skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two scenarios:

1.) Nothing happens. No one uses auroracoin.

2.) Auroracoin becomes successful, and the government of iceland makes it illegal like bitcoin.

When the problem is government, the solution is not creative free-marketism. A government that does not allow holding in foreign currency or bitcoin is one that needs to be destroyed.
This is getting silly, it's getting to the point where I'm going to start flagging all WSJ submissions on principle. What's the point of posting something most people can't read?

Luckily google isn't subjected to the paywall - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9tSujQL...
Apple lending out Iphone 5S at 8USD a week in INDIA.
The spectre of perl6 stopped bothering us about 2006; CPAN uploads have been up every year since.

If you find Moose too many dependencies, try Moo.
>I don't know if this will affect the likes of Kickstarter though, if they don't have any physical presence in Spain I don't see how the government is going to know about it.

Well, obviously they will known when you receive your funds for your project, else you will be tax avading if you don't report it.
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> What's the point of programming in a language that has 100 ways to do something, and then banning all but 99 of them?

This is also true of C++. People write useful software in it anyway.
The difference is that it doesn't break the back button! Clicking back takes me back to HN, not back a page.
Unicode support in <insert name of popular library or program that touches characters> is...
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I don't think the premise is right. From the beginning to now, Gmail evolved quite a bit. For one, they used their analytical knowledge to prioritize emails, which I found to be very helpful. Two, they started filtering newsletters and advertisements automatically. Third, the UI got revamped quite a bit. Add to that all the basics Gmail does right (spamfiltering, tag+-syntax, …), and you see why it is hard to compete.

That said, I don't use gmail anymore because I don't want my emails to be directly in the hands of the NSA.

But let's focus on their list for a bit. Because innovating a sector is not a goal. Having a goal and therefore innovating, that is a goal. So, does the list they formulated hold up? I don't think so:

better interfaces: Better than gmail? Good luck. Besides, even old-style programs like claws-mail, sylpheed and thunderbird have really good interfaces, for their purpose.

better email management: Gmail does that. And one has to be really careful with that: It is not something every user need, sure not something every user wants, especially if it even once sorts something the wrong way.

better workflow integration: Emails are not tasks. They don't need task management in general. Emails are a communication medium, and sometimes, they contain or become tasks. but that is not a general requirement for users.

better attachment handling: What does that mean besides searching for attachments, maybe including their title, and browsing through the photos? Like attachments.me tried to do. But all of that is not innovation…

better social integration: The action one might want to do, like tweetbacks, should be linked in the email. Isn't that already the case? Blogs do that (ok, serendipity does, don't know about the others).

better prioritisation and analytic: To general. Besides, Gmail tries that already.

So, hmpf. Though I want to add that their general product idea (shared inboxes for taskmanagement) doesn't look bad, for a very specific usecase.
To prevent fiscal fraud. Spanish government has a big problem with people not paying tax (partially because the tax rules in some cases are completely absurd).
The first question that comes to mind is this: how can we defend ourselves from being brain burnt?
I think that it's pretty safe to say that Mt Gox didn't run up $60B in debt.
I hope you can eventually find a way to work onlive (or its successor) into this (I imagine this is one of your reasons for approaching this problem?).
Someone mentioned returning a closure from a function. That's something that is done all the time in higher-level languages and hard to do without a GC.

Also, in general GC's are much faster than reference counting (especially when the reference count updates needs to be thread-safe), so the only reason one would use them is to have deterministic object destructions. These aren't common at all and should not be the deciding factor when choosing a memory management scheme.
In the past 5-10 years there have been several scandals regarding investment instruments: the sale by banks of shady stocks, the sale "guaranteed capital preservation" funds which ended up not being guaranteed (read Lehman Brothers instruments), "investment" firms offering investment in collectables (stamps, art, etc) which ended up being ponzi schemes, etc.

In the past, people who have been hit by these scandals go to the government/financial regulator to claim their losses. If the government doesn't cover X% there tends to be a big backlash from left wing media and politicians.

All the government is doing is hedging their potential future loss in case some of these crowdfunding campaigns end up being "scams". Spain is very much a country that likes socialise private capital losses.
Every time I try and write python or ruby I get an hour or so in and find that I'm writing 5x as much code as I would in Moo/Moose just to express the object design I want.

I've been known to say "perl5 is a lot like ruby except with usable OO" and it's very much a "ha ha only serious" sort of comment.
Email didn't evolve with Gmail. Only the UI evolved.

It could be suggested that Wave was a revolution rather than an evolution, and that was its greatest weakness. I'm sad that it's gone.
" Why is it so hard to innovate? "
Hmmm ... because mail just works since 20+ years
And most of us just need grep command you IOS fanboy
The reason that's a hard question is that while most people have what seems to be an "obvious" definition of "causation" in their head, it turns out to be fairly difficult to define in precise (and especially testable/decidable/falsifiable) terms.
Woooo, Ghost.
our jobs are sweat shops, too, sweat shops of the mind.

