skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, this isn't a failure. We know that it's not going to be a business-as-usual currency. Easy credit is an incentive for business; inflation is an incentive for consumers. Governments have much better control over that.

BC is better understood as a commodity market with a simpler financial instrumentation. Instead of trading contracts for goods, you are able to trade the good itself, at internet speed and scale. That's a big innovation and we've only started to realize the consequence of it.
Well, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and throw all your savings into it today? I mean, if it keeps growing like it has for the past couple weeks, you stand to be a gajillionaire even though you didn't buy when it was low, right?
Cracks knuckles "It really would be a shame if that nice reputation of yours were to be damaged in any way..."
IMO, there definitely is a divorce. It seems as amical as divorces can be, though. From what I read, both parties seem to think it's better for them to split ways, and both parties are offering each other assistance to make moving house as nice as possible for both parties. Google, in particular, is offering assistance in removing compile-time options from the source, offers to keep their build servers running until Apple has a replacement, etc.
Ah so you believe in the labor theory of value.
Can someone who has been following this story break down the practicalities of the current judicial environment for services like this? Not black and white answers, just the general consensus.

I know some others like boxee [1] are trialing services like this in some markets.

From a bootstrap/startup/DIY perspective what seems to be the current known framework?

1) content needs to be over the air
2) customer needs to be inside the content's broadcast area
3) needs to be a 1:1 correlation of receiver/antenna to viewer

those are my baseline understandings, are there any I missed

I wonder if anyone has any knowledge or informed opinions about:

What is the broadcast area? Is that a regulatory definition, or is it determined by if you can easily recieve the signal, or could it be anyone who could receive the signal even if using sensitive equipment and directional antennas

What would be acceptable in terms of customer is in the broadcast area? Credit card billing address? Physical mail sent? IP geolocation? mobile gps result?

Obviously you can compress the signal, but what about tampering with it? Would adding a scroll or bumpers to the stream change the legality?

Is this all based on live transmission only? Would store and forward (ie cloud dvr) change the picture?

Is there anything about charging that changes things? It could be free, no? What about subscribe vs. pay per use?

I realize this is a highly fluid situation, I'm just curious if anyone has any thoughts or insights thats been paying attention.

[1] http://www.boxee.tv/dvr cloud dvr, stream live tv to multidevice - launched in some markets.
The data is three years old. Is their newer data? What about electronic delivery methods like Stream?
I would also point out that Margaret Roberts (later Margaret Thatcher) made modest contribution to science

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/margaret-thatc...

Alas, it was downhill after that. Seriously, read Tony Judt's polemic to find out why.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/apr/29/ill-far...

PS: Grantham = Newton for me.

PPS: I was in Liverpool today when the news arrived. For various complex reasons, there are actually street parties happening tonight. You had to be there in the 1980s to understand this otherwise rather odd fetish like response. I have memories of arriving back in Liverpool Lime Street rail station on a visit from University in the late 70s, walking up Brownlow Hill and being turned back by policemen armed with dust bin lids to catch the bricks being lobbed at them. I had to take the undergound to get to the other side of the 'lines' to get to my Dad. We then had to drive 30 miles around the city to get home (New Brighton). Later that night we watched the smoke plumes over the Anglican Cathedral.
Should you be excited about being money- and time-whipped?
I like your reasoning and its a large driver for my I'm moving away from SQL Server.

If I get to a point where I actually need the features, that SQL Server or another commercial RDBMS has, then I have a good problem. It means my business is doing well and I may be in a position to consider a changeover.

I used to fret about features that frankly don't really matter when you are starting out. Coming from an Oracle and SQL Server background, I wouldn't touch MySQL but Postgres hits the 80% mark quite easily.
"The housing bubble was fundamentally engendered by the decline in real long-term interest rates"- Alan Greenspan
Storyboards aren't dynamic. Our CSS implementation not only lets you style your app, including animation and transition, but it can be changed at run time, either locally or remotely -- just like the web. Think of storyboards/xibs as a layout mechanism, and ours as a dynamic styling mechanism.
This was great. I don't really code but I have been trying to migrate handcoded websites to Wordpress since dinosaurs ruled the earth. I still haven't figured out what I need to do to pull that off satisfactorily. Copying pages requires me to then strip out html. I feel like I have never wrapped my brain around getting the new navigation to really work even though navigation problems (with an overly long and growing list of pages) was one reason for the migration.

I am wondering what sorts of info I need to go looking for to get this finished. I have thought about it before, contemplated asking around, and realized I didn't even really know what questions I needed to ask.

I also found this, which struck me as helpful but not quite what I wanted to read about: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121226171356-6...
That's because she's a Republican. Black republicans aren't held up as examples of racial progress. Instead, their motives are attacked by the liberal media[1].

