skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ripple appears to essentially be Hawala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala) in digital form.

I'm actually not sure of the necessity of XRP; since bitcoin, or any other currency can propagate across the network.
Don't forget burning a CD and printing off hard copies.
The PS Vita is the answer in the mobile space, and it's release cycle will likely be shorter than the PlayStation Consoles.
There's certainly a big misconception (in the U.S. and elsewhere)that study and research produces innovations and innovators. However, academia really fosters a type of conservative innovation. You pick your battles, apply for grants that you think you can win (and hope for the best).

For the most part, you don't swing for the fences. You learn how to integrate yourself into a certain type of system, and you hang on until you graduate. You operate in the zone where the marginal return on labor is usually miniscule.

In my opinion, Academia is pretty poor at fostering and developing any type of disruptive innovation. This kind of innovation is generally what makes headlines and gets funding.

Disclaimer: I am by no means the first person to have this thought. Here's a blog post from Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericaswallow/2012/04/19/innovato...
>-- OnLive/Gaikai style video streaming of full disc games you haven't yet purchased

What everyone seems to worry about here is that Sony can use this against piracy and/or game resale. Going streaming-only is a long-term direction that, if implemented right, could well improve Sony's bottom line and introducing it gradually is a great means for them to ensure gamers don't simply take their business elsewhere when it is the only option left.

Take the ability to stream older PS1-PS3 titles. Old titles can be a source of free money for a publisher like Sony but due to those titles' smaller size they are especially easy to pirate (according a torrent tracker the entire PSN PSX collection takes up around 58.7 GiB; that's 179 game titles for the PlayStation). Streaming would eliminate the possibility of this kind of piracy.

Still, I think you can make a strong argument that Sony won't implement a stream-only policy for games this generation since in the US, a key market, far too many of gamers just don't have the bandwidth yet.

>-- rolling video replay of your screen as a core system service

You've got to note that this feature will be "free" in terms of computational resources for every streamed game.
Thanks for this. I'll stick with Bitbucket in this case as I prefer the Mercurial workflow.
what about support non-USA businesses? the norm for creditcard processing in Thailand is 5% for an online business, preety craptastic
> PC hardware improvements have really slowed dramatically since the 1990's and early 2000's.

Well you cannot double frequency anymore on chips if that is what you are referring to. But there are more and more cores, and GPUs is where the innovation is happening (and that's what matters with games). A 2 years old graphic card does not compare well with a new graphic card at the same price nowadays. I usually renew my PC hardware every 2 years or so and I definitely see the difference when I do in games and how well they run on the new config. And I stopped turning on my xbox and PS3 a while ago when I could have full HD games on my PC at great frame rates - playing on console then became slow (loading times) and ugly (certainly not as good as on PC).
They've referring to all "established websites" sold on Flippa.
Er… have you used a Xbox 360 lately? Most of the dashboard is ads: http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/5/2/9/2/2/6/A...
How would you feel about buying an ad-free version at a higher price point (like Amazon does with the Kindle)? Part of the problem might be that the console hardware is somewhat subsidized, and the only way to recoup is software sales.
As somebody who's had his card info stolen before, I'd say it's troublesome even in the best case. Everything starts declining, you have to spend hours talking to the bank to get it all straightened out, and then you have to go through everything you're subscribed to and make sure to change them all to the new card when it comes in.
Feast, famine, and obesity - the curse of cheap corn
Am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that changing the perspective rendering somehow forced them to go and change the pathfinding? How recent is MVC design patterns?
Sorry, I didn't read your comment carefully. I do think the Ripple wiki has a similar level of detail to the original Bitcoin paper, although I'm not a big fan of either one.
Many pivotal Supreme Court decisions are delightful to read in part due to their clear and elegantly straightforward language and reasoning. And always with extensive citations!

I can't say the same for the majority of web site usage and software licenses I've read, most of which will require tremendous effort for any court to interpret should there be a dispute.

I am a fan of Thomas' dissent in Kelo v New London. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/04-108P.ZD1)
Thanks. I also use hg/bitbucket at work.

I might have a more serious crack at using Github for something personal to get a better idea.
Secret to Harlem Shake's virality
You don't think they'll capture the mic in multiplayer? That would surprise me.
A very aggressive crawler.
As awful as a lot of that movie was, it actually went to some interesting places with that technology.
I keep coming back and hoping to find the original dataset in CSV format.

I suspect some interesting seasonality at the hourly level.
Dolphin language is similar to human language.

http://www.tusker.com/tusker-trips/eclipse-trips/archaeo/art...
If you initially parse everything after the comma as the aside, you then have only the fact that "two onlookers" is not something that George coul be to allow you to understand the sentence.
Yes, they are. Based on US too, though. Trying to find more about their story, sounds interesting.
Thanks for the answers, but there is any downside of an offical YC company list and info?
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I've been playing with Ripple for a couple of weeks now, and I find the best way to describe it is as a network that will finally enable freedom of banking over the Internet.

