skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically one of either outcomes happen:
1. Maintainers of both projects fight it out and one project gets renamed. Users are happy. Packagers are happy.

2. Maintainers of both projects fight it out and neither compromise. Users of both projects (intersection of the sets, rather than union) are pissed. Packagers are even more pissed, and put in an annoying and difficult situation, and forced to come out with weird hacky solutions to appease users. (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614907)

To any of you who read this and find yourself naming a project in the future, do your users some justice and at least do some cursory Googling before settling on a name. And please don't pick annoying-to-Google names like + or * or - or _ or some other one- or two-character name.
This is described in section 6:

"Zerocash can be deployed atop any ledger (even one maintained by a central bank). Here, we briefly detail integration with the Bitcoin protocol."

"Zerocash breaks compatibility with the Bitcoin network. While Zerocash could be integrated into Bitcoin (the actual currency and its supporting software) via a “flag day” where a super-majority of Bitcoin miners simultaneously adopt the new software, we neither expect nor advise such integration in the near future and suggest using Zerocash in a separate altcoin."

"Integrating Zerocash into Bitcoin consists of adding a new transaction type, Zerocash transactions, and modifying the protocol and software to invoke Zerocash’s DAP interface to create and verify these transactions. There are at least two possible approaches to this integration. The first approach replaces all bitcoins with zerocoins, making all transactions anonymous at the cost of losing any additional Bitcoin functionality provided by, e.g., the Bitcoin scripting language (see Section 6.1).
The second approach maintains this functionality, adding a parallel Zerocash currency, zerocoin, which can be converted to and from bitcoin at a one-to-one rate "
Most of this work is publicly funded. They whole VC industry is built on it. It should return more of its profits to the public, just as it would to early-stage investors.
It is going to be a separate coin once released.

Their attempts to merge the original Zerocoin idea into the Bitcoin blockchain were met with contempt.
It's more like a meal replacement shake than dog food. It's very much like Ensure or Jevity or whatever. All of those do the same basic thing of trying to cover basic nutritional requirements.

The big difference is the marketing. Most of those products assumed you were either unable to eat or trying to lose weight. Soylent is roughly the same product but marketed to people who aren't interested in eating.
Team visualizes complex electronic state of battery electrode material
>prefer psychology over technology<

yup.

>Nearly everything that's come out of Matt Cutt's mouth in the last 18 months or so has been a scare tactic.<

the bizarre thing is the gap in perceptions internal to Google versus external.
https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/449008706655510528
https://polldaddy.com/poll/7916680/

>IMO all this does is further encourage the development of "churn and burn" websites from blackhats who have being penalized in their business plan.<

Absolutely. churn & burn sites, and then some mixed in parasitic hosting on sites which are already highly trusted.
The gas comment and upsetting of irregularity might seem humorous to the author, but as a biologist and the child of two physicians (one being a gastroenterologist), this seems very disconcerting. Certain foods that contain disproportionate amounts of certain ingredients (e.g. spices, excessive starches, excessive dietary fiber) do upset bowel movement patterns, but a mix of vitamins and nutrients shouldn't do that. It would be interesting to analyze the effects of a protein shake on bowel regularity and the effects of Soylent on bowel regularity on a single subject, and then compare the two.

Also, foul-smelling gas is usually caused when the balance of the gut microbiome is disturbed in some significant way, and this factor combined with the effects described by the author make me very anxious about the probable proliferation of Soylent. It's one thing for short-term effects, but what about Soylent in the long term? A hampered gut microbiome is severely detrimental to the health of a person's immune system.

EDIT: Just saw the amount of sucralose in each serving. Makes the gut irregularity a lot clearer. Still concerning, though.
My best friend had one of these as a kid and we made epic backyard GI Joe movies.

Incidentally he now works as a film editor.
How do I get to the next level of engineering management?
Finding the right portfolio for yourself is actually a pretty involved question. It depends on your personal situation: Things like whether you have kids, whether you own a house or are planning on buying, what your retirement goals are, etc.

A straightforward bond/stock split has been recommended, and it's probably the simplest but even then there are questions of which bond fund/ETF and which index/equity fund/ETF to choose.

Creating a plan requires understanding what your tolerance for risk is. It doesn't have to take a lot of time [1] and some basic reading and math will enable you to pick what's right for you. Basically, are you willing to tolerate more volatility (i.e. variability in year-to-year returns) in exchange for higher returns in the long-term?

1. http://www.finiki.org/wiki/Portfolio_design_and_construction
What am I supposed to be looking at? Page doesn't load.
Am I crazy for thinking that SEO is a huge reason to NOT do a Single Page App for a public facing website that you want Google to index?

