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"Hack my bitcoins and keep them"

So, everyone with bitcoins is always running this contest?
People might want to check out Roger Linn, Ed Goldfarb, Geert Bevin (I'd really like to have a continuum and eigenharp), and actuated instruments site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1s-neJs8IY

http://actuatedinstruments.com/

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Also "That 1 guy" "Haaken continuum", Wessel's touchpads (a better Kaossilator, if you will, and Fluid Piaano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ci6TmR29OI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnBhR8RLJN8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_mtCZqN0Ms

http://thefluidpiano.com/

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(I don't have any nonstandard instruments (except maybe fretless guitar) but I've thought about this as amateur player of piano/keys, guitar, strings (cello), woodwinds and former mallet percussionist, how you could combine mouthpiece and foot controllers with keyboard, how to do glisses, tremolo, vibrato etc, i.e. shape the attack/decay, timbre and pitch (continuously or as in Don Ellis' quarter tone music) like you can with cello and clarinet
Wait a second.. is Ben Franklin claiming that he has discovered that the sun shines as soon as it rises?
Stoic platform (creating apps from Google docs) reaches funding target
Ask HN: Why can't the ownership of Bitcoin be tracked?
Why can't the ownership of Bitcoin be tracked, so that even if it's stolen, nobody other than the owner can use it. If it is getting used, the ownership can be transferred from buyer to seller?
Do social networks tend to cannibalize themselves over time?

Initially, growth is the most important part of a social network, so it makes sense to prioritize usability. Over time, pressures towards monetization mount (either internally or externally, among spammers). Monetization tends to degrade the user experience, creating opportunities for new entrants.

Network effects can keep you going, but these aren't Ma Bell's network effects. Users can install competing social apps next to each other using almost no time and less money. They get to keep the more established network as a fallback, then spend most of their time using the one with better features or more "exclusivity." Even if this doesn't lubricate transitions enough for established users, network effects are basically nonexistent among new cohorts (read: the young, emerging international markets).

If this is correct, it would explain why no one under 20 actually uses Facebook (or email, for the matter), and why every move from Twitter smacks of desperation.

So, I don't know, all hail snapchat? (At least until something displaces that in five years...)
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This is a porn copyright troll. They spend their days issuing subpoenas to ISPs for subscriber information. One thing they could do is to use those logs to look for critics to sue. The courts basically only have their word for it that they've detected some IP infringing upon their porn--it takes no special genius to create a form claiming that 10.0.0.1 was detected infringing upon whatever and create a computer printout saying that if nobody looks at exactly how that form came about. And their word isn't worth all that much right now, with all the crazy shell games and the stunts they've pulled in court.

Oh, and Florida they use a different, special legal process that amounts to the same thing. Their MO is to get subscriber info and then threaten people hoping to be paid to go away. As you can see from their actions, they scurry away from actual court rooms as quickly as possible.

I called it a few comments ago that they would have some lame excuse to no show. I just wonder how long they can keep that up? I see bench warrants or the threat thereof in their future.
A classic bug
The most hilarious part of Musk's ego-trip is that the longer he extends the feud, the worse he looks and the better Broder looks. Musk lost on the merits, and trying to re-litigate the arguments only reinforces that fact.
When government does something, it tends to put all its eggs in one basket.

And the way lobbyists run our government makes the problem even worse, as there's more pressure to keep spending regardless of results.
For a smart guy Musk is being incredibly stupid.

It's one thing to attack a show like Top Gear. It's a whole other to attack the New York Times. People around the world have a lot of respect for the paper and whilst nobody claims that they are always right there is the assumption that they wouldn't intentionally be dishonest or biased.

So by continually picking a fight with them people will tune out and just take the "truth lies in the middle" position which is not good at all for Tesla.
> I assume it's the way it was shot that not all of the notes that are being played start or end with movements and/or touches of the keyboard.

There are two separate tracks being played back at the same time with the video cutting between the two, the bass (black room) and synth (white room). Now it feels kind of obvious to point out, but on the other hand I wasn't really conscious of it the first time I watched it. I think that's all; I'm not sure if there was anything else you noticed to indicate that some notes don't "start or end with movements".
Mine's backed up by webapp2 (App Engine). I use Zerigo for DNS. Will go with Flask for future deployments.
Why do you say it "should" be balanced this way. Is that your gut feeling? A level you have found most profitable through empirical evidence? Or some other reason?

