skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pruning stuff looks great, at the moment the time it takes to download the blockchain (and the disk space requirements to a lesser degree) is creating a disincentive to run a full verifying node.

I suspect bitcoin blockchain transactions will never be very useful for micro payments, because of the confirmation delay.

If you use bitcoin as a clearing house though, which means you aren't broadcasting a blockchain transaction for every payment then micro transactions could work very well.
Links explaining these Haskell code snippets:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/10410997/578288 – the `map` snippet converts a flat list into a multiset represented as a list of `(count, element)` tuples

http://stackoverflow.com/a/5378799/578288 – the `filterM` snippet returns the powerset of its list argument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_set)
I find that sad. I've been able to extend the useful life of many of my older appliances by finding the repair manuals online and doing some simple fixes.

I was even able to reconfigure my old video projector to throw HD video, although the dealer who sold it to me told me it was impossible. The factory service manual had instructions :-)
- Financially support the prison lobby (which is strongly opposed to drug legalization).
The amazon store is pretty goood
The best strategy I think is to simultaneously eliminate their revenue (legalizing drugs, and making sure US production of quality crops ramps up quickly, etc.) AND crack down on all their "legal-illegal interfaces" -- punish anyone in the police who helps them, anyone in the banking industry, etc.

At one time you're destroying their revenue side AND their cost side. Their "comparative advantage" is in senseless violence, so they're probably easier to challenge on other fronts, but at the end there may be a role for targeted killing of any organized nexuses remaining. But use economics to weaken them first.

It also seems insane to me that the whole Mexican drug industry is only a $5b/yr thing. It costs just the state of California more than that per year in law enforcement and prisons.

I'm also curious just how low the price per pound for "BC bud" quality could go, if it were totally licit and you had serious agribusiness stepping up. $440/pound quoted in the article is a bit below the Humboldt price for outdoor of decent quality, at least in relatively small quantities, but if it got grown like lettuce, it should be even cheaper than that. It would be kind of ironic replacing illegal Mexican ditchweed with US legal pot harvested by illegal/undocumented migrant workers (just like other crops..)
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How would I do it? And can we detect them doing that?

Am I detecting a request for startup here?
Now that you mention it, it would be very nice to have a database suited for configuration that behaved like git in that branching, restoring old states, reverting selected commits was built in, while at the same time supporting ACID features and replication?

Does anyone know if something like that exist?
To directly answer the question:
The median household income for California is $60833(http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06000.html). The average household has 2.89 people. As a single person, you have more money to spend than most families in the state. The odds of your survival are high.

To answer your implicit question:
I think you are asking "Can I survive and save some money earning 72K in California while keeping up with the Joneses(tech-savvy urbanites in Silicon Valley or LA tech scene).
Yes you can. In fact, I rented a room in a large house in SV with full access to everything(kitchen, living room, backyard, bathroom etc...) for under $900/month. My roommates were people from LinkedIn, Cisco, etc...
Worst case food scenario is you spend $15/meal, 3meals/day, and 31 days/month... $1400/month food.
Add $100/month bill for your iDevice.
Add $100/month for a monthly public transportation pass.
Add $1000/month for the do-whatever-the-fuck-I-want fund.

With these covered, you are spending $3500/month, or $42000/year.

Assume your take home will be $50k post-tax. You are saving about 8k/year and living a pretty lavish life for an austere single person.
Another problem is controlling the quality of deals that merchants add. The whole selling point of Groupon (and similar "deal" services that have sprung up) is that they aren't just the run of the mill coupons you get in the mail every week - they are generally big, interesting deals.

If Groupon sent you 100 deals every day that were "buy one get one free" or "$1.00 off" or whatever, it wouldn't be very interesting and they'd likely lose a lot of subscribers.

So, policing the quality of deals and working with merchants to make sure they are offering a deal that fits with what you are doing is going to be a significant source of overhead no matter what.
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How big & organized exactly are these cartels?

Are they big enough to really be thinking along lines like this?
I can't give you any numbers but they have pretty much torn the country apart.
This has nothing to do with how I use email, but does look like a useful tool on its own. I don't understand the "replace email" branding at all -- maybe it's "replace email for people who are currently abusing email in bad ways".
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You probably wouldn't have comparative advantage in influencing US politics, given that you're a foreign cartel. So you'd presumably rely on powerful entities in the target country whose interests are reasonably aligned. Fortunately, it's a huge industry, so it's not hard. Natural allies may include the prison industry (which includes some prison manufacturing) and US banks. (http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/199804--.htm)

And not those with just an economic interest, but relatively political interests in imprisoning/disenfranchising hard-to-control parts of the population, and limiting free travel over the southern US border (due to things like NAFTA).
And always opposing the commies, yes :)
Whatever they sold, it wasn't cars, because there is no cars.