You can handle it now, but when you get older, it will be torture.

Does your dad have a 30 year mortgage to pay off? And high property taxes?

No.

So that means he owns a house outright and thus does not have to work 45 years.
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Money and privilege make everything easier, but the effects are much larger in entrepreneurship. To my eyes it's easier for someone from a poor background to break into law or banking; the path isn't easy but it's defined - you get the grades, get the scholarships and so on, rather than having to persuade individuals to talk to you, to invest in your product. Likewise standardized hiring procedures like you see in large corporations or government are designed to detect or eliminate discrimination, whereas VC deals still often come down to a handshake over beers.

Of course other approaches have their own problems, I'm not saying every VC should start implementing a 20-page HR policy. But I think we should be conscious of who our methods are favouring.
Yet another case of a blog where I click the logo at the top and I don't get taken to the product, I get taken to the blog index. Infuriating!
This is more like radiating narrow transmission beams, not symmetrical spherical transmissions in all directions. There will be losses with distance, sure, but nowhere near as bad as omnidirectional broadcast.
This video is filmed, edited and directed by Felix Urbauer during his trip to Indian Occupied Kashmir. The crew consisted of members from the FIAT FreestyleTeam [new-school-skigirls Caja Schoepf, Lena Stoffel and photographer Roman Lachner]

The Heli View of the huge snow covered mountains are magnificent and breathtaking.

The background score complements the video beautifully. Overall, not just another video of Kashmir, but a video that truly showcases the vastness and raw beauty of the mountains. A video that makes you yearn for the great Himalayas.
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70% of Spanish fiscal fraud is from rich people and corporations.

To regulate crowdfunding because of fiscal fraud is pure bullshit. The biggest fraudsters aren't the usual target of crowdfunding campaigns (lots of small contributions).
Sure, I came in after their disaster to clean up, and their issue was their backups weren't up to date and they had no replication etc (it was a small site, no sysadmin, they rebooted their server during a busy time and boom! All the other services came up ok, but not mysql). The fact that Mysql failed and ended up with corrupted dbs on a simple reboot (not power failure) doesn't fill me with confidence - that really shouldn't happen. That's just an anecdote of course, but I think I prefer working with psql anyway.
Yes that's correct. Atronix efforts have been towards producing 64-bit versions + the Linux GUI from the Saphiron code base (which was 32-bit and Windows GUI).

Here's the Atronix announcement - http://rebol.info/altme/105/announce#msg0688

I believe you can consider this as the official build for Rebol3 View/GUI because Saphiron took over the RebGUI/R3-GUI project from Rebol Technologies.

But yes some of the Rebol 3 Core stuff that Saphiron/Altronix have done do need merging back into main open source core [1], which itself as moved on from the Saphir codebase (Saphiron Rebol build) [2].

[1] - https://github.com/rebol/rebol

[2] - https://github.com/saphirion/saphir

Also see Rebolsource repo where lot of the community changes go before merging back into [1]. Ref: https://github.com/rebolsource/r3 | http://www.rebolsource.net

PS. I know that you're aware of some of this info. Posting for the eyeballs of others :)
I personally read lots of blog posts, news website articles, engineering papers (when required) etc. but find it a real struggle to read novels or lots of short stories. I enjoyed some Sherlock Holmes but lost interest after a few.

I just really prefer to consume fiction in film format and always have.
Emails are not tasks? I disagree. You're right that they are a communication medium but it not incompatible. From my point of view most of the time they are both.
I'm confused. Don't you simply set a thermostat to the desired indoor temperature and leave it? Assuming the desired indoor temperature is constant, I would expect the thermostat setting to be constant, the internal temperature to be nearly constant, the outdoor temperature to be uncorrelated, and the energy usage of the heating/cooling system to be correlated with the outdoor temperature (namely, the difference between outdoor temperature and desired internal temperature).
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Not completely gone, it still exists as Apache incubator project : http://incubator.apache.org/wave/
Tin foil hat? (Ok, maybe a Faraday cage hat.)
"no true scotsman" only applies when you are attempting to continually redefine something after the fact, it has nothing to do with the claims made here.
Since Gmail? What new did Gmail bring to email users exactly?
Except for causing annoyances, the truncation of data may also have security implications. Last year, I found that WordPress (which has the utf8 character set by default), was vulnerable to PHP object injection because their filter could be bypassed by (ab)using the truncation of strings in MySQL. For more details: http://vagosec.org/2013/09/wordpress-php-object-injection/
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I think one should ignore the fact that this was bitcoins (rather than any other good) being "lost" or "stolen" or whatever it is that happened.