Not an attack I'm curious as to how one arrives at the level of in app purchases. Reflecting on it myself I feel there is likely a maximal profit level that one can achieve that you should go for. Do you think differently?
Also, you probably want to pick some community to affix to all routes you learn from your customers / originate yourself, and to make sure isn't affixed to routes you learn from your upstreams, so that you can then have a route map check for the presence or absence of that community when deciding which routes get passed along to your upstreams. (BGP doesn't directly solve the problem that an AS doesn't carry traffic unless the source and/or destination is ultimately a customer of that AS, it just provides mechanisms that can be used to make that happen.)

You may want to define communities to let your customers selectively decide to suppress announcements to each of your upstreams, and you may want to pass through the communties recognized by your upstreams in their official documentation if your customers send those communities to you, if you want to let your customers control their advertisements in that fashion. (The only reason I can think of you wouldn't want to let your customers do this is if it would let them move traffic from a link that's cheap for you to a link that's expensive for you.)
Anecdote: I was in the Facebook Menlo park campus parking lot, and just in front of the single building I was entering were parked a total of (7) tesla model S cars.

Comment: musk has made two of the most incredible companies of our decade, Tesla and Space X, they will mature. Any issues will resolve and the world will be better because of it.

Screw the Times.
its really, really true. :-)
All of those things you speak of are not things a web server should do, they are things a HPC server / compute node does. I'll have to agree with @davidr that Ubuntu is very painful for those types of environments. Ubuntu + Infiniband? Ask Canonical how many people they have working on Infiniband... I dare you :)

The answer will be exactly 0. Canonical's focus is on phones, tablets, and desktops. Mark simply does not take the server as a serious use case. Clearly redhat doesn't know what they are doing, they've only built the first billion dollar purely open source company.

Since RedHat employs a very very large number of upstream kernel.org Linux kernel hackers, don't you think that maybe, just maybe they backport some of those newer features into their old stable kernels? As one of the parents alluded to (open vswitch and namespacing support), yet again the answer is yes. Pure Debian isn't bad granted, but it simply doesn't compare to Redhat. I just don't see them as the same league. Canonical is a sales organization parading (poorly) as an engineering organization. However, they have done absolutely wonderful things for marketing Linux before Android came out so they do deserve respect where it is do. What do I know, I've only worked in large multithousand node environments my entire career </snark>
An open letter to the IIT Graduates
> Charge celebrities and companies for the capability of having huge numbers of followers.

You can't. Servies like these grow because of celebrities and their fans. Taxing the celebs will stop their own growth. Also, there are lots of would-be celebs who don't make a lot of money and are trying to use twitter to get the word out there.

> Charge third party developers for increased API capacity.

For the same reason as above, you can't. A lot of people come on facebook and stay there because of apps, charging devs for API access will kill innovation. Also, if something is popular and growing, taxing it will be bad for both the users and the dev if the dev can't pay. Also keep in mind that most popular apps may not have a monetization strategy yet.

> Charge users for special account abilities- like, perhaps, many of the features offered by tweet deck.

This is a good approach and is the LinkedIn model. I'm sure they're thinking of doing this with talk of 'lightweight analytics' etc so long as they don't make the paid users too powerful and disenfranchise existing users.
Posting guards at candle shops? That doesn't sound like someone that believes in freedom.
I believe this is the appropriate concern. If your business would critically fail with no alternatives should a supplier back out you have a major problem, this same lesson applies to most any business.
FYI: Redhat more or less cloned update-alternatives wholesale. The only sad part is that they renamed the binary "alternatives". Any newish redhat or fedora system will have alternatives, likely under /usr/bin or /usr depending on how new.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5350675

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5350789

Really? Already covered on main page and in a separate post
What future headline do you predict?
Finally a reason to borrow gramps iPad.
Lacking historical knowledge doesn't mean being doomed to repeat it. Having human desires means being doomed to repeat it. You don't see wars started for lack of history majors (we have more today than we did for most of human history).

group A: We want your [food, resources, women, whatever].

group B: Uhm, those are ours, you can't have them.

group A: Too bad, we're going to take them by force.

History is interesting, but the world has changed so much in the last hundred years, that most situations one encounters today have little relation to the past.

Humanity's base drives haven't changed, but most people like to pretend those don't apply to their ingroup, historical education or no. Simple, greed driven motivations only apply to Other People; we always ascribe more complicated and more noble motives to ourselves.
Can the world be saved by coding?
Do you genuinely think they did not think about aforementioned approaches?

They might have made money via subscription route but they will make more money via ads.
This article should be read by anyone who wants to understand why things are the way they are now.
My respect for the community just grows day after day!
And, I'm happy that you feel better now, I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands who are touched by your story. Your story certainly helps them believe that it is possible to get out of depression and be happy.
I can't get over the fact that the first line says June 2013, and it makes me feel like I'm living in the past...
I used to play a Star Wars MUD that had permanent death and a similarly aggressive PvP policy. As a result, there wasn't a single character that survived more than a few months. Considering the huge up front cost you had to pay in leveling, skill training and resource collection, eventually people got sick of having to start with nothing. Every time you died, you had to make the decision if it was worth starting over. The longer you played, the greater the chances that answer was "no." Player turnover was bad, especially for MUDs at that time.

