skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The changes to X11/Weyland are an even bigger issue for non-Linux platforms than Gnome.

Even if the BSDs had unlimited manpower it would be extremely inefficient to try to keep track of all the changes to what has become a Linux specific project.
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The manpower to support bitcoin payments is minimal. A single engineer could integrate with a bitcoin payment provider such as Bitpay (or Walletbit or Mt. Gox Merchant) in less than a day. These bitcoin payment providers have APIs that are very similar to Paypal and Google Checkout. After the initial setup, ongoing support would likely be minimal. These payment providers also offer to convert BTC to USD (or many other currencies) at the current market price. So, your company doesn't even have to deal in bitcoins.

Bottom line: if you're already accepting Paypal, accepting Bitcoin as well is easy.
> The worst experience I've had was hack-enabled griefers in a cooperative game.

If that is the worst experience you have ever had, then you lead quite a charmed life.
Until 1989, to be precise.

Incidentally, during Perestroika the society was changing at such a high rate that what was hard to imagine just three months before was becoming routine. Now looking back 20+ years it is so difficult to reconstruct the timeline.
Samsung Galaxy camera. Thoughts?
There is an interesting discussion about this on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/13293t/supersymmetr...
As other commenters have pointed out, the US only overtakes SA for a few years before falling behind again:

"By around 2020, the United States is projected to become the largest global oil producer (overtaking Saudi Arabia until the mid-2020s)"

So maybe that part of the story is overblown. But perhaps more interesting is that the US will supposedly become a net exporter shortly thereafter:

"The result is a continued fall in US oil imports, to the extent that North America becomes a net oil exporter around 2030."

Source: IEA World Energy Outlook 2012 - Executive Summary
http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication... [PDF]
Norway is highly regarded for it's approach to limited oil exploration: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/06/140110346/how-to-a...
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I find good biographies can both entertain and educate. Try surely you are joking mr feynman.
And if you look at the Amazon music store, which was DRM free from the get-go (and probably paved the way for Apple to negotiate with its own content providers for DRM free music), it's hard to think of Amazon as being on the side of DRM.

Currently, of the two DRM-laden e-mediums Amazon sells (books and videos), both have DRM because the publishers insist on it.
I'll buy a Reddit gold subscription if I can pay in Bitcoin. Who uses Paypal anymore??
Does Ember have a persistance layer ? like backbone sync ? anyway ,Ember is far from perfect too. The best javascript framework , though not free , is Ext JS.
I see. Please take a look at a partial collection of references at
http://kerosinka.livejournal.com/1633.html -- it contains memoirs, discussions, and some bibliography.
Just installed this for the first time. How have I lived without an adblocker before?
Currently? Of course not. But when the idea of storing money on your computer (e.g. in a file) becomes more widespread, then the answer would be yes. Or at the very least it would be equally secure.

It's not that hard to provide people with a secure environment, as long as that environment is designed with with security in mind. A non-jailbroken smartphone is probably good enough, though a dedicated device might be better. And you can use live boots.

I can see a future where we use such (or similar) things to do money transfers.
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[Edit] - Looks like I had some bad info. Several offers to students were from partner companies.

edskim case in point. He's off to Twilio now.

whoops ;)
I believe that Chrome caps the number of processes that it uses, so you wouldn't actually be using 101 processes. I think it caps at something like 8, or did when Chrome first came out.
Think of all the thousands if not millions of unsolicited ads you've seen in your life. What percentage of those were for "something you didn't know existed but solved a problem or want that you had"?

My guess would be less than 1%. Maybe even less than 0.1%.

Many ads don't even have anything to do with the product they're selling. They're designed to get you to get you to associate a positive emotion with the brand name, or be so surreal or catchy that they're memorable. Those ads are worse than useless. They're both useless and manipulative.
That was said that the last time Demonoid was down. There was no evidence to support it then, and there's no evidence to support it now.
Doesn't appear to be live yet (the confirmation email says they'll send a message when they are).
The Aha Moments That Made Paul Graham's Y Combinator Possible
See also: Joel Spolsky's "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
$4 a gallon is peanuts. Price of gas in Rome, Italy was 1.87 euro per litre when I was there in July. Per litre, not gallon!

So people get around town on little mopeds, motorbikes, small cars and a lot of SMART cars around as well. I agree there is a lot of forward momentum with hybrid/electric cars in terms on technological advancement, but the uptake in the US is abysmal. Just because you drive an electric car does not mean there is no CO2, that electricity needs to be generated from somewhere and unless that source is renewable energy then you are back to square one. But it's not just cars you need to think about: generation of electricity, airplanes, ships, cheap exports from the rest of the world... I remember reding a study a few years ago stating that shipping outputs a lot more CO2 than air travel. Also, ships use the cheapest, nastiest, left over fuel from the refinement process so ends up throwing our more CO2.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/mar/03/travelsenv...

