skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all software requires revenue to exist and function, this kind of thinking implies that software that does not generate a revenue is somehow competing unfairly with software that seeks to generate a revenue. More simply, nobody is guaranteed the opportunity to generate revenue and the exit of Google Reader only enhances the chance for someone to make money on RSS software. If it turns out people don't want to pay for RSS and consider RSS to only have value as a free service, then that is fine and use of hobby or open source RSS projects will become the norm.
This attack:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Double-spending#Brute_force_attac...

The description dances around the issue, but what they are basically saying is this: the work needed to successfully attack Bitcoin is proportional to the total work done by all Bitcoin participants. That is an amount of work that is polynomial in the parameters of the system.
Well you may have a point about RSS being a failed technology, at least for the masses, who seem to prefer bells and whistles.
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Lower costs in this market are also something that makes open source possible, I just found two opensource projects inspired by Google Reader and hosted on Google Code, what do you think of them?

http://selfoss.aditu.de/

http://gobblerss.pommepause.com/screenshot.html
From the article:

After all, before Google Reader’s sharing features were converted to corresponding Google+ ones, users of the soon-to-be-killed service used to share like crazy. Shih postulates, with plenty of logic, that this activity dropped as Google pushed Reader users to sharing on Google+ instead.
I think Bitcoin could have been designed to be less volatile (by making the mining reward based on some closed loop), but that change would also likely enrich early adopters less which might have caused Bitcoin to never take off.
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One of my concerns with this whole crowdfunding model is that if one limits the cap, then surely the expected value of the the returns from crowdfunding will be negative. You need the gains from the uncapped hits to compensate for all the failures. If your downside is potentially losing 100% of your investment and that odds of failure are somewhere (arbitrarily picked) between 70-90%, and your upside is only a 20% gain 10-30% of the time, the math doesn't make it seem like the model is sustainable.
Heise implemented and opensourced just this week sth very similar to what I've posted: http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy...
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I'm not sure what laws it breaks but the laws are so ambiguous you could really be charged with a wide variety of things all depending on how much the prosecution wants to put you away. Could be anything from money laundering to computer abuse to mail fraud depending on a lot of variables involved - and also very much depends on what country the person accused is from.
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I'm not sure why so few people link to the real content.

Oral Argument recordings:

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio_de...

Opinions:

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-697_d1o2.pdf
I totally agree with your first statement, that a more useful virtual currency will spring up on top of Bitcoin for immediate transactions (I actually have a good idea of what it will be). Yet I totally disagree with your second premise. I think Bitcoin is a fine store of wealth. Fractional reserve banking and a debt-based economy is what many of us are trying to get away from. And I can definitely see Bitcoin as a long-term store of wealth and an easy way to make deposits into other, more convenient virtual currencies that are springing up.
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The sync is broken. It perpetually needs to be restarted on the desktop. Combine this with 2-steps authentication and you have to send yourself 3 messages per day to make this work.
Nice, how about porting it to Linux? last time I tried to use a git gui there I wanted to read a visual basic book, then commit seppuku
It's a nationally delivered service and one of the primary mandates is equality; of availability, of quality, etc. So, yes, really. If you're suggesting that this overlooks 'positive medical outcomes' I think you're missing the point.
A fair number of the articles I have read have animated gifs to explain some concepts that are difficult to explain with just text. You can certainly make 'doodads' if you so desire but that is like saying that there is no use for books, because you can write a trivial sex novel.
This is part of the reason why I went for a simple display in my self-hosted bookmark archive:

demo: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/bookmarks/bookmarks.public/
code: https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/

Avoiding the use of a central service was too easy after the most recent cancellation of such a service. But storing them locally under revision control is good
You have a point, however I would like to note that Bitcoin is not actually a deflationary currency as I explained in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403360

The bigger issue we should be focusing on is not deflation or inflation but rather who controls it. If it is controlled by one player (government) then it ultimately decides who benefits and who loses from it. It is a much more honest situation when market controls it. Once there are too many people taking loans and going bankrupt, then investors stop investing until a point is reached at which it is more profitable to invest than to hoard again.

In any case, the extent to which people are denied access to capital is almost exactly the same as the extent to which they benefit from hoarding.The distribution of capital changes, rewarding less opportunistic and more hardworking people during deflation. Ironically, it's exactly the opposite of what governments in almost any country tell people.

