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Every single Bitcoin news thread here at Hacker News is hijacked by some for of another of negativity. Every single one, top comment is always negative. The day Paypal announced its first approaches to Bitcoin, the top comment was about how someone was resented with Bitpay for some unrelated reason.

Although especially noticeable with Bitcoin, it is in general a prominent flaw of HN, the top comment is always something negative. Maybe its because users here feel thay are smarter by trashing stuff and dont want to be caught liking the wrong stuff, so they upvote whatever negative comment is gaining momentum.

Parent in this case, by the way, is wrong. Blockchain.info is a remarkably well designed and implemented site, if not fully consistent with Bitcoin's spirit, pretty close to it.
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I'd say better get familiar with Linux first (go with Ubuntu it's the safest choice) and then see if there are any distros that fit your needs better. If you don't have time to spend on the OS, light-weight distributions might not be well suited. Other than that, I'd say stick to what you choose and you'll be fine :-)

That said, at this point in time, I use too many OSX-related programs to go back to Linux (I was using Gentoo 2001-2005 as desktop).
Hey, I'm working on this atm:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit/blob/master/library/night...

which should help matters. Will reply when done.
>It's annoying that such articles take it for granted that social network = FB / G+ way of doing things.

It's annoying when people are uptight about something that's merely pragmatic. They're talking about social networks people use and know about.

Including Diaspora, a network almost no one has ever heard about, would be completely counter intuitive. Diaspora simply isn't an alternative for the overwhelming majority of users of active social networks.
The key advantage Storm brought to the table was, as briefly mentioned in the article, the at-least once processing guarantee Storm offers thanks to its efficient tracking of tuples and their descendants (see https://storm.incubator.apache.org/documentation/Guaranteein...). To my knowledge S4 offers no such guarantees. I think this made Storm more attractive for many use-cases, it did for me.
There have been parallels appearing now for some time, showing Samsung alongside Nokia's doomed path. Samsung have neglected their software development just as Nokia had (in terms of interface not being iterated and updated). On top of that, hardware has not seen dramatic improvements. The public and loyal journalists have been becoming increasingly disgruntled (since the S4).

If they don't innovate dramatically with the S6 there is trouble on the horizon for this behemoth. Samsung also need to position their experimental products (the new edge and the old round) as their lead products and fully get behind them. I always get the feeling they are hesitant like a person testing the water by dipping their toe in, when they just need to take a dive. The development is done and its in production so why not take a leap. If it fails at least they will be known as a company with innovation at its forefront and they can regress to their current practice.
> In IE: Download Chrome or FF

Brilliant. Good chuckle.
So, LuaRocks contains just 330 packages and doesn't look like the best package manager for Lua (and they also have a terrible website as for me).

If a community here wants to make things better - let's meet somehow and discuss it.

Then if, say, each of 5 Lua developers converts 1 package per day in their free time then in about three months the whole list of packages will be converted.

Anybody?
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Congrats to the blockchain.info team!
> Reports are now coming in that most people who managed to actually buy something at bargain prices had their orders cancelled by Flipkart.

I can confirm this from multiple sources. The orders were cancelled citing "allowing other customers a fair opportunity" . Some people are mulling over legal options including a litigation to regulate such e-commerce malpractices.
"a race to the bottom" between corporate manufacturers is the very definition of free-market competition.

It's very odd to see that talked down as if it was a bad thing on Hacker News as in any story not involving Apple free-market competition would be hailed as the driver of basically all social improvement and technological progress in the last century or so.

Also, that's why it's not surprising that in this particular "race to the bottom" that there would still be high-end models being sold by HTC, Samsung etc., though you would expect them to be putting pressure on competitors to be offering more value and/or lower prices across their entire range.
You know what, I have a number of disagreements with BTC as it currently is instantiated - the limited number, rewards skewed to a few early folks etc etc.

But I agree, the tech is really interesting.
The intention is that the client (whether that's the OS itself or an app as in the current Android proof-of-concept) visiting the broadcast URL will return specific metadata that will allow the user to know what the target content / action is, rather than content itself - https://github.com/google/physical-web/blob/master/documenta...

There is obviously some potential for data snooping and privacy issues, but if the experiment becomes a full standard then it will likely be fleshed out much more to avoid this issue.

