skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good call, I'd like to donate money also, I already bought the book. Thanks again Bunnie!!
It's more than doubled in the last two months.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg180ztgSzm1g10zm2g...
Bitcoin blockchain forked between v0.7 and v0.8 nodes due to BDB bug
Bitcoin still in its 40s at the time I posted.
FWIW, we were much happier with Chromium Embedded [1] than Awesomium. Awesomium is not free for non-commercial use (something like $8,000+ if you wanted source code included, the price of the software isn't even listed on the site now), the support was terrible, and the product seemed to be not nearly as fleshed out at Chromium Embedded. The website is prettier though...

We switched to using Chromium Embedded 6-8 months ago and haven't regretted it a bit.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/
Reset Firefox fixes many problems like this -- see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi...
Awkward. ...Pause.
This is my MVP for a fashion advice site. Horribly unoriginal, I know. I'm new to this gig however. I'm very open to advice for how I should go about building this out, getting a regular user-base, etc.

My end-vision is something like the bastard child of the WAYWT posts at /r/malefashionadvice, pinterest, and hot-or-not.

Maybe I need another few iterations before I start trying to market?
Clerky (YC S11) Helps Startups Save Time And Money On Legal Incorporation
looks like the deck is down? Any status update?
A very long time, AKA long enough that I can't remember how long ago it was when I updated my bookmarks to use https by default.
Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path
Detox, withdrawls.
... are you the same Josh Who provides high quality torrents of a particular thing?
because the programs i need in windows are visual studio, a vpn client, linqpad and some other thing. they fit into win+1-4.

everything else I run with launchy, with a whole bunch of small utility apps that make my short windows stays more pleasant.

I don't need the start menu, I can very well live without it. I just happen to like experimenting with things
Jokes don't have to be true... but often hints of truth mixed in with a new lens on the world is very funny. For example:

"Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling."

This joke isn't literally true, but it is true that rice cakes are nasty and not very filling

+1 for blondes! (I'm one, too)
Only because the community is so small that telling "everyone" to downgrade to 0.7 is actually doable. Now imagine a future where everyone uses bitcoin - imagine getting an institution like a bank to get on the "right" version...
the same thing that determines a sane or insane price for a fiat currency with no intrinsic value.

I'm actually not sure which side I stand on that issue, to be honest.
My memory on this from law school is extremely vague, but IIRC, the tax implications often depend on what country you're in (since the US has tax treaties with some). Are you interested in Canada too, or a different country? I don't know that we can put anything up immediately, but just trying to get a sense for what we might work on in the future. Thanks!
Slightly off-topic, but it is well-known that one can embed arbitrary data in the bitcoin block chain, so you pretty much have to expect that at some point someone will inevitably insert one of the many illegal numbers into it, putting everyone running it openly at risk, regardless of the political attitudes towards bitcoin itself. I know anonymity isn't one of bitcoin's purported purposes, but I think it will ultimately be necessary to make it one because of this.
How does Clerky handle having a registered agent in Delaware? Neither the article nor Clerky website have any info about that. Incorporating in any state requires a registered agent that is physically located in the state.
Reminds me of PG's "Deep Well" concept.
Ask HN: Media Startup Seeks College-Aged Technical Founder
otherwise would not have interest in a music startup.

In addition, since the startup is not centered around a single product/service, the position offers an excellent opportunity for a technical founder that may have future interest in a non-tech position.

Because of space constraints, further details can be found at duvo1.jottit.com/2. Feel free to send me a note.
Great reality check for you and your business...but it may or may not translate to better luck with VCs. Plenty of them buy into this innanity, and plenty more don't care about market size at all and will decided to invest in whatever other VCs are investing in.
I think we already have a good idea why humor is funny. In our closest primate relatives, chimps and bonobos, who also laugh (i.e., the chimp equivalent of laughter) when tickled, laughter is essentially a call meaning "non threat."

Jokes are funny because they relate a story of the transition of the object of laughter from potential threat, to non-threat. For example, a high status individual is a potential economic and social adversary and therefore a potential threat.

Consider: If someone slips on a banana peel it is only funny if it is a high status or would-be high status individual. If a handicapped child slipped on a banana peel it would only engender sympathy, not laughter. If a pompous or powerful and aggressive person slips on a banana peel it is funny because that person has instantly gone from the status of potential threat - someone to be reckoned with - to the status of non-threat.

Jokes, especially those with punch lines, follow a narrative thread where some person or persons make a sudden transition from high to low status, from threat to non-threat.
This comment.

Proof by counter-example.
I'm thankful that a manager at Xbox took a big chance on me and helped me to get my foot in the door in video games when I only had a college degree and a boatload of passion. But I'm just as thankful that when I first moved to Seattle, there were a few companies that didn't take a chance on me, because if they had, I never would have even applied for that job in video games - now doing something that I never dreamed I'd be able to do: designing video games for a living.

