skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course a SaaS is a "make customers awesome" company but you'll need use technology to make it awesome. Sure, clients don't care about the technology but that is not the same as "You’re not a tech company".
> innovators (will try new tech because it's shiny)

That doesn't sound like innovation to me. It sounds more like fashion. Am I reading too strictly into definitions? (I assume that I am, since I'm not familiar with Crossing the Chasm)
It is sometimes surprising that people have to be convinced to care about their own freedom.
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Absolutely agree. Our society is whatever we want it to be.

Unfortunately, democracy is out of vogue these days. The popular trend seems to be toward seeing society in terms of "natural" economic forces inexorably leading towards a certain fate.

PS: I also take strong exception to the concept of "the top 10% of us." The top 10% among what metric? Athleticism? Leadership ability? Creativity? Courage in war? Obviously not any of these things. Our society favors some mixture of above-average intellect and ability to do boring detail work for long hours. The people in the "top 10%" would certainly never be recognized as such in the kind of society that existed just a couple of hundred years ago.
I can understand that simple reason of course. But 1. many obviously dynamic sites use disqus anyway and 2. why would i want to split my own content (blog + discussion) when obviously i want to have a dynamic site? Ok, some people don't care, some people only have static webspace.. to me it seems strange anyway. _Especially_ since this seems to be about an open source alternative for self hosting (so, you have a static blog but still host a dynamic comment section? wtf?)
Funky bookmark app thing
Does anyone know if gandi uses ECC in their servers? This is possibly my biggest problem with the VPS fad, nobody will give you a straight answer about whether or not you can actually rely on them to not silently corrupt data.
Just another one of my little web apps, some might find it useful or inspiring...

tom (APIHouse.com)
Does anyone have a cached version of this?

I want to find out if regular folks are doomed or not, and I can't because clearly this blog is hosted on a single-instance WordPress host or something.
Tiny payments. A transaction of 5000 bitcoins and a transaction of 0.0001 bitcoins are the same size. The size is based on the number of transaction inputs, and the number of transaction outputs.
First of all, just because you only read one book at a time, doesn't mean that other people are the same way.

Second, even if you only read one book at a time (like yourself, and me as well), an ereader like the Nook or Kindle is still significantly more compact than even a trade paperback. A 700+ page hardcover? Forget it, it's not even a contest.
Your link doesn't seem to work; do you have a better pointer?
How does LuaJIT's trace compiler work?
"Personally I think it requires identity verification and secure reversible transactions"

Aren't those two just a layer on top of bitcoin?
It's a site designed on behalf of a man who, as I understand it, would rather use some complicated web scraping/emailing scheme to view websites than even touch a web browser.

It is probably exactly what he intends the web to be. Or at least his little corner of it.
No, it's really not. A base model Nook can hold about 2000 books. If you have the older simple touch with an SD slot, you can expand that into the realm of....far more books than you'll ever live to read, quite frankly.
It's easier to reason about performance. Since both are high-level languages, chances are expressiveness and correctness matter more, and I've found Haskell better at both, even for beginners.

OCaml had some pretty specific downsides beyond just the GIL (which is pretty absurd on its own). Typeclasses are really big, and the module system can't make up for them. OCaml also had absolutely terrible tooling and an abysmal standard library, although this has been improving pretty quickly in the last few years.

Ultimately, after having used both languages quite a bit, I just find OCaml quite a bit more awkward than Haskell. OCaml's advantages just don't make up for this, although I really love some features like polymorphic variants and modules that don't suck.

I'd still use OCaml for a few particular tasks, like web programming with the incredible js_of_ocaml, but Haskell is generally my default choice both for programming and trying to teach people.
For interview purposes, I build a LEGO Mindstorms framework to push the buttons and check that the correct LCD segments light up. And wait several weeks while it runs through a sufficient number of iterations to give some assurance of correctness.

For real-world purposes, I see if it turns on and gives me 4 when I do 2+2. If it fails, I buy a new one off Amazon.
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Seriously, that makes sense. Ender with the weird sister (non)incest situation is a stand-in for the author. He's not actually a bad person, just really repressed?
Intestesting that the poll results (currently) only give a slight edge to native, but the comments are overwhelmingly pro-native.

I can see two possible reasons for this:

1) Native developers are the more opinionated of the two.

2) People who actually have experience to communicate prefer native
It's not hard to create a new coin as well. For example Litecoins are divisible a hundred more times than Bitcoins with a cap four times larger. If we need more, make more.
Not for whatever salary. For doing what you're good at and makes you feel like god.
Look like if you build some web app and have it run for one or more customers, it'd be more profitable; that's what I'm doing with my free msdn ultimate. (passively pocketing at least $300 per month) and another customer is just around the corner which may tripple it.