Pulling metadata from a publicly broadcast (and therefore inspectable) URL still feels more transparent than the iBeacons implementation, which mediates all beacon interactivity through the "black box" of an app with unknown configuration (with regard to exactly which beacons it listens for - it could be a single UUID, or it could be all beacons) which could be phoning home with all kinds of data without the user knowing.
I believe we are confusing lots of things here.

Profit isn't everything. Samsumg electronics is investing in semiconductors and also in OLED screens production.

I see OLED as the future and just Samsumg and LG investing on them.

OLED are very expensive today because there is no mass production of them, and because they are so expensive nobody buys them on TVs as they have hi def LCDs way cheaper.

It is catch 22. I for one am waiting for OLED TV prices to be reasonable to buy 4 of them.

Samsumg has a very good position as he is using the phones and tablets market to start mass producing OLED panels.

When people change to OLED, and they will(because it is amazing tech), Samsumg will have a big advantage.
I don't like luapower's approach to package management. Basically it stuffs the contents of packages in the base of a single directory:

luapower/lib.lua
luapower/additional-files-for-lib/stuff.lua

Instead of completely encapsulating each package in its own directory:

luapower/lib/lib.lua
luapower/lib/stuff.lua

So instead of being able to just cd to luapower and git clone repo, you need to use a silly wrapper script that overlays the repos with each other. All of this presumably because the author wanted to type `require "lib.lua"' instead of `require "lib/lib.lua"'
For readers who aren't from India and wondering about the "festive season", the Indian festive season is different from US. The festive season is generally considered the period between two festivals Dussehra (triumph of good over evil) [0] and Diwali (festival of lights) [1]. In 2014, the Dussehra and Diwali fall on 4th October and 23rd October, respectively.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayadashami

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali
It feels like the author likes to see his family suffer and fundamentally misunderstands reality:

> everyone has the problem of not spending enough quality time with friends and family. Travel is the best and most meaningful way to do that.

Travel is an acceptable means to making it possible to achieve the end goal of spending time with friends and family, especially when separated by great distances. However as a means of directly spending time with one another travel is the most time-consuming and stressful way to do that; especially when you mix the ambiguity of squishy human sentiments with a rigid travel schedule.

And this is probably why nobody really gives a damn to use such things.
I would recommend that you reduce the DH parameter strength to 2048 bits. You're not noticing it now because most clients end up using ECDHE, but 4096-bit DH parameters are _very_ slow and yet don't provide any meaningful increase in security.
I didn't say all the lift, I said "a bit more forward"...

The majority of the upwards movement seems to come from pushing down on the back, levering most of the board-mass upwards.
I know there's a lot of "drugs aren't that dangerous" and "certain currently illegal drugs are entirely risk free" sentiment on this site, and there's probably some truth to it.

However, organizing world wide sanctioned competitions in who can take the most drugs (the most advanced, the most risky, the largest volume) is bound to lead to horrible results for most of the participants.
More choice, more competition, that's great. Congratulations to all the people who worked hard to make that happen.
Forgotten? This is the fifth time this year alone I am reading about both (Hopper is a bit overrated and part of military propaganda). Besides how could someone who knows about Babbage wouldn't know about Lovelace?
I haven't heard of an electronics junkyard either (I'm american), but I can think of a close equivalent which might count - RePC. They're a state approved electronics recycling center (I've taken CRTs I no longer wanted down there), but they also keep bins and asiles of old / used hard drives, cables, etc. in stock.

Very retro - it wasn't that long ago I went down there to pick up a replacement 80x25 monochrome tty terminal for an aging point of sales system, not much younger than I am.
Co-Location Privacy and Interdependent Privacy also hints to a similar privacy problem [0]. For example - your Facebook friend could tag you and check-in on a location thus leaking your location details and violating your privacy.

[0] https://www.petsymposium.org/2014/papers/Olteanu.pdf
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We're doing something cool - at least it's really cool to me - a super simple CI server for mobile apps for freelancers and small teams (greenhouseci.com).

By the way, Estonia has a cool tech scene also outside of Tallinn! We're in Tartu and there are a lot of cool startups here too!
> Everyone I've met and spoken to out there has been through some serious shit right up until the late 1990s from wars to genocides.

"Out there"?

I'm going to presume that the wars and genocide you're talking about was the former Yugoslavia, as not many places fit the bill unless you go looking much further away, in which case Estonia is almost as far from there as it is from the UK (driving distance can go either way depending on route).