It seems like the wrong business choice from a marketing perspective that we are now looking for a tech solution to solve a problem we created ourselves. Single Page Apps feel like building Flash web apps 5 years ago. It's a valid choice, but with clear drawbacks.
Ask HN: Anyone using the Opa Framework?
I recently found out about it, and it looks really promising. Anyone using it in a real world project?
EBay CEO: "Bitcoin Integration With PayPal Being 'Actively Considered'"
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Seek Estate's "For Sale by Owner" sales system is aimed at assisting ordinary people sell their home privately. We offer a viable alternative to using a Real Estate Agent when selling a property. Our online alternative is both feature rich (allowing users to upload photos, videos and much more) and free, offering all the services and tips to sell your own home for the best possible return.
Yeah, bought my first car from a town about an hour from my home, a manual car. On the drive home I learned to drive a manual. That weekend I learned to change a clutch :-)
Sitemap works
>Not doing so "out of PRINCIPLE" may AFFECT others
I calculated the average price per usage versus Prerender.io for average sites. And it comes out to be cheaper or equivalent to the standard price of Prerender.io.

Basically take the amount of usages you use of Prerender.io per month, and compare it yourself.

What do you mean by more code to insert? I do know of Prerender.io but more code depends on which framework/language you're using. If it's node. It's pretty much one line.

The extra code is just options that allow you to customise the way the interceptor works, these options include things like blacklist, whitelist, regex, extensions ignoring, client side caching.. etc. But the basic usage is the just key + email, and you're good to go.

Also note that unlike Prerender, our cache storage is free, so we don't track how many pages you have.
Why else do you think the WWE Network is such a huge deal. It's the first huge step for sports entertainment.
William said if one wanted to comment a line of the source code, they'd place a C at the beginning of the line.

Is this a familiar language behavior to anyone, or are they using in-house languages/interpreters. I wouldn't put it past them, but I found that comment interesting and would like to know more if anyone has any data.
For the average investor, who doesn't have copious amounts of time to do research, a low-cost index-tracking ETF would be one of the best investment vehicles.

You would want to tailor your asset allocation to match your risk profile. Furthermore, your timeline (i.e. when you will need access to the funds) will affect your asset choices. If you have a short amount of time (less than five years) it's usually too risky to have a high or even moderate exposure to equities. In fact, if I knew that I would need to spend the money within five years, I would keep a large percentage in safe (i.e. guaranteed) investments.
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Surely, YC knows whether this is true or not :)

But in all seriousness, shouldn't it just say the original title - "YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion: Sources". The Sources implying it's not publically confirmed, right?
"Most"? Certainly "some" - most is debatable. I'd like to see some numbers. There is certainly no shortage of super-rich who hit that point and... just keep going, because for those types it was never about the money - it was about the power. And while more wealth might give diminishing returns, power really doesn't, yet remains directly proportional to wealth.

(For me, this is the best reason to tax the rich - it's not about revenues per se, rather it is about avoiding extremely dense accumulations of political power.)
Lockheed Starts Final Assembly of New U.S. Weather Satellite
Your links on your homepage, should already be "<a></a>" anchor links. When google hits your page, and it's served up by SnapSearch, then it will automatically find those anchor tags and navigate to the subpages. If you're talking about buttons, perhaps Google will click on those buttons. But any links should be represented by anchor links.

This works for SnapSeach.io. Check on Google, search https://snapsearch.io and all the subpages of SnapSearch are indexed. Also works for http://dreamitapp.com

So to answer your question, there's no need to rewrite your links.
The cost of building a quality website & promoting it can easily hit deep into 6 or 7 figures.

The cost of throwing scummy links at a website is under $100.

And if their first $5, $10, or $20 test doesn't work? Then so what for them. They put it on cron job and throw another $20 at it again and again.
http://www.seobook.com/images/sape-sape-sape.gif

The key point here is that there's a 100X or 1000X gap between 4 figures & 6 to 7 figures. The cost of burning things to a crisp is much lower than building them up. Whenever incentive structures have a 1000-fold difference in outcomes the path of least resistance becomes a popular path.
Well SnapSearch allows you to make dynamic web applications without worrying about SEO problems. It's not so much a technical solution to a technical problem that we created ourselves, it's the fact that search engines and social network robots have not caught up to next generation websites (which I believe will be a fully dynamic user experience).

We're just pushing the web ahead.
Have a look at Thomas Leonards blog, where he chooses Ocaml to replace Python over many others for his 0install project.

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/archives/

It has been previously discussed on HN and Reddit.
This'll probably be an unpopular comment but I feel the need to point out that this is good (in the ways that made this post popular) and bad.

Bad because for the dot com company I work for, we use cookies to make sure we don't show users 'helper' tooltips more than once per 30 days and cookies is one of the better ways of doing this. It also helps us anonymously track a user location to show better search results, user currency etc.