Though, finding such ideas/customers is exponentially harder than installing mining software.
You could actually use Gyft (offering 4% back on giftcards to retailers doing other deals today) to get 4% lower deals at conventional deals.
Seems the main criticism is sample size - what was it?

> showed “no evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of the data”, said a statement from Elsevier, which publishes the journal. But the small number and type of animals used in the study means that “no definitive conclusions can be reached”.

The type of animal is the same as used in the compared Monsanto study, so that seems shaky.
This author isn't grounded in reality of how systems currently work - seems trapped in purely theoretical thinking.

"Perfect capitalism" can't exist because for-profit businesses create and maintain the frictions mentioned that would be greatly reduced.

There's a whole social/sociology and psychology of human behaviour layer missing from these thoughts.
Yeah, the ecological benefits of an ereader may or may not be a wash. Sure, you're saving on trees, but most of the trees books are made from are farmed anyway, and electronics are incredibly, outrageously polluting and energy intensive to manufacture.
You can also access the camera on iOS using HTML5, a bit buggy though: https://github.com/daraosn/Cordova-CanvasCamera, anyways I also second you, native development is always better, imo.
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I'm curious in how you put Titanium next to PhoneGap (Disclaimer: I may be reading too much into that, or not understanding your meaning - 2nd language etc.).

My experience with Titanium is that you code in js or Alloy, then when building and deploying, you get native code, with native elements and everything.

Comparing it to PhoneGap, which purely runs in a slowish WebView isn't quite fair I think. Or has your experience been different?
Apparently, the opening part about the internet spawning from a RAND Corporation study is just a myth:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Charles_Herz...
I'm still getting 502 in Turkey. And also in google apps accounts.
animals without tumors

zing
It literally takes me about five seconds to strip the DRM off of an epub, and then I can have backup copies of my own library. No losing books because a pipe bursts or a trunk gets lost during a move.
We are currently evaluating http://www.breezejs.com/ as a general entity framework that can also do sync. This one seem to be a bit more low level, but probably a lot simpler to integrate.
There's a series of lectures on core C++ and the STL which you can download for free from channel9.msdn.com from a guy called Stephan T. Lavavej who works on the STL at Microsoft. I only wish my University lectures were half as good as these. They're jammed full of useful information. They're still being updated, the latest came out earlier this month.
It seems like you're purposely misinterpreting his point. He's not saying what should be, he's saying what probably was. You might have been saying that homosexuality is unethical a hundred years ago with the same certainty with which you denounce Card. I'm sure nobody here actually thinks that being gay is unethical.
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Also of interest, are trace compilers suited for static languages?

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Are-trace-compilers-sui...
> software that allows you to concentrate on developing your application’s features rather than configuring servers

If you are running a SaaS, how is system administration less important than coding?

Now if the author had written "software that allows you to be more productive on both fronts", fine. But the notion that operations is somehow less important than development is exactly what fucks up so many SaaS companies in the long run.

Your users want your service to be 24/7 available and responsive. That's not a static goal (unless you fail to gain traction), and an essential and highly integrated part of what you deliver.

Maybe the author is lucky that his particular SaaS is easy to deploy and scale, but dismissing system administration as a distraction that can be solved with software is not universally applicably advice.
It is kept in a proprietary database owned by the pharmacy unless it is sent to Medicare for coverage. Since that personal information is covered by HIPPA, it is not available by API.
How do you know that 'no alcohol, drugs, coffee etc' has been good for you if you have no basis for comparison?
Deflation. The value of the rest of the existing stock of BitCoins goes up slightly, assuming no net change in the demand for them.
ya, but each of the factors of 2013 is prime, so that's gotta mean something, right?
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I've been thinking about this for a while, from a technological standpoint I agree with this story, from a sociological standpoint I don't.

People for the most part don't trust machines at the moment, which will slow down acceptance of things like self-driving cars, which Google has proved to be safer than human-driven cars. Another thing "regular folks" don't want is to be talking to robots all day long. At the McDonalds counter they want to be able to yell at the clerk for not getting the order right, and want the satisfaction of seeing a manager reprimand the clerk. They want to make small-talk with the cashier at the gas station, they want a human hair-dresser to tell them what human fashion is like this year.

If the world was full of (semi)-autistic developers from silicon valley, sure, this would be feasible. In the real world the "regular folks" themselves will be the reason they still have their place in the world.

Also, in order to automate everything a lot of raw materials will be necessary, which will lead to a price increase which in turn could make people cheaper than automation.
I'm guessing this is about Tyler Cowen's Average is over? (The site is down currently.)