Just as important to getting the opportunities is taking advantage of them. If Bijan had never agreed to take part in Spark, this may never have happened. So kudos to him for taking the bull by its horns.
I agree. I wonder why FF doesn't just do this by default.
To get to the other side ;)
It's been said that stupid people learn from their own mistakes and smart people learn from others' mistakes.

However, this is untrue. Smart people learn from their own mistakes, and stupid people never learn.
Do we know why jokes are funny?
If so, why don't we have an algorithm that can write jokes?

I think you're right that we have some good descriptive models of humor, but we don't have any generative models of humor.
Dear AnyPerk,

Please don't fuck it up like your predecessor BetterWorks by wasting money on a needlessly lavish environment, fostering a sexist brogrammer culture or hiring more people than minimally necessary.

Good luck and congratulations!
We totally get that people need to know what's going on - after you enter in your information on Clerky, you can actually view the generated documents for yourself before you go any further. Although you can't change anything in the form language right now, we're working on adding support for that (something you'd probably really want an attorney for). You won't be able to bring the check to city hall any more though :)
The bit that stands out for me is that the last SimCity was single-threaded so even on modern multi-core machines it chugs.

SimCity is one of those games that would benefit hugely from multi-core computers so I find the whole "We moved core functions to our servers because your computers are too puny" reasoning to be lacking.

It seems obvious that the only reason they moved processing functionality to their servers is because they have to calculate the inter-region stuff which they cannot reliably farm out to untrusted clients.

Basically they decided that the new SimCity would be a "Social" game from the outset and architected around that, the DRM side-effect is just an added "bonus" for Maxis/EA.

Of course many people (Myself included) just want a new single-player SimCity... Hell I would even take the last SimCity with corrected routing and multi-thread support.
actually it seems to say FF has 87% support, Chrome 84% support, Safari 83% support, so the parent comment looks correct.
There shouldn't even be any lost bitcoin transactions.

That can only be true if there are not conflicting transactions in the two chains. That might be the lucky outcome, but it's certainly not guaranteed to be the case.

Any transactions that were confirmed on the faulty chain will have to be re-confirmed in the correct chain. How long that will take would depend on just how many transactions need to be processed, and how big their payload is. Until that is completed, the state of the bitcoins involved in those transactions is ambiguous.
Their neighbors are slightly worse off, and 20 people have a place to live. But I guess those 20 people don't count, right?
Nothing I said was obtuse or absurd.

Anyway, it's obvious you have something to prove from these responses so there's probably no point discussing it further.
Beat me to it :P
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Historical curiosity. This answer to "Why did the chicken cross the road" can be interpreted two ways:
1. it's obvious, absurdist humor
2. it is a pun on the phrase "other side" meaning the after life.

Betcha never thought of the second interpretation!
Is there a sensible fashion by which two robust blockchain forks might merge?

Widespread use of the currency is troublesome if it's possible for anyone to have reasonable odds of forking the chain. If it's possible for a mass panic to reverse transactions, it's not as reliable.

If Asia (4 billion people), banking institution (US federal debt = ~23% of world GDP), or a social group (Catholicism: 63% of the Americas) buys a bunch of stuff then decides, en masse, to revert to an earlier blockchain, it could drive instability. Large groups of people sometimes do unpredictable things (Gangnam Style: 1.4 billion views).
SEO defenders argue that despite GoogleBing's claims of trying to rank based on user experience, in practice there are ranking signals that have nothing to do with user experience, and therefore "bad" SEO is justified to optimize those extraneous signals. They don't help improve the site; they improve search rankings, though, and until GoogleBing do away with those extraneous signals, you have to play the SEO game or you'll get beaten by equivalent-quality sites who do.

I too prefer improving a site rather than gaming search engines, and I've argued against SEO consultants who want to do things like keyword-stuff urls, but now I sympathize with the pro-"bad"-SEO argument even though I prefer not to get involved in that kind of SEO.
I think you mean Delerium Tremens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens
Is it just me or all these "perks" just discounts on things people shouldn't be spending their money on?

I assumed this would be actual perks like free gym memberships that when purchased in bulk lets the site negotiate for startups.
No matter how much I try, there is always a part of Bitcoin which I don't fully understand, kind of scary actually.
Just FYI - http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/2556917/reload=0

There appears to be an evolutionary need for humor, so the unknown theory here could actually shed some light.

