skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation is unfortunate, but basically inevitable at this stage in China's development. Take a look at the Chinese book publishing industry and you'll see a glimpse of the Chinese way - most books are put online for free by the authors (mostly in their entirety). The publishing companies pick the most popular ones, who get deals to have their books printed & sold in stores. Totally different from the west.

Doing business in China, I have noticed that there is somewhat of a "creativity gap" (as I call it). I believe that as their society evolves and begins to create more of their own IP, the laws will eventually adapt to protect such developments. In the meantime, it's very difficult.

But still, Cisco has had everything copied (down to the model #s) by you-know-who and yet still makes billions (also powering the great firewall). Like Microsoft & Cisco, there are ways to penetrate and dominate the market in the midst of the piracy.

However, if your IP is some "easily de-obfuscated" javascript (and you're a startup), it's a very difficult position and my heart goes out to them.
My answer was slightly misleading, while blocks are won about every ten minutes, the difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks (2016 * 10 minutes = 14 days).

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
Why is their code hosted on github?
I once read an anecdote saying that that Jobs remembered this part wrong: he told Apple's engineers about the stacking, overlapping windows he thought he had seen; armed with this piece of misinformation, they went ahead and "duplicated" that feature.
It is funny how if it's copying a developers HTML5 game, it's stealing, but if it's a movie or song, well... that's just copying, because the creator still has a copy -- that's not stealing.

The level of hypocrisy around here is incredible. The only occurrence of the text string "not stealing" in this whole tread is in my post right here.
Am I missing it, or does that review fail to discuss if the screen is matte (usable) or glossy (I'll never buy another)?

Also, I look forward to the day when 1600x900 is no longer considered high resolution. That should be entry-level for a 13" screen.

It looks nice otherwise.
Indeed Gitlab is an good OSS alternative for Github Enterprise which costs $5000,- a year.
Er. Describing it as a race inspires some of the most common misconceptions about mining. If it were a race and Alice ran 10x faster than Bob, Bob would probably never win.

Bitcoin mining is stochastic, and for a given current difficult each calculation performed by anyone has an equal very small probability of being a solution. Like throwing dice and trying to get a 1. If Alice mines 10x faster than Bob then Alice will find, on average, 10x more solutions.
Because public repo's are not possible in Gitlab, I plan to contribute that functionality.
Keep in mind that v8's "points" scale is nonlinear, so it's not clear what "radically" actually means in terms of the time taken to run the test.
The Verge has a nice video review of this unit: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3232132/lenovo-thinkpad-x1...
> Non-technology attacks are simply much more powerful. E.g. "Anyone caught using Bitcoin will be executed on the spot by large caliber fire from attack helicopters flying far enough away that you can't see or hear them targeting you", and suddenly Bitcoin is only some obscure and irrelevant thing

That's still a technology problem. Make the use of it undetectable. A sufficiently technology savvy Bitcoiner would just wrap his stuff with some encryption and with minimal hassle, you would need to be much faster and harsher to stop them.

Besides, if we're assuming civilian execution without trial, then we're not talking about the modern major states. Not a single of the major states could even remotely do such a thing without consequences. The harshest punishments for comparable offences would be for the distribution and possession of child pornography and that is not stopping the offenders, on the contrary.
The referenced law only mentions "foreign gold or silver coins" as not being legal tender for debts. Did something expand that to non-US currency, or is this just a letter/spirit issue?
Here is the package being opened:
http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/pakken-er-aapnet-oj-oj-o...
Heh, thanks. (op here)
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Videogames are harder to quit than drugs? What has he been smoking?
BitBucket is a good alternative and I have deep respect for Atlassian team. But I also like to use open source where possible. Especially for as something as basic as code management. What do you think?
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I don't think the state even needs to go that far. Just have a (gradually increasing) number of press conferences where serious-looking men in uniforms talk gravely about the dangers of Bitcoin and how it is used by criminals to facilitate drugs/human-trafficking transactions. Then have a think-tank with a respectable-sounding name release a report saying that very few law-abiding people use Bitcoin and that there are $X billion of criminal transactions annually. Then a concerned politician can sponsor a bill that makes owning Bitcoins prima-facie evidence of criminal intent to sell drugs/contriband/whatever as part of his/her "tough on crime" initiative.

This will result in a positive feedback loop: The utility of Bitcoins for "regular" people will fall and for "criminals" remain about the same, increasing the criminal fraction of the Bitcoin economy. It won't kill Bitcoin outright, but it will prevent Bitcoin from being anything more than a marginal player.
Totalitarian regiems usually ban dealing with any currency other than the national currency. In Libya (under Gadhafi's rule) dealing in the US dollar was (supposedly) punishable by death. Currency exchange in these countries is always a black market.
Bit of personal insight here, I have anger issues that may border on bi-polar. I've never attempted a diagnosis or treatment, I just try to maintain a cool head. Most of the time I'm rational and level headed. However, there are certain triggers that just make me snap, completely flipping my personality.

