skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed with all positive comments -- very inspiring and impressive! I'm planning to download Do Something & Great Words. Do you mind sharing how much time each of the apps required proportionally?

And what API do you use for Word app?
> You're wrong. Saying that music/lyrics has no market value

Well since I didn't say that, you're wrong.
EZAudio - An iOS/OS X audio processing and visualization framework
Lyft Is Rolling Out The Highly Controversial, Uber-Like Surge Pricing
Interesting, does that make sponsored posts necessarily against TOS?
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So, now we know who to contact about buying some of these awesome domains... handy.
Google did not say they were 'negotiating' with RapGenius. The claim about 'working with' comes from RapGenius. It could be that RapGenius is mistaken or just thinking optimistically.

Let's see what happens but it seems like a stretch that Google would feel compelled to 'negotiate' with RapGenius.
Sponsored Posts are what Google calls advertorials and considered to be a link scheme[1] which means they're against their webmaster guidelines[2].

However, they're acceptable if they do not carry any link equity (aka. use the no follow tag) on the link.

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356

[2] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en
> But everyone deserves the opportunity to sell that work.

We agree.

> When someone else takes what someone does, it diminishes the value of that opportunity.

No it doesn't, those people wouldn't have paid anyway. Copying is not theft. This is the same tired argument the MPAA's been trying to make and it's just a sign of the establishment not adjusting to the new reality that distribution is not a profitable industry anymore.
Very cool but I am afraid this is geek candy that would not fly for mere mortals. When you say next-gen IDE do you mean for a certain class of developers?

The problem with these type of development tools is that it moves your brain from thinking in terms that of a human to thinking in a very structured way more attuned to machines.

This is a problem with functional programming in general, it is fundamentally anti-human, people don't think functionally but rather procedurally.

Full disclosure here, IDE maker so I have skin in this game :)
No. It's completely smoke and mirrors and the method he claims to have done cannot deliver reliable answers. He refuses to approve any comments at all which are critical of him or his blog post, and has not corrected factual mistakes in it. For my detailed rebuttal, see http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ruluz/satoshi_naka...
> I want itch.io to be the place where people make the homepages for their games.

I see, that makes sense then.

> If I do start aggregating reviews then you might see it on those pages, but never on the game pages.

That is enough for what I was asking about. Perhaps a best-selling titles, etc..
I think having Ev's name in the link is a bit much.

Your subtitle:

How to make Medium the world’s greatest “collaborative idea-generation and distribution” platform

is more accurate to the piece.

You have some decent criticism of the platform and provide some great ideas.
"Copies are not theft and the artist doesn't deserve anything."
Nah -- it's just like buying ad space on a site though, so the links to your site should be nofollowed.
We've seen nothing from Google suggesting this is happening. My guess is that Rap Genius are being overly generous with what negotiations are going on. E.g. Google Webmaster Tools are showing why the penalty is happening (that's what Google's brought to the table) and Rap Genius is fixing what it says their.

I doubt there's any sort of quid pro quo going on here.
Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/
I use ranger on a daily basis; can you elaborate more on how you connected the two?
I like the customized search results. They're more often than not helpful to me.

If I want the weather in a city I'm visiting, why wouldn't I want it on the google page, instead of another click away?

The rest of the Internet has no natural right to views and clicks sent their way from google. If google gives users the best search results (among the more than half-dozen credible search engines), users will use them. Do enough hostile things to users and users will go elsewhere. If their competition improves while they stay stagnant, they will also start to lose market share.

Google is improving Google's offering. That's laudable, because it helps Google's users and Google's financials.
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> The world values the lyrics/songs

Never said they didn't, try understanding what was sad before flying off the handle.
The Star Wars Holiday Special
That doesn't imply what you seem to think it implies.
> a) He lives in London. Satoshi's mining has been timezoned to indicate that he probably lived in the UK. The genesis block had a quote from The Times ("chancellor on brink of second bailout").

Doesn't Dai live in Washington...?

> d) Wei Dai published 'b-money' system in 1998

And Szabo says he first wrote about Bitgold around then too, so? Lots of people have written about digital currency over the years.
Nice catch. Since they are basically offering the same deal, reward for links, they must also be violating the same rule.
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What IDE are you working on?

I agree with the argument against functional programming, though I would qualify that with pureness (doing everything functionally) rather than just the use of functions in general: functions are sometimes the most natural way to do something. Haskell is good for what it is, an experiment in pure functional programming, which has taught us a lot about programming in general.
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> What backs the value of a Bitcoin
Value is always backed by perception of individuals(micro) and groups of individuals(macro). A change in perception of these groups manifests as volatility.

> Isn't Bitcoin the only currency which is in fact backed by Nothing valuable

Depends on what you perceive as valuable.