Probably nobody has suffered more vile attacks than Clarence Thomas[2] for the crime of being Republican while black. To be an inspirational black politician, you must be liberal.

[1]http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/tim-scot...

[2]http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134324,00.h...

[2]http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/new-tone-naacp-silent-ra...

[2]http://rightpunditry.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/judge-c-tho...
The whole problem here for the broadcast networks is that Aereo sets a precedent for the cable companies to also avoid paying the retransmission fees by setting up a million tiny antennas instead of one big one

This isn't correct. Aereo only rebroadcasts local market channels to local market subscribers. I in SF can't get NY based content, this would get shutdown quick (See Ivi TV [1])

This also only affects the local "Over The Air" affiliates usually Fox/NBC/ABC/CBS and a few other small niche channels. This is why in the article Fox is threatening to move content from the main Fox "OTA" channel to its cable only offerings.

Which is also why its never going to happen, this would effectively kill all the local market channels which are extremely powerful.

Long story short, Aereo really isn't that great a threat to that many people, and really unless you start getting folks like Netflix to start buying up local market TV Channels to distribute content there's not a lot here. And this really only affects a very small subset of available channels.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-27/ivi-tv-loses-bid...
The similarities are much more than "blue dress, white belt, and blonde hair with a black bow in it".

In any case, Disney did not "very much create" that image. Here's Tenniels from 1866.

http://www.goldmarkart.com/it-can-t-go-straight-you-know-if-...

Blonde hair, white belt, black bow? Looks that way to me. Blue apron? Not very derivative.
Call Fox’s Bluff
What happens if I find an old chest with a 100kg in gold/diamonds/unobtainium? I think this situation is quite a good analogy to your question, the consequences of which are readily known.
Where did you read that you shouldn't use quotes to encapsulate text? RFC 4180 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180) says you may.

Many CSV generators and CSV parsers don't conform to RFC 4180, however, but if you're planning on transmitting data using CSV, it's simple enough to say "use an RFC 4180-compliant parser."
Her election success is only because the voting system here is biased and most of the population aren't really evolved past primate level. The media control the outcome of an election.

Her popularity is a myth perpetrated by the media.

There is no respect from anyone who knows the facts.
Ask HN: Pain at base of right thumb?
Has anyone else been getting pain in their right(I'm a righty) thumb due to what I suspect is from Smart phones(Started with first gen iPhone), track pads? I also use a magic mouse... Computer geek for over 15 years here.
The guidelines ask posters not to do this: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can vouch for their service. I once lost my rental car keys while at one of the Disneyworld hotels, and I got no help from the rental company aside from the key code. The Disney folks sent one of their locksmiths to help me and he tried about half a day to make a key that would start the car. His dedication and attitude were remarkable.
But the readme isn't Markdown formated?

It actually looks like a blend of asciidoc and... something...
Whoa, I'm really shocked that the case essentially lost there several times. That's.... terrible. One of them because they "failed to register copyright in the US" according to the Wikipedia. I was under the impression that there was no real need to register under US copyright law as its an automatic right.
www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0691.pdf

What's your explanation for the income distribution among different races? White people are just harder working? What evidence do you have that effort and hard work are rewarded more than luck and pedigree?
Re-using HTTPs connections is only helpful when you have repeat requests from the same user. It's actually counter productive for tracking beacons or ad impressions, where you rarely see the same user twice in rapid succession.

For web applications the overhead is much less significant. Both because you can re-use connections, and because few web applications can manage 20k+ requests per second on low end hardware.
Has anyone worked out the math on the divisibility of bitcoin?

Here are some questions:

Bitcoin gets world wide adoption. It's used in transactions by
~3 billion people (right now).
* What's the expected value of a bitcoin?
(how much BTC for a stick of gum?)
* What is the average permanent loss rate of bitcoins now?
(when a bitcoin wallet is accidentally deleted, the coins are lost forever)
What about in the future? Would it go up or down?
* accounting for human growth, how many people will there be?
(50 years down the road? 100?)

Answering all these questions, then the big one.

* How long can bitcoin last until it the satoshi
(the minimum divisible unit of currency)
is greater than a stick of gum?

That's how long bitcoin could functionally last in society. It DOES have a limit. I just want to know if it's an unreasonable huge limit.

Will it last a century? A Millennium? Until Sol becomes a red giant?
They figures that out in the 80s. It was called Transformers.
yup, we only do around 200 to 250GB a month. We use them to serve very small files. We switching from AWS as they charge per request, whereas MaxCDN do not.
Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
1. There's an equilibrium rate that will be reached.