And still 1700km from Estonia to Donetsk, Ukraine if you want to include that conflict...
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I know, nor did or do i mean to troll and it will be the only way nowadays to keep using linux as somebody started to learn it, started to like it, and for many now need it, etc. And also will require much more time from them to maintain their new os, while they has a base os to work on for years which suddenly changes drastically, and for many for no proper reason. The time they could have spend on their code, product, service etc. There will be no choice anymore, all will be in the 'CoreOS style' laid out by LP and friends.

http://0pointer.de/public/gnomeasia2014.pdf

The above; This is not linux to me anymore, its something else, something new, and i think, my opinion, is that it should have been setup as something new, not adopted into existing linux distros. Calling it CoreOS, why not release a new distro called CoreOS, and then when the ground/framework is done, have ubuntu, red hat and every package manager/maintainer of each distro roll their CoreOS flavour distro. As this migration is horrible (i can't find a better word).

But i think many simply like 'to ride the wave of 'software' change', be the author having its name above a package for a particular distro, having their names mentioned in the wiki as the author that brought 'the change'. Thinking something new must be better, of course plenty that don't think that and honestly fool themselves there is a need for systemd.
It takes a while to fully understand how blockchain.info works, and how their wallet is very different from something like Coinbase/Circle/Xapo. Once you do, you realize that blockchain.info is an amazing example of the types of things that can be created with cryptocurrency that weren't possible before. They truly embody the spirit of Bitcoin.

Now if only they would support HD wallets so you don't have to backup your wallet after every transaction...
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Ping me when you're around - Estonia is so small that everybody in the tech scene knows almost everybody. There are lots of people who'd like to show you around and talk about startups and technology in general!
I like it, I'd like even one step more, of making a ZIP of all of the packages. I never modified in place any Perl or Python module, and I don't expect I'd do it with Lua, so having a small portable file set of just a few self sufficient files I could copy to the another machine is my real wish.
Thanks! Although...

> If you don't want personalized results, then don't be logged in to Google when you Search.

That basically means I can't use Google Search on any browser that I also use for GMail, G+ or Google Drive. So I think that means Safari.
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If you mention that Angular was built by Google devs, then please mention that MVVM was invented by Microsoft devs (WPF):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_View_ViewModel
OK? That doesn't stop it from being a shitty way to spread and consume content.
I agree - everything in the travel space is crap. Whether it's because it's hard to monetize, or because there's no archetypal traveler making it hard to cater to any particular audience ... I don't know. It's a tough nut to crack.

It's not going to help you plan but if you'd like to blog about your road trip when you're on the road, take a look at my attempt to build a "micro blogging" website. Each day, you're only allowed to write 250 characters and attach a single photo:

http://www.trott.in/

It's free to use, feedback welcome. I wrote the site for my little road trip because I was so unhappy with everything else out there. The idea being that a character and photo limit forced you to be concise (much appreciated by friends and family), making it easier to maintain and look back on. Here's our trip (we were lucky enough to get some air time on the BBC world news):

http://www.trott.in/trips/unomas-all-the-way-down
This fits perfectly with my startup food-chain theory.

In the internet startup world, there is an invisible food chain, whatever "higher" models will eventually "eat" "lower" models.

A travel planner, with low frequency, no real pain, doesn't stand very high on the food chain.
But it's arguably easier to package the other way I described, just stick all of the relevant directories into a zip file, instead of needing to manually pick out the "lib.lua" files from the base directory. Literally the only benefit of this approach is saving a few characters on require statements.

For anyone interested in creating a new language, make your equivalent of `require "lib_directory"' do the equivalent of `require "lib_directory/init.lua"' or `require "libname_directory/libname.lua"' so we don't have this issue.
I completely agree with you. But this was a group of doctors dissuading them. It was more an argument about stigma (that other US doctors would never hire them, regardless of him re-studying and re-boarding might not save the potential of a career).

I would love such an opportunity. I think we should also open up medicine in the US as you describe, but I also must be honest: expect the quality and knowledge of doctors on average going down. I live abroad in the MENA region, and most of the doctors here are from abroad (the first medical school in country is part of the educational complex I work in; the first graduating class will be this year or next year). Even at good hospitals, people check nationality of the doctor as a result and you always go only to doctors you friends have visited and recommend if not an emergency. Whether it is general fear or racism whatver you call it is another debate. You will notice some doctors meet minimal standards here but I would be afraid to call them doctors (one told me you have to be careful which kind of fish you eat because the Quran explains so; religion has its place but I will not tolerate that from a doctor, and I never visited her again).