There are many bad ways a website can use cookies, but by using a plugin like this, it'll ultimately just ruin your own user experience.
Why is this labeled a "YouTube acquisition" instead of Google?
They don't get 'slowed down' more, they get deflected more. So, the redder light that does reach us had to travel further to get here.
Up next, the city government's war on jaywalking and the county library's war on overdue books.
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There is also a adjustment period for any new diet, especially one as radically different as this one. Many of the folks who have been going the DIY route (http://diy.soylent.me/) have had this kind of thing happen to them. However, it normally clears up after the first week.

The sucralose will certainly retain some of the irregularity, but I believe it will adjust to it over time as well.
I realize that it's not literally dog food.

By "dog food", I was referring to kibble and how it's made (and demonized in our culture because of it). Nothing more.
Another explanation for the increase in gas and change in regularity might be that Soylent contains a fair amount of fibre, which is one thing that the typical American diet is lacking.
Perhaps you meant Caltech?
EDIT: Check out [1] for a better explanation. Specifically, page 2 has a nice description.

Its been a while since I read about it, so the method may have changed (or I may be misremembering), but here is my understanding:

Every zerocoin has a secret key associated with it (that only the creator of said zerocoin knows). Using a cryptographic primitive called a zero knowledge proof, it is possible for someone to prove that they know the secret without revealing the secret itself.

There is another cryptographic primitive called an accumulator, which represents the set of all zerocoins that have been created. It is possible to prove that you know the secret of some zerocoin within this set, without revealing which zerocoin it is. It is further possible to prove that the zerocoin you know is different from all of the other zerocoins which have been claimed in this manner.

To 'transfer' a zerocoin from party A to B, party B generates a new zerocoin, and sends the (public) details to A, keeping the secret to itself. Party A then uses the above mechanism to show that it has an unspent zerocoin, and spends that coin to insert B's coin into the accumulator. Simmilarly, A could spend a normal bitcoin to do so (or do anything else that would convince the network that A has the right to insert a zerocoin into the accumulator).

[1] http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf

EDIT 2: s/crystallographic/cryptographic/
Cable = Sports is why I am not watching ANY sports other than little snippets I can grab on youtube or mlb.com. Seriously. Have not watched a full game (definitely not MLB, NFL, NBA) of anything in a LONG time.

And none in family (yes little kids too) are watching much sports on TV either. Definitely not enough to grow up to be a fan of a particular pro sports league or a team, other than soccer via AYSO.

IMHO pro sports commissioners should start thinking about how less and less young kids are exposed to sports via TV (because not much to watch on non-cable TV) and what that means for potentially smaller fan base in the future. Just my 2 little cents...
> What happens to the soylent company if I die after ingesting it for a week or a month straight? Even if it wasn't what actually killed me?

What happens if you eat the same thing at the same restaurant for every meal and die after a week?
I feel like applications and tooling to pre-render your HTML (eg: Reactjs) are more interesting. It's definitely more work currently (when done right), but it seems like the most natural flow. Always render html, let clientside link it up, everybody wins.
I think the logo could use a little work. The lightning bolt doesn't come off as an S, so it looks more like "napSearch".
While you've brought up perfectly valid points, you didn't actually refute anything I said.

Yes, some people are required to shave for their job, but most are not and still do. Some women are required to wear makeup for their jobs, but most aren't and still do.

Regardless, my initial arguments still apply to all the cases where one is not required by one's job.
Will Google eventually begin javascript-enabled scraping themselves?
I didn't say he's automatically incorrect, and I think if you reread my comment, that should be clear. I do think a person's subjective judgement on serious issues are relevant to their subjective judgement on any one issue.
The whole point is to stop traffic, make people get out of their cars. Cars have taken over most cities, this is people pushing back.

I think you may miss the point.
Not very much considering it's up for renewal at the end of this year. There have been some fun rumors about who is in the bidding, including Google.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-12/directv-said-near-r...
Or the pain we remember with fond memories. Like anything good in life, the struggle to do it well, to fully understand it, to master it, is what makes it worthwhile. It's also what makes programmers effective - we revel in solving complex but tractable problems.

There is an inherent tradeoff in creating any system: you can make the system very simple and it becomes too simplistic for the advanced users who want more control and detail. You allow too much control and detail and you alienate users who want simplicity.

A programming language/IDE is a system that affords advanced users the ability to solve an immense set of problems. That unrestrained ability comes at the expense of simplicity. The more constrained and specific that ability becomes, the simpler it can be (i.e. Excel is more constrained but far simpler than a Hadoop cluster)
Most of the so called call centers and scammers are located at kolkata-India ( I know because I live in Kolkata-India ) , I hate how they scam and loot money from innocent people .
Contact Indian Govt' ( Its changed now ) . and tell them about situation .

all this things creating a really bad image of India .
When monopolies distort markets, the impact of those distortions have outsized impacts on the rest of the ecosystem.