I agree the US probably feels like it has to do something, but constantly patching over the cracks is never really going to fix the problem.

It can't allow itself to become wholly dependent on oil produced by enemies of the state in an inherently unstable region ran by crazy dictators and terrorists.

Yes. Thanks for the insightful comments. I'll be sure to vote you in for president when you run for election.</sarc>
Technically correct, but since the password is readable in some way, it's in many ways the same as storing it in plaintext. If the database got hacked, odds are that the key is found too. Or if an admin is rogue, there is no stopping him.
But Chrome - and any sensible browser, really - will scale down JS execution on pages not in the foreground; you can see this in for example Piecon (http://lipka.github.com/piecon/), which will only update the favicon in your background tab bar at half the speed (if that).
My experience with Quora mirrors your own. However a friend of mine was absolutely nuts about it, he chalked it up to having found a group of people to follow who were asking and answering interesting questions.

This difference made Quora less of a Q+A site and more of an interesting news, facts and opinions site to him.
Ask HN: Can anyone list some standardised languages which are 'interesting' too?
To me Haskell is interesting. And it is standardised too. And it is my primary workground.

What about some others?
I am not well versed in shell magic, but this one bit me quite a few times because, being on FreeBSD, my bash lives under /usr/local/bin (and I installed it just for the scripts written by other people, too).

I'd like to ask you what can I do with this, ie. how can I modify those scripts so that they work both on my machine and on others'? I don't want (obviously) to symlink bash executable to /bin. I guess that using plain sh, which actually is in /bin wouldn't be good either, because (I suppose) if author wanted bash it was on purpose. How to write shebangs so that they are compatible with Linux and BSD at the same time?
Who on earth would want to advertise on reddit, given the site’s thoroughly unpleasant audience, the notoriety of which has been growing by the month?

Reddit might be able to court the same sponsors (porn sites and such) that sustain the likes of 4chan, as long as said sponsors are willing to associate themselves with a far more misogynist, racist, child porn-defending audience. But this would likely inspire a revolt among redditors, who hold themselves in laughably high self-regard.
When someone blocks ad's what really happens?
If I have an ad blocker, does the website selling as space or the advertiser know? Page views are usually what is used to charge for ads so if I visit the page and the ad is blocked via my browser, it seems to me that people are still paying for ad's that do not reach the user.

Am I missing something?
Nothing mandates that you keep your bitcoin wallet networked.
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See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Four_of_the_United_Stat...
I used to use a socks proxy via ssh to a box in the US when I traveled to China. I have my own server for this but you can also use a micro EC2 instance as well I believe.

After my last trip, though, I got tired of the speed over an ssh based proxy and installed open vpn on my server and just used a tunnel. Wayyy faster. It's fast enough to watch Hulu and Netflix if your hotel has enough bandwidth.

The other option is to just purchase an openvpn based proxy subscription for a month and use that. Same thing and less fuss. I think running it myself is less likely to result in a blocked IP address since I won't garner as much attention but who knows how much they actually watch and actively block IPs for those services.
Now they just need to fix web font rendering in Windows Chrome.. Until then, this seems to work: http://www.fontspring.com/blog/smoother-web-font-rendering-c...
Communicating to two-sided markets (ft. Flipboard, Skillshare, Uber, NewsCred)
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Definitely over the top. Revoking licensing aside, the Amazon ecosystem is pretty open- apps for every almost every OS, no requirement for online access to read books, copy and paste (up to a limit), multiple licenses per customer.
Invest a little over a lot of time versus a lot in a little time since like the winner to me.
Grooveshark Remote for iPhone and Android
This looks promising guys, good luck.
I've noticed a few websites begging me to turn off adblock, I'm not sure how they detected it though. I think adblock removes the ads entirely from the DOM so perhaps they're just checking if their elements still exist with some JavaScript.
A grammar for statistical graphics in Clojure
Dynamically loading a style sheet based on weather conditions
"So the us is going to start pulling it's oil out of the ground a lot faster. And then it's going to run out of oil."

This does not appear to be an entirely accurate conclusion, according to the article. For example, the article explains that:

"The desert kingdom is due to become the biggest producer again by 2030, pumping 11.4 million barrels a day versus 10.2 million in the U.S."

That said, if the numbers and projections are accurate, then the U.S. will still be producing, but the output will be lower, largely because of changes in the sources of energy:

"'In the United States, low prices and abundant supply see gas overtake oil around 2030 to become the largest fuel in the energy mix,' according to the report, written by a team of researchers led by Birol."