That's all my way of saying Permanent death may sound great in theory, but it takes a hell of a lot of balancing against to make it work well in the long term. Maybe making it easier to get up to speed with any single character? Or maybe making it worth your while to be altruistic to other players (I'm not sure what that mechanic would be, but it would be interesting to see something that make people more social as opposed to the antisocial element that PvP tends to foster).
Elon Musk cares. He has everything on the line, and everything he's worked for (and his employees and investors too). They're trying to change something fundamental.

Years of effort by thousands of people, doing something that matters.

To have that put at risk by a lazy/incompetent reporter, who's got nothing on the line but 24 hours of his ass in a car, someone who can't even take his job seriously enough to even attempt to get it right...it's got to be infuriating.

Put the echo chamber idiocy out of mind. There's someone who's right here. And it's not Broder.

Say, why hasn't Broder offered to repeat the drive? He's probably too busy figuring out how to review rocket technology without learning anything about that either.
it is "possible" in the sense that anything is possible. It is just as possible that the opposite is true: that women are genetically programmed to be more interested in computer science than men. Either proposal is a red herring though. This is not a worthy line of argument or thought to pursue, and is not backed up by any evidence. More likely is that these are cultural issues.

Why is it not worthy? Because the number and proportion of women in computer science is declining. If you really believe this is due to genetic factors, then what we should really be thinking about is what factors are at work here to cause such rapid evolution! But clearly this is absurd, isn't it?
Such a good talk on why building an ecosystem is important, and how you can build an awesome ecosystem. Definitely worth watching no matter what web framework you like.

Some great points:

• Prefer extensibility over scratching your own itch -

Rather than creating a new feature in the core of your project, and making a decision on behalf of your users, create an API that allows your users to do "whatever". That way, not only can you scratch your own itch by using your API to build your feature, others using your product are empowered to use their own imagination to do interesting things with your product.

• Keep the core of your project stable -

Stable APIs and standards allow your community to build things that work together. "Interoperability only works when the common parts [of your product] don't change ... Every time your break something core to your platform...that your ecosystem depends on, you leave a portion of your users behind." (Definitely timely with what we're seeing with Twitter.)

• Encourage participants in your project -

The lower the barrier to entry for participation in your project, the broader the pool of people who can add value to it. Every step that you force your users to take before they can participate, you increase the likelihood that they stop using your product. Great documentation, and transparency in the process of participation helps your users become contributors.
No, poor people who breed are sending people to their doom.
"Just fix the car. Make it better. Just make it better, Elon. You can make it better. It's a little broken right now, but you can do it. "

I highly doubt he can fix it. At least, not on his own.

1) There needs to be more accessible infrastructure. Having superchargers 200mi apart isn't sufficient. They need to be < 50 miles apart, ideally more concentrated in urban areas, and FTLOG why isn't there a charger in manhattan? The car may be able to reach the full range under ideal conditions, but in any non-ideal circumstance like the NYT trip the range will be diminished.

2) They need more realistic marketing. It's not a panacea, and to sell it as such is a misrepresentation. There are issues, the car must be coddled, and until that is explicitly admitted by Tesla marketing material people should not be expected to treat the car gently
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Woops! Just fixed it, thanks!
I don't give Broder the benefit of the doubt. I think he intentionally provided readers with information he knew he didn't have.

His numbers, which he took pains to make appear exact, simply do not match the data. So where did he get the numbers? To me it seems extremely likely that he made them up to add veracity to his story. "Yeah, that sounds about right." This would not be the first time a journalist had done such a thing. He would have been fine if he had given approximate numbers, or if he had taken better notes, like a good journalist should. He clearly did neither of those things.

Having said that, the theme of the story, that Tesla has problems in cold weather, seems likely to be true. That seems like a worthy story to tell. With real data, from a test under realistic conditions.

Musk is harming his personal brand now, and he should stop for his own sake. But neither the Times nor Broder are in the clear, nor should they be.
It must otherwise google wouldn't be the giant it is.
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1. The topic isn't about men's participation in other fields; it's about women's participation in this field. The 'what about men?' argument is something that you see a lot in many spaces where women's rights and inclusion is discussed, and it's a derailment from the point. We're not discussing men's non-traditional career choices, and if we were, the barriers and issues to be discussed would be very different. That's not to say that isn't an interesting topic, but the discussion turning to be about men happens in so many discussions about women and equality that it's become a cliche (queue larger point about society in general). What you can do is ask what men, who share an interest in an egalitarian society, can do to help women in this instance.

