skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That logic melts down when it meets the ecosystem that churns out 5 Farmvilles or Slot Manias a day. Suddenly a rotating set of 1% of your friends list can make using Facebook so painful you'll stop, permanently.

So many new apps launch that banning notifications by app gets tedious. They all suck in different groups of your friends, so banning notifications by friends is tedious. Not forever, perhaps, but long enough to make you think ill of Facebook.

We've been there before, and even though as a developer I miss it, it was the right thing of Facebook to do.
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"great article"

Interesting way to describe a one dimensional get rich quick scheme.

1. Buy some Bitcoins.

2. ???

3. You own Manhattan!
The first ASICs started shipping recently. This made bitcoins harder to mine (for anyone who doesn't have those ASICs, which is most people). This also demonstrated that bitcoins are here to stay, since people have made large investments in hardware that basically doesn't do anything but mine bitcoins. So the perceived future value has skyrocketed.
I feel horrible for thinking this, and it sets up a lot of bad incentives, but it's probably the case that Aaron Swartz will be ultimately more famous/influential having killed himself than he would have been otherwise.
It's a difficult situation, and there's no generic advice.

If this isn't something you're planning to pursue, I'd use what (if any) money is left to wind down the company. Declare corporate bankrupcy, file a dissolution form, and close up shop. You shouldn't be personally liable for anything, but you want to close up shop cleanly regardless.

Hire a cheap lawyer to help you do the forms, or use online resources like Nolo or Legalzoom.

If you explain the situation to the lawyers who own part of the company, they may be willing to do it for free, or to take over the company, and run it themselves. Neither hurts you, since you're moving on anyway.

Good luck, whatever you do!
I worked for an ad agency in Florida and I can tell you that the meetings were an excuse for the account managers and owner to feel like they were being productive, all while the doers had to spend extra time before/after work in order to catch up. I've never had a meeting wherein we resolved an issue that couldn't have been resolved via a Skype chat or email.
Don't Judge a Hacker News Post by its Comments
I actually submitted this story as "Curiosity robot drills hole in Mars rock. Unprecedented in history". HN altered it to match the press release.
I think we need to drop the concept of "too big to fail." If another large bank requires a bailout, let's give it to them, but make a Ma Bell-style breakup part of the deal. i.e. You get the bailout, but you can no longer be too big to fail.
The internet has demolished the basic template for a whole sub-genre of romance movies.
Perhaps "yes", perhaps "no". I'm guessing (and I can only guess, like everyone else) that more people are convinced of the benefits of bitcoin than at the point of the previous bubble, so it probably wouldn't crash AS MUCH as before.

I think it's more likely though, even if it does end up being a bubble, that it'll shoot higher first before crashing this time around.
Pretty much everything is this way. We get mad that politicians don't govern based on what the experts say, but the fact is that you can find an expert to say anything, and what is "obvious" or even "true" depends on what circles you travel in. Moreover, just as in this situation, a lot of the people who are in a position to really understand how a policy change affects the system (in this case, insurance companies and lawyers) also have a personal interest one way or another.

I'm personally quite wary of tort reform. Not because I'm a lawyer (I'm a lawyer because I'm the kind of person who is wary of tort reform!) They promised us the same thing about binding arbitration. It would get those overpriced lawyers out of the equation and let businesses just hash it out civilly with each other, they said. And look what happened--binding arbitration basically just became a way for big companies to force consumers to give up their right to sue. Companies rarely use it amongst themselves:

"When it comes to contracts with each other, corporations are far less likely to use arbitration clauses than they are in contracts with consumers. This was the finding of a December 2007 study by Cornell Law Professors Theodore Eisenberg and Emily Sherwin and Professor Geoffrey P. Miller of NYU Law School, who examined contracts from 21 financial and telecommunications companies. The data showed mandatory arbitration clauses in over 75 percent of consumer agreements but in less than 10 percent of their negotiated non-consumer, non-employment contracts." (http://centerjd.org/content/fact-sheet-mandatory-binding-arb...). In other words, corporations reserve their right to litigate. Arbitration is for the poors.

