skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe ChuckMcM is correct and I'd paraphrase his point as Bitcoin is not legal but in an enforcement gray area.

For example, I suspect anyone who conducted business in gold or silver, who bought or sold goods and services using gold or silver, would be seeing the black helicopters in fairly short order. I could be wrong and the Feds might only show up once such entity had a little of traction but I am 100% certain they would stop any which seemed like plausible alternative to dollars, especially considering their legal right to do so is spelled out.
Depending on where you were connecting from, there could be serious delays in usenet. Like, some servers synced once a day kind of delays.
I have 16GB in my laptop (Lenovo T430s). The chipset can support 32GB.
In the end, is there really any difference between making a game that is fun and a game that is addicting? I really don't think there is even if they went in with the idea of "lets make this game addicting".

I've never once seen a game that is not fun, but is addicting. Although my friends have said Master of Orion 3 fits that description, but I never actually saw them ever play it so I think it was a joke.
That's how I would interpret it as well.
Before crowdsourcing this was just called a remix competition.

EDIT: I see that beatlab call it that as well.
I have yet to run into a book they wouldn't/couldn't scan.
The only "tragically sad" part is the fact that most people in developed nations end up in institutions, rather than being cared for by their families.

If you want to see "tragically sad," volunteer at any nursing home in the US with a dementia/Alzheimer's ward. It's a prison where everyone's on death row, the only difference is the food sucks.

What they're doing by going along with their delusions is offering these elderly people more peace in their confusion. Interrupting a delusion abruptly is like slapping a baby for crying - they can't help their situation and limitations and they won't understand the punishment.
I also have been using a W530 for the past couple of months. I find the keyboard preferable to the T60 keyboard that was my previous ThinkPad baseline. Perhaps because I am a Linux/vim user, I rarely touch the top-row keys and don't miss them at all.

What many people griping about the changed layout miss is the improvements to the keyboard. The key switches have a better feel to them. While still not as good as the Topre switches on my HHKB, there is a definite improvement from the T60 to the W530. I also like the gently curved keys. It's hard to describe objectively, but my fingers "rest well" on the key caps.

If you're not a hardcore Windows IDE user (or whoever it is who uses Home-PgUp-Del-End-PgDn all the time...) then please ignore the Lenovo-bashing. Lenovo is doing great work putting out top-notch laptops for professionals.
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I was also probably addicted to FFXI (played from the release of CoP til 2009ish), so hey fellow ex-FFXIer. I pulled myself out of it when I realised I wasn't getting any of my PhD done and then went and managed to pull that off with the remaining time I had left. Now I won't play any MMOs because I'm concerned that I might fall back into old habits. I play D3 and other games that I can dip in and out of, but no mass organised stuff like FFXI needed.

The addiction for me was more of the organisation of stuff - I co-ran one of the most successful linkshells (guild) on my server for a while, and was in charge of many raids - I loved it and was good at it. I'd probably make a great middle manager or something, heh. (No thanks.)

Anyway yeah, it's possible to "get out" and still reclaim your life. I have a tenured position at a university now and completed two successful postdocs since I quit. I don't regret having played though - I met some excellent people through FFXI, many of whom are still very close friends today. It's just a matter of having the ability to self assess where you are and the guts to pull yourself out of it if you realise that there's an issue. I know I can do that now, but I also don't want the temptation to fall back in.
Agreed, 1% body fat is extremely dangerous and your body does not have enough fat for it to go about its normal processes. It is certainly not sustainable for any period of time. Professional bodybuilders have trouble getting down to ~3% body-fat for their competitions and they only have to hold that level for a day or 2.
Amazon ramps up hiring for its social games studio (also in SF)
That's definitely the way I read it too.
I don't go out and buy Pentium 3's and install 256 MB of ram when I read video game requirements. Author must have a very cluttered room.
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...sorry. :(
If it was impossible for a federated network, it would also be impossible for Twitter. They can either guarantee that messages only show up at the top, or that messages always show up in order (meaning older posts get inserted into the middle of the timeline, as you eventually receive them).
I assume the OP wanted the added value of MAS account association. Which is actually and interesting issue also, because he would gain that benefit on top of the software and the retailer would loose (30%-%otherpayementprogram) + service charge from previous vendor in revenue. That is an expensive customer service call.