2. You probably don't mean to, but you're displaying a lot of privilege here (in the technical sense, not pejorative): by that I mean you're making an unstated assumption that the barriers that women face getting into the field are the same as what you faced, and therefore that, given those small and inconsequential barriers, they just must not be interested -- if they were it would be as easy for them as it was for you! Sorry to say that it's not that simple, and men's and women's experiences of tech and education and society just aren't the same, for the most part, and for the most part it's women who have the lower-quality experience.
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Right! We agree strongly on that point. :)
> Hello, I am a 15yr old with a passion for computers & design. Anyways I am interested in developing for the iPhone, as I'll be getting one in a few months. I've never really developed any type of games before, but am in a game design school magnet, and want to begin to learn how to program as I've been meaning to for a while now.

Your question would read much better if you break them up into paragraphs like I did for you below, especialy since you have numbered them. Remember, you want to help a person help you.

> I'm interested in developing for the iPhone, and know I need a Mac, Objective-c knowledge as well as XCode knowledge, and a $99 Subscription to be able to sell and test my apps. So here's some questions I've been wanting to ask for awhile...

> 1 Would you recommend a Mac-Mini ? I see i5 Mac mini's on craigslist going for around $400-$450, and know I could afford that. I switch between my mom/dad's house weekly, and have a Windows based desktop that I built w/ monitor at each house, So I'm thinking i could just bring a small Mac-Mini back and forth with me, as they're pretty small.

Since you already have a monitor, a Mac mini is fine. I'm not sure if you need different keyboards though. Otherwise consider a low end macbook air. The models in recent years all come with SSDs and they help make compilation faster.

> 2 Could you guy's point me towards some nice Objective-C or XCode tutorials or books? I've just started spring break and want to take advantage of the time off.

The Stanford University iOS videos on iTunes are great. Apple's iOS docs are excellent too, always refer to them.

> 3 I'm only 15, so how would I go about selling apps, Ill probably have mostly free apps but would like to incorporate paid versions too, and I know i need to be 18 to sign a contract, would i just get my mom to sign the contract, and if she gets taxed extra I would just pay her the amount she was taxed ? (BTW, I'm in FL)

You'll need local advice for that. But don't let this stop you.

> 4 How would I sell apps under a company name, I've heard of people trying to list apps and it saying they're real name instead of a company / made up name. There are obvious reasons I'd like to sell an app under a company name, no one wants to buy an app from a company named, for example "Steve". It pretty much set's your app up for failure. Would I have to register all kinds of legal crap just to make it say a developer name like, for example " FunTide Apps".

It's typically slower getting a company account approved and in my opinion, people tend not to notice the company name. But in general, it's best if you can set up a company for any business ventures.

> 5 If there's any advice you'd like to give to me or info that I didnt ask for PLEASE do, it's greatly appreciated.

Think about marketing. How will people know about your app? Making the app is only 50% of the work. It's a shame to spend 3 months of your life working on something and not showing it to anyone.
I've just watched that clip for the first time:
http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/electric-shocker?VideoBrows...

Defamation? Really? I think Clarkson was actually pretty fair, considering his usual style. What they showed at least seems believable to me.
You've fallen into the trap of accepting Musk's false dichotomy here. Try to separate your emotions when you analyze what happened here.

What's clear, from an objective point of view, is that there were issues that could be attributed to Tesla. Musk still hasn't refuted the fact that Tesla engineers gave Broder really poor advice during the trip. Musk didn't produce the call logs, and the "data" corroborates most of Broder's claims regarding what happened during the drive.

"Elon Musk cares. He has everything on the line, and everything he's worked for "

Gives him more incentive to fight the NYT and try to paint Broder as an evil man. CEO has billions of dollars on the line, NYT reporter has his career on the line, yet if this were any other traditional company you would side with the reporter.

"To have that put at risk by a lazy/incompetent reporter, who's got nothing on the line but 24 hours of his ass in a car, someone who can't even take his job seriously enough to even attempt to get it right...it's got to be infuriating."

Broder did get it right, and Musk's data and nonsequiturs proved it. The core facts were that Broder followed Tesla's advice and, by following the advice, the car ran out of charge. You are letting your blind faith in Musk cloud your reasoning abilities

"Say, why hasn't Broder offered to repeat the drive? He's probably too busy figuring out how to review rocket technology without learning anything about that either."

Why hasn't Musk revealed the call logs with the advice Tesla gave Broder during the trip? Is it because they would corroborate Broder's story? Most likely.