I don't really see tort reform playing out any other way, unfortunately. I wouldn't be opposed to a more regulatory or administrative scheme, but damages caps are just a way of shifting costs from the medical system (not just sympathetic doctors, but billion dollar hospitals and insurance companies) onto the people they injure. Indeed, of all the various reforms, damages caps are the worst possible one. By and large, if a jury awards someone a couple of million dollars, it's because the doctor really fucked up. Damages caps under compensate plaintiffs in the precise situations in which they are the most likely to be in the right! If we're worried about shakedowns, a far more sensible approach would be a "damages threshold." If you can't show you suffered more than say $10,000 of damages, nobody pays up. That would deter a lot more of the people just looking to make a quick buck.
Awesome! But did you ever found out why and what came of his "bouquet of flowers" in the original meeting? :)
There is much, much, more merchant acceptance, transaction volume, etc. for Bitcoin compared to the last time there was a big rise; not to mention production is only half of what it was before; ASICs are here/on the horizon, YC has funded a bitcoin startup, it's mentioned basically daily in the blogs of major publications, etc.

It is also worth taking a look at a log-scale chart to see that the rise isn't quite so steep as before: http://www.bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25...

Clearly a lot of speculation going on here; but I very strongly doubt we will see a crash anything like we saw last time (how many people were preaching that the end of bitcoin had come?); though a significant correction when people start taking their profit seems almost inevitable.

Anecdotally, a number of people I have been telling to buy bitcoins for years now are finally like, "well okay, I am just going to wait till it drops to $xx or so (where xx is ~40% less than whatever it is at the moment we have the conversation).
Could one write a preemptive rootkit that sniffs for other rootkits?

Would that slow things down incredibly?
Well also true. we are trying to just get more users to get feedback, but I guess making it unlocked by signup would give us more "serious" users.
No doubt. What the hell is wrong with half the people in this thread. Pent up hostility against an invisible monster.
I've been considering this over the past few days, I have a vested interest (early adopter) and I don't think the current performance is a bubble. It took some months for online properties to build the code needed to facilitate bitcoin, since they are now coming to fruit the growth pattern is organic. Bitcoin started with a tech savvy crowd, and as we know, the ones who can understand a system early are the first to benefit from it. I found the comparison of Bitcoin to a Tech startup to be particularly interesting, in the article it is estimated that Bitcoin is understated by two orders of magnitude.
http://vincesamios.com/bitcoins/bitcoins-are-a-tech-stock
oh and apparently mysql 5.5 users (not 5.1) can just directly use in my.cnf

[mysqld_safe]
malloc-lib=/usr/lib64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4

or

malloc-lib=/usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.1

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en//mysqld-safe.html#opt...

no export or script editing required
Construction comes to mind immediately, but yeah, I'm a sucker for those videos.
Then you'll love Nick Carr's blog. He's a location scout in New York. Some examples of interesting sites in Manhattan:

Mostly empty post office on 8th Ave & W 33rd St.:
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=2691

Abandoned law offices in lower Manhattan: http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=2164

Biplane on top of a Manhattan skyscraper: http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4202
FWIW bitcoin is still inflationary (in terms of money supply increase)-- and quite a lot more than traditional currency; although the rate of increase halved at the start of the year.
You could catch someone falling off a building or airplane with a (suitably large and fast) quadrocopter, I suppose.
Large companies aren't able to have intentional culture features like she describes. Your last paragraph is pretty much what the essay describes, and kind of contradicts your first 'graph. Furthermore, I'm not sure Pareto applies sociologically.
well yeah it makes sense, they already missed the train.
it's hard to predict when you're not in the known. will it keep rising? they don't know.

someone like you have a much better insight of the risk. its how the market works, except when its young, the amount of people in the known is low. Thus there is more potential gains
Borderline. It is derived from data, the data is suggestive, and given the number of comments from HN regulars, interesting enough.

