (painfully) several times. So we tend to make our own schedule and try to delight customers with the things we add, rather than rush to keep up with things potential customers have on their shopping list.
Now we rely on buying gas from Russia while spending £25Bn on Trident to protect us from Russia.
A lot of people selling on Etsy are doing so for some kind of fulfillment, as a way of covering the cost of their hobby and feeling like their work is bringing delight to others.

Then, there are sellers that are based outside the US with far different production economics.

And of course, there are the deluded sellers who are trying to be profitable and can't get there.
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To be fair that may have to do with regulations. Paypal has to walk through a complex maze of regulations to work internationally. In the US it's a company, in the EU it's a bank etc. Their existence may have actually been a motive in establishing money transfer regulation.
This is the most important comment in this thread here. It's not possible to start up a successful company when you're also on the brink of suicide, malnourished, and you're having deep internal conflict. Your startup is going to push those things on you by itself and adding to your personal conflicts and problems is asking for trouble.
Seems like the most valuable and obtainable natural resource in space is energy (solar or He3). Raw materials are a distant second, especially since almost all new technologies do more with less (how many physical gadgets does one smart phone replace?)
"Twitter could morph into a patent shield for hire"

That's not their business model and no matter how noble the idea I can't imagine them going down that road. Even if it in some way benefits them.
Descriptively I think that's still the case, at least on average: most women who have no specific "reason" to keep their name adopt their husband's name, while rates of not doing so are much higher if there's some reason it would be actively advantageous not to change names (e.g. an academic with a publication record under her name).

Among my circle of friends, even among academics, the tendency towards changing seems to be fairly high; those who got married late-ish with a significant publication record didn't switch, because it would seriously dilute their name recognition / citation counts / etc., but those who got married in grad school with 2-3 existing publications have all switched. Not entirely sure whether it's tradition or personal reasons or family or what.
I moved from the Netherlands to Spain (the south) with 0 change. Working in IT helps; I work remotely and do exactly the same as I did when I lived in the Netherlands. If you want to work you can, anywhere.

We actually were looking for IT people in Malaga, but it seems that people don't really want to work. I know enough companies from 'the north' looking for people in the south; people are just not applying and if they do they mostly ask for weird conditions... I know dev jobs for at least 100 people at different companies which cannot be filled in Malaga.
As a first impression, that seems pretty specious to me. I wouldn't at all describe frontal assault as being a normal chess strategy -- the most common would probably be the idea of a multi-pronged attack where your opponent cannot simultaneously defend everything, which is an equally fundamental strategy in Go, at a deeper level than "surrounding."
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The title is a little misleading apple has an exclusive right in consumer electronics while liquid metal reserves it's rights in other markets. Which is good their are a host of other applications ones that apple would not be interested in pursuing, that this technology will be be beneficial to. It stinks that apple has an exclusive on it, but at least the agreement is confined to consumer electronics.
Can you guess where one needs to be located to use Amazon Payments?
Is it too late for OpenStack?
I can't tell you how many times I spent > 5 minutes trying to find where to create a new repo for my organization.
"Studies carried out by both McAfee and VeriSign independently show that online sales increase from 10% to 36%"

I read this as "Vendors showed that their own products are great for you, buy them!"

I've seen other "studies", posted on HN, which showed that these seals can decrease sales.
>Fuel is at present an insignificant cost of launching a rocket

Fuel is almost ALL the cost of launching a rocket. If you can arrange for me to pick up fuel every vertical mile on the way up - I can get to orbit very cheaply!
I'm a fairly strong chess player (FIDE ELO 2325) and a much weaker go player (best rank around 5 kyu on internet sites).

Chess is a very tactical game. There are many long term strategic concepts, but victory frequently goes to the alert tactical opportunist (and chess engines are the ultimate alert opportunists).

Also, to win a chess game, you ultimately have to attack and destroy some part of your opponent's position. In go you just need one more point of space than your opponent -- there's no requirement to resort to violence at all.