Allowing doctors all over the world while maintaining a minimally required level of education and skill with such different education systems and credentials will be awful. I live that every day I visit the hospital with my son, even for a simple doctor's visit.
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Ask HN: Is there an audio search technology that finds exact and similar audio?
Audio fingerprinting algorithms such as Shazam are popular, but is there a content-based audio search tool available to find _similar_ audio clips or even parts of audio? Any COTS or OSS tools you are aware of?

Note: I'm not asking about audio metadata search. That is of course a fait accompli
> It might sound cheesy but I have a lot of hope for Europe and most of it comes from the East.

I very much agree with you. The East of Europe has very recent memory of how not to run countries, the West is already forgetting those lessons and repeating past mistakes. For now the West is still ahead economically, but I suspect that this will not last indefinitely. You can pretty much draw a line through 'Helmstedt' (the site of the old autobahn border crossing between 'East' and 'West' Germany) and use that as the pivot point. On the left of that pivot the swing is steadily downwards whereas on the east of that up to the Russian border there is slow but fairly steady progress.

Of course the map is not the territory and you'd have to account for the situations further North and South with different pivot points but on the whole this seems to be how it is today.
I would only be able to say we have had different experiences. But in my case Amazon changes prices only after I leave the item in cart for days. And sometimes the change is +ve, sometimes -ve.

With Flipkart it feels like I am in a pricing-availability labyrinth.
The concept is already three year old and needed further development. Seems that did not happen.

http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/09/29/the-art-of-solar-print...
http://prezi.com/8wrq27o_xise/tanning-printer/
personally, its not games, but approaches to getting information from games

finding / latching onto a rendering call and shooting the inputs to that call off to a separate file to export market data from a game, was one of the more interesting approaches I've heard. But how someone managed to work that out is beyond me
Exactly. Initially I thought Xiaomi/Flipkart were genuinely selling whatever phones they could make for India. But when the numbers started to come in then I realise, shit it was just marketing gimmick.
> This is for the MVP, and shouldn't take a competent developer more than a week working with Google APIs or equivalent. A good developer should be able to crank this out in a day or two. I'm tempted just so I can use the functionality to plan my trip!

I assume you're not a developer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution ?
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Estonia suffered mass deportations under the Soviet regime, this has never been appropriately dealt with in terms of compensation or criminal trials and the Estonian people are still extremely conscious of this even though the actual crimes committed against Estonians are now long ago.

So I highly doubt Yugoslavia was the intended subject there.
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Some high-tech industry sectors are actually labor intensive, such as the mobile OS. I only see 3 mobile OS with real potential now: iOS, Google Android, and MIUI (actually adapted from Android). Samsung is doomed because they don't have the whole ecosystem. Their lead on only the hardware part is not sustainable forever.

Sooner is better than later, see whether they can fix it...
> When you hide all the details behind a single monolithic process it is either "this works" or "this doesn't" and there's nothing you can do about it.

The exact kind of behavior that has driven many from Windows to Linux.
Is there a specific purpose of this tool ? To track epidemies, or weather related deaths (like in summer)? I can see a number of applications, but the n size at the scale of Portugal is rather small.
This is a lifestyle question and these are hard to generalize. It works well for me personally. 3-4 days someplace doing sightseeing, or maybe some outdoor activity is an accessible way of spending a few days with someone and having time that we wouldn't otherwise have. Many of my friends and family live in a different country. Flights and accommodation are affordable. Time is scarce and if we visit eachother in one of our normal lives, it's harder to find whole days to relax hang out.

A context for spending time together is (to generalize) a pretty good way of maintaining relationships, relaxing and having fun. You might have a friend, parent or child with whom you occasionally go fishing, hunting, bird spotting or whatnot. You might have an old army friend you meet every few years for something else. You might have a cousin you meet for a run once a week. Whatever the specifics, context for spending time together between people works in many cases.

Travel is a good context. It's accessible, easy to arrange and works for a lot of people you might want to catch up with.
> However, organizing world wide sanctioned competitions in who can take the most drugs (the most advanced, the most risky, the largest volume) is bound to lead to horrible results for most of the participants.

It's already happening in most competitions, you just don't know about it. When there's money at stake, ways to improve your performance drastically and very little chance to get caught, you have the right conditions in place.
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https://code.google.com/p/musicg/

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