skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bit skeptical of wemineltc.com (no https)
The real problem is the viewer who get suckered. Let people watch both and learn to make decisions for themselves.
Never invest an amount of money that you can't afford to lose.
Just so everyone is aware, I filled out the form for the $100 and got the message: "Thank you. An Amazon Web Services representative will contact you." Ugh.
The only regret from dropping out of college, really. I don't want to continue working in my country, because it has a low standard of living and low salaries. I have been thinking of getting a remote job, or at least starting freelance/consulting. Looking forward to the answers here.
> Opens at: 30 Nov 2013, 09:30 PM
Closes on: 30 Nov 2013, 12:00 AM

Which timezone?
Probably not. Surgeon is a highly skilled occupation. He's referring to a world where only Surgeons (and equally skilled people) can get any money at all.
Ask HN: How to make sales happen?
I have a small service I recently finished building that is a marketing app for a specific niche. The niche is under-served (because it can't be targeted well with SEO/adwords), large, receptive to the product, and I have ~$700/month in recurring revenue after 6 weeks.

An average customer is worth $50-$70/month (profit), in my estimation, and is long-lived (predict 12+ month average).

A sales call takes 15-20 minutes average, but we never make a sale unless we're talking to the owner (small, local businesses) and we have a lot of difficulty getting owners on the phone (cold calling). Most of our current sales have been in-person or through personal networks.

If I don't want to do my own sales, can you guys give me an idea what/how I should expect to pay someone?

Should this be a commission job? Hourly?
What would be a normal commission (or hourly)? xx% on all recurring sales? Bonus per new customer?
Is there a go-to place for this kind of worker?

Any specific advice for getting the owner on the phone in a non-deceptive way?

Any answer and all other input is quite welcome.
You want to talk about shitty targeting, I pull up a Radiohead clip and the entire background becomes an ad for Rihanna.

Great work YouTube.
The bitcoin exchanges and trade platforms are a scam.

Its a worse market than wallstreet.

Read Kevins post without your bitcoin-glasses on for reasons why.
I am trying the free tier right now. I installed https://github.com/cbuchner1/cpuminer. I have got it running, but I don't think its doing much of anything.

Here's a tail of the log:

[2013-11-29 08:15:37] Stratum detected new block
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[2013-11-29 08:18:14] thread 0: 34596 hashes, 1.79 khash/s
[2013-11-29 08:19:38] Stratum detected new block
[2013-11-29 08:19:38] thread 0: 65016 hashes, 0.78 khash/s
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Another example of no matter how much HN headlines change, they still stay the same. :|

Scored 12/20... this bot is good!

However, a lot of the headlines sound like I've read them, even so even if the bot is generating new titles for old stories by itself, it's using the same keywords as the original titles, so it ends up confusing me a bit...
"It amounts to saying that we should have fairly high taxes, and redistribute most of the money as a minimal income to every person."

Yes, but before that we would need to have as low taxes as possible in order to stimulate the innovation needed.
Some details are lacking on that page:
- In what timezone are the times given?
- And where do I find the "given list of languages" that are supported?
Oh no a boring master keyboard :')
Well those prove useful sometimes.
They are the honda civic of keyboards.
This is my startup just launching!

Apart from the kind of forced title, what I'm really trying to do here is to offer a steady/reliable source of good quality coffee always at a fair price. You pay a fixed monthly fee and can be sure you'll always have great coffee at a great price.
It's not a club for coffee connaisseurs and we don't offer exclusive blends every month - it's simply good coffee for anyone who likes coffee.

The way I do that is by connecting local roasteries directly to end customers. No middle man, no storage costs, no retail costs. I'm starting with coffee but I believe it can also be done for other products (?).

Would really like to get your input on this... Would you buy this for yourself? Would you buy it for your startup?

Cheers
Leaving Facebook is / can also be a time investment. Years ago I found out I was spending way too much time there on things I do not want to care about (note the distinction between caring, not wanting to care, and not caring).

Do I really want to invest my time untagging myself from shameful photos, even issuing take-down requests to my own friends? I was not invited to a party because I do not have a facebook account? I am the expensive friend, who can't be contacted using whatsapp or facebook? I am not able to show off my "awesome" travels in order to step up on the social ladder? Cry me a river, I tell them, and myself every time.
Would that work on a car, considering it's vibrating from the engine running?
وظائف خالية بجريدة الاهرام اليوم الجمعة 29-11-2013
No, I meant intentionally.

They disagree with the article or what have you and say so in the thread.
Your attitude (aggressive tone, insults) is precisely why research is not advancing as fast as it could! You are part of the problem, not researchers who desperately work on reproducing the effect and who try to have their results taken seriously.