Sure, we all log on to our online bank accounts, but they don't really let you take your money anywhere. Ripple will be supported by a rapidly expanding network of Gateways that will allow you to get money from your bank account onto the Ripple network, and from there, an unlimited number of financial options will be available to you.

You'll be able to spend your money with any merchant with a ripple account or with a bank account tied to a Gateway. You'll be able to exchange your currency for USD/EUR/CAD/GBP/JPY/BTC/whatever you want.

We'll finally be done with the archaic ACH network. $50 bank wire fees and 3% currency conversion fees will cease to exist. We have an Internet, why not use it to move money?
In tournament play, it isn't "banned" in a sense that you are fouled or disqualified for doing it. It's a map design and racial balance issue, which tournaments usually solve systematically by placing a neutral supply depot to prevent placing a 3rd blocking pylon. Check out [1] or [2] or search for "neutral supply depot" to find some more information.

[1] http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/51630/why-are-ther...

[2] http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Buildings#Neutral_buil...
If you just look at the auctions from a year and go and click on a few of them.... almost all of them are dead.

I kind of think this indicates this isn't an efficient market
Do a thought experiment.

Sure, do one of your own. Have the developers of all your things use only the resource searching of the mid-90s. Watch all those technologies slow down considerably. This is part of what I mean when I say catalyst. Got a weird problem? I hope you happen to be in just the right group or forum that happens to have a willing expert.

Personally, I like how you completely disallow me any influence of Google on any other company, but you are more than willing to subsume any steel-using work into the provenance of US Steel. Apparently other steel companies - even other countries, don't exist. Your bias is beyond belief. I called Google a catalyst, not directly reposible for 'everything', unlike your mention of the steel industry.
I guess it's time to upgrade to a 486. I hear they've come down in price.
Make the logo bigger and other web design asks
From what I've seen of the AEC industry, I doubt we'll actually see any real changes in the next decade or two. :(

However, I do see this being super useful for navigating racks and racks of servers to kick one over if it needs thunking.
HN would be a lot better place if more people were like you and had the class+decency to recognize their error and say "sorry." I wish I could upvote your comment 100 times.
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“The party will combine a small, centralised leadership with maximum grass roots involvement and support. By relying on decentralised Wikipedia-style, user-generated structures, it will do without apparatchiks. The party will be incorruptible and ideologically united.”
What makes you say that? It doesn't take too much knowledge to maintain a biosphere, otherwise it would have collapsed long before humans arrived on Earth. It seems more to do with how cautious you want to be, how far a race is willing to push the environment in return for faster progress.

I also suspect that any extraterrestrial intelligence capable of making a signal detectable by our equipment would have given up its biological roots a long time ago, as life as we know it is badly adapted for space travel.
What happened between July and Aug 2012? where we see a spike in #page views followed by a spike in #unique IPs?
On the other hand, animals that are domesticated become "cuter." Look at the Russian fox domestication program (and the mirror aggressiveness program). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

These foxes actually share a good number of features with dogs and humans: it may be that, because dolphins are such social creatures, we perceive them as cute because they are more or less domesticated.
Ask HN: Where do you find the business development people?
I have been doing both business development (marketing/sales) and development on my own now for awhile. My company is gaining traction but I am now at the point where I really need an expert in getting the next client and helping to develop a market, while I focus on making sure we are closing deals and developing what the clients want. Where do you turn for this type of person? What do you look for? And what skill sets would you advertise for?
"Have you or somebody you know successfully made the transition from (non-computer) science into a tech career? In the current economy, what are the chances you'd hire a highly motivated science dropout with programming competence and basic stats knowledge?"

I did it, have worked with others who have done it, and would now hire people who did. The important part is your ability to program. There are tons of PhD students (even in CS), who can't (or won't) write code. There are even more who write horrible, unmaintainable code. You have to be better than those folks.

Also, do not be deceived by "data science": it's mostly a bullshit term, and translates roughly to "programmer who knows basic statistics", rather than "scientist who knows some programming". Nobody wants to hire you if you can't implement your theories in a production context.

The bottom line is that if you're a good coder, nobody cares how you wasted your youth.
Why would they want to hand out subsidized consoles to people who aren't going to pay for games to run on them? The only way it would make sense for them to let you run Linux would be if "Linux" was a game they sold for $300 (or whatever the difference is between the hardware cost and the console sale price -- I'm guessing wildly here).
Been discussing this with a friend today. Considering a short-sighted person, wearing prescription glasses: the problem is where to put the GGlass "screen".