2. Time preference exists.

3. If this is the one thing in the world that can only get more valuable as time goes on, why aren't you spending your entire net worth on it as we speak?
Resource allocation bug detected. Reboot capitalism? Y/N
Why Startups Should Choose Canada Over Silicon Valley
"More exchanges could appear. I don't see why they won't"

Regulations. The US government has already indicated its stance on what regulations apply to Bitcoin, and other governments will likely follow suit if it gains any more momentum.

"Panic selling will only happen so many times before people stop freaking out over little things."

...or when Bitcoin fails, which is the overwhelmingly more likely outcome.
I don't have all that much experience with backbone yet, so I can't compare the validity of their approaches vs "plain" backbone. However, my understanding is that both these meta-frameworks were extracted from some pretty big existing applications, and contain patterns that worked for them, so it's probably unfair to say that they're only good for quick "toy" apps. These meta-frameworks wouldn't exist in the first place if people didn't find them useful for larger applications.

Otherwise, if these frameworks really are taking the wrong approach to solving these problems, maybe it would be more useful to document better approaches to solving them?
I'm not the OP, but I did write the article. I'm probably going to write a follow up addressing getting started with security. Meteor's security is pretty good now, but it was a little too verbose for a short demo. Basically, on the server side, you publish exactly the set of documents a specific client/user will receive. You can also whitelist/blacklist specific behaviors with allow/deny.
Bitcoin is a commodity backed by Mathematics with the convenience of transfer of ownership through electronic rather than physical means. When the last coin is mined in 2140 the point of deflation might hold if it was a currency, but it's not. It is a faith based value store based on supply and demand, just like gold, which has next to no useful properties other than being shiny, non-tarnishing, conductive AND PEOPLE THINK IT'S VALUABLE.

With the FED and Monetary Easing the total amount of dollars in the economy is increasing, but the actual value (purchasing power) of every dollar is decreasing. But since the number of dollars (numerically) that people are holding is increasing there is no speak of deflation because prices aren't going down due to the inflation of the amount of dollars. The actual purchasing power is deflating but due to economic slieght of hand everyone has more dollars. Win win!

The value of money is not the number of dollars but the distribution of the dollars throughout society. Double everyone's bank account and nothing would change after the initial emotional frenzy - prices would settle at twice the original values.

Deflation may be an 'economic carcinogen' but what name is given to the systematic reduction of value and spending power in an economy where there is almost no saving and for what saving there is there's no interest?

The price of gold has been increasing to greater and greater highs for the past decade due to the monitary policies during that time. Bitcoin is reaching a point where it can stand along side with it in some people's minds because it has a strong Mathematical backing rather than a flimsy backing by governments. Gold was taken over as a currency by paper; maybe BTC will end up the same way some day.
I was struck by this picture of trash accumulating in london during the garbage strike: http://www.businessinsider.com/thatcher-and-the-winter-of-di...

The West was crippled by socialist excesses in the 1970s. There's a reason why Reagan and her won election in the same year.
What with Thatchers passing, a Home Secretary wanting to abolish our signing up to the european human rights act, I just love the sound of those words tonight.

+1 to Madison and Jefferson
I'd expect it to work about as well as Ido, the better-than-Esperanto: not well. The whole point of currency (and language) is exchange. As you limit yourself to ever-smaller numbers of people in the search for more ideal manners of exchange, the missed point becomes harder and harder to ignore.
That we "should"? No, I'm basically on her side, although I think GuiA, in a comment above, has a good point that this particular case is murky. What I was attempting to get at is that the sympathies of the internet mob seem to depend not on the merits of any particular copyright case, but on who is doing the copying. Sorry if this wasn't obvious.
"This whole country was made by greater fools!"

–

Oh sorry, wrong movie.
No talk of what audience they would pick up? I can't get the local broadcast stations, and would appreciate some service making them available via streaming data. I'm not signing up for "cable TV" at its price just to get what normally would be free save for quirks of geography.

Contrast the "I Heart Radio" http://www.iheart.com app service, making broadcast radio available everywhere free - rescuing many stations from oblivion. Whither "I Heart TV"?
Caveat: I haven't read the article linked in the GP, yet. (I will.) But the comments here immediately elicit this thought:

How many users have a laptop that they are connecting to one or another undefined (to them) form of "public" wifi? (And/or to someone else's internal network that may be compromised.)
The first thing that occurred to me is that the Disney artists (or contractors) probably came across the image on Tumblr or Pinterest or some similar social image-sharing network, stripped entirely of its original attribution.

It's entirely plausible that someone would have thought it was a Disney-owned image originally, and in circulation in violation of copyright.

If that's true, it's not an excuse for using someone else's work without permission, but it would be a sad and ironic commentary on the sharing and re-mixing economy.
Rumor claims Mac Pro update coming this month
6.009615384615385, 15 years. web/software dev for all 15 years.
> the depiction of her with a blue dress, white belt, and blonde hair with a black bow in it was very much created by Disney.