If so, there are other ways of looking at the same data that Cowen uses to determine, and then extrapolate, a trend of increasing inequality, http://cafehayek.com/2013/11/when-facts-arent-facts.html

Russ Roberts (the author of the above piece) also interviewed Tyler Cowen on EconTalk where they discussed the case of compensation to (book) writers, http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/09/tyler_cowen_on.html Cowen argues that superstars eat an ever larger share of the total compensation while Roberts notes that the average is being dragged down by the fact that there are few, if any, barriers to entry for new writers and writers who would have done well in the past (due to their talent, education, ability) still do well today.
Why wouldn't nominal rates simply be adjusted to account for inflation/deflation?
Right, I think there are just overall more web developers than mobile developers out there (one has been around for much longer), and people who have had real experiences building mobile apps are still in the minority.
The biggest downside I found with kivy is the amount of time it takes to launch the app as it has to set up the python environment et al. If that's improved with newer versions of kivy I might go back to see what it can do.
That are interesting questions, thanks for asking:

Do you think you could do it again?

Let me answer it first in a clumsy-sounding way: I want to be able to do it again, because I want to think of myself as someone who did a few things right and didn't ONLY have a ton of luck.

I think the knowledge I have helps me to do it again. I think that I have a few values and advantages that will enable me to do it again. Namely: I can distinguish between between good and crappy ideas. I can evaluate ideas relatively quickly and tell if I'd do them or not. I'm still down to earth, don't buy the hype and focus on stuff that seems to be a viable long-term business opportunity.

All these things I just listed are also big disadvantages: I dismiss many ideas that might be feasible as utter crap. In fact, I think most ideas are really bad. Even successful ones. Unfortunately, I feel that I can't see problems in a lucid way. For me, for almost everything there's already a solution, which is dangerous thinking, because I don't easily try and start new things. I'm a bit complacent in this way.

Are you working on the next thing or happy enough with this success?

I'm happy with the success and I'm working on expanding the existing business. But sometimes I feel like being on a plateau. No matter what I do, the business simply grows with a small linear rate.

A couple weeks back, I didn't check my analytics and metrics for 2 months or so. Nothing changed. My SEO rankings improved over time by doing...nothing. The amount of active people increased a bit, by doing nothing.

This is a good thing, but it also feels like there's nothing I can do to make it grow faster. I'll try a few things in 2014 though.

Anyways, I'm in a super-comfortable position. I can take vacation whenever I want (and I do), I make more money than I spend, I make more money than in my old 40-hour-week job, I don't have to think about money at all. If I want, I work 4-5 hours a week and still get paid fully. This is the perfect situation to start something new.

So, as I said, I'm happy with my success, but it's also boring sometimes. I want to start something new and I know that the fruits I enjoy won't last forever. I don't know what's gonna happen in 10 years, but I feel like I need a second business to be less dependant on my first one.
The one named after an engineer* [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato's_five_regimes

* Just kidding.
This release is out on 1/12/13 it's still meant to have a major bug. This isn't actually a release...
The transaction in question sends some fraction of BTC to an address which is not the hash of an extant BTC wallet.

Thus no one can ever spend those BTC ever again, they exist in BTC limbo, attached to a notional wallet that (probably) exists but can never be found.
Only reason I can see from the rules would be that your employer offers less that the minimum salary (kollektivvertrag) for your position.

See below for EU Blue Card Germany, Non EU Citizen, No Degree, No German based training, WITH ICT(information computer technology) experience will qualify.

http://www.bluecard-eu.de/eu-blue-card-germany/work-permit.h...

What "WORD FOR WORD" in German is stated on your VISA rejection cause in BOTH CASES?
"You cant buy rice or bread with bitcoin in Africa"

Yet.
I think you're right to make this distinction. Titanium doesn't belong in the 'wrappers' family and would be better grouped with other 'cross-platform native' solutions like Xamarin [1], perhaps a 4th category in parent's list.

[1] http://xamarin.com/
Maybe it's due to the phrasing of the question. I certainly prefer native (ok semi-close-ish native, I use Titanium), but I _will_ in the future prefer to be using HTML5, once it's ready.

HTML5 isn't ready yet in my opinion, as it takes too much effort (read: hours, money) and many workarounds to get a polished, fast and responsive app out of it to rival native. Sure it's awesome for fast prototyping, but it's still too hard to get "dat native feel".
Isn't always possible to deconstruct the factors of a number in only primes?
fastbkapp will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, email address, custom friends lists, messages, friend requests, News Feed, relationships, relationship interests, birthday, chat status, notes, work history, status updates, education history, events, groups, hometown, interests, current city, Photos, religious and political views, videos, website, personal description and likes and your friends' relationships, relationship interests, birthdays, chat statuses, notes, work histories, status updates, education histories, events, groups, hometowns, interests, current cities, photos, religious and political views, videos, websites, personal description and likes.

hmm, nah.
I liked this:

CB: Twitter?