Also, I meant Celani, not Piantelli (sorry!). He has published a lot of information in the last 18 months, you should check it out, see:

- http://iccf18.research.missouri.edu/files/Poster/Grimshaw.pd...

- http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/08/celani-demonstrates-excess...

- http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Francesco_Celani's_LE...
Magnetic tape to the rescue
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Yeah, I think in practice, as drawn, the red wheels would simply jam up. And if they don't, the outer rim of the big wheel would not hold its place relative to the inner part. I dont see how the outer rim could be solid enough, relative to the inner hub, to do any useful job. The whole thing just breaks.

http://www.drgoulu.com/2005/12/29/eviteur-daxe/

The mine application seems to be a subset version. If that is the best example any one has of this design in practice it suggests that its not possible to build a working version of the whole thing. A mechanically weak proof of concept might be possible, but a solid use-able version seems to me to be impossible.

Might work if the outer rim is supported or guided on some way. I still think loading is a problem though.

I love to see some one try to build it....
IntelliJ IDEA 13 will have a real SBT integration.
How to land an airplane if you are logged in Gmail
Thanks, but I tried to paint the impression that I can, in fact, afford to lose all of it.

Nothing will change about my lifestyle, rather only my bank account points and my progress in savings.
Ask HN: Open Source alternatives to Disqus?
Are there any alternatives to commenting services like Disqus and IntenseDebate? I am looking for open source software that can be installed locally.
I'm not laughing, I want to read these articles! Get to work and make your magic robot compose the stories.
I would like to see some figures correlating taxation to innovation.
How do you know it isn't the idleness that is the problem, but instead the environment that they have grown up with? Stressed and overworked parents with low incomes that don't foster curiosity and pursuit of beneficial hobbies, etc. These issues are pretty complex.
Meaning you would put more than 10%? (It is a bit unclear the way you worded it)
A verified review is when amazon confirm the person bought it from Amazon. Meaning they definitely paid for the product.
That is an amazing concept! I just shared it with a charity organisation that works with people who are battling depression (@TWLOHA). I wish you the best!
> Leaving Facebook is / can also be a time investment.

Absolutely. It can also be an investment in reducing those narcissistic tendencies we all have hidden away ...
I get the feeling that you might be talking about Stallman's appearance, whereas I am talking about his behaviour. I think more people can see past appearance than can see past unsociable/rude behaviour. Pedantically insisting that people call Linux "GNU/Linux" for example. If you were running a business, you wouldn't do that to your customers, right?
Did you just say they default to use the whitelist ad program?
A world where Watson 5.0 is hooked up to an SRI trauma pod? No, he isn't talking about that, but it's not exactly implausible.

What he is taking about is when anything short of surgery or other expert creative work is automated. Which is likely to happen even sooner.
1. Making money is not evil.

2. Adverts only appear on YouTube for videos where monetization has been enabled or a third party owns the rights to the content. The description given by the GP post is somewhat misleading.
Kraken has quite low volume
For some reason the Guardian page goes blank after displaying the page after a fraction of a second.
I'm not there and it doesn't apply to me but I came here to tell you what an amazing thing you're unto. I wish you all the good in the world and hope you have / had a great Thanksgiving!
Yes, if I was in your situation I would put in more than 10%.
But, on the other hand, there might be dozens of Elon Musks each generation if people didn't have to worry about their children falling into poverty because the idea they quit their job and spent their savings trying to execute didn't take off.

Or, imagine during that crucial make or break period, being able to go cut the founder of the electric car company you're working at a little slack with payroll because you already had a check coming in each month that covered your rent and data plan.
What are you even talking about? Buying bitcoins and mining are not the same thing.

Just keep the bitcoins you bought and thank HN in 10 years for making you rich.

Btw Bitcoin is also very interesting from a technical point of view.
Minimal. He chose it because it only has 21 operations, as opposed to RISC machines which had 50 or so at the time.
You make the assumptions that people capture the full value of their work absent and that value is only ever created through human effort. Neither assumption is correct.
I don't get it. Are you saying - okay let's replace the javascript run time in today's browser to this version in Go?
It's surprising that none of these content providers are delivering targeted ads. You're totally right, for as much information as we've given these companies, video ads remain completely irrelevant to individuals.

