skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of for-profit companies have referral programs (which is what this amounts to), and many of them have a similar multilevel marketing component. So this isn't really anything new or novel.

What I would love to see is an social-media site that is willing to take the concept of sharing profits with its members to the next level and organize itself as a cooperative.

Co-ops, unlike for-profit companies, are entirely owned by their members, and thus any profits they make eventually go back to their members, either in the form of greater investment in the site (which benefits the members) or in the form of rebates (where the profits get divided up and distributed to the member-owners, similar to dividends in the for-profit world).

Of course, the problem with organizing as a co-op is that it's harder to come up with capital, because you can't accept outside investment. But with Kickstarter and Indiegogo and the era of fundraiser-driven product development, I don't think that's as much an issue nowadays.

An added bonus of a social network organized as a co-op is that each member-owner gets a vote -- a genuine say in how things are done -- which is often absent in for-profit companies.
Many people set up servers so they and their real life friends can play in the same world together in real time. That way, you can both work on building a house, or a city or a world.

Larger servers have complex mods that add tremendous functionality to the game. Some may have roleplaying mods, where you can find a role (blacksmith, lumberjack, etc) and participate in the economy. Others may set up a world just for pure creation, a way to make sculptures.

There's a lot Minecraft has been extended to, so there are many reasons you may have to set up a server.
Am I correct in saying that the only difference from this and a referral program is that there is another product, such as hosting.
We still use win32 with a light weight C++ abstraction we wrote ourselves (like MFC but better). It's not really complicated or hard.

MFC+Win32+WinForms are equivalent with different wrappers. So is WPF/WinRT/Silverlight so that's actually only two tech platforms.
Thumbs up for not using rand, but the assuming that MT is a golden bullet is not exactly scientific; one should just test few RNGs, it may come in that the code exploits some ultra-hidden hole in MT or that some much faster RNG works equally well. Also reproducibility of a stochastic code means that the code results lead to the same conclusions regardless of the seed, not that you get bit to bit identical output for the same seed. In case one assumes (only) the latter, it may end up in seed cherry picking, not-optimizing code because it would "break reproducibility" or not investigating the natural deviation of the results.
> A nice discount on most gadgets

Or 1 month of a life in a 3rd World country.

What's more important to us?
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On the other hand, I've been into Bitcoin since early 2011, have made hundreds of purchases with Bitcoin, gotten made for major contract jobs in Bitcoin, paid other contractors in Bitcoin, and never been ripped off. You just have to exercise some caution and do your due diligence.

Unfortunately, Bitcoin has attracted more than its fair share of scammers -- in part because the core community was at one time pretty naive -- but it's also full of honest people who are attracted to Bitcoin for ideological reasons, and fellow technophiles who are happy to engage in honest commerce with other people.
How is this any different than functionality that requires a specific executable to be called from Emacs. Some of those executables are platform specific. Last I checked using ispell on windows meant playing games with cygwin or some other fix.

The purpose of this is not to limit functionality to a specific platform, it's to expand the capabilities of Emacs. My understanding is FFI is intended to work on all platforms that Emacs support, so it just means the library authors need to provide platform specific support, just the same as they do with packages that depend on specific binaries in the path.

Throwing out a new feature that provides obvious benefits because of imagined future packages that may choose against being platform agnostic seems rather short sighted.
Cayova tried that before (it is now defunct): http://digitalmarketingplanet.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/cayov...
Rainbow – Sync your data between cloud services
The Rainbow application offers a simple interface to transfer files between cloud services. The application supports nine services, and one can add as many accounts as one likes. The process to transfer the files consists of three simple steps: select the files, select the account and folder to transfer them to. The application also supports the transfer and creation of folders. Finally, the application has a power search engine that helps one to search for a file or folder using a key-word, but more importantly, it allows one to simultaneously transfer files from many accounts to the selected folder. Currently, the Rainbow application supports the following services: Bitcasa, Box, Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, Mediafire, Onedrive, Pogoplug, and Sugarsync.

http://www.i-smartsolutions.com/rainbow/
I think many would care about $5/month, it certainly is better than nothing, but there is no way that the average user will get even one tenth of that per month.
I am not sure about the exact success rates off the top of my head, but if I remember correctly it is roughly 50% chance per cycle.