On the topic of running out of oil, I have always wondered (just a theory for discussion here): maybe oil will never physically run out, but rather what will happen is that once all of the easily-accessible supplies have been expended, it will simply become so cost-prohibitive to extract that we will eventually be forced to change and adapt. Hopefully we will change sooner than later. (Also, when I say "we", I mean all of us as humans, not a specific country).

Edit: Thanks for responding roc and checker. You gave me a further reading point (i.e., peak oil).
Just a heads up: you haven't set a page header/name yet!
Wow, I'll have to check your music-player out. Ever since I left windows, I haven't found any music player that quite does things how I want like winamp did.
I noticed about a week or two ago, the HN RSS feed at http://news.ycombinator.com/rss suddenly started responding with a 301 redirect to http://news.ycombinator.com/ when the HTTP "Host" header in the request is not capitalized. Node.js sends all request headers in lower case, so this situation makes it impossible to access the HN RSS feed for those of us using Node as part of an RSS client (without very kooky workarounds).

RFC 2616 states that HTTP headers are case-insensitive; yet HN's RSS service responds happily to "Host:" and badly to "host:". Would be very grateful if this this problem could be corrected in the HN RSS service.
Let me make my point more clearly. If CO2 emissions are such a huge threat to the world then it makes the most sense to push for fracking in the short term because switching to natural gas over kerosene/gasoline and especially over coal reduces carbon emissions substantially. If a hybrid compact car makes sense from an environmental standpoint then shifting hydrocarbon usage to natural gas makes as much if not more sense.
Not only trial runs. See this http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/south-afri... . This is a faciltiy that works, operated by Sasol. They plan to build a 80k barrel/day facility in China.

PS. noteworthy in the article is the mentioning of Obama, who was pushing for such a coal-to-oil technology to be brought to US.
This year I didn't buy a poppy...
The primary goal is to keep stolen money out of Gittip. The secondary goal is to recover stolen money once it's inside of Gittip. There are other kinds of fraud to watch for but let's focus on this for now.

If Gittip does nothing, then stolen money gets into Gittip, and some portion of that is reported to the banks, and Gittip gets hit with chargebacks. Chargebacks are financially onerous, and if Gittip gets too many of them then we'll lose our privileges with the banks altogether. Moreover, chargebacks take months to hit. It's neither economical nor efficient to use chargebacks as the primary signal for bad accounts. Therefore, I don't see a choice but to try to predict which accounts are going to inject stolen money into Gittip before it happens.

Once stolen money is in Gittip, some of that goes to good accounts and some to bad. Either Gittip makes an effort to recover that money somehow, or we simply factor the entire stolen amount into our cost of doing business.
If I recall, HL2 was also something of a milestone for gameplay-integrated physics. I spent many hours marvelling at all the stuff you could play with in the "pool room" in the leaked alpha.
I can relate. When this happened in my life, I listened to Dave Mason's "Look at You, Look at Me" a lot, which is, interestingly enough, from the album Alone Together.
Bug 503 - window.prompt() no longer supported in IE10 "Metro"
You can't send cash over the Internet.
You mean like the hotels were doing? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608
Yes it does. I have added enough links that touch on that.

https://github.com/emberjs/data

http://emberjs.com/guides/ember-data-lifecycle/

https://speakerdeck.com/tomdale/30 slides for the video below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djhAsWGOImk Tom Dale - Ember-data

https://speakerdeck.com/tchak/ember-data
for fuzzy date work i tend to relay on the parsedatetime module:

http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetime/

it seems to accept syntax similar to the 'at' command does (and obviates the need for my python C module to do that parsing based on the scheduler parser for 'at'). examples include "1 day ago", "ten hours from now" and the like. very useful.
I am of the belief, that the latter is what we will prevent migration to a new platform but not the former.

Perhaps power users would rather not repurchase dozens of paids of apps; but for the average user, the amount of money invested into apps would probably be on par with the amount of money invested into a case for said phone.
The fact that you use math doesn't prove anything, especially in an area as complicated as human relationship.
The comparison should be moot, because Beautiful Soup 4 uses the lxml parser when it's available: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#specif...
Can't wait to look into this. Planscope (https://planscope.io) has been syncing time with Harvest for a while, first with the Harvest Javascript SDK and now everything occurs server-to-server via their API. This latter approach has actually worked out well - because we integrate with other invoicing tools (Freshbooks, FreeAgent, Freckle, Toggl) having a consistent experience for the end user has been a must.

One thing that isn't immediately clear is whether the Harvest Platform will report back with an event when a timer is stopped from within Harvest. This routinely trips up customers, as Harvest doesn't have webhooks currently.