Not really an response just a comment.
As a value store, sure. Just like baseball trading cards. Where it gets dicey is where person A uses currency to get a proxy item (BitCoin, Casino Chip, Baseball Trading Card) takes that proxy item to Person B and uses it to purchase a good or service of some value, then Person B takes the proxy item and uses it to purchase a good or service from Person C who then converts it back to currency. In those situations the transaction between A and B has become 'lost' (or laundered) because its not possible to connect the transaction C made to the transaction A and B made beyond a reasonable doubt. And that is the stuff that gets the enforcement types all agitated.

The IRS would like like to know if you bought some proxy thing, it appreciated in value, and then you sold it for a gain (or loss). BitCoin exchanges should send a 1099 of all transactions to the IRS (I don't know if they do that or not).
Then you're not in the market these machines serve. I have been rocking the MBA since it came out, and the latest rev is I think the best computer ever made for me. When they go Retina (and use a discrete graphics card) I will be in hog heaven.

People occasionally ask me what laptop to buy, and I always admit that I know nothing about the Windows laptop market. Is Thinkpad still the only game in town?
At first glance I thought you meant you cycled from Bristol to London, which would be quite impressive if you did every working day of the year.
Yeah, it's just the difference isn't clear from the model name.
Don't you talk bad about clippy, not everybody hates him.
meh. for me the iconic style of LCD/TV is the Samsung style. No one copied it too closely for me ever to be confused and think a TV was a samsung. In fact, this is true for Audis and BMW's that kind of look like an iconic Mercedes, and so on. There are lots of products that take design cues, none of them have ever actually confused me. Except Samsung's iPhones (less so recently) and Samsung's iPads (very much still.)

I'm talking about "at a glance" or the briefest moment of confusion, as a highly informed consumer. Never happened with anything else. Doesn't happen with Samsung's current phones.
This is bizarre, really. You known, while being addicted to something may be a big problem, the OP sounds much more depressed than addicted. Come one, 21 years old and his life is destroyed? how come? He even has money for beer and cigarretes? The guy should take a walk into some hospital to watch people that are screwed up really bad, both physically and mentally.

And I don't mean to be moralist, even if I sound like one. The main problem is that he must get up and decide to change his life, see that he is a perfectly normal young guy. If he can't quit playing by himself, why don't he look for help? A psychologist or even a psychiatrist may be of great help, but they sure wont come to his home from out of nowhere.
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I think everyone should live on the West Coast (ideally SF) or the East Coast (ideally near NYC) for a while in their life. Or both, like I did.
Lenovo messed up on the default calibration of that panel. You have the same problem with the t430s which I own. I used a ColorHug to get the correct ICC profile at which point it looks a lot better. More details and the profile from G+ https://plus.google.com/110166527124367568225/posts/bLg18FtS...

(Lenovo do ship an ICC profile with Windows, but it was made in 2010 and is simply for a 60% gamut screen of that resolution and doesn't take into account the actual panel used.)

Screens have been the major area where Lenovo have been taking backwards steps, while everything else have been (sometimes debated) improvements. We now have low resolution and 16:9 instead of 16:10 losing vertical resolution. My laptop has over 5cm of wasted vertical space (just plastic) that would be better served by being pixels.
How do I install apps from out side the app store? Doesn't it require the phone to be in developer mode or something like that? So why is it even worth investigating if its possible or worth the effort? What am I missing?
Don't overlook the 2nd gen Zenbook Primes from ASUS, 1920x1080 IPS screens on both 11.6" and 13" models.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5843/asus-zenbook-prime-ux21a-...
I'm not sure if I gave the impression that I think pirating games, songs, or movies is acceptable to me but it is certainly not. I have paid for every song I own, every movie I've watched, and every game I've played. No exceptions.
Depending on who you ask, the "stiff hinges"--common to all ThinkPads--are a feature, not a bug. The hinges will still be in great shape several years down the road when other laptops will be floppy or unable to stay open. I can hold my hefty W530 by the screen bezel, open, and walk around with it without the base moving at all or stressing the case.