Each cycle requires a group of eggs and only a certain percentage survive the freeze.
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just a][b :)
The more I've played with various ways to share revenue with or create economic opportunity for users, the more I've realized that people just don't care about the money. There are of course some notable exceptions to this (Uber, eBay etc), but generally users have jobs and a few extra dollars just isn't enough to motivate them to change a single behavior.
Wasn't the outcry mainly because of a misunderstanding - thinking Google is dropping support for ext4 for internal storage, when in fact it was dropping for external storage? (microSD, etc)?
Between the lines, this reads as:

"Water prices are going up. Consumers will need to use less, because they won't be able to afford as much. If that affects them... boo hoo. We'd rather have water riots than go up against the agribusiness lobby, who can't and won't pay for water - they wouldn't be profitable if they weren't - and being unprofitable is anti-american!"
Not a fix at all! It shows how to disable SSLv3 on a IE and some http servers.
I wouldn't say Jordan has the upper hand. Managing the reputation of the company is critical for the survival of a startup. Andrew may lose, at worst, $20k, but Jordan can lose everything (unless its a scam or they already made a substantial profit from these machines).
I understand the confusion but this isn't Windows XP Home with MS Paint and pinball — it's XP embedded (XPe), a minimal OS tailored to specific hardward and still receives security updates until 2016-19 depending on version purchased.
First, I think it's unwise to underestimate the value of good advice early on. Advice and it's best friend encouragement are often necessary ingredients. People do not function best in a vacuum. There is a reason why startups (and lots of things) happen in clusters.

Second, there is a tendency to think for "meritocracy" as a very cold, dead thing. This kind of thinking is like applying an engineering mentality to human culture, society and personal interactions. The result is often a bureaucratic version of meritocracy, like a college application. These are not without their own biases, problems and everything else. They also strip nuance out of the process. This is a serious problem when you're looking for novelty, creativity, black swans, etc.

In any case, imagine Andy Warhol in the 80s with his stable of artists, models, musicians and Warhol Superstars. He supported them in various ways. This paved their access to audiences, money, collaborators, publishers, patrons, etc. etc. Was Andy Warhol running a cronyism ring or was he a prominent figure in a community of artists? Was the Velvet Underground's success a product of cronyism?

There's merit to the concept of cronyism in, for example, the government of a country. But, it's actually just a subcategory within a wider context of human interaction, important human interaction.

I think your definitions of meritocracy and/or cronyism just aren't rich enough to capture what's going on here.

If Leonard Cohen had a show where he introduced new artists he liked (personally and musically), I would pay attention. Leonard Cohen has whatever right to my attention as a listener that I choose to give him. Same for producers, collaborators, record labels, concert organizers and anyone else who values his opinion, or even his favor.

Communities are complex.
Slightly on topic. I thought OS X was the only OS the named their applications Something.app. ChromeOS does it too?
It doesn't vilify them, so much as throw them squarely under the bus while blindly ignoring the fact that the farmers operate as they do because they have no choice and are either owned or to all intents and purposes owned by huge agribusiness, who make vast profits at the expense of stupid things that nobody cares about, like... drinking water.
Well, yes. Why do you think that the US and the UK, two profoundly pro-fracking (which isn't going to do anything nice to the availability and potability of water) nations, are both profoundly anti-human-rights - as are, inexplicably, their populaces, who seem to have forgotten that they too are human.
This is the largest distributed app building competition in the world. 500 teams 30+ countries. Incredible fun and you learn a ton. Good luck to anyone who competes.
One would think that solar energy/desalination in the middle of a desert would be a better option than burning gas.. oh well
I think you meant Ning [1].

Xing [2] is the German LinkedIn.

[1] http://www.ning.com

[2] https://www.xing.com
You may want to take a look at irony-mode. Do not expect any rich semantic features from the stock c-mode.
working in it generates all sorts of artificial problems.

Indeed. Escaping characters from comments or strings is one obvious example. Programmers serve the compiler instead of the other way around.

I've started various pet projects to try to be able to edit the AST naturally, but haven't seen much success yet. The UX is really difficult.

I've also been working in it some months ago, using SQLite and Lazarus. I hope I can recover the project now.

If you or someone else are interested, feel free to contact me by email, it's (for real) in the profile.
Yeah, but along the way you'd lose an ephemeral something. You'd stop having a single place in space frozen in time, and start having a collection of artifacts in a museum. Artifacts from the first World War are not so scarce as a room unchanged for a century.
Also, http://www.greatwar.co.uk has links to many foreign sites with information on those who died in e.g. Italian or Belgian service. http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/military-records/ww1-war-....