It could even lead to some "hacking"!

Anyway, its a Friday in most of the world by now... :)
It's not innovation. It's incremental at best.
I think the present time is completely different from the 2011 bubble. The range of services offered have grown dramatically and the Bitcoin protocol has shown it's resilience.
a mobile developer workstation with a solid design, 4:3 high-res screen, pointing stick, and great keyboard

The lack of something like this is why I'm still using a 7 year old Thinkpad.
> The gig turned out to be a major disaster anyway, their problems were far deeper than technology.

Weinberg's Second Law of Consulting: "No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem."
Ask HN: What do you want to know about business/tech in China?
The media presents a wide range of views on business and tech in China. Maybe fair, maybe not.

As someone who works in the industry over here, what would you like to know, or what questions would you like answered about the state of tech, software development and business in general in China?
http://i.imgur.com/fqPAySI.png

The previous crash for those who care.
I mostly agree with the article, but my opinion of PHP is that it is a language that allows you to write bad code, but you can write good code in it. With regards to the example:

$ php -a
Interactive shell

php > echo "I'm your father" + Luke + 2 + $nothingtosee;
PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant Luke - assumed 'Luke' in php shell code on line 1
PHP Notice: Undefined variable: nothingtosee in php shell code on line 1
2

So the output is true, but you are given error notices. Back when I started PHP I thought nothing of notices (I also had no way of seeing them as it was all uploaded to a shared hosting environment and error_reporting was set to hide them). After years of programming websites and maintain code of people who were in my position before me i started to realize what got you in to trouble later on. I ensure that numbers are numbers, and not strings, and assume that all unknown type variables are strings.

PHP as a language also does not expose you to anything low level, but that is what scripting languages should do. They are not for the Applications that work all day, they should execute, give you the result, and be gone.
Are you implying that the generations that have already come to pass on the net still don't fundamentally understand its true potential? And at some point one generation will harness that potential and until then we are just stepping stones?
> value-based pricing

A very important thing to get comfortable with.
Why wait? Instead of the consolidation we've seen, what we should have done is increased reserve requirements and broken up the banks so they all had assets below a certain dollar figure. On top of that, they should be forbidden from owning securities related to other banks or insurance companies.
I agree. I had few sales now on bitmit.net, I already migrated a bunch of my long term fixed price listings there.

I list like old xbox 360 games

Some PC hardware

Other stuff I have lying around
Me too - Dave.trindall@gmail.com
Throwing-and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters
The "at home" location is the location of the person when they submitted the missed connection form. For example, my location is "at home" as I type this.
> Well, maybe you (and much of the U.S.) will be. Not me or my friends in Europe, China, etc, though....

Fun fact. Italy has a very extensive non-car infrastucture, particularly trains. Yet I have dozens of friends and relatives in Milan, Rome, Rimini, and the countryside of Emilia-Romagna. Every single one of them has a car, sometimes two.

The same goes for Northern Ireland.
Hello Amnesia.
if only romeo and juliet had cell phones.
Tesla in a Teapot
Well the thing is that most people don't prefer Unity and neither do I. I don't really think that there are so many devs using Unity either.
"Toxic" assets don't necessarily remain toxic. In the last few years the housing market has recovered somewhat, making the problem less urgent.
Seems like a pretty small sample size - only 100 per state? I'm not familiar with how Craigslist works for this, but is there any reason why you couldn't select thousands and get better results (look for common words, rank them, etc). Seems like the variation would be pretty high...
It's actually pretty funny. I'm in the middle of writing a paper for my philosophy class, about Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture, and this is the first article I click on when I start slacking off.

The points Gibson makes about the importance of down time are almost the same as Josef Pieper's. I guess I'm still working on that paper after all.
Some people believe in the success of bitcoins. They bought custom hardware. This proves bitcoins are going to be a success.