This is a case of being built to last rather than being built to feel buttery in the showroom.
The move by the VLC developer (Rémi Denis-Courmont) [1] makes more sense when you realize was working for Nokia at the time [2].

[1] http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/vlc-developer...
[2] http://www.linkedin.com/in/remidenis
This seems like something a browser extension could resolve, at least partially. If you're a web designer, you can install this extension and then each bootstrap site would always use a random predefined CSS.
Well, setting aside that laser discs actually were optical disks read by a laser, "Ultrabook" is an Intel coinage for parts assembling OEMs to use so that they don't have to fess up to the existence of the Macbook Air.
Salesforce losses swell, despite rise in sales
Well, there's a good business opportunity in what you guys say, build a custom CMS system for restaurants, like buuteeq.com but for restaurants.
Previous hacker news discussions on restaurant websites and why they suck: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865836
From my experience, if you are doing the paleo "diet" right, you don't need help sticking to it.
"we designed a special dotted paper pattern" - this sounds very much like what Anoto[1] does.
[1] http://www.anoto.com/the-technology-1.aspx
OP remarked that iOS is no longer the major market for app store developers, implying that some other mobile platform is. If not Android, what else would it be?
Show HN: PotShot - Find the best public bathroom
it's very difficult to do double blind tests

Depending on the nature of the experiment, it's not that hard, e.g. http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#adderall-blind-testing
Yes, all those work on my new T430s. Just be sure not to get a model with NVidia graphics.
this comment is great. I didn't believe you and clicked through, with your comment still ringing in my mind - I had to laugh. you nailed it.
Solving the computer vision problem
it was named in this lawsuit though: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-20/samsung-sought-to-b...

and they succeeded in blocking their sale in the US for about a week before the decision was overturned.
A digital pen that can read your paper notes
Is the web federated? Everyone hosts their own sites and there are several browsers -- I don't see why we can't have a social media version of this.
I'm so old that remember when the nickname for that was "Fight-o-net"
I completely agree. It looks like a nice hack that can help you ship in time. Let's say testing shows a few older apps that have drivers that really misbehave on the new system, and you really want to ship this week. To me, adding those apps to a fixed "do not run" list seems to be preferred over shipping later or shipping an OS that will crash with a large portion of your users. That is especially true if those apps have free or cheap updates.

Conspiracy theorists: for Apple, this technique dates back to at least the eighties or so. At some time, Apple introduced a system error "Application has special memory requirements" that basically meant "Sorry, we cannot run Excel 2.2" (text and version may be of). Reason was that that Excel used some bits in pointers for data storage. The new OS or hardware started using those bits itself, so that version of Excel could not run on with it. So, the Finder refused to run that program.
The Bay Area has more decent museums than KC, but it doesn't really have any outstanding museums. Kinda weird, really.

KC has an ok modern art museum, and Lawrence KS has a decent museum at the university there.
He's talking about Mac OSX apps, not iOS apps.
It's a Mac app., not an iOS one.
Just bought, order #263. Pretty brisk sales considering it's a pre-order.
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Great suggestion! I was thinking about charging per repo, but I agree that BitBucket's model is better. You want people to put as much projects in source control as possible and limiting repo's discourages that. Counting the contributors on private repo's probably correlate pretty well with company size which correlates with how much they can spend.
The app was very successful, and I'm quite happy with my earnings from it, but that was not really the point of my comment. And I am also from California, not China, nor am I Chinese or even Asian.