Theoretically, it could be argued that BTCs value ought to be as valuable as the time, equipment and energy dispensed in mining it + a perceived premium or discount.

In that it is similar to most commodities and currencies.

Further, if someone(Alice) doesn't mine but rather buys bitcoins, then on an individualist scale the price paid is the notional value of the bitcoin's that they hold. Next, Alice just need one person willing to accept her perceived value in exchange of goods and services rendered.

> Paper money imo is backed by regional Economy

You're right. But the same may hold true for bitcoin in the future, if they can develop economies that accept it at all stages of production and final use. They only such economy that exists in part is for mining equipment. Unfortunately, that too is exposed to other(less volatile) currencies which render it inefficient.
Dogewallet had been engaged in several sketchy security practices, such as not using https. It's unsurprising that funds were stolen.

It will be interesting to see if security flaws like this cause as big a splash in the Dogecoin community, since it's sort of a big joke anyways.
I can recommend Zero-K (http://zero-k.info/) and NOTA (http://nota.machys.net/) as very polished AAA RTS games based on SpringRTS.

As is always the case for games the available screenshots/media don't reflect the actual gameplay. I suggest you give it a try :)
I'm surprised to see that some people were actually using this...

Dogecoin... Very irreversible. So sorry.
GraphViz is awesome for drawing graphs.
Right. Anything that would materially affect your life if it were closed or shut off on Christmas is "essential infrastructure."
It even has a black market in the works "Doge Road":

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=383053.0
I'm puzzled about how this would help with 3D graphics. Wouldn't Windows still be running the same way in a VM, regardless of where its files are located?
I think this is what the comment was referring to:

(the statement released by RG)

"We are working with Google right now to resolve this. They’ve been really great, helping us identify changes we need to make, even on Christmas. We’re working on it as fast as we can, and expect to be back on Google very soon."

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/25/google-rap-genius/
I have a hard time differentiating between ruthlessness and contrarianism these days.
Okay, so of course they considered this, and decided it was a bad move:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qw73v/til_orac...
I agree, that's why I was asking which class of developers they are targeting...

My company is building an IDE that is purely about productivity, specifically for building business web applications. Check my profile for link.
Yes, I believe it does.

Actually, let me qualify that comment, I should say that it effectively does. As Dan notes, BitTorrent, for example, is considered to be a decentralized protocol, but it does have some centralized components "for a reason".

IMO, in practice, this is inconsequential, because those centralized components aren't critical pieces, and they are fully "hot swappable". Any one of those bootstrap servers can go down, and they can be easily replaced. They don't really hold any valuable information themselves, they're just entry points into a distributed network.
JSVM
Javascript virtual machine is one instruction set machine to parse and execute an assembly like code.
21 million? Interesting number
it seems unlikely that it was an unknown guy who threw out a workable solution on his first attempt. If it wasn't his first attempt, he must have left an internet footprint somewhere with prior ramblings.

Much like DPR and silkroad.
Cool site, but...

Nymphadora Tonks
Head of Department of Magical Law Enforcement

Errr... Tonks died in the final book
And the world spins on. I thought insecurity was an intended feature of dogecoin anyway.
> However, he also sometimes used American spelling, which may indicate that he was intentionally trying (but failed) to mask his writing style, or that he is more than one person.

Note, non-exhaustive hypotheses. I've lived in England my whole life, but I've done a lot of talking to Americans online. I don't think I'm consistent with my locale, because I don't care enough to pay attention. (Also I don't even remember which of -ise and -ize is which, despite occasionally looking it up.)
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin, Ripple, Namecoin pretty soon we'll have more digital currencies than standard ones.
« The project is not open source and is planned to be a commercial IDE. »

Not saying there's anything wrong with that, but it's worth emphasizing, imho.
Do people who own bought a device have a legit claim of moral high ground to remove third-parties attempt to bypass property laws and take control over devices they do no longer own?

That's an easy question. Yes, yes they do. Its the exact same right that allows a administrator to remove malware that illegally takes control over web servers and send out spam.

Property laws says that owners should be in total control. DRM is designed to bypass said law by the use of technical means. Jailbreakers counters said technical means and returns control back to the owner.