Finally, I would like to add that even though capital is important, it is not the only component responsible for creating value and wealth. Thus, economy would reward not only people capable of obtaining capital, but also those who have great ideas and skills to implement those ideas.
Teaching is hard and tiring.

Think programming: short on time, high on abstract requirements, lack of clarity, changing concerns, dictated tools. Now throw in 30 co-workers, 10 of which can't sit still, 10 of which are mentally absent while fiddling with mobile devices, 2 of which are crying, 1 of which needs to interrupt every hour to hit the facilities, all of which have two parents talking to you a couple of times a year, plus internal bureaucracy.
> "he did it on a computer so burn him at the stake"

This is a result of the general public's incredible ignorance when it comes to how computers work. I hope this trend will fade soon as newer generations that have been raised on computers become older. I really dislike the whole "he did it on a computer so burn him at the stake" mentality that government seems to have today.
And this is really where I have an issue with people posing the proprietary nature of Facebook, Google+, Twitter, et al as "A Problem".

People throw their content into these services, time and again. Often doing so as they're suffering whatever pain we hypothesize is implicit in leaving a prior service. (However much pain it did or did not cause, to have everyone's stuff locked up in a MySpace silo, it did not stop anyone from putting all their stuff right back into Facebook's silo.)

And they do this in other contexts: no-one much frets about proprietary saved-game file formats. Or the release of new console platforms that end support for entire libraries of games. So clearly there's a line.

And it seems a reasonable one to draw. Because who really cares about their old saved games, or a game they hadn't played, or mobile app they hadn't so much as launched, in months?

It's certainly nice as things approach the open/internet ideal. But there's clearly an entire class of computing where people do cost/benefit considerations with an emphasis on immediate entertainment value, rather than long-term computing value.

And people have repeatedly demonstrated a desire to treat social networks more like consoles than even mobile platforms, let alone PC computing platforms.

So why do geeks persist in seeing "A Problem" here? Let alone a problem that, if solved, would garner any attention for having presented a solution?
Were the problem sets graded? I'm assuming that, if they were, you did both. If you didn't, what was the grader's response?
I can't actually find any details about how this works in practice. Are multiple maps and reduces in a map-reduce executed simultaneously within a single mongod process? If so, how many? Is it based on the number of cores in the server?

Edit: not asking you specifically, just generally curious.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403668
> assumption of binary plus suggesting Adria's post is asking for an extreme solution ("100%")

Well I'm not really sure what is less offensive than a dongle innuendo.

> False assumption that your female friends all don't care about your potentially sexist remarks.

Nope, they (including my mother, who was a feminist activist back in the 80s) have had my back in many arguments about similar sorts of things.

> Adria is completely reasonable and accurate with what she's saying.

Nope, because there is nothing reasonable about publicly shaming someone for a joke that has nothing sexist about it because you heard some shit in a talk and make a bizarre connection between that and it.

> Being treated like equal human beings means treating people with respect, and making degrading, sexualized jokes at a professional event is not treating people with respect.

We have different ideas of respect then. My idea of respect is to not treat people like children that flip out because of some silly innuendo that doesn't actually do anything. It's not like the pornographic slides (which I spoke out against) or any of the other numerous offences of the tech. industry. This is two dudes relaxing and making some non-sexist innuendo.

> shitty behavior

Point blank refuse to accept that what they did was "shitty behaviour". Loosen the fuck up, focus on the real battles.
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If you listen to the oral arguments http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio_de... , I get the feeling the resale of cars weighed a bit on decision:

"A geographical interpretation would prevent the resale of, say, a car, without the permission of the holder of each copyright on each piece of copyrighted automobile software. Yet there is no reason to believe that foreign auto manufacturers regularly obtain this kind of permis­ sion from their software component suppliers, and Wiley did not indicate to the contrary when asked. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 29–30. Without that permission a foreign car owner could not sell his or her used car."
I think it is implausible.

What ultimately sets the price of stocks (and prevents undue speculation) is the profit earned by a company.

This mechanism doesn't exist in currencies, where the value comes only from what people think it's worth.
While that's true, I did read through his Wordpress overview and I might actually choose them if I want to go the free route, plus I trust the Wordpress brand. There's a risk with bringing up competitors even if it's not in a 100% positive light.