It's a plan to have a car that they may successfully produce or they may not. In the meantime, they promise to send you photos. LOL.
I would say that this facet of computers is becoming less accessible as time goes on. App stores, code signing, OS lock-downs and all sorts of "security" measures just make it harder for someone to pick up programming.
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Great project. Loved the idea.
"Because participants did not ingest the glucose, they could not have absorbed a significant amount of it into their bloodstream. Moreover, it takes glucose 10 to 15 min to enter the brain after ingestion (Zourek, Jankovec, & Hykova, 2011)."
HN - charts of an URL by users posting it, or of a user and the URLs they post
I wanted to try Bountify (https://bountify.co/) so I asked for a little thing to create charts. You give it a username, it pulls the last 100 submissions for that user, and charts what urls those subs are. Or you give it an url, and it pulls the last hundred subs of that url and creates a chart of the users posting it.

I put a $25 bounty on it. I decided before I posted it that I'd accept the first working answer. (My post was lousy. I could have included much better detail.)

This is what I got - pretty quickly.

(https://bountify.co/1x)

I've put some examples on Imgur. Please note that these are just some examples picked pretty much at random. I'm not trying to make any point with this; they're just examples.

(http://imgur.com/a/GBzhJ)
Clickable links:

(https://bountify.co/)

(https://bountify.co/1x)

(http://imgur.com/a/GBzhJ)
Hate to be a Debbie downer, but I have a hard time seeing the economics of this working out for the publisher although I'm sure it's a great experience for the kids. Most of these apps probably won't break even so they will need to have a mega hit to make it work, which seems unlikely given the competition of professionally made large budget (comparatively) games and extremely talented and dedicated indie developers.
Well, at the end of the day they would want to make sure that they possessed a certain level of voter influence in the short term and long term.

In the short term, I would bet that the legalized outfits would be co-opted by the drug cartels and used to launder money, and then 'caught' within a year or so.

Since devout Christians (especially Evangelical) are their #1 ally, I would guess that numerous churches would start being built in these battleground states, and that the people who would be administering would be told about how future 'proceeds' into their personal and church funds would depend on their conversion rate of the local populace. Probably risky, and not likely to work all that well.

tl;dr legalized outfits are going to have overstated connections to criminal organizations and the people in the outer neighborhoods are going to try and won over with rhetoric about separating them from the sinful ways of their neighbors.
Yeah. That's true I know they're big and have a huge effect locally, but scheming to influence lawmaking in another country is pretty big thinking. It's also forward thinking, worrying about your profits 5 years from now.
It's clearly pushing them into a less optimal corner. If it were more optimal, they'd be doing it right now anyways.
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What can you expect? They've been rewriting history for the last 20 years.

Just look at the hatchet job they done to Commodore. Anyone who remembers the mid-80s should remember that they were the driving force behing "Consumer Computing", not the expensive and underpowered Apple machines of the time.
Came up on my Facebook feed: the second letter looks like a tell-all from a husband whose wife was having an affair with David Petraeus.
Deals are in theory the most attractive segment of a given market. It would be highly enlightening to know as to why Groupon is running at such a loss. The way I see it - Deals are a win for the customer and the merchant (and Groupon too). If that's the case, then why is Groupon struggling so much? Is there a flaw in their strategy that someone can point out? Or, is it so that the Deals space is overlooked by the merchants?? An in-depth analysis would greatly help everyone.
I get you. If I were a drug dealer or bootlegger, I'd be holding out for legalization also. But, and I may be completely wrong, let's think it out. Look at who you're employing. Likely school dropouts who have been taught violence is the appropriate counter-measure to problems. You've got a few notorious crews, a distribution network that knows how to void police, and many street level people.

Now, I'm changing my outfit the second it goes legit. I'm in storefronts, I've got catchy packaging, I've got customer incentive programs, and everyone will know my website and Twitter.

So, now that I'm shipping UPS and insuring your product, what happens to my former crew? The hardcore bunch that did my killing? The street gangs? The people who escaped police? They're the ones looking for a new grind. They're schooled in the ways of the evading cops, killing, and terror tactics. They're going to use the tools they have to make money. They may even be angry at their former employers who are now legitimately wealthy. And seeing how popular kidnapping has become in South America? No reason it couldn't catch on in Mexico as well, given the right circumstances.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/ios-devices-account-for-7...

iTunes is probably a significant chunk of the remaining quarter.
Why is it taken for granted that everyone hates email? I love it. Its only problem seems to be spam. Otherwise it's a simple, standard way of communicating with great interoperability. If anything will replace it, it most probably won't be a closed ecosystem built by a single company.