What ever technical means jailbreakers has to use on their devices should not effect the moral high ground claim.
They haven't been transparent about the amounts nor about the parameters of the initial bounty, which does not mean that the algorithm is safe, but rather that it wouldn't be worth the reward in effort to expose a vulnerability in the exact specified way by the authors.
are they only the best lyric site until they have to monetize ?
so hacked such sneak
bai coins
gone, wow. many tears
no doge
The thing about using a coin that was made for a joke, is the risk of non-serious developers and weak security.
Fixed :)

https://github.com/dallarosa/eyenotify/commit/e007b03bdbfd2f...
Google can do whatever they want. If I was the victim of a public name and shame like this which included a very public Google punishment, I'd think it would be in Google's best interest to make an example of me and to make an example of how to get back in their good graces. Google may have shitty customer service, but they don't want it to appear that way in a high-profile case.
And you usually have a choice with corporations. You can see in ToS how they plan to use your data and they often let you opt out. You don't get that with government agencies. Often you don't even know your data is taken since they're monitoring as much as they can see.
The idea's that you can boot into "native" Windows when you need to do stuff with 3D graphics, but boot into virtualized Windows when you don't. This way, you can use the same install for both purposes, allowing you to save storage space and avoid having two different Windows installs that you have to setup and maintain.
I don't see why its not just as easy to switch to other search engines. If Google is beating these other search engines purely because they are a better product then there is nothing monopolistic here.

The reality is that the barrier is very low. Blekko, DDG, bing, yahoo, and we can go back even farther and list more search engines. Nothing is stopping them other than their own engineering resources. Your entire argument is saying Google is better and out innovating the competitors so we should punish them.
It's different: it's a recommendation of our product and it drives real clicks back to Mixpanel (excluding google). Powered by badges are extremely common and are more akin to an ad. The main difference is that Rapgenius' sole goal is to game Google, ours is not.
Money/labour input does not equal value. I could spend 10 years pulling all the grass from my backyard and sorting it from longest to shortest in length. A lot of effort went into it. Doesn't make it valuable.

Paper money is backed by the willingness of other people to price their goods and services in it. If people stop pricing their goods and services in it then it is no longer money. eg: a Zimbabwe dollar is no longer money. No one will exchange anything for it except for a novelty value.

Generally vendors exchange those paper monies for goods and services due to the requirement to pay taxes in fiat dollars. Vendors aren't required to sell for dollars, they can sell for whatever medium of exchange they want. It's just convenient to do so due to the tax reason. That reason alone can't save a currency though. eg: $Zim.
Another way to ask what backs a currency is "Why would I want to acquire this currency, even if I had alternative methods for procuring the goods and services I want?" For a national currency, the answer is that the government puts a gun to your head if you don't pay your taxes in it. A national currency is a very agreeable way for a government to express its power through taxing and spending.

The answer for bitcoin appears to be that currently you can use it for low-friction transactions.
PS4 uses more open source than the BSD Kernel
This Phoronix article confirms that PS4 features Cairo library, eglib, libcompiler-rt, libcxxrt, libjpeg-turbo, Lua, Mono VM & Class Libraries, the Pixman renderering library, and WebKit.
Lol I love the "such jail many prison" comment. That is a horrible idea.
If only HN allowed Comic Sans
First of all, I wouldn't be surprised if you had reasons to try to discredit my claims :).

>Doesn't Dai live in Washington...?

I don't know. His website says that he's a lecturer at 'Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus'. His current location is irrelevant though, it's only relevant where Wei lived around 2007-2010. Do you have information on that?

>And Szabo says he first wrote about Bitgold around then too, so?

b-money is quite similar to bitcoin. Satoshi would be familiar with electronic money schemes, maybe even a public author.

>Lots of people have written about digital currency over the years.

Yes, and? I'm not saying that being an author of a digital currency means the he or she is Satoshi. I'm saying that it's evidence that he or she may be Satoshi, because authors of digital currencies probably want to have said currencies implemented.
DRM and malware use the same technology, same counter measures and share the same goal in having a thrid-party taking control over devices that they themselves do not have any legal right to. Both is commonly made in a for-profit motive.

I would not even know how to distinguish them from each other, beyond what the third-party intend to do once they have taken control over the device. Its the difference between a home intruder who only want to look while you are sleeping, and a home intruder who just want to loot the drawers. Is either home intruder more ethical than the other?
You're talking about Projucer, not Lamdu, right?
This does not sound promising. Scaled linearly to the current level of oil production, this would cover more land area than Brazil and India put together.

All biofuel options have this limitation. Peak production for canola oil is around 100 gallons/acre. Yields for algae are higher, around 5,000 - 10,000 gallons (120-240 bbl) /acre for open-air operations (some greenhouse-based operations claim higher productivity though there's a great deal of skepticism over these), but scaling algae biofuel productions up has been extremely problematic to date. All values on an annual basis.

At present rates of consumption in the US (20 million bbl/day, or 7.3 billion annually), you'd need 30 - 75 million acres devoted to fuel production, if I'm getting my math right. Yield claimed here are for 280 gal/acre, or 6.7 bbl/acre.