If fraud was committed...i.e., if customers were lied to, if markets were manipulated in order to continue the deception, if money from new customers was used to shore up the illusion that the money from old customers was still around, etc. that's fraud, regardless of whether it had bitcoin involved or not (there were also vast sums of USD involved, nobody is making a big deal out of that). I'm not saying I know that's what happened. I'm saying that it should not be a question of whether we want bitcoin entrepreneurs to go to jail. That's not the question here. The question is, did Karpeles and his company commit fraud?

"The most persuasive argument for jailtime seems to be that if he's not penalized, then others may attempt to orchestrate similar disasters."

The most persuasive argument, to me, would be "Karpeles committed fraud to the tune of millions of dollars". If that's what he did, he should go to jail. If it's an honest loss, and customers were not mislead, and a ponzie scheme didn't happen, then, yeah, I guess we can talk about what should happen to a monumentally incompetent business man.

I think it will be interesting to see how much differently a bitcoin "bank" is treated than a traditional big bank. The banksters committed fraud in the trillions during the mortgage crisis, and not a one will see jail time...or much of anything really. Some even still have their jobs and got bonuses.
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Two extra memory accesses plus whatever overhead for you have for locking if you are multi-threaded? That's pretty much the opposite of fast.

With refcounting you have:

- Slow memory allocations (need to manage a fragmented heap)
- Slow accesses and pointer handovers (updates to the refcounter)
- Slow free (need to manage the free list)
- No asynchronous pauses (since there is no garbage collector)

With a GC, you get:

- Fast allocations (usually just an "add" instruction since the heap is not fragmented)
- Zero cost accesses and pointer handovers
- Zero cost free (just stop using the pointer)
- Some asynchronous pauses and CPU usage while running the GC

It turns out that the cost of the first three points when using refcounting are much higher than that of the GC. Another reply to your post included references to actual research on this subject.
http://larsjung.de/h5ai/ h5ai makes browsing directories on HTTP web servers more pleasant. Directory listings get styled in a modern way and browsing through the directories is enhanced by different views, a breadcrumb and a tree overview.
Cool ... I knew I was passed back a "convertView" sometimes but didn't realize it was recycling them.
I was going to say much the same that it works fine already. Although thinking about it there have been real improvements like being able to send 2GB files with gmail which was darn hard 20 years ago. And presently if I compose a reply with gmail it does it in a stupid little pop up window while if I fire up Outlook it takes like 5 minutes to come to life. So maybe it's not all perfect yet.

Actually what still bugs me is that I use email as my default record of all conversations I've had since 94 or so but I have not found a way for it to include SMS messages. Facebook you can forward to email but not SMS as far as I know. I want to be able to say to the program show me all the conversations with Bob last year and see everything, SMS, WhatsApp etc included. So come on startup dudes, build away! I daresay much of the problem is the likes of Apple being precious about letting you download the SMSs, but anyway.
Seems like a great opportunity for Bitcoin, if Bitcoin can overcome the many other hurdles it faces: anonymous crowdfunding, capable of circumventing ridiculous laws like this.
I don't know; to me it reads like someone trying to show off, but I don't think it's helpful.

> The latter three overlong encodings aren't considered canonical, and software devs have to fix them to make string matching efficient and so forth, to save space, and most worrisomely to prevent attackers from sliding special characters into strings to crack systems - say by using larger, noncanonical encodings to evade filters that would catch and block the canonical, shorter encodings.

This is misleading. "Software devs" don't have to "fix them". Overlong encodings in UTF-8 are invalid since Unicode 3.1, precisely because of the security considerations, and conformant implementations are required "not to interpret any ill-formed code unit subsequences" (Unicode Standard section 3.9). RFC 3629 also states that "[i]mplementations of the decoding algorithm above MUST protect against decoding invalid sequences."

Fortunately, it's pretty straightforward to achieve this, and the Unicode standard contains a nine-row table listing all valid combinations of ranges of one to four bytes.
Gmail introduced conversation threading, gigabyte storage, speed, powerful search, and lots more no?
[comments don't always parse as intended, so let me first say that I mean this in the very best way possible, and intend to find ways to support Lessing and everybody else fighting corruption]

This may be the most powerful talk I've ever seen. Mr. Lessig has alway given a very interesting (and entertaining) talk. There have been some good talks recently, such as some of the 30c3 talks and Doctorow's caution for the future[1] a year earlier. There are, believe, there's two reasons this talk is so effective.

First, Mr. Lessig gave such a clear and simple goal. This prevents the problem from being immediately interpreted as one of those "big problems" that never get solved.

It doesn't even matter if campaign finance really is the "root" of the problem. It's still worthwhile, and even a small success has got to a lest help some when fighting for other causes in the future.

When dealing with other difficult situations such as addiction or depression, a common suggestion is to make small goals first, that are actually attainable, because trying to solve everything at once often ends up conditioning for apathy over the "impossible task". Those voting numbers shown at the end, however, suggests some victories are easily within reach.