On more than one occasion, Starcraft 2 was one of those triggers. It only occurred after long heated anonymous matches that I lost, never during single player or with friends. I shelved Starcraft 2 shortly after a bad outburst where I broke the door of my wooden keyboard tray.

If I had to guess, the intense focus I was putting into Starcraft broke my normal awareness of my emotions. Thus, loosing control when I was defeated.
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Are you seriously comparing a guy who says "Raise your professional service rates or your money back" to a guy peddling a snake oil cancer cure… or are you trolling to see what shakes out?
It costs roughly $30 dollars in Canada for a 12 song cd. If multiply that cost by 2.5 (for the 30 songs) you get $75. Let's say you consider 1000x for damages and that's still only 75,000 dollars! This is a crazy amount of money for a fine.
Its illegal to use a substitute for USD dollars. A substitute for USD is exchanged directly for USD as you describe in the footnote. See the Liberty Dollar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar) for an example. Bitcoins, like cigars or real estate, fluctuate in value relative to USD.
BitGym: Our First Lean Hypothesis
Can you be more specific than "messed up"? I'm actually looking at this very device as my next Linux laptop. Do you mean it performs badly? That the hardware is bad? That the drivers don't support something you want to do?
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First, I would like to play that game - JA2 is my favorite game ever.

For spritesheets, this guy http://www.reinerstilesets.de/ has heaps of stuff freely available. Google Images is also pretty useful for temporary art.
damn,
If the Carbon has the same trackpad problems then I'll be sorely disappointed. I've been researching potential ultrabooks for a Linux/Windows setup and so far nothing really stands out.
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Videogames can evoke the same physiological responses from your mind and your body as the high of many drugs. Most anything is capable of being an addiction for biological creatures such as ourselves - it's simply in the chemistry of our minds that defines what gets us "high".
I've always said Counter Strike makes me go from 0 to Angry in 9 seconds flat.
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Have you tried neoprene booties? They worked great for me in the midwest. My feet stayed plenty warm, and I didn't even bother to wear thick socks.

The hands were always my biggest problem.
That's the original X1, the X1 carbon I believe switched to matt.
One generally trusts Google and Amazon to have enough capacity more than one trusts a startup.
May I suggest Batman.js :)
Dave McClure Says VCs Are Stupid, Arrogant & Terrible At Making Money
This is a complex subject, and you nailed the 'level of abstraction' nicely in your piece. That's not an easy thing to do.

On a side note, the USV piece you referenced (from 2006 - on bus dev via APIs) was interesting in the context of where Twitter is now.
Here is a personal experience on what it can be like as a customer of a product available both in the MAS and outside it.

A while ago, I tried the Fantastical trial, and when I used the purchase link, I was immediately prompted to a credit card payment screen. I paid and bought the software, and all was fine and well.

But later on, I learn that the software was also available in the MAS - something Fantastical didn't really bother explaining to me. When I contacted them for any kind of refund (to be used to purchase the app in MAS), I was told that they couldn't accommodate that since a lot of other users have requested the same thing - which already seems like a weird way of thinking.

They price the software in both places the same - meaning they earn more money, if people don't by it in the MAS, and I felt the entire experience to be very deceptive.

All in all, a really bad experience that I can't recommend any developer to imitate, as it does nothing to inspire customer loyalty. Especially when the developer has a financial incentive to not addressing the issue. At least from my limited perception as a non-Mac developer.

Again, this is the impression you get as a customer. I'm not saying this is the intent, but perception is reality in the real of customer experience.

Consider this another con to double-dipping, if you intend to do something similar.
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Not buying software does not mean that they won't buy anything. It simply means that particular business model (selling software licenses) does not work in China. But that's not the only possible model available, for example if you can package your software as training or something more tangible.

I wrote an article a couple of years ago with some ideas to overcome this issue: http://successfulsoftware.net/2010/08/12/selling-your-softwa...
> I'll believe that when his administration stops being one of the most secretive and most aggressive prosecutors of whistleblowers in recent history.

Is "recent history" the last four years? Because you're right. Out of 1 administration, they are one of the most secretive and most aggressive. How about that.
Because it's hosted on github, and you don't get server-side scripting?
If you click on the whiz-bang new button, it just takes you to yet another sad plea to sign up for G+:

http://agoogleaday.com/#date=2012-04-13
Sorry, but I think this is pure fantasy. Of course it is possible, but they won't provide all those things for 100K.