My point was only that the Chinese specifically are much more prone to steal and/or copy software than any other group I know of. I know this firsthand from speaking openly with many Chinese, including my wife. And certainly my stats of app usage vs revenue in China have proven this conclusively to me. Nearly nobody buys it there, and yet China shows the most app usage!
India threatens to shut down Twitter
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It is very common for gas stations to list a credit and cash price, but this depends on the state.
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I really hope they have a "Pause" and "Scroll Lock" button on there, too, because...what the hell is a Print Screen button doing on a laptop keyboard in the first place?
Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk Hit with Malware Warnings
Fixed - front page of http://arewefastyet.com/ has IonMonkey now, thanks to David Anderson.
Show HN: My first serious project, a Twitter client for Windows Phone
I've been working the last months on a Twitter app for Windows Phone called Ocell. It all started as a test project to explore development in that platform, but I started to give it more time and released it to the Marketplace. It's my first serious project and I would like to know what does HN think about it. It's also opensourced, so you can also take a look at the code on GitHub (https://github.com/gjulianm/Ocell). It would be really great to have your feedback on this :)

Thanks a lot!

Windows Phone Store link: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=2ca75e0f-69a4-42e9-b788-dedc31afb82a
That said, nice to see they've eliminated the need for a special pen.
Honestly... that is an extraordinarily strange (and dangerous) model for executing things in a terminal. It's not a web browser!

I mean, cool idea, I guess... but I don't think I'd ever execute it as documented on a machine I own. Sorry!
so.. is the app store more profitable or is selling software yourself better?
Probably Cydia as the OP stated.
you guys don't trust me? :(

I prefer:

sudo sh -c "curl -s [url] | sh"
Clickable:
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=2ca75e0f-69a4-42e9-b788-...
https://github.com/gjulianm/Ocell
Some companies policies require validation and they require specs that are nailed down. In those cases you'd end up using HTML <5 and that won't validate with data-x.
Make it a transcription market - give the transcriptors rights and royalties to their transcriptions.
Project specific .irbrc
He gets to the "hypothesis forming" stage, and draws a conclusion. That's fine if you're trying to figure out how to live your life best. The negative consequences of removing his mercury fillings are probably null, he can accept his hypothesis as true and move on. But this is bad science, without question. We don't know that his mental function has improved because of removing fillings... it's a potential hypothesis, sure, but to say "Mercury Damage Revealed by Brain Test" in a headline seems a bit bold for a sample size of n with no control and a bunch of other confounding variables at play.
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Please don't post comments that don't add to the conversation.
Reminds me of

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

(can't believe this is still up after all these years)
You may want to switch that to Helvetica Neue (or just add it to the top of the font stack), the subtle difference in this case is that it has a wider support for different font weights whereas Helvetica jumps from 100 to 400 to 600.
HTML5 is a working draft spec. It hasn't been finalised yet. This isn't usually important for most of us but companies that like calling themselves ISO900X etc etc. don't usually want to work with draft specs.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/

It'll probably be finalised by 2014. I don't get the down votes, if you don't agree then why not ask/explain why ?
Oh sorry, missed that.
This is a url to their official website and if you visit the link with JavaScript disabled you'll see what they most likely consider 'officially supported'.

They're not saying you couldn't use anything different/newer though.

https://www.bluecrossma.com/ProviderPortal/view/providerport...
AirXCell: an online spreadsheet editor with R integration
Ask HN: What software does your business need?
Hi everyone. I'm looking to come up with some problems or issues that online businesses might face. What software do you need and would you pay for that would help you run your business better? I'd love to make SaaS software that business owners or startup founders find helpful and valuable. Thanks!
Depending on the nature of the experiment, it's not that hard, e.g. http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#adderall-blind-testing

:) I did almost type "impossible" instead of "very difficult". I'm one of those people who believes nothing is impossible, not even skiing through a revolving door (with short enough skis . . . ).
Yeah, I NEARLY ran that second command, then I saw what it did and my heart did a backflip. "Seriously, I'm being asked to do that on HN?"