Regardless, CONGRATS on getting this out the door. This is going to be a huge value add for your customers.
Reddit demographic is extremely anti-advertising, and poor. Not exactly an extremely easy group to monetize.
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I would also buy a reddit gold subscription with Bitcoin.
To be fair: oil being fungible means that it doesn't much matter who gets Iraqi production or the direct profits from it. So long as that oil can be produced and sold by a regime not under international sanctions, it will increase market supply thus lowering price and giving the market a little more wiggle room to absorb supply shocks.

Which are goals much more in-line with American defense strategy in the region as a whole.

So while the view of our having invaded Iraq to steal their oil remains naive, it's hard to argue that the US receives no benefits from that oil being produced by a non-sanctioned (non-Saddam) regime.
Golang and Scala
http://blog.kaipakartik.com/2012/11/all-complex-ecosystems-h...

Here is a more readable version of the same
http://www.readability.com/articles/6tqfeib9
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs
This tree is made of tweets
Would their be a market for a Bitcoin bank?
Just bought a Surface over the weekend to develop on, and you're absolutely on the money.

Win8 (on tablet, desktop is something else entirely) suffers tremendously from lack of ecosystem. I expected at least a few of the big brands to offer apps - but no Spotify, no Rdio, no Pandora (making the device musically useless), no Yelp, no Facebook... makes me wonder what exactly the point of the device is for the average user.

The browser on the Surface is the best I've ever used on a mobile device. It is fast, responsive, and unlike iOS tabbed browsing feels like a first-class feature instead of an afterthought. Compatibility with desktop sites is also top-notch.

So really what I have sitting on my desk right now is a touch-based browsing machine with an ingenious keyboard... and not much else. I love the design on this thing, and I really want the whole "powerhouse tablet" notion to take off, but there are so many pieces missing that I just don't see how.

Side note: after playing with the SDK for a weekend I'm starting to come to the realization that MS's dev ecosystem may be a liability for them. I've been thinking about putting together some easy apps that would provide some basic expected functionality (IM?), but the open source ecosystem essentially does not exist at all in the .NET world. I've run into page after page of commercial, proprietary libs to do even reasonably basic things and scant few open source ones I can take advantage of.

Both iOS and Android have benefited tremendously from a large, comprehensive open source stack making the lives of app builders easier. Win8 in its current state feels like I need to invent the internal combustion engine to build a car.
I find Reddit having a fine audience. Not as good as Hackernews or Stackexchange or so (where good content is a little more valued than on the average forum), but certainly better than the real stinkholes of the internet. Even 9gag has ads.
from what you said I got the impression this sort of setup is way unfit for development... wouldn't MySql, Apache means plenty of other development environment tools would be out too(postgreSQL, other web servers come to mind, browser...)?

you then mentioned some are a great choice... could you explain to me how you rate this developing experience?

I can see how being able to dish out some code anywhere would be useful, but I hoped to be able to do serious development/have it as my main work tool, even if the environment was a bit limited/lacking...as the advantages could surpass the issues
(my Dell XPS Notebook already lasts only 1hr without being plugged! 1 year old only... )
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From a quick look at the code, it's not supported on windows because of its reliance on terminal utilities(pty, termios).

Thanks! Like I said, I don't have lots of experience with Python, so this is very valuable info for me :)

Doesn't the banner state to use the previous version(pbs) for windows support?

Yes, but the PyPi page for pbs 0.110 states: "PBS will no longer be supported." I'm not comfortable with basing my code on a library which won't be supported in the future.

And if for some reason it still doesn't work out, you can always use subprocess(which this library is using anyway) or https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy

I didn't know about envoy either. Thanks again! :)

EDIT: Upon closer examination, the whole OProc class depends on os.fork(), which is available only on Unix, according to Python docs.
Agreed, as I said it is an edge case.

The common trend is that married couples start off with some reassurance rituals to let the other know that you're still madly in love. Over time the rituals get abbreviated, but remain as a sign of reassurance. However they've become habit, even if there are problems they will be kept up.

Then when the problems get to be too much for one person, the other is blindsided because, "(S)he gave me a kiss and told me (s)he loved me every morning!" OK, (s)he did. But did (s)he do that because (s)he thought you expected her to, or because (s)he meant it?

(Disclaimer. I've been married for 22 years. My perspective is that if you don't know what can go wrong, you are left with just hoping that it will go right.)
I suppose it depends on how complex a model you're willing to support. There might be some pricing opportunities available to you here, where a sliding scale can accomodate projects of various size. Of course, I could be overthinking the whole thing too.
Many people use Paypal and I think it works fine. But yes, I'd be more likely to buy Reddit Gold in Bitcoin too!
The standard hack for that would be:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
If you are looking at starting with a hybrid approach and move towards a more native UI, you might like Calatrava - http://calatrava.github.com/

Disclaimer - Two colleagues of mine wrote Calatrava.
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