Circular logic at it's finest!
Interesting in light of some of his more recent thoughts, too:

We have yet to take Google’s measure. We’ve seen nothing like it before, and we already perceive much of our world through it. We would all very much like to be sagely and reliably advised by our own private genie; we would like the genie to make the world more transparent, more easily navigable. Google does that for us: it makes everything in the world accessible to everyone, and everyone accessible to the world. But we see everyone looking in, and blame Google. -- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01gibson.html
Yes, very racist. Implying that Caucasians are of inferior intellect.
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Or the logger interface. It's awful. Great that you use the sl4j interface, but I can't cast it to that type because it's a wrapper for the "real" logger written in Scala. It's annoying, and agreed- using Java in the Play framework feels more like a "look what else it can do" than an intentional use-case.
How to Improve Customer-Experience and Conversion with API
So the 10 btc I bought a couple years ago for ~$2 are now "worth" $300 USD. Do I sell them now, or wait 20 years until they're worth more?

How do you know when to wait longer, and when to sell? Its not like a company where you can at least get some information on their past and future performance, whether they are growing or shrinking, etc.
Have you got a source for evidence that MS funded this test?
If you read through the slides @ https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc/blob/master/slides/PFLA-s... there is potential to bypass hardware memory protection. Very interesting.
I can't wait for a teardown. I'm crossing my fingers for there to be an ssd in there attached to an msata interface which could be easily swapped out for something bigger.

I'm guessing that the ram is soldered in though, due to the thinness of the device. Oh well, 4gb is workable.
That's true of all commodities and currencies.

Some people believe in the success of gold. They invested heavily in the future of gold. This proves gold is going to be a success.

Some people believe in the success of US dollars. They invested heavily in the future of US dollars. This proves US dollars are going to be valuable.

Edit: ok so to be clear, it's not just wishful thinking at work, but the fact that people are working toward making bitcoins successful and stable that makes them successful and stable.
Take it to Reddit, dude.
Urban exploration should be defined as the draw to a romanticized past of the, generally, modern forgotten. A few months ago I fell down the rabbit hole of looking into this within the Minneapolis area and ran across: http://www.actionsquad.org/index.html

Warning: I got so caught up in exploring what's been explored I spent over 4 hours of a Friday night engulfed in the secrets hidden in plain sight of somewhere I've lived for 10 years.

While not maintained as of recent the archives are a blast and I made me long for a small, yet trustworthy group of people willing to put some time and effort into continuing the legacy. Then again, sometimes the dream is far more entertainment than the reality...
I think most people think the only reason bitcoins are useful is that they're not controlled by a government. However, I've recently started using bitcoins for some tiny transactions and found out something I didn't expect: They're EASY PEASY to use... much easier than papal, credit cards, or even cash!

For those of you who don't know. A bitcoin "bank account" can be conjured out of thin air using randomness and some crypto algorithms. It consists of only two numbers, a public "bitcoin address" and a "private key". (kinda like an RSA key pair).

The moment you've created these two numbers, you can say to someone "hey, send your $$$ to my address". Then, any time in the future you can withdraw money out of the account via your private key. This last step (withdrawing your money) is actually the ONLY step that requires any real effort at all (installing software on your PC, or trusting an online wallet site) and that's STILL super easy.

EDIT: I think I ended up sounding too much like a cheerleader in this post... I'm talking purely about easiness from a theoretical standpoint. In the real world, there are clearly still many obstacles making bitcoins a PITA to deal with.
Is reactivemongo actually tied to play in any way? It seems like it is a completely separate library.
Well to be honest if you cash out now all you have is $300, which is a fantastic rise but not a lot of money.

This is the way I see it, its only a days earning or even less, so I would hold on to it for the next decade as a experiment and see what happens.

Would you pay $300 to be in on this game for the next 10 years? :)
I was wondering the same thing.