How do you figure? Have you seen the original illustrations? Because they depict Alice in essentially the same getup that Disney stylized with their own art style. However the character design (which is what we'd call it now) is essentially John Tenniel's original design:

http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice2a.html
Except that Bitcoin is not a commodity (as the term is commonly understood) because it has no use other than as a currency.
Your preferred term is too long. "mssql" will do.
I prefer the term nanobitcoin. That way, the conversion to bitcoins is built-in.
I'm not entirely convinced she did have a plan, to be honest. She had strong beliefs and wasn't afraid to follow her intuition when a large part of the country disagreed with her, but the popular appeal of policies like the "right-to-buy" were more or less a side-effect and her most controversial policy stance on disinflation was so comprehensively reversed under her second Chancellor Lawson that inflation (and interest rates) were approaching the same levels towards the end of her reign as it reached at the beginning. And of course the biggest boon to her political career was Argentina invading. Other policies like the Community Charge were an unmitigated disaster.

Overall, the big change with modern politicians isn't so much that she had a plan as her willingness to take radical actions that weren't part of the plan or some near-consensus view
Why would a fair price be relevant? I assume that statutory damages for copyright infringement would be far, far more than a fair price for the work if negotiated up-front. In other words, a retrospective license to cure infringement should probably be a bit "unfair".
The 3rd Wave of E-Commerce Disruption: Emotional Commerce
Alice in Wonderland the story is in the public domain. Specific renditions may be copyrighted.
If you want the branch in your prompt you should use the script that is shipped with git.
Improvement only happens with proper metric selection
1. Flash sites for restaurants don't really work anymore (conversion rate wise).

2. Use javascript, and or .mp4 video if you need to have any dynamic content.
Some subscribe to the view that infringement is stealing, and that when you're caught stealing you shouldn't be afforded an opportunity to simply pay the fair market price.
Yeah, and there are very few markets in the world where the weight of some quantity of metal is used as currency. Let's put it this way: if you had no money at all, and I gave you a gold coin, how would you pay for your dinner?
Ha, good point (and same to the other post making the same remark below). I wasn't fully aware of Tenniels' drawings.

One could argue it makes the situation a little more clear cut then.
Where can I learn more about the first scenario that you mention? (demanding that cable companies carry your broadcast)

What are the limits on this? Can an individual set up a low powered broadcast station and force the cable company to carry it?
So basically everyone is holding his/her breath right now?
Damn heart pounding. =)
Bitcoin isn't backed by anything.

"Backing" is also grossly misunderstood in general.

Any "Backing" a currency has can generally be thought of as an put option on something fungible.

For example, gold will never drop below $10-$20 per Oz because of the industrial/jewelry/etc uses people find for it. However, that "backing" only makes up a small percent of the price of gold.
That's an incredibly naive expectation. ISPs have been replacing error pages with their own search pages serving ads since the 90s.
Money is inflationary not because it is printed, but mostly because government allows banks to lend for long years the money that the bank could need tomorrow if the people whose money it is showed up at the said bank and demanded it back.

There's nothing that could stop it for bitcoin. I can easily imagine that inflationary pressure from growing body of bitcoin credit could overcome bitcoin appreciation due to increase of humanity wealth.

Yes. Government won't be able to print money but banks will be still be able to inflate money as today. Government will just have to tax the banks in return for the privilege of operating this way.
$11B annually is a "low" number? That's an utterly incredible amount of money.

Google doesn't have to bring fiber to everyone; they just have to exert enough pressure on the incumbents to get them to step up their game out of fear that Google might move into <market> next and knock them off their pedestal. Google isn't doing this for good will - they're doing it to advance the state of broadband in the US.
Nice example: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/5/80 "Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics"

I am fairly sure that other spreadsheets will make such errors, too, though. I recently saw one in Numbers that depended on the amount of data pasted (pasting hundreds of rows seemed to disable the smartness)
Not as weird as hijacking the term "branch" to mean a symlink to a ref that is not part of the history. Then again why make it easier by naming it to something more intuitive, like say, "bookmark".
Is it just me or is it a bit ironic that an iOS related website doesn't work well on iPhone? All the screenshots o out of the screen, and you can't zoom out or pan to see them.
Why would anyone sell when they see the price keep rising? Some will sell when the total sum of their bitcoins is big enough for them to retire on.
I'm not the parent but I sort of operate on the assumption that Windows isn't Postgres primary target when they make optimizations. While SQL Server is not only purely focused on Windows they have have access to knowledge about (and in server editions, probably influence on) the low level internals that Postgres people never will. As pointed out in on of the top comments SQL Server has a bunch of extra junk built in(ish) but still I too would, having not tested anything, assume SS would be faster than Pg on Windows.