The vast majority of oil goes to transportation (where it provides 95%+ of the energy used). In some cases (rail, urban/metro private vehicles, transit, canal traffic) electricity or batteries can be substituted. For others (shipping, and especially air traffic) there are few alternatives to liquid fuels, though ships could move on pelletized biomass and/or wind.

Cutting transportation energy requirements would help, but the expectation of much of the world that it will have access to Western levels of per-capita resource utilization would put a huge burden on biological productivity. I don't see the expectations being fulfilled.

Other alternatives include synthesis of hydrocarbons using electricity. The US Navy is researching such methods, which might be able to synthesize aviation fuel using surplus generating capacity from nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (aviation fuel effectively limits cruise duration as it must be frequently resupplied, cost is another factor), and the ability to obtain both carbon and hydrogen from seawater is a benefit, but the process requires _billions_ of gallons of water to be processed. Again, scale of operations is a significant constraint.
Non-fiction:

On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins

How To Create A Mind - Ray Kurzweil

The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker

The Origin of Wealth - Eric Beinhocker

The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver

The Money Culture - Michael Lewis

Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations - David Warsh

Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing - John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm

The Idea Factory - Jon Gertner

Winning The Knowledge Transfer Race - Michael J. English and William H. Baker

Wellsprings of Knowledge - Dorothy Leonard-Barton

If Only We Knew What We Know - Carla O'dell and C. Jackson Grayson

Started, but haven't finished yet:

The Discipline of Market Leaders - Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema

Marketing Warfare - Jack Trout and Al Ries

Naked Statistics - Charles Wheelan

Wiki Management - Rod Collins

Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand

Fiction:

NOS4A2 - Joe Hill

The first four books in the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman

Innocence - Dean Koontz

Deeply Odd - Dean Koontz

Doctor Sleep - Stephen King

The Black List - Brad Thor

Most of The New Lovecraft Circle - an anthology of Lovecraft mythos stories by contemporary writers

And started re-reading Asimov's Foundation last night. I've read the original trilogy before, but this time I intend to read all seven books. But I'm starting with Foundation and going to the end, before going back to the prequels.
I've seen nodemon before and this is what worried me the most:

"nodemon has three potential methods it uses to look for file changes. First, it polls using the find command to search for files modified within the last second. This method works on systems with a BSD based find (Mac, for example)."

Especially on Mac OSX why would you prefer to use an external command like find instead of using Kqueue? I wonder if find is the right tool for that. And I wonder again why only on BSD-based systems when linux also has find.

Gotta read a bit more about that.

fyi, this is how nodemon is doing file checking:

find -L /dev/null -type f -mtime -1s -print

(https://github.com/remy/nodemon/blob/master/nodemon.js#L57)
IP and patents are not "unregulated capitalism" they are actually political creations enforced by a legal regime.
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$ jp2a ~/doge-tear.jpg > hn.txt

Oh wait, wrong audience.
I'd probably try something like foodgawker but for recipes that contain bacon, its easy enough to build. (hint: I love bacon!! then again who doesn't.)
That refers to Projucer, not Lamdu. Lamdu is open source.
Learning that it was hacked is far less shocking than learning that someone actually gave a shit.
Density of plantings affects available sunlight (neighboring plants shield one another).

Any sort of structure in agriculture is hugely expensive because of scale. You're not talking about putting up a backyard trellis, you're talking about building a structure that would cover tens of millions of acres, hundreds of thousands to millions of square miles. That's tremendous.

Farmers normally consider infrastructure such as irrigation ditches, pipes, and harvesting equipment, which comparably are effectively nil scale, to be significant costs of cultivation.

If you think about it, the fact that most farming takes place on little more than scratched earth, and often not even that, speaks to the low level of infrastructure required.
I think you and the GP (or whatever) are talking past each other. Their original point was that it's essentially impossible for a person to opt out of the labor market, because without money they can't buy food and will starve to death. This is true regardless of any kind of minimum wage laws.
Thanks for the link. What a great discussion from the old seomoz days...

I think matt's strategy today would be more of a growth hack than a link building strategy. I think egobait still works quite well.
You might want to update Readme.md too :)

Usage of eyenotify:
-command="echo": path to be watched
Kind of what you get for attempting to speculate on a meme currency...
What was the tool and could you turn it into a SaaS?
I'm not sure what I can do about that. My posts aren't long (I think) because I spend a ton of space using sesquidealian and periphastic circumlocutions; what is there to cut?
Xen has native GPU passthrough, though I've never tried it with a non-vm partition (it is possible to do so though).
I think the Reserve Bank of India is afraid of the Indian Rupies inflationary past and that Bitcoin might offer a better alternative. Inflation is but a hidden tax of the populations wealth.

Historic inflation data for India
http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/india/historic-infla...