Also, laughing yoga. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahhN3Ryw4O4
pg typed something into the repl on the live server without testing it again.
The Gigabot 3D Lets You Print Things That Are Bigger Than A Few Breadboxes
On the other hand, if there's no significant calculation on the server, why would EA pretend they were having massive load problems? Sure, maybe they wanted to get some headlines about 'SimCity is so popular it's having launch shortages', but there's got to be a happy medium between "friendly headlines talking about SimCity's popularity" and "seething EA hatred plastered across the Internet".
I know the founders personally and can tell you that they are down to earth, really likeable guys who don't have the brogrammer culture in them at all. :)
For me tab sandboxing was basically the reason I switched from Firefox. For years I thought it was normal for the browser to slow down and become increasingly unresponsive the more tabs you had open. It was frustrating, but you had to accept it was your "fault", you can't possibly have 30 tabs open and expect the browser to be cool with that, I thought. Then Chrome came, and I was SO blown away by being able to have dozens of open tabs without the slightest change in the overall performance of the browser, I didn't even care I couldn't use many of the extensions I had on FF. I couldn't help but recommend everyone I knew to do the switch aswell after realizing I would not be back to FF.
Meet the 'Corporate Enemies of the Internet' for 2013
They were, and I imagine would still be, a supporter of SOPA.

Grab the free stuff, but don't give them a dime of your money.
They'll need better systems to deal with it.

Like every other system, including the existing ones, it'll have to get better as it scales.
We are starting to use Chromium Embedded for all of our in-game UIs, after going through Flash and (for a brief period) CEGUI. No major regrets here. In fact, we like HTML so much that we are considering moving our game tools (level editors, etc) to HTML as well, ala Insomniac [1].

[1] http://www.insomniacgames.com/new-generation-of-insomniacgam...
Your suggestion is the way that linked in used to work. Where your links were ideally strong connections that could vouche for you or make an introduction.

But now that linked in is trying to monetize their platform and restricts you from seeing people outside of your immediate network it has become a connect to everyone network.

It has been interesting to watch how linked in's efforts to make money has been leading to the weakening of their platform.
http is not working for me either even for login. I just switched to https.
That doesn't seem necessarily relevant.
Not only do comments fail to work, you can't even login under http. https works fine though
fyi when they filled my order they were within 10 minutes of the pickup and dropoff times.
It's up again now
How does this compare with Heroku for RoR hosting? Do they compete or is Heroku solving a different problem?
According to this (http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/19xx7d/trying_some_...) the game runs completely fine without being connected to the server, just all the mp features won't work. All the server does is handle trading, leaderboards, regions and validation etc
Not sure what an "illegal number" would be. Certainly someone could embed child pornography or political propaganda.

Bitcoin seems subject to a vast array of DOS and other attack that could be seriously problematic if it became an important currency.
Why no HSTS?
How To Kick The Procrastination Habit
From a Bitcoin core developer[1]:

> .7 and older nodes use BDB for storing the blockchain databases. It seems this database has a limit on the size of the modification it can make atomically to the database. With the larger blocks of the past days, it seems to have triggered the limit. The result is that 0.7 (by default, it can be tweaked manually) will not accept "too large" blocks (we don't yet know what exactly causes it, but it is very likely caused by many transactions in the block). Specifically, block 000000000000015c50b165fcdd33556f8b44800c5298943ac70b112df480c023 (height=225430) with >1700 transactions.

> However. 0.8 (which uses a different database system) has no such limit, and happily accepts the block. As the majority of the hash power was on 0.8, the longest chain ended up using this block, which is not accepted by older nodes.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152030.msg1613200#ms...
Purge Sort
GTD For Lifehackers
So, "Do Not Track", first introduced by firefox and supported in just about all browsers, incognito mode, supported by all browsers (including pre-chrome)...

The market share of IE (and the usage habits of people of both normal and more advanced tech knowledge) points to the fact that people frequently DO use IE (or safari) because it's pre-installed and only change when it just happens (chrome getting installed and set as default by various other installers being a good example)
Do you really understand all the inner workings of the current monetary system?
I would probably go for odesk. Tried it before, saved a lot of money but choosing the right person to do the job is critical.
If I'm looking for a French tutor in x-town England I want to find his sister. It's a win-win.

Are any of the people you are pushing offering a win-win in these 6-7 figure payday, or are they just yet another asbestos law firm, that wants the same 1/3 as everyone else, and will fill out the settlement forms just the same as everyone else?
I think OP is referring to something like an AACS key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
Nobody here has talked about flash mobs for about a year… they got boring and they appear to have stopped completely. A few white middle class people got beat up, it's true. But there aren't many places in Philadelphia you would go on a daily basis that are half as scary as the Tenderloin at night… nor as easy to wander into, nor as close to tourist/business attractions. Also, frankly, I have never seen human feces on the street after living here part time for 2 years and full time for 1… which is more than I can say for a week-long trip to SF. For better or for worse, those parts of Philly are quite segregated.