The only thing I can think of is it would cost more to pay somebody to go through it all and put it up for sale than they could make back. I have a hard time believing it, though.
If the Onion chooses instead to configure their web server to serve the bits to anyone who asks for them, people should feel free to ask for them.

But it's not "people" asking for them, it's one specific site causing browsers to ask for them unwittingly. Embedding images is less egregious if attributed correctly, but still discourteous and possibly a violation of copyright unless it is encouraged by the site.

However, hotlinking CSS is essentially copyright violation (for lifting the design wholesale, essentially creating a derivative work). There is simply no excuse for not writing and hosting your own CSS.

As the others have said, when hotlinking/embedding, you are profiting from another system's bandwidth and storage resources. Why don't I just hook up your water tap to my house? You should have put a lock on it if you didn't want it to be used for that purpose.

I must point out that hijacking resources from another server is in strong contrast to scraping for personal use, whitehat research, etc. It's one thing to send arbitrary HTTP requests to a server that will answer them. It's another entirely to cause others' browsers to do so without permission, especially in a way that is not explicitly announced and attributed, or accrues to your benefit at the other server's expense.
¿Marketing multinivel (MLM), venta directa o marketing de afiliados?
Well it sounds like at this point an apology is the best I can offer, as what is done is done -- Sorry! If you or anyone on your team is ever in Boston I'll gladly buy you a beer!
Hey! Who are you calling 'too big to fail'? I think they are failing just fine, epic even, thank you very much.
Do you think it is ok to sell a stock you think is overvalued and then buy back in at a lower price? Isn't that what shorting is?

As an aside you may enjoy this article written by an old professor of mine that goes into some of this tangentially. Ignore the snark - it's just his personality/sense of humor http://leedsonfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/market-...
I really don't want to be "that guy on HN" because I really hate that guy, but I really have no idea what this app does / is supposed to do.

I see a bunch of boxes. So I click one, and I see a bunch of boxes with text / images, kind of like a bunch of post-it notes on a cork board. And then I click one, and I get an iframe of some other website.

So it's kind of like a blog but with less structure?

I'm not sure. Maybe I'm not the right audience. But you definitely need to refine your message a bit.
> I COINED THE WORD "CYBERSPACE" IN 1981

Thats not something to be proud of..
This petition asks the President to interfere with the implementation of law, and to politicize the decisions of the Librarian of Congress, a non-partisan post.

While the President may use his office to champion new laws, he cannot make them himself, or overturn them.
This ease of use is certainly attractive. Try sending a couple of BTC to a poker room online, and then cash out your winnings and have that BTC within your wallet in a matter of hours max, not days!

I can't wait till I can buy coffee and rent with BTC, it might never happen but I like the idea.
No, that's not right.

Cache conflicts happen between processes in the same way, and for the same reasons, and just as often, as they do between threads.
Does your company need a mobile app?
Btw, I got a bunch of "Looks like this page does not load inside a frame. You can view the original page here." errors, because most popular sites are frame-busting.
I did.

The date he had been setup on showed up about 5 minutes after my coworkers and I moved on to the next restaurant (edit: bar, this is Wisconsin after-all), R and his date went inside to eat, which is why S could not find him.

R told me on our first date that you'll never know how difficult it is to go on a date with someone while you're thinking about someone else :)
For those interested in exploration of this kind, recommend checking out http://www.uer.ca/

Nice big database of spots. There are certain guidelines and unwritten rules, so try not to spoil it for everyone else.

Personally, the 2 on the top of my need-to-checkout-list for UE is Pripyat and the catacombs beneath Paris.

I've never felt more alone (as if I'm the only person left) when exploring long abandoned locations at night.
Agreed. Golden.
I (and likely others) often don't bother to comment when I agree with an article. In cases like that, I have nothing to add.
Whenever BTC spikes like this I think of the first pizza sale a couple of years ago:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195

Probably the most expensive pizza in history, in hindsight.