Ask Google engineers how they feel about centralization of power in telecom or finance or politics & they will tell you it is the worst thing ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc

Yet that same sort of centralization is fine when it is Google.

Those same engineers will admit that any algorithm has some level of false positives & false negatives. They may try to minimize these, but they can't make them zero.

The other thing which gets very little coverage, but is crucially important is that in spite of already having a monopoly market position Google keeps buying search marketshare with: their secret Android partner contracts, Firefox default search placement, iOS default search placement, Flash embedded into Chrome (so security updates happen in the background without sending you to a download site where trash can be bundled in with the update) & Flash security updates that hit all other web browsers coming bundled with Chrome bundleware which sets Chrome as your default browser, etc.

If Google decides they don't like you (for any reason), then you need searchers to use a different search engine in a browser which isn't paid off by Google for default placement. And you need to hope that users are savvy enough to repeatedly say "no thank you" to the automatically bundled Chrome install with their frequent Flash updates.

Google mentions how anything is only a click away or similar, but most people tend to use defaults.

When someone changes those defaults on Chrome users, that's a horrible user experience & the "hijacked" settings must be reset.
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/01/clean-up-your-hijacked-se...
But when those defaults are paid for by Google or changed through Google bundleware it is "a great user experience."

If Google believes their marketshare is a reflection of their superior search offering, they are welcome to stop buying default search placement in other web browsers & stop bundling Chrome installs on Flash security updates. But currently they are spending north of a billion Dollars a year on these activities, which indicates they clearly feel there is significant value to them.
I see three lines of code whereas prerender.io is one line. I guess that's because they don't need you to configure the client with the API key or email.

That's not really a huge difference, although it is still a little bit more effort.

It really comes down to price I think.

I can't really tell for sure what calculation to use to compare the pricing. Looks like you might be cheaper.

You might consider doing a blog or something comparing the pricing though because I think other people know about prerender also and having a simple explanation that proves your pricing is better would make it easier for people to make that decision.
Way to avoid the point. And to be honest, the whole oblivious act is getting ridiculous at this point. Don't post if you are going to play dumb. In case you're really that dense, a webmaster got a message FROM GOOGLE, that a perfectly legit link was spam. The provided email is their response to that.

The whole point is, Google spreads FUD to paper over its inadequate algorithm. People believe and look up to you as a source of truth. However, you take that trust, and you ask people to do your dirty work. That means more work for them, and not every small business has all sorts extra time money to spend on stuff like that. This is not to mention that there are probably a bunch of other more important things they could be doing. (and I know you know this, your friendly face is the head of FUD over at Google)

With all of your power and authority, you have a responsibility be more honest and straightforward. Not everyone knows better, and when people end up listening to your Google/self serving advice, they are ruining the open and free nature of the internet.

This wouldn't make me so salty, but the complete BS and favoritism exhibited by you and Google is obnoxious. So, sometimes, it might be better if you just shut up.

sorry if there are any typos etc, my (virtual) keyboard is spazzing out.
These days its phonecalls. Everyone is continuously ringed by "Microsoft Technical Support".

Given what the HNers know about proxies and VoIP, I don't imagine there is a technical solution short of phone networks only accepting VoIP from some kind of certificate authority, which can be aggressively policed (by Western phone companies, somehow motivated to protect their customers and their good name)?
You were doing so well until "crystallographic primitive"! ;)

Is this the same thing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_cell

(Upvoted and appreciated though. The rest is a lot clearer.)
I have found that the NSF is consistently high quality when it comes to grasping the work I propose or do.
Distro packages don't solve the needs of software developers. They solve the need of distros, which are different (and conflicting) with the needs of software developers. Therefore you will always have an eternal struggle between language-level package managers who work for developers and system ones that work for distros.

If there was some simple way to lob a tarball over the wall and get package inclusion on Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, etc., then that would be one thing. In reality however the number of random GitHub repos >> the number of package maintainers. I know that Debian uses a variety of technical and social methods to discourage new packages, and most people's software just isn't popular enough to overcome those barriers, even if some of the reason they're not popular is because they're not well-packaged (sort of a catch-22 there). Not to mention people who install via apt or rpm are perpetually out of date.

Now compare that with pip or rubygems--one package to maintain, installs more-or-less everywhere, accepts packages regardless of popularity, end users are more often up-to-date. Better for software developers' problems in every single dimension.

Sure that's bad for Fedora maintainers, but what are Fedora maintainers doing for me?
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