For online video in general, it seems like Facebook is the company missing the largest opportunity. With the demographic information they've acquired over the years, they could easily leverage Facebook Connect on all the video platforms where authentication is utilized. It seems like the hardest part is building up ad inventory to support various demographics.
> exchanging litecoins is practically impossible

> Currently litecoins are only used as a ponzi scheme

What? I'm not really a fan of Litecoin but you can't just make false claims.
I'd gather you won't be counting in BTC directly then. 0.000132 is 132 microbits (or yu-bits). Bitcoins are divisable up to satoshi's, which is 10^-8.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14438.msg195287#msg1...
Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpectraLayers http://vimeo.com/32731023#at=0
I don't think it's fair to say that Adblock Edge is unmaintained when it has more recent updates than Adblock Plus:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/...
I feel your pain, bro.
Lately I've been using http://fixyt.com which is a website that works on top of YouTube but without the annoying ads and without the stalking that Google does on you.
You don't have to represent BTC amounts as fractions of a whole. 0.000132 BTC is 132 µBTC, 0.0000132 BTC is 13.2 µBTC, or 1320 satoshi. It's likely we'll be seeing more talk of milli-BTC and micro-BTC, and hey why not nano-BTC while we're at it ...
The timezone is Asia/Kolkata (IST).
The timezone is Asia/Kolkata. The FAQ page is at http://www.hackerearth.com/judge/.
An IPv6-only VPS that costs less
Timezone: Asia/Kolkata
Cicada 3301: the Internet code-breaking mystery that has the world baffled
if he refuses to work, he will stop getting money/benefits from the state. If he commits crimes to get money, he will be put in jail. After third crime he will get life sentence and he will not inconvinience society any more. Putting people in jail is expensive but I think society can afford it. Not much different from what we have know.

Busywork can be totally environmenrally friendly. For example, manually sorting recycle and compost comes to mind.
financially your best deal is hourly rate, you'll save the most money. the next is one time commission. avoid recurring commisions and give 25% of the recurring amount (a smaller percent) as a bonus, they'll think they have a dream job.

what a lot of younger companies do is hire sales people or a sales person, and then after x months your best seller becomes your sales manager (gets raise and/or bonus).

in a lot of those scenarios each sales person can also serve as an account manager for important customer. it sucks when you scale this though b/c each person can only manage N customers and each customer takes away from the time spent on sales calls, but in a lot of cases its worth it for big customers... not really important if they all pay the same rate however..

there are companies that can do this also but i dont know any and you get what you pay for - you'll only get a % of his time.

typically people just hire someone for sales. ive seen ads on craigslist. ive also heard stories of finding someone in your own team and moving them to sales, ie. someone with a outgoing personality. also this has bonus points b/c they already know the product so you dont have to train them. i guess this isn't relevant.

just my 2 cents.. gl!
How Tenacity And A Wall Saved A Japanese Nuclear plant From Meltdown
I have a hard time believing that the radio select in YouTube's settings works, because I'm talking about dozens of videos, posted by different publishes, all of them with ads from the company I'm talking about. Maybe the publishers in question weren't aware of that setting.

Let me tell you more - I was visiting the US when the protests started and I posted YouTube links on my Facebook account, completely unaware that the videos in question were served with those ads, because those ads targeted only Romanians. The act of publishing a link is also an act of publishing. When I publish a link, I should be completely aware of what I'm publishing, OK?

Also, we go back full circle to monetization needs. I'm not seeing controls in YouTube for banning certain ads from happening. That radio select is a global switch. You either want ads or you don't. Also the question is stupid. Because it's an opt-out and if you are unaware of the setting, you're implicitly opted-in AND most importantly, that doesn't mean you'll receive any money from your views and likes [1]. Like, seriously?

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2490020?hl=en
I'm not so sure about government-controlled DNS... But what you are describing is "federation" and that's what Diaspora and identi.ca are built around. Everyone can run their own server, and every server can talk to each other, allowing users from different servers to interact seamlessly.
I'd like to see a reliable source, and ideally a photo/video of the device in action. I won't say it's impossible, but it seems like it would be hard to make sure the gear rotates smoothly instead of binding, and "Feynman says that a guy he worked with heard about it" isn't as convincing as it might be.
Needs more parallax. I feel like I'm reading or something: I get the annoying sensation of thinking. I want to feel like the internet is washing over me and flowing through me. That I am one with magic electrons and the thought-beams of narcissists and sycophants.
Well, there're actually names for that:

1 mBTC = 0.001 BTC

1 mBTC = 100,000 Satoshis

1 uBTC = 0.000001 BTC

1 μBTC = 100 Satoshis

1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC

100 Satoshis = 0.000001 BTC

1,000 Satoshis = 0.00001 BTC

10,000 Satoshis = 0.0001 BTC

1 BTC = 100,000,000 Satoshis

1 BTC = 100,000 μBTC

1 BTC = 1000 mBTC

So 0.000132 BTC would be labelled in a shop as 0.132 mBTC
Let's hope so, i guess it remains to be seen how open the device really is.
They were worth $1000 only on MtGox at the time right after the crash. He says that their real value was probably closer to $10,000 once the price bounced back up.
US-based Sikh activists release FlyRights 2.0 app to report abuse at airports
2. You're wrong. Monetization doesn't have to be enabled. The switch is in YouTube's settings and it's called "Allow advertisements to be displayed alongside my videos". That's not monetization.