What I mean is: all they show is a smartphone app and a fancy looking device. All the cool things we all dream about will have to be built on top of that. That is exactly the state we already have without that Kickstarter project (could as well go for Arduino or whatever). Yet nobody is building those things. Hence my conclusions that these are just pipe dreams...

Might as well start a Kickstarter for a Teleporter.
It's nice to see lots of competition in this area.

Small nitpick – on the main page you probably mean "CO Alarms", not "CO2 Alarms".
It would be really nice. The problem is to generate the transcript. Even YouTube speech recognition system is crap when there's not a perfect, clear sound. Maybe you could use the transcripts that are already on YouTube when the uploader has created it, but of course it wouldn't be so useful.
The word "random" is still very misleading, as your chances would still be determined by your mining power.

The winning hash is random with uniform probability. So the more hashes you have, the more likely it is that you have the winning hash.
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I started thinking about a similar concept a few months ago. When researching if to connecting various things in your life to some sort of central, network connected, interface already existed, I wasn't entirely surprised to find out there are a few less than inspiring home automation systems developed by garage door opener companies, Time Warner Cable, etc. Their applications are limited and their UI's look pretty terrible.

It would be awesome if this could be pulled off in some manor that either has a ton of applications from the vendor, or has a fairly open architecture that allows other sensors / devices to be applied it. And if it can do all of this while still being simple for non-tech people who may still want some basic functionality, I could some big potential in it.
This sounds so fake :/ There are certainly video game addicts out there, it's a serious problem in korea and china, but I think this is a troll and/or pathological liar.
That font is very difficult to read with OS X's font rendering[1]. I think it's too thin, causing strange antialiasing effects.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/BkyPv.png
Say, I subscribe to this service. There are lots of youtube videos out there. I pay for each transcript. So, once I embed a code, a human being transcribes the video, and transcript shows up. The system can be setup so posts in draft/pending mode in WordPress tell the service that a transcript needs to be generated.
So Disney Dollars are illegal?
PyCon 2013 talks I really don't want to see
At least for the optimization work I've done I've always had "real-world" test cases, and "drive the current bottleneck really hard" synthetic tests (I profile the real-world case, identify some bottlenecks, make tests that target those bottlenecks then optimize for that, then rinse and repeat), so I can understand why the various JS benchmark suites contain some very synthetic tests...
What exactly is the issue? You paid the same price and gave developers more money. Sounds like a good deal to me.
There is something to be said about working in a company first
Johns Hopkins Researchers Return Blood Cells to Stem Cell State
The fake bus stop could be on a private road or driveway that the actual buses never travel on.

Hell, the fake bus stop could probably be on a gravel path that doesn't actually connect with public roads, as long as the ends of the path are hidden behind trees.
Great feedback guys....thanks!
I lost a lot of seventh and eighth grades to video games, and the final departure from them entailed smashing Starcraft 1 and Brood War CDs in my driveway, in front of my friends, who were telling me "not to waste the CDs." But I needed to do something cathartic, and in my case smashing the discs helped me go cold-turkey.

I wrote about it a little bit more here: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/from-the-departmen... .
Looks nice, but you would give me one I'd refuse it.

They removed the single feature that made me buy my current X200s : the full keyboard. A real keyboard, with real touch and real keys : http://bit.ly/P3NmYd A keyboard with Ins Hom PgUp Del End PgDn.
I do know what you mean. All that stuff about becoming a monk was curiously non-specific. Still, we should assume good faith here: we stand to gain nothing by making accusations.
What symptoms do you get that make you think you're bipolar?

I'm asking because most people diagnose themselves as being either bipolar or ADHD, and it's almost always a bogus diagnostics based on very common personality aspects that everyone has, such as some level of mood swings or tendency to procrastinate...
I've never heard of the term 'rage to master' but I've been told this behaviour is common in people with Aspergers Syndrome. Intense interests which takes priority in life only to be substituted with something else weeks, months or a couple of years down the line.

Maybe you can shed some more light on the 'rage to master' personality trait you're talking about?
Of course, the people most able to take unpaid time off or save for having a child are people that already have access to decent jobs or the ability to save more than they take in and spend. For many people, that is not realistic or is outright impossible. An appeal to personal responsibility is saying that we should ignore people that do not have the means or opportunity to save or prepare for having a child. It is basic human decency to not punish people for being human and wanting to have a family.
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The main legal weakness of the network is the possibility to launder money while mining. You exchange electricity for anonymous Bitcoins.

Freshly minted coins are obviously anonymous, and so are the ones awarded for transaction fees (they come from whatever transaction your mining rig managed to solve).

It is expected that mining fees will rise to match the cost of mining once the free supply has dried up.

As long as you can find an electricity supplier that looks the other way, mining can be used for laundering.
Ask HN: Delicious alternative with tag suggestions?
I've used delicious to store my bookmarks for a long time simply because it has great tag suggestion. They seem to be crowdsourcing the suggestions.