That said, as others have already pointed out, Submittable seems to be something completely different anyway, with no ambition to do what email does.
It's not about copyright law, it's about Toshiba:

Toshiba simply doesn't want its service manuals to be distributed by third parties and it might not even want to distribute its service manuals via its own channels. My lesson is to avoid Toshiba and companies with a similar behavior – I take such behavior as a signal.

As a side note on copyright law: In some European countries at least, service manuals don't reach the level of creativity and originality required by copyright law, i.e., hosting the site in such a country could by an option. Switzerland has a certain reputation for a relatively liberal copyright law (although at the price of the world's highest copyright fees on hardware that could be used to copy content).
Did you watch the video where the computer was talking?

There is no possible way to confuse that robot voice with the speaker. Technology like you suggest is a long way away from the consumer market.
> 1) Everyone knows how to use email. Most employees don't want yet another way to communicate.

This simply isn't true. Most people don't know how to use email, which is why these stupid memes of "everyone hates email" and "email must be destroyed" persist. What people hate is email being used in a dumb way. Or to be more blunt: People hate dumb people. No surprise there, really. So a solution is to get better at getting rid of dumb people. One way to do this is to persist in using email well, and demonstrating (with persistence and persuasion) the better way when rolling across crap use.

This is one of those (rare) situations where the technology and infrastructure is fine; the people using it are the problem. Email can be incredibly effective when used correctly.

Mind you there are certainly email clients which make it far too easy to use email poorly.
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There is no guarantee that the effect of an almost certain victory/loss is identical for all parties. On the contrary, there is some data that indicates that supporters of some parties are more motivated to vote. See for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065127, which shows that weather conditions can affect election results. I cannot find data on it, but I think it is not inconceivable this extends to 'going to the polling station even if it does not make a difference to the result'

However, in a winner takes all election, the effect would have to be huge. Let's say all polls indicate a 51%-49% result. Then, at least 4% of the winning party's voters would have to stay home 'because they already won' to change the result (and that assumes none of the other voters stay home 'because they already lost'). At a more realistic 60%-40% poll prediction, one in three voters would have to stay home.
Be interesting to look at the data from the 2010 Prop 19 'no' vote to see if anything along those lines could be inferred (e.g. strong no vote from areas with high cannabis possession / distribution arrests, suggesting vote buying).

I know correlation doesn't mean causation, but that doesn't mean the data point would not be interesting. Is that kind of data publicly available?
May have something to do with the climatic requirements of different varieties of the plant, similar to how Gewürztraminer performs best in a cooler climate but Grenache needs a hot one.
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People hate dumb people

The conclusion is still the same. This won't solve the "problem" with email.
They seem to have a high acquisition cost for deals. Many merchants have already been burnt by them - they often make a hefty loss, so acquisitions get harder. You could also argue that most of the merchants using Groupon are already businesses on the downturn, so they will only use Groupon once and not see any gain from it since their business was unpopular to begin with, and the only way customers would be somewhat satisfied with the experience is at a price discount the business simply cannot survive on.

Perhaps Groupon could do some better segmentation of their users. They must have quite a lot signed up, so why not offer many more deals overall, and each user gets the three deals he is most likely to buy. Also, you take a much smaller portion of the revenue so the business can survive. This way, Groupon would earn more through increased volume (it is kind of unprofessional to send a customer a similar deal six times a month - if I didn't buy it before why waste your reach to show it again to me?) In essence they would be a highly-tailored ad agency getting a small commission on a huge number of sales.
There are better options in the laptop market than Toshiba

Even crappy OEM vendors have their manuals online, why would I go for Toshiba?
This is the way to go:

$ brew tap homebrew/dupes
$ brew install gcc --enable-all-languages

To use your new gcc-4.7.2 when installing new packages just add '--use-gcc' at the end of the command.
... So they knew, because they already knew. So really they just confirmed.

Ask that person to go and find my details, and they will surely fail. Because they know nothing about me, and the transaction history doesn't tell them anything... thus it is not 'identifying'.
I think it comes down to a few factors:

1) Their sales and marketing expenses are incredibly high.

2) I think the kind of deals Groupon does only work for some merchants - those with high margins, new businesses, and those that are really good at upselling once the customer gets in the door. There have been a lot of highly-publicized accounts of merchants who felt like Groupon deals ended up being very bad for them. The big hit the merchant takes sort of limits the amount and frequency of repeat deals.

3) A ton of competitors have sprung up, since there is a fairly low barrier to entry. In addition to some of the nationwide competitors, there are a lot of local companies like newspapers and tv stations that already have good sales networks and have been copying the Groupon model. This increases Groupon's sales costs and probably squeezes their margins since they may have to offer the merchant a bigger cut to compete.