* it makes sense to put it inside, i.e. before the lens, because as short-sighted, vision is fine at this distance. Problem is that there's not much space between the lens and the eye / eyebrow

* putting it outside, i.e. after the lens, appears more feasible but awkward as the distortion from the lens may be difficult to bear

* putting it on top of the prescription glasses frame makes sense again, but the lens usually covers a good chunk of the eye range, so this may put the GGlass to far on the periphery.

Not sure what makes the most sense here.
This a typical example of VC rationalization, built on a sandy foundation of survivor's bias. YouTube's 'Why now?' might more accurately be answered, "because we just made people a ton of money on PayPal and there's a lot of venture capital sloshing around looking for a credible home." The company lost money for five years, so without the Google buyout, 'now' might not have turned out to be such a great time. Just ask MySpace, the number 2 video-sharing site when YouTube got snapped up. Good thing Moritz was on the Google board at the time of the investment. I wonder how many times Hurley and Chen had to rehearse to pitch to Sequoia?
This is a pretty awesome post that I hope near- and new Ph.D.s think about, especially because at that point in your life, you are probably immersed in a 'macho' culture where thinking about anything but a life in academia is seen as wimping out. Don't pay attention to that. It's nonsense. Pay attention to confluence's post.
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Ah, I had no idea. I saw it explicitly defined in someone's vimrc and thought, hey that's a good key to use.
You mentioned using footnotes. I agree that it's a great way to contain side points, digressions and references. I have a design/readability question though: how do you feel about using sidenotes instead of footnotes though? Like e.g. how Bret Victor uses them [0]?

[0] - http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#p72
I still remeber reading some blog post comparing the stack trace of a spring/tomcat web app and a rails web app. Blah blah the rails web app stack was much nicer to read. Well, in 2012, the rails stack trace has become the tomcat's stack trace. It seems that if you really need to implement alot of abstractions on a webapp for generic pipe/filter, interception, routing, param parsing, session managemnt and such, you really do need some layers in your app!

And I think it's funny that some of the Java-ey concepts that spring made so popular like IoC are beginning to appear in frameworks such as angular.js - this is not a critique, I think IoC is really clever.

As for JSF, I actually like JSF2. It's really not everyone's cup of tea, but it's quite good for those boring LOB apps. Oh and it's view-first! I don't know why there aren't more view-first frameworks. The other ones I know of are Lift, WPF (kinda, never really used intensively), angular.js (has a view-first feel to it).

Anyway, I still like rails, I just think they were a bit premature in judging the java camp...
YouTube Integrates Gengo for Caption Translation
Your comment reminds me of this onion article. http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
Hah, I knew I should've pulled the trigger on buying MonoTouch last week!

Oh well, at least I can do some testing on a real device without buying anything for the moment.

From looking at the comparison chart on https://store.xamarin.com/ , the LLVM optimising compiler only seems to be available for Business or above. What does this mean in practice?
It seems to me that the PC and console markets will ultimately merge, or, the PC market will absorb the console market. However you want to look at it, that seems to be an inevitable conclusion at this point when you consider what Valve is apparently looking to do and the hardware powering the PS4 and new Xbox.
I thought it of great interest that he was open enough to share that he uses Goodreader on his iPad.
What rendering problem do you see with the "mechanics' secrets" PDF? AFAICT, it looks fine with Firefox 22 on OSX. What OS and Firefox version are you using?
Up and to the right.
For what it's worth, you weren't really going to go "bush/camping" in any of the Tesla Roadsters alternatives either. It's a high-end luxury sportscar. It's no more or less suitable for bush/camping trips than a 5 series BMW or an Audi A6.

And while it's clear it's not a suitable car for GT touring type roadtrips, it wouldn't be _too_ hard for a local Tesla dealer to set up a pair of Supercharger stations 280-320km outside both Sydney and Melbourne to make that trip viable - hell, with a decent espresso bar and a better-then-typical food establishment at each, they might even pay for themselves...
Actually Google would have had one of the clearest answers: that the web is growing to the point where (a) search matters a lot and (b) ranking results based on textual similarity is no longer enough.
Mars trip in 2018
3-D Printed Body Parts, Finally
snippet of email from Ryan Fugger Sep last year (2012) seems relevant

.. group would like to take over the Ripple project and call their system "Ripple". They have offered me xx
for this, which would give them ownership of all Ripple software I've written...[and] ripplepay.com domains... I could continue my work independently, but I would need to give it a different name.
I can be just as serious with gaming firing up an original Atari 2600 as someone can with a PS3/360/etc. It's not about how new or fancy the console is, it's about how enjoyable the games are.
Claimed my 10,000. Why not? Not sure I see them having much value though.
As a pure Javascript solution, it can run on a wide variety of platforms, as far as the browsers are running.
I'm a big Python fan but that closing remark is just an incredibly obnoxious thing to say and is only going to feed the Python haters
The article refer to the fact that these ebooks are limited to the Kindle and that is part of the lawsuit. I don't believe it is too late to happen; the DoJ seem to always wait for someone to complain before they act, so it might be what was needed.
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The only thing I kept thinking was that it's gonna cost me $99 bucks instead of $50 each time I throw my controller at wall with my bad temper.