I've also never met a single Romanian that earns money from YouTube videos. Google treats us as second-class citizens anyway (I still can't sell apps in Google Play btw). The clips I'm talking about have been in the dozens, many by volunteers, by different publishers, all of them with the ads in question. And as I was explaining in another comment, when I started distributing links, I wasn't aware of those ads because I was not targeted and publishing a link is also an act of publishing.

So yeah, rejoice in the availability of that checkbox. Everything is good.
Society likes staring at the Emperor's junk and hopes he keeps tweeting it.
Secure the largest amount of territory and capture enemy groups? Seems pretty human :p
Why I Quit My Job to Start the Rest of My Life as an Apple Store Employee
Facebook bans Adsense in all human history
Show HN: We made an addictive way to fold a sheet of paper
Rules of Storytelling According to the UK Gov
Death to the ISS - Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)
Yes. Like in the nordic countries , which are pretty good at innovation. Or in israel where taxes are high but venture capital investments per capita are the highest in the world.
Scala requires much more work to learn than Go.

Although I like Haskell and FP, this is one of the reasons that I have been very hesitant using Scala in my previous or current position, although both were Java/JVM-heavy. Using Scala has the implication that some of my colleagues have to learn it as well, and learning FP and Scala well can be a multi-month or multi-year project.

With a language such as Kotlin, one can scrap much of the Java boilerplate, while most of it is very easy to pick up for a Java programmer in a few days or weeks.

That said, Typesafe are doing great work! I use and love Akka and it works great in Java as well (if you don't need to compose futures to much :^)).
Ask HN: Why not use this for cryptocurrencies?
I remember after reading about Dynamo and Riak that vector clocks can be used to establish a partial ordering of transactions.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps

Perhaps additional mechanisms would be needed to ensure the actual timestamp of something, but overall, some version of vector clocks and signatures might avoid proof of work entirely. Has anyone investigated along this direction? I think Ripple may have something closer to this than bitcoin.
But that's a fallacious idea. If only surgeons and equally skilled people get any money, where is that money coming from?
Rather depends on what you're trying to achieve, but you could use WordPress. The new JetPack plugin allows people to register using common Social Networks, it's open source, and all the comments are stored in a MySQL database.
Changes can be found here: http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.2
Their HBase implementation is very fast, but it involves using their whole Hadoop distribution...3rd party support isn't there. If you want to use anything you find on GitHub, get ready to add support for MapRFS, and revert the API version back to 0.21

The MapR team is sharp and responsive. It's founded by ex-Googlers from the search-infrastructure team (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/ex-google-man/).

M7 Tables are designed to be a drop in for HBase, with better performance and without the HBase complexity (it's much easier to run M7 Tables as the primary datastore for online apps).

M7 Tables support and certification for several key projects is coming along...

Spark 0.7 already works with MapR M7 Tables with the Hive images that were released with the Eco-1310 (http://doc.mapr.com/display/components/Hive+Release+Notes, http://answers.mapr.com/questions/7803/shark-spark-over-mfs).

MapR is in the process of certifying Titan (https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki), and it's going is going through final QA right now (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/aureliusgraphs/RTeFVssIvoI/m...).
The YouTube video of the "fielders in a state of confusion" is quite funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zjGgau3iF8
There's an unlimited supply of very necessary busywork in infrastructure maintenance that's not currently happening right now at both the U.S. Federal and State level. Nothing new needs to be built, just bridges painted, roads resurfaced, water systems cleaned out etc.
Because luxury is something we will never have enough of.

Might also be due, to the fact that unless it is met, theoretically we cannot "not work" just yet.

I would also speculate on why $30 a day. This evaluation is based on the costs of utility services, while those are hugely related to the overall average salaries rather than the cost of material [1]. I.e., the price of utility may and will significantly change, based on overall situation in the country.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing
Does anyone have any idea how to buy BTC if you're in Australia?
FWIW I upvoted you! I'd always wondered if the Chinese in Auckland was any good or not compared to China (I'd suspected yes, but good to know!). It has been crazy watching all the good asian food popup over the last 20 odd years. It all feels so natural and part of NZ culture now (e.g. there are 7 Korean, 3 Japanese, 2 Chinese and 1 French restaurants directly across from the office!).
This attitude is pretty tedious. In research we can't predict in advance what will have lasting value. That's why it is called research. Same thing in applies in startups.