That being said, I'm also concerned about data migration and since Posthaven will be around for at least a couple years (I know they made a promise for longer), I might just go the paid route for seamless integration.
Someone should call the banks and warn them their depositors' accounts are worthless then.

I think the argument is a sufficiently deflationary currency creates an investor's dream: once you get enough of it, you can spend just what you need and what you have left gains value just sitting there. You don't have to work anymore or invest in anything besides the currency itself. If that becomes the most profitable investment strategy, it's in each individual's best interest to hoard money, but if enough people do that the economy collapses.

If one person "cheats" the system by hoarding money and gets to spend less and less of it every day because it's actively gaining value, that person gets something out of the deflation. If everyone tries it, the system's in deep trouble.

That seems to be the argument, anyway.

What would actually happen? I don't know… I'm a programmer, not an economist.
If I were a bad guy I would enter a single config line static routing some "chunk of the internet" at the victim. That loss of production traffic would likely be rather quickly noticed... but for a little while it could be pretty impressive.

Lets say you have a content provider (as opposed to an eyeball provider) and it hosts nothing in Chinese. So nearly all traffic from APNIC netblocks is botnets and spammers WRT your content so your firewall normally would dump it all. However an attacker could static route several /8 APNIC blocks to someone or something and all you'd notice is your firewall discarding less. Of course the poor guy its all static routed to (perhaps one of your own systems?) would see some weird stuff incoming.

Someone who knows what they're doing could have a lot of "fun" with a BGP speaking router depending on how intelligently its peers are configured.
Yeah you could say the same about the Nazis you know? not all of them were burning people 24/7 in the camps........but most of them did agree with it, same with communists in the west looking the other way while stalin and mao killed millions.
The profs certainly can't make you get a certain book, but your assignments are often based on the questions in the book and therefore, to have a passing grade, you have to get the book one way or another. Many, if not most, profs in the US will use book assignments instead of writing their own. In addition, the profs may write their own tests, but these also follow the assigned textbook so closely that studying from another book might be a handicap.
My first reaction to this was that she was being overly sensitive. As several others pointed out she admits that she played Cards Against Humanity while at the conference and obviously that seems far more offensive to most than dongles and forking.

Any girl that works in a place with a highly skewed male to female ratio has to have a cut off. While working at a game company I let little jokes like this slide because I thought they were funny and they didn't offend me at all. Then it got a little worse and it eventually turned into "Oh alukima is grumpy today, her boyfriend must not have given her any dick last night" and when I told someone no, we couldn't do x "on your period?, I'll just take this up with [male supervisor]." I eventually quit.

I don't think it's like that in every unchecked environment but in the future I will speak up much earlier. I'll probably be called overly sensitive then and I'll probably agree with that. But it's worth to keep it from escalating.
Fix what exactly? Your comment just complains about "something". That's why you're getting downvoted.
Okay, thank you. I was wondering if it was just straight division.
I like to play devil's advocate every now and then to see how people react. That being said, I am a true believer in freedom of speech. It's a double edged sword though as it gives people the right to say inappropriate and inconsiderate things. But I'll take that any day over censorship. I don't go to conferences as I prefer user group meetings.
But Google has retired quite a few APIs before. Search API, CalDAV, Google Base Data API, Social Graph API, Translate API, and the list goes on.

Google Docs looks like it has a healthy future, but they very easily could decide they don't want the API out there. Particularly with Google's newfound lack of fear of pissing people off.
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I think Garry is being pretty genuine here. I suspect some of the snark on this post stems from Posterous's overly aggressive marketing campaign from a few years back which started off here: http://blog.posterous.com/make-the-switch-to-posterous
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I doubt anything will change your opinions about Google:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=anon1385

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=anon1385

Carry on, I guess.
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Sorry yes I assumed everybody knows because I know many people having problem around me... The famous unsyncable file, everybody I know including me have this issue. For some people Google drive use 100% of the cpu until it crashes, always, whatever they try. I got often disconnected for absolutly no reason.
Well, I have collegueS that just can't make it work on their computers (recent iMac and macBook).
And When I search on google, i find easily many people having the same problems, even today.
I love Google product, but currently Google Drive is huge fail for me, I hope they fix it soon. They didn't update their app since a long time I think...
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Investing is not just about returns anymore.