It surprised me to see that many of the british data sources are of the "visit the official archive or buy digital access" kind. Also, judging from a few samples at http://www.naval-military-press.com/cd-rom/, most of it is Windows only, and not priced for impulse buyers (for example 220 pounds for a database of all British who died)
Heh, back at you :-)

http://www.tsu.co/ngurito
So if you can pay (more) it's OK to use more?
We never learn.
"Thanks for all of your feedback on this bug. We’ve heard you loud and clear."

Kudos to Google for hearing loud and clear the 127 people in that thread and potentially helped the numerous chromeOS community!

And here [1] are the cries of few thousands of souls that lost full access to their android sdcard. Hope you also hear their feedback louder and clearer! On the upside we learned how "Bring it back" is written in multiple languages.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=67570
Why can't I just give you money for a service.

I don't want ads.

I don't want you to give me ad revenue.

Just take my money and respect my privacy. Is that really so much to ask.

I will happily pay someone a yearly subscription for a simple social network that respects users privacy.
No more Google Apps
But will it happen to one without exceptions, as well?? :)
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Disregarding the legal issues, warning other customers of such behavior is pretty much a moral duty - keeping mum, as you propose, would be a shameful behavior and if everyone did that way then we'd have a worse society.
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ChromeOS uses ext4 for it's root filesystem; so it would still affect the Downloads directory (it needs the isolation of user permissions for its sandbox w.r.t. the root user). In other words they will still need to make a workaround. They might as well do the right thing and support it properly; and it can be supported and still be easy to use, it just requires more work on Google's part.
Out of curiosity, do you have any examples or references to something with examples of sets that are neither open nor closed?
What makes you think it won't be Chinese?
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On the other hand, it makes it a bit harder to hit shift and ctrl (crouch and run for certain games), which are usually the most important keys after directions and space for jump.
All the other Startup School videos from other locations are equally worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/pla...
The original article has now been updated, the ATM was running Windows 7, not XP.
Paid 2 Surf 2.0? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_to_surf
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Really great explanation, as I asked there I don't see how it can be used if we don't know how long the padding is.

One idea would be to try to change the ciphertext so it would produce a entire padding block (and then it would be easy to test if it is indeed an entire block of padding just be tampering it without modifying the last byte and it would still be accepted).

I guess someone here could answer my question?
Regarding point 1: a contract is an agreement between two or more parties. In this case, Robocoin agreed to deliver a working Bitcoin ATM, and Andrew and Rajiv agreed to pay a certain amount for it.

Robocoin didn't do what they promised they would do, or did it badly. Therefore, A&R are not required to uphold their end of the deal - in fact, if they are willing to take the matter to court, they are also entitled to get a compensation for all the extra money they lost.

So even though the contract specifies "no refunds", that contract was broken by Robocoin, and therefore A&R should indeed get their money back.
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Wow, I really thought you were michaelochurch, then checked the name of the commenter.
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Really interesting read.

I wonder about the resolution: was snorm() reimplemented correctly, or was an RNG with the 'wrong' interval supplied?
I don't care about $5 / month, but a lot of users would.
But think about content creators (musicians, artists, athletes, etc.) even with a small fan base, they get rewarded few hundred dolla per month. If they stick to the concept, then the regular poor users will follow them.
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I should probably have specified marginal cost. If I did my math right, it's a fraction of a cent per litre on the margin. The fixed costs are a large part of that total price.
The problem with COBOL is it's more a DSL[1] than a general purpose one, except it's been abused and extended to do so.

[1] from my short readings, it's suited for simple table processing.
They need a filesystem that can support the notion of users; very little of the software on ChromeOS runs as root for security reasons. FAT doesn't support the notion of file permissions on a user basis; so it would be insecure. ext4 is the most widely used and tested Linux filesystem at the moment. Therefor the least effort filesystem to use for your root filesystem is ext4.

On external devices however you'd probably want to "squash" the users (all files are effectively treated as owned by the one user; the user/person who inserted the external device) and also mount with noexec and nodev; don't allow the kernel to run any programs on external devices (avoid malware, hacks etc), and don't allow device files to be used on external devices (you don't want someone to put a crwxrwxrwx copy of /dev/kmem on an external device and allow someone to access it; then an unprivileged user can read all of kernel memory).
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Broker:

Middle man during a transaction, ties seller to buyer.

Squatter:

Someone who knowingly infringes on another entity's legal rights hoping to sell the domain name to them at a premium lower than what it would cost to take the domain by force through legal action.
http://app.net
Ask HN: I never received $13200 a company claims to