That said...

I believe the key reason this talk was so powerful is that Mr. Lessig called on one of the original ways of rallying people to the cause. It works because it's a reminder that people matter, and some things cannot wait until later...

...because this fight already has a martyr.

Maybe we should make some progress before other are claimed as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
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It was 5% trollish in the delivery for I could have been a little more explicit rather than just throwing my metaphor out in the wind. Happy that 1) I wasn't too far off 2) the situation is resolved.

ps: the explanation for my quick oneliner is that I often see very limited protocols (say FTP, or SMTP) that require many round trip over the wire where it would now (I understand back in the days servers were anemic) make sense to distribute the computation a little on both side. Not unlike memory IMHO.
Never the less, I think 'association' is a better general term.
Sometimes it is just a question of definitions. If I get an email from my mum with an ebook attached, I can regard it as a task (to add that ebook to my reader, to write back later). I'd argue that this is not the definition of a task, the writing back part alone especially not. That is just communication.

But sure, if you use emails primarily to collaborate with others, for you the emails are task thinking might very well be true.
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I was thinking of the backers.

Obviously if you are in need of a significant crowdfunding campaign you'll probably have to relocate to a friendlier place in the EU, at least temporarily (I guess if you are looking for more than 1M euros it might be worth it).
Email in its existence is a medium of communication and there can be innovation in the the modes of communication but the service in its own concept is difficult to be changed. Its same as saying to innovate on letter writing.
> I don't want my emails to be directly in the hands of the NSA

Then I hope you don't send any messages in plaintext, and good luck with the headers.
> I can't tell if sarcasm or severely misinformed

* Describes itself as "within government"

* Subject to congressional oversight

* Governors and Chair appointed by POTUS with oversight from the Senate
After your second kid, it should have been quite clear to you that you would not be able to have a third kid and save as much as you should. Why did you choose to have the 3rd kid?
I have legal question:

If there is campaign organized on Kickstarter or similar site, who is legal entity responsible for the campaign? This services usually collect the money and do not pass it until some conditions are met. We could argue that recipient is just subcontractor hired by Kickstarter.
The next step in the evolution should be end to end encryption that is (yet) impossible to crack
I sure try to encrypt as much as possible.
Do we have enough control over software to make it impossible for someone to delete something and make it unrecoverable when they will later realize they should not have done so?
It's fixed, sorry for the infuriation :)
And decent spam blocking. I switched to Gmail after 10 years with Yahoo because I was fed up with 15 spams a day in the inbox.
This reads more like the writings of a motivational speaker than a programmer. It's... refreshing, actually.
I agree with you almost entirely. Although I do have one specific minor off-topic feature I'd love to have in email that I haven't seen anywhere.

I want the ability to "like" an email, and have the sender know that I "liked" it. I don't want to write "yes, I agree", or even worse, a terse response of "like" as I feel that's a waste of my time, the sender's time, an unnecessary "+1" in their inbox.

I just want a way to say "I read your email and it sounds good to me" without having to actually write anything. Just click the "heart" or whatever symbol, and the sender is notified next time they open their email client with the heart showing next to the thread. Would work out nicely for lists and group emails as well.

I suppose there are clunky workarounds that would allow such a thing dependent upon client implementation, but it's just not that significant of a thing.

As for shared inboxen for task management, I'd recommend Asana (with whom I've no affiliation, besides being a happy customer).
I used to read a lot pre-Internet times (2-3 novels) a week. I read a lot less now. I am still an avid reader, but it requires some additional effort to carve some book time in my schedule. No twitter, no facebook, (too much hn though) no smartphone (which allows me to read in public transportation) but I am feel like I am part of a dying species. And when I will finally cave in to have Internet access 100% of the time I don't know what will happen...
This isn't true.

They claimed 52 or 53 at first, then lowered that number to 1.

Then to zero.

There is no evidence whatsoever that this dragnet surveillance has been useful in any way whatsoever in fighting terrorism.

I think you might also be seriously overestimating how many people actually want to attack the US. Terrorists have more or less become a boogeyman at this point, the chances of anyone in the west experiencing a terrorist attack are so ridiculously small.
For a spaniard it's going to be much more easy to create a company in UK and launch the crowdfunding project with the UK company, and then, move the money by the traditional ways (dividends, getting services from a spanish based company, ...). You are not going to avoid taxed but get rid of those stupid limits and obligations.
for me: what is that "a lot more"? I just want to learn something new (btw, labels/tags are not really new, just redesigned imap folders)
Only in the same sense that public-key cryptography in the 1990s solved the problem of secure electronic communication between two parties. Creating the technology is on big hurdle; getting enough people to adopt it so that it's actually useful is sometimes a bigger hurdle.