One thing I definitely prefer about go is the openings. In chess they've been so heavily analyzed that games between professionals frequently go 20+ moves before an original move is played. In go there seems to be an almost limitless number of reasonable approaches to the opening. I guess there just aren't as many good moves available in the chess openings.

I'm not sure why your friend would have disdain for go. I think they're both fascinating games of strategy, certainly more engrossing than any RTS I've ever played.
think of it as affirmative action for transgendered people. this cartoon explains the need for affirmative action more tellingly than i could: http://www.biculturalmom.com/2012/02/10/white-privilege-anti...
That depends on concentrations of the isotope in the metal and the amount of metal we will be using. I have no idea what the concentrations of iron isotopes in meteors are and which iron isotopes are there, but I do not think it is correct to automatically say that radioactive isotopes with long half-lives are completely safe.
The problem I see is that I can either get the service from the best of the set of transpeople, or from the set of people who offer the service (of which the former is a subset).

I'm unsure that choosing gender identity as a defining factor is going to help anyone market themselves as the best--especially when there are significant social biases in place.
dotCloud founder here. I am confused by your comment.

We launched the first multi-language PaaS in 2010, when it was considered a stupid thing to do. We raised $10m from investors who agreed with us that you can't build a sustainable business by only focusing on one stack - you have to focus on solving the hard problems that are the same for everyone and that people pay to solve: scale, security, change management, support for future components, customization. We have 24+ months of runway and already make more money than Heroku did when they were acquired. Now single-stack platforms are running for high ground, as we correctly predicted.

How exactly does this put us in a bad spot?
In 3 years from now, Zuckerberg will be seen as a genius.
He will extend facebook advertising to Instagram as well and be break even in 3 years. You will see :-)
Your comment reminds me of the Charles Petzold essay on getting away from the IDE, which is summarized fairly nicely in this Coding Horror post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/10/the-cognitive-style...

Personally, I think that attaining the state of flow is what makes programming enjoyable, and I haven't experienced it in many years. There are just too many APIs, too much poor documentation, too many bugs, and too many languages I have to switch between for me to ever get into the 'zone'.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who doesn't know what to do with notifications on github.
Actually corporations have an average life of 45 years. They aren't really that resilient. But then I'm reminded of the quote by Jefferson that government should be re written every generation so the new generation is not enslaved to the prejudices and mistakes of their elders. Perhaps this is the odd way in which that comes to pass.
> But we can't ignore the other folks, the more parasitic aristocracy, like the Koch brothers...

Who among their other evil schemes spent $100 million to fund cancer research at MIT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Koch_Institute_for_Int...

Parasitic aristocracy? Do you feel the same way about the folks who give millions of dollars to political causes you support?
Yes, same here. I haven't created the service, but I discovered it while I was checking the code of a prototype made with Foundation (http://zurb.net/zurbwired2011/projects/zurbwired2011/frame/p...) and I thought it could be useful.

Glad to help!
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> It's non-trivial to convert bitcoin into a regular currency, you have to use 3rd party sites that have a terrible record with security

Wrong. There has only ever been one successful attack against MtGox. By contrast, attacks on banking financial websites are widespread: http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/6652
A small security-focused startup like MtGox can more easily secure their infrastructure & code, compared to the corporate developers working on humongous code bases behind most banking websites.

> It's not understood and accepted by most people.

Circular reasoning ("technology X won't get adopted because nobody knows X").

> You can't do chargebacks.

This is actually an advantage for merchants. Credit card chargebacks eat into their already thin margins. But once they receive bitcoins no one can take them away from them.
I must admit that I never considered this point in any great depth.

Perhaps it should have been a constant (and it was Java):

public static final boolean ALAN_IS_A_BASTARD = true;
Microsoft expands Windows 8 Store to 38 markets for submitting Metro style apps
Conversely, if you comment digital goods into software, is it still "computer code"?
First, I'm pretty sure that comparing the plight of the differently-gendered to that of slaves is somewhat absurd.

Second, your comic is open to interpretation:

In the first panel, the white and black are at the same level, with the black enchained. In the last panel, the white is up one level and the black is free.