On Kickstarter, millions of people invest in products, not for a return but because they want the product to exist.

I would very willingly toss my money down the blackhole of seed markets, because it is a "fair shot." Other markets are not.

The stock market and index funds are driven by volume (i.e. rich people) fear, our economy, or stupid politicians.

I would gladly fund a product to see it exist, and all the better if I have a shot at making a return on something I believe in. People don't invest in the stock market because they believe in the company, they do it because they have a gut-feeling it might move up that day.

In '96 or '97, I predicted that Valve was going to be very successful, just based on a very early preview I saw of Half-Life - I was just a teenager at that time. I have made many similar calls (honest to god) across many companies including NVidia, Intel, Google -- because I believed in them before any of them went public (for the record, there is not a single public company that I believe in). What I wouldn't give to be able to invest my money where I believed it would do good.
Every time i read about these great places to work it makes me sad. To know i will probably never enter the realm of being good enough for these companies.

I dont know if this is true, but they are giving everyone this expression: We just take the best of the bests.
Kippt, what I like about you guys is that you never seem to go away. It looks like you're in it for the long haul, with both feet in (to mix metaphors).

I'll give you a try this time!
"And another, 'He’s the greatest programmer to ever draw breath!'"

"4. Work with the best – and be the best."

"Why You Shouldn’t: 1. You’re not the best."

I like DHH and 37Signals, but this blog post is hyperbole. DHH is great, but he's not Carmack, and I don't know any serious programmers who would say "He's the greatest programmer to ever draw breath" or that the 37Signals team is "the best" and nobody who works there is "not the best".

In the spirit of having something nice to say, it is good to aspire to work at jobs where you are surrounded by talented people, and 37Signals certainly does attract people who want to work with accomplished peers.
Nothing lasts forever and I obviously can't guarantee you anything on Google's behalf, but the difference here being APIs and products launched before Larry Page became CEO and those launching after.
This is slightly off-topic, but since everybody's commenting about it anyway: Was Google Reader (and Posterous, to a lesser extent) the tipping point for awareness and activism surrounding the shutdown of free services? This could be a big thing in 2013.
I think 1 and 4 are the best points. It's a kill-two-birds-with-one-stone proposition. You get to give your first clients the care and feeding they need to become great initial success stories as you make some of the initial cash a startup needs so badly in its infancy. I think this is solid advice.
Will Posthaven's importer retain the source of Markdown-based posts? The little bit of blogging I did using Posterous was almost all in Markdown, and when I found out that it wasn't possible to pull the original Markdown using the Posterous API I was pretty bummed out. (although in the end Pandoc did a mostly complete job converting it back) Maybe Posthaven has more access than Joe the API user? The source Markdown exists somewhere in their DB since you can go back and edit it on the site, but I couldn't find any way to get at it via the API. Frankly, if it doesn't retain it (understandable, given Posterous's API) I wouldn't call it 100% lossless.

This is one of the bigger reasons I'd be pretty wary of managed blogs again, although I guess I'm probably not the target audience for them since among the alternatives I'm thinking about is a few Emacs Lisp functions calling Org mode, which I admit is a little fringe.
It's honestly not going to make a lot of difference to us day to day.

(and I second that kudos, since while I'm technically staff I barely actually -do- anything these days because other people always seem to get to whatever it is before I even notice :)
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I can say with certainty there still remain tons of network infrastructures in the enterprise space who fail to comprehend the value of AAA. They still send router passwords around in plain text files. It really pains me to see how slowly enterprise customers adapt to operational trends (why change?, things have worked so far! facepalm)
That was my main takeaway from skimming. I'm not a sales person, but I could see ten cents being a significant portion of the profit margin on certain items.
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I think that seems to be a common problem with Google. It could be only 1% of people are having the trouble you are having. But that could mean 10,000 people(not sure about real numbers) but at 1% it isn't on Google's priority list. :(
It is amazing to me that someone "explaining" something is heard as "justification". Nowhere did chiph express approval or disapproval, but simply explain chiph's belief of why it happened. Calling someone names for providing an explanation is not very nice.
What did you try? gitg was a pretty nice gitx clone when I used to work in desktop linux