SN: Yes

CB: That's a video game

SN: That's not a video game

CB: Yes it is a video game. It's a massively multi-player online RPG
in which you choose an avatar and you act out a persona loosely
based on your own in order to gain followers. It's a video game.

Later on John Snow complains about the violence depicted in the Lego game. Charlie has already stated that a "4 year old would play this game".

Actually I disagree. I wouldn't let my 4 year old play this game. I agree with John. It is too violent. I also wouldn't let my 4 years old watch the Avengers or Ironman either, on which those scenes appear to be based.
He used his Paypal money to fund Tesla and SpaceX. If those earnings had been taxed higher, no Tesla and SpaceX.
Cowen has no credibility on economics: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1880544
Then how will I prove i possess a certain amount of this coin?
Not an actual release, the VERSION file changed on a non-main branch.. Stop jumping the gun.
Ah, but you know: the loading time and the CPU. You outsource the dynamic part to disqus and the actual content gets loaded really fast.
Bitcoin would be an awesome "dead drop" for untraceable communication of small data.
The opt out rate is below 5% right now - that's what the opt in rate would be, probably even a bit less. There's no way to get any site interested in improving their ads like this. It's definitely controversial, I wasn't a fan of this at first either, but it really wouldn't change anything the other way around.

Also, we're clearly communicating this on our website, the first run page and in the settings UI and make it dead-simple to opt out. We're even planning to show a little notice next to whitelisted ads in the future.
If I get an RSI I wouldn't be able to write code :)
Yea of course, but I'm already busy with 3 different projects and none of them will use Azure any time soon (actually 1 will, but I'll get a new bizspark for that). Al my credits were just wasted on idling servers...
Technical differences aside, proofofexistence.com predates the Cornell team's blogpost by a couple of months.[2]
I am not surprised that the Cornell team did not cite the bitcointalk forum post (given the recent frenzy of their Selfish Mining paper, where they neglected to cite a fairly closely related forum post from two years earlier). However, a published paper, CommitCoin,[1] predates both of these by about a year.

I don't believe there is any meaningful technical difference among these.

[1] Clark, Jeremy, and Aleksander Essex. "CommitCoin: Carbon dating commitments with bitcoin." Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. 390-398.

[2] www.proofofexistence.com - Upload a document and have it certified by the Bitcoin blockchain
bitcointalk user: maraoz
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=212701.0
My favorite so far:

Hey Google, thanks for making money on the web?
Why is this an either/or question? Do you prefer native or html for PC apps? It depends on the app, I prefer whichever is appropriate for the application in question. This is just as true with a pocket sized computer as it is with a laptop or desktop computer.
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I think ruttiger may mean that 2013 is the product of three unique primes (e.g. 30=2 * 3 * 5 would be another example, but 50=5^2 * 2 is not).
I don't think that qualifies for an ad hominem at all. It's only ad hominem if the factor you're dismissing the author due to happens to be irrelevant to his current argument. That's not the case, I agree.

Having said that, I just want to make it clear that I don't know enough about him to agree with your position on him. I know he's anti-gay, and I've read the Ender books. That's about it.
1. Aristocracy

2. Timocracy

3. Oligarchy

4. Democracy

5. Tyranny
To spend coins from given address, you need its corresponding private key. They can demonstrate that, the way they generate these addresses, they can't know the private keys. Or possibly matching private keys might not exist at all. In that case, as an analogy, think of unix account with disabled password, the password hash in /etc/shadow is "!". There is no password which has a hash "!". So effectively it is impossible to log in with password.
If they are built separately, as I said in the OP, there isn't much point in the cryptographic nature of bitcoin. If you require people to trust those holding the ledgers of transactions you could just use any unit of account, as we do with national currencies.
The first link is a very interesting article in its own right, and a good lesson on taking statistics at face value.
a) Citation needed. b) Aren't the TSA officers unarmed?
Have you got experience with Titanium? How is it? I've had a few clients inquire about mobile applications as of late and I'd like to start exploring options for me as a web developer.
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> I wonder if this is related to the colour name parsing weirdness that was on HN a couple of weeks ago?

Exactly my first thought. This is one of the main reasons I frequent this site - I have tons of random tidbits like this cached in my head, so around half of the times someone introduces a problem to me, I am known to reply: "you know, X months back there was a post on Hacker News...".
It's understandable, but doesn't make it right. I personally dislike his opinions enough not to pay a dollar to watch his movies or read his books. I might even be loathe to give him enough respect to read this article, but that's a prejudice and it's not right.
Not prime here in the UK where we write our dates DDMMYYYY.
Some people say that is exactly what SatoshiDICE is doing :)
Oh. Well, good. I think civil, negative comments have more value than just downvoting.