So, clearly, the sum situation has improved for both parties. Where's the problem?
Ask HN: An international solution to Kickstarter?
I've learned today that you can't start a project on Kickstarter without first having a US address and credit card. This totally sucks. My buddy and I have been working on a sweet online community for the open source world and we planned on getting some funds through kickstarter for some hosting upgrades and to get some help with the python coding.

So my question is this: is there a way around the US-only kickstarter rule? I'm not talking about anything illegal, just maybe they make exceptions (I know this is a long shot).

If not, are there any other reputable alternatives which can give good results and exposure like kickstarter does and are open to international creators? How else would you recommend we look for quick community-generated funds?
A great example of the YC mafia at work. Over 1/3 of the companies I saw listed are YC alums
It is true that increased supply -- all else equal -- decreases price, but, 1) we will find uses for the element that we don't currently use/know about and 2) we will never find infinite amounts of any resource so this means that. Prices will decrease marginally, but theres no way to know to what extent prices would fall.

Thought experiment: SpaceX is able to lasso up a 100% diamond asteroid and bring it to earth. Suddenly supply of diamonds is 1000x what it was expected to be that year. Diamonds will be worth marginally less as a result, however, it does not mean all that diamond asteroid is worthless. I am sure diamond mines would close for a bit as that asteroid is likely cheaper per unit than some other methods. Suddenly because diamonds because relatively cheaper they can begin to be used for all kinds of currently uneconomical uses. Maybe diamond fiber becomes the next typed of networking cable, or diamond asphalt makes our roads last forever, or diamond knives become all the rage for top chefs -- I don't know, but we'll find a way to use cheaper diamonds, and that asteroid is going to be worth a boatload no matter what.

Wish I had more time to think about this, but work calls.
I think Wunderkit(.com) aims to be one. They are not a code repository though.
Again, please don't interpret what I've said as "Hey, fuck governments, let's all place our safety in the hands of the free market!"

I merely mean to point out that the idea that governments are the solely-enabled providers of the Good is being threatened by the advent of enabling technologies and poor precedent set by governments themselves.
Facebook Deals has been relaunched as Facebook Offers. They aren't giving up on that one.
"Everything is worth what its purchaser is willing to pay for it"
This reminds me of one of my favorite TED talks by Mike Rowe (http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...) where he talks about 'following your passion' and work in general.

Like most things, following your passion is about priorities. For a lot of people, treating their passion as the most important thing in the world is not sustainable for them. This idea that all of us need to tell ourselves what makes us happy and then do it is also the wrong way to go about figuring out what makes you happy. I cannot even count how many mistakes I have made and then accidentally discovered what made me happy. There is no way I could have known what it was ahead of time.
Same here, my thought process whenever I see a new notification goes something like: "someone commented on my pull request? Two weeks ago? And I already replied to it?"
Here you go: https://github.com/chrisguitarguy/dotfiles/blob/master/util/...

Requires Python 2.7 and Requests.
Honestly, I'm lonely as hell lately. I'm starting to question how it's possible I don't have a nice ladyfriend by now. It's really starting to crush me. I even considered posting this as an ASK HN since I think this place has some of the smartest comments I've ever read, so I thought surely someone could help, but then I thought "well it's not exactly hacker-related, maybe I'll go check what else is on Ask HN right now and see if there's anything else not really hacker-related", and I seen this thread.
It's like Square and Stripe need to join forces.
I read it, the problem is that you imply things rather than stating them directly. I can't read your mind, so I don't always get what you are implying.

Example: You assert that the CPI is essentially fraudulent, and chosen for political gains and that their is a conspiracy afoot. I point out that the BPP shows numbers much closer to the CPI than to shadowstats. You reply that it's constructed to be similar to CPI. This implies something, right? It either implies that it's part of the conspiracy, or the people are incompetent, or something ... but I don't know what your point is. Also, your point doesn't mean that it's wrong.

Also, can you please show some evidence that the BPP was constructed to be similar to CPI. Right now we have 3 sets of numbers, two of them roughly agree. I'm inclined to believe that the BPP and CPI are more likely right than shadowstats given their agreement and the fact that they use different data sources.