Since the redesign they've gotten less and less stable, and I'm just about fed up. Anyone know of any really good alternatives? I really want kippt to work, but the lists functionality isn't flexible enough.
The widespread use of a money like thing _can't_ be undetectable by its very nature. If you have to keep it between trusted parties it's not money, it's hawala. :)
Combining a User Problem with a Desire to Learn: the Story of Quicklytics
As somebody who went through nearly the exact same experience with a different game several years ago, it's really disappointing (and unhelpful) to see so much emphasis put on the game. Starcraft 2 didn't destroy his life, his lack of self-control did. There are millions of people playing Starcraft 2 worldwide who did not do what he did. Taking action to overcome the Starcraft addiction is a good first step, but it won't do him any good if he lapses into addictive behavior in another aspect of his life.

It sounds like the poster is a really motivated guy, and lionhearted is correct in his sibling post here that that can be a strong force for productivity if you can master it. I really hope that Tom manages to do so, because at 21, he's got his whole (non-destroyed) life ahead of him. Losing two years to an addiction is a big deal, but it's something you can overcome and possibly even come out stronger from.

Edit: Since I talked a little bit about my own circumstances in a reply, I might as well go into detail here, particularly since it looks like the actual linked post might be a lie/exaggeration. I played Final Fantasy XI (an MMO, unlike most games in the series) from the fall of 2004 until the fall of 2009, and World of Warcraft from then until January of 2011.

During that time, my life outside of the game basically stopped. I dropped out of college, I moved back in with my parents, I stopped programming and reading, which were my main interests before the MMOs came along. For a few of the years in the middle I didn't work or even really leave the house. Eventually I got pushed out because my parents knew that what I was doing wasn't a healthy lifestyle, but I did just enough to adapt and got a job an an apartment and continued gaming.

What pushed me to quitting wasn't any sudden realization, but just a slow-building frustration with the whole idea of MMORPGs. Eventually it hit critical mass and I quit FFXI, thinking that the problem was just that I needed a better game. A year of WoW convinced me otherwise, and I've been putting my life back together since then. I (obviously) don't mind talking about it now, and I'd be glad to answer questions if anyone has them.
I completely agree. The browser surrounding these fancy web applications hardly changes at all, I don't mind coming across bootstrap wrapping a cool application in the slightest. Nor do I mind finding yet another default Octopress blog.

When I see bootstrap or the default Octopress theme I know:

- it's gonna be readable
- what the buttons will look like
- the typography spacing won't be hideous
- etc.

Frankly, I'm even relieved to see a default theme like Bootstrap instead of the programmer spending a week trying to make a design and failing utterly.
So did he get diamond rating?
Perspective from outside the US: In Sweden the parents are given 400something days of paid leave on top of 10 required days off after the child is born. The 400something days is divided between the parents (married or not, doesn't matter AFAIK) but each parent is required to take a minimum of 3 months (I think).

Management in the company I work for (and I've heard anecdotes about others) even encourage their employees to have children.

Some people abuse it but for the most part it makes people happy and, like most advanced western cultures, most families don't have more than a few kids.
Ninjablocks is a cool idea, but in practice not great for home automation, and not great as a user experience for non-hackers.

For one, from what I understand, Ninjablocks connects sensors to your network via ethernet or wifi. In practice, that's a bad way to do home automation. It looks like SmartThings is using a mesh network (Zigbee or Zwave), which is way more scalable and self-extends its range as you add more devices to the mesh. Using Zigbee/Zwave and Bluetooth 4.0 also means sensors can be super low power... just pop a battery in a sensor and stick it somewhere and have it last for years before needing to replace the battery. Ninjablocks can't do that. Devices that connect via ethernet/wifi/usb are a lot more demanding power-wise.

Also, NinjaBlocks is all about having sensors trigger online actions. That's cool, but what if I want it to trigger my door to unlock? They allude to being able to do that in the future, but from what I gather it will on their site you'll have to cobble together a DIY solution yourself.
More importantly, the bus stop attracts seniors who are trying to leave the facility, which is dangerous because they aren't able to do so safely, and are likely to end up lost and dying of exposure or exhaustion.

A fake cafe or bookshop wouldn't really be any more useful than the cafeteria or day room that the facility probably already has.
While I have no clue whether it applies to the mac app store, the ios app store has rules that you can't sell subscriptions for a lower price outside the appstore compared to the prices inside (where apple takes 30% of a cut). So that might be a reason why they're not undercutting the mac app store?

https://developer.apple.com/appstore/in-app-purchase/subscri...
Are you thinking of a service to automate the paperwork for a staff of human transcribers? The state of the art of computer transcription is even worse than computer translation.
Mountain Lion quietly includes app blacklist and security restrictions