Yes, I'm a sore loser, maybe the share button will make me think twice.
Though I'm UK-based, not US, I'm a housebound agoraphobic (I don't leave at all, ever) - you'd be surprised how easy it is logistically in this day and age, actually. I have family members pick things up that are time critical (ie. my dumb ass forgot something I'd need) but other than that everything is deliverable from somewhere.
> We've been constantly killing and enslaving sentients while gathering food and resources ever since humans became sentient themselves. Still do.

Yes, but the bastards that are doing that know they are doing that.

> On the other hand, one could say that a species killing and exploiting their own is internal problem of that species, while doing that to another intelligent species is morally worse on some level.

And realizing that it's been happening unknowingly is another kind of mindf^~k as well!
not sure how much use but fwiw heres my video explaining ripplepay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySzqM5dpF7s from 2010.. before the 'new' ripple but same exact idea
Google Developing Touchscreen Devices Using Chrome Operating System
2013: The Year We Hack the Physical World Hard
I agree with your thoughts. I guess the only good thing is my backlog of games to play is quite long, so I could probably last till 2015 or so.

I'm also not happy about potentially buying the same game 2 or 3 times with their streaming game service. Though I think the spectating option could be cool.
Preview has had a history of security holes. PDF.js would at least be immune to buffer overflow exploits.
This is a healthy sentiment that shows respect for the otherness of the other. I do think SETI is still necessary only because the empirical platform that all life shares is universal -- the radio spectrum, physics -- it's the same for all species. But this thread still clearly deserves some quotes from Stanislaw Lem:

"We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos."

"We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds."
It seems that you were never involved with recovering your money once an unapproved debit took place with stolen credit card references. It does not matter if you are insured or not, it's not straightforward and causes major trouble to get back your property.
Custom stack: it goes to 11
Forget about streaming older PS1-PS3 titles - the hardware will not be compatible this time, so earlier games won't work at all unless their developers make a time consuming port to quite differenct hardware architecture.
As a former TR employee, I can empathize. There is immense value in the West Key Number System, editorial headnotes, aggregating everything, and transforming documents into a consistent, uniform representation. Still, it does feel "off" that TR and Lexis have exclusive contracts for digital delivery of codes and case law for so many jurisdictions.

The Zotero lawsuit in Sept. 2008 broke a lot of my faith. I stuck around for a further two years trying to change things as best I could, and even managed to reshape TR's open source software policy, but I couldn't resolve the cognitive dissonance around competent legal practice virtually requiring a subscription to Westlaw and/or Lexis Nexis.

So, I got out. Ended up way happier. You can get out, too. TR has plenty of brilliant folks--engineers, managers, and executives alike--but it's hard to have organization-scale clarity of purpose and execution when you're dealing with 60,000 people.
http://www.theonion.com/video/sony-releases-new-stupid-piece...

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Opportunity cost. PhD stipends pay less than unskilled labor, after you subtract "tuition"
I'm new to HN and think it's an awesome forum, but the fact that people like me (non-hacker who wishes he could understand even half the stuff discussed here) are finding out about it probably means that it's left behind its early adopter phase for good and is now in "early majority" mode, for better or worse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle

I'll try not to lower the bar too much... :P
At this point the data points coming out are almost conjecture. Here's something more recent that says almost the opposite: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/222740

I know they're also making a new push specifically for brands to be able to manage content and traffic more easily: http://business.pinterest.com/

Given the new focus on businesses and the scale at which Pinterest already operates, the $2.5B isn't so hard to believe.
Tesla 4Q net loss widens on costs for new car
FCC orders 2M people to power down cell phone signal boosters
An example of an horribly designed page.
TheMaka already answered this specific case and there is indeed nothing technically "banned" in competitive SC2.

BW however did have a few bugs that were banned by tournament ogranizers [1].

[1] http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Competitive_Rules
Your response seems to suggest that the OP has not been successful and is no longer a member of the "startup scene". I don't see why you would assume any of that to be true or to be the motivation for this post.

I found it to be a useful reminder that practices I am often excited to see are not necessarily indicators of a healthy culture I would want to be a part of. I enjoy stoping for a minute to think "wait, could that apply to us?". I think it is important to consider if the culture behind a given practice is positive and empowering or how much it has shifted toward being dysfunctional or harmful.