Then I came here to see if anyone else had.
It probably supports wifi too. But if the power in the house goes out, so does the Internet. By going cellular they avoid that problem, although batteries can still run out.

I'm not convinced this is what we need. I suppose if you littered your house with these sensors and could see a "house dashboard" to check the house's statuses on a web page any time of the day, it would be nice. But this really won't solve a busted pipe in the basement.
You're thinking of iOS. On the Mac, you can distribute apps out-of-band, although you still need to pay Apple for the digital signature, or else your app won't run on a default Mountain Lion installation.
I don't think these guys know how complex and difficult this is going to be. They might have an SDK out this year, but chances are its pretty rubbish. Its not as if others haven't tried. And having written my PhD thesis on these things I know its a complete and utter pain.
Chances for success: less than 1%.
i can taste the smug. btw this entire thread belongs on reddit.
Are you looking for developers to test and make things with this API? If so, ping me at @Skram
No way.It is still the beginning of internet censorship in india.It is democratic country unlike others.
I'll absolutely agree to differences of degree between addictions. I'll also absolutely agree to differences of susceptibility between people.

At the same time, there's a huge, active, and concerted effort in many areas of commerce to leverage dopamine and related pathways to create habitual consumptive patterns. Games, TV shows, junk food, cigarettes, gambling, narcotics, online activities (HN included), and other factors.

Any time you hear about 'gamification', hearing something described as "crack", or other tricks for sites or apps, you're looking about influencing the dopamine system.

It's something which I'm becoming increasingly convinced is a case where commercial/corporate interests and profit seeking are at odds with greater societal well-being.

But that's just me.
Ouch. They still make notebooks with the "nipple" mouse? I actually thought it was a Thinkpad from the 90's on the first pic.

I don't get it - I quite like the "nipple" mouse - I find it much quicker to use than the touchpad, both in the "I don't need to reach away from the home row" sense and the fact that its pretty sensitive so I can move the mouse really quickly.
npm used to suggest something similar as an easy way to install...

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
Overall I'm not impressed with chrome's download safety features. Last I checked it flagged any unknown exes on http://dl.dropbox.com but trusted unknown exes on https://dl.dropbox.com.
Thanks. How much would you pay?
Nah, sometimes you just don't want to run anymore. I've definitely done 10k runs, and just stop and look for a bus home. It's not even that you're too tired to run (though that plays a role). Some people can just keep running as long as they keep in the flow. When you lose it, running quickly becomes boring.
Beep: an idea for a Twitter, app.net alternative
Right, but that doesn't give you a good idea of how close your working set is to the max memory cache, unless your entire DB is active.

I'll ping them again and ask if they've found a good way to measure this. It seems like this is the most important number to look at when scaling a heroku/postgres project.
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I think you're being rather flippant here. Cloned would seem to imply that they did the work to re-craft it. This is just stealing. Hell they're directing traffic to his servers.

To be more precise, it's clear copyright infringement. Except that it's happening in China so we can do nothing about it.
Technical lead/co-founder at a VC backed startup.
nitpicking: mylpg = my Liquified Petroleum Gas, as this is a site for lpg-fueled cars. Also, given the context of the site (x stations in Europe, .eu TLD), it's unlikely he'd want 'mpg' in the domain name as Europeans don't use miles or gallons.
There was a problem when installing Snow Leopard, where your computer would crash on boot if you had a specific third party extension installed (I think it was Application Enhancer). I assume to prevent similar problems, Apple started disabling incompatible software after system upgrades in Lion.

The blacklist can't really be called "quiet": On first boot after system upgrade, a dialog box pops up that tells you that incompatible software was moved to a special folder. The affected stuff is mostly kernel extensions that become incompatible.
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