I think it's a good concept and by being the most well-known business in the space they have a pretty significant advantage, but I also think it is a challenging market to be in and they are probably still overvalued.
I think there's a vast sea between "people who don't know how to use email" and "computer literate", and it's disingenuous to make that a false dichotomy. There's a large population of people within biopharma, manufacturing, tech, and financial corporations, software engineers included, who are really fine tweaking and managing their email filters and don't give a damn about "email killer X", the reason generally being that the cost of learning a new "email-replacement" system often outweighs its benefits.

Which is not to say that you don't have a point either, but rather just that your assertion of "simply isn't true" well...isn't true.
Government doesn't want X to be said about it, and thus pressures/censors company Y to stop it.

(X = "Anti-Communist sentiment" or "War crimes")
(Y = "Google" or "Visa, Mastercard, Amazon, Wikileaks... etc")

Not a huge noticeable difference.

The point I was trying to make, is everyone is quick to taint a discussion on china with words like "Dictatorship", when in fact, china isn't (You know they can vote!?), and all the 'evidence' of them being one are scenarios played out in all countries.
1. “We are concerned that by providing the manuals to unqualified person [sic] you may be endangering their well-being”.

[…] I have personally never been injured or visibly endangered by working on any kind of computer system, much less a consumer notebook computer. I have also never heard of anybody else being injured by working on one.

They do have a point here though; everyone's seen those laptop batteries on fire. That shouldn't stop someone who knows what he's doing from being able to fix things, but having some incompetent "I'm going to save a couple of bucks and do it myself" DIY:er muck about is probably going to lead to disaster sooner or later.
Hello damien,

scuse me, I guess I don't get what you'r suggesting me.

The claim? "we're the Instagram for vinyl enthusiast" is very cool and actually pretty real.

Or you're suggesting me to take the idea of the webpage? very simple, two sentences, mail container and stop

or both?

I mean, is everything perfect in the link you sent me, but I don't get how should use it

p.s. is saturday morning here, I'm almost dead when I saw your link
Either that or he learned Japanese
but I doubt 20 years from now people will be using email.

This is like saying I doubt people will be using phones 20 years from now. Email was been around for nearly 40 years[1] It is the de facto standard for written communication between two computers and de-centralized systems need standards in order to work efficiently.

[1]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
clang either does not build or defectively builds certain things on OS X, for instance Ruby 1.9.3. I had to acquire vanilla GCC for this reason the other day, and was relieved to find it in HomeBrew.
>>the concepts in Lisp, without really talking about Lisp directly too much

The book with the same feature is "ANTLR definitive guide".

When I read it I was like: "Ha! It sounds like LISP!", "Ha! It sounds like FORTH!", "Ha! It sounds like Prolog!"

And Terence Parr mentioned none of them.

Amazing!
Are new entrepreneurial ideas keeping you from getting things done?
Nice. The thing I liked about VCR is that it not only allows you to mock HTTP responses, but actually records the real response the first time you use it. So you don't even necessarily have to specify what the contents/headers of the response should look like manually... To have an equivalent library for python would be very neat. Hope you guys can join effort somehow to make it happen.
As someone still learning a lot about development (I would really like to meet someone who isn't...), I can't help but be somewhat jealous of the upstart devs in the 80s and 90s who just had terminals, text editors, make and ANSI C. The raw knowledge base required to establish a base for oneself is tremendous now. And the paradigms of programming have only become more and more complex, since everything needs networking, multicore, heterogeneous computing, and security is harder than ever.
That's why I've been buying Thinkpads for years and I will probably keep buying them: IBM's (now Lenovo) service manuals are public, and incredibly detailed.

Disassembling a Thinkpad is just a matter of following simple step-by-step instructions on a PDF. Thinkpads are also very well designed, with less screws and more accessible components than most other makers.
Great little rant, but provide some citation please. Which reporters are currently in re-education camps, and It's unheard of that an entire family is sent for re-education (unless the entire family committed a crime together), which makes me doubt most of what you've said.

Also which event are your referring to with the 70 (actually 7000) deaths?

It's funny you are railing against propaganda by writing propaganda, please inform your points with actual data.
But how much do you fine them, if their misrepresentation causes a chilling effect that scares people away from not just Samsung's current product, but anything deemed Apple-like? The result of this sort of misinformation campaign, if left unchecked, could be that Apple monopolizes the entire industry for several years. If you're the judge, what do you do, fine them $500 billion? How do you know that's not excessive?

It seems to be that it would be much easier to serve justice by compelling Apple to correct the misinformation, rather than trying to compute a price for this behavior.
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