Now, I am comparing to SF, where all the technohipsters I know are spending thousands on rent. If you want to live in a suburb (which Mountain View etc are) then I'm pretty sure you have equally safe options here.

Granted our weather is shit by comparison, but you can't have everything.
These are open questions which have never been resolved since section 251 was introduced in 2003. Note that this is NZ law only and I am not sure of the situation internationally.

Some relevant quotes: -----

http://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/4001/zealand-information-tech...

"Although most cases of legitimate have been covered, not all have. Section 251 does potentially raise some interesting issues around concepts that many security professionals are supportive of, the sharing of information and full disclosure..."

http://www.bellgully.co.nz/newsletters/03CTM/03CTM_HackersBe...

"On the face of it, such criticisms may be justified. Whether or not the Amendment Act will actually have this effect will only become clear through the passage of time. In this regard, “good” users of such information may have to rely (tentatively) on the police's discretion whether or not to prosecute a particular case."
>ambitious women don't want to be in the 10-20% minority in an engineering company //

Because they're sexist. If you don't discriminate on sex then entering an engineering company you're in the 100% majority of people.

So are women saying "I'm not going in that company it's got people in it". That would be silly. So, they must be discriminating against the companies simply because of the sex of the workers.

That leaves you with the point that you have to alter your hiring process because women want to be sexist ...

So ignore meritocracy and kowtow to sexism?
The economics of spam commenting makes sense if it can be done automatically at a massive scale. If only one or a very small number of "humanity tests" exist, then cracking those tests has a high payoff value. Having a huge number of different, ad-hoc authentication schemes would make developing automatic cracks unacceptably expensive for the actual level of benefit achieved by posting the spam comment. Therefore, being a site with a unique CAPTCHA system attacks the core value proposition of spam comments, which strikes the root of the issue.

Another way to look at it is like the entire collection of CAPTCHAs on the Internet is really just one big CAPTCHA library, which tests a subset of "human" abilities. The larger the subset, the more difficult it will be to circumvent. Relying on one or two special abilities makes it easier for a machine to emulate those behaviors and gain access. I hope that clarifies the point I was making.
That has to be the most clever name for a project I've ever seen.
Instead of parsing my imprecise usage of the word "let's", can you address my actual point?
This can only be positive. Finding out issues like this will only make the software/network better.
How a Blog Reporting Paul Krugman Filed For Bankruptcy Ended Up On Boston.com
Well again, there are individuals but on the whole this is an issue. I suspect there are many more people without degrees that have no idea about this field than anyone really likes to admit. Is it true that there are very successful autodidacts in this field? Yes. Is it true that autodidacts represent a much smaller percentage of the population than is implied by articles like this? Yes.

It is a broad field, no one can be expected to know everything; this is true of any field. However, what is found in a few YouTubes and a devbootcamp is not, in my view, something that will carry large percentage a of people through a bubble or saturation.

These discussions are a little awkward as well because anyone that is in the pool of autodidacts is quick to defend themselves. The issue is not "Can one be in the top of the field of programming/CS without a CS degree?" This is very different question; actually I think a good foundation in computer science or mathematics would help people, greatly, in realizing that these are separate issues!
"Empathy is a terribly scarce commodity it seems."

Not at all. The commenter was talking about something quite different than the article. The commenter was talking about the kids from the midwest etc. who move to San Francisco to strike it rich on the sweet oil fields of VC, which is the opposite of being stuck there because you are too broke to move.
Hey what's up! These comments are harsh. Don't let it get to you. I think it has potential. I feel like people that ask for reviews never get what they really want to hear. But a bunch of trash talk. Let me give you real feedback.

-I think it's actually not a bad idea.
- ask friends and family to be your first subscribers. They'll prob your number 1 marketers for it to spread.
- the site might need a little improvement on the UI and design side (like add a logout button lol). But than again craiglist isn't very pretty either.
- dont give up and spread the word!

Good luck!
> Is there a sensible fashion by which two robust blockchain forks might merge?

No, but the "transaction graph" which underlies both chains can (and will) be merged, in some sense.

> If [lots of people conspire] to revert to an earlier blockchain, it could drive instability.

The blockchain will only ever split inadvertently, or due to probability (the unlikelihood of multiple blocks being orphaned). A majority of miners would have to conspire to begin mining on a chain with less than 50% of the hashrate, which would be a waste of resources if the chain fails (which it will).

There's not just an incentive but a probabilistic force preventing forks from occurring.
The difference is that enough people accept the current system without understanding it that you can use it for your needs. Not enough people use bitcoins that you can gloss over details.
There is often a delay before the next photo loads. However, the photo does seem to resize slightly in anticipation of the next photo. This caused me to vote the same way for possibly a different photo I couldn't see because I thought it was just another upload of the previous photo.