Also, this http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=884...
We often seem to forget that passion is not a singular thing.

My #1 passion in a lot of ways is politics/history/debate. I'm probably better at standing in front of a room of 800 people and giving a speech or fielding a hostile question than anything else I do. If I followed my passion/strengths I probably would have gone to say Georgetown, gotten an economics degree, and found my way into the DC path of being an aide and then into being a candidate myself.

But much like the author of the article, I can't emotionally handle it. I get so worked up that my blood boils, I get enraged, and I know I would die of a heart attack at age 30.

So instead I went to my second passion - engineering. When I told most of my friends and teachers in high school that I was going into engineering they were all shocked.

Yet when I tell my engineer co-workers that my original passion was politics, they are all shocked. I do not talk about politics with co-workers (or on HN for that matter), I keep the two worlds entirely separate.

Maybe I'll go back to it someday, we all know the Congress could use more engineers. But sometimes we throw around 'passion' when we really should say 'like to do'. I like to be an engineer, the problems are interesting, and it's definitely fun to build things as a hobby. But I'm not passionate about differential equations or FEA modeling. Those things don't get me fired up with adrenaline or keep me away at night like my real 'passion'.
Could anyone summarize this article? Site is blocked as "tasteless" on the filter (?)
"... I'm not a huge photo-sharer, and I certainly don't claim to be an expert on the space, so forgive my ignorance when I ask if photos is really a billion dollar beach head ..."

Good question that I was also questioning why until I found this quote:

"... Posts that include a photo album or a picture generate about 180% and 120% more engagement than the average post respectively, according to Facebook’s internal data. ..." ~ https://www.facebook.com/business/fmc/guides/bestpractices?c...

I suspect the purchase was specifically in response to this metric.
Class Central has a pretty good list.

http://www.class-central.com/
To bad I can't offer stripe as an Australian company. We have one local bank that will let you accept multiple currency through a merchant account and they have some pretty major costs.

Until my startup gets a decent userbase I don't see an alternative to PayPal.
Myth? MS built a very successful business on it.

You know what happens when you get kill dates? One day all of a sudden half the web will stop working. There's a reason why people start back flipping to support out of date calls.

Customers don't care why your software just broke or whose fault it was, all they care about is it broke.
(US-centric point of view:)

Most women like that part of getting married. They get excited about it. They want their kids to have the same last name as both parents and they want to share the name of their husband. Please try to not turn it into some male domination thing, as so many discussions on here needlessly turn to that. It's like the HN version of "all discussions eventually lead to Hitler," or however that goes.
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>and I am unaware of any precedent in nature (feel free to correct me).

There are few exceptions, but clownfish are amongst the exceptions. http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/why-clownfish-change...
" It’s just something I do for money, nothing more or less." Amen to that. To be able to close the door behind you and not think or worry about work at all is a pleasure in itself. To be completely, utterly, un-encumbered by work for most of the day and all of the weekend is a joy.
My two points were unrelated.

If it's a simple HTML site - who cares? A simple HTML site with < 100KB of content and < 15 resources to fetch isn't a bit deal anyways. Two or three seconds to a user on a mobile device isn't unreasonable.

If the site is more complex, the SSL handshake most likely isn't your bottleneck.

I found this[1] to be an interesting read.

[1]: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/ssl-latency.html
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Galiano isn't that remote. It's less than an hour from Vancouver International Airport by floatplane, or a couple hours from downtown Vancouver by the (2+ times daily) ferry.

It is beautiful though, and I envy him. I have a place on Salt Spring Island (right next to Galiano) and I don't spend nearly enough time there
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I completely sympathize with customer "service" induced pyromania. Between Paypal and my cable company...
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Interesting opportunities in STL.
Yes. 433 Eros is estimated to contain something on the order of $100 trillion worth, with similar amounts of other valuable elements.

There is some evidence that most of the precious metal deposits on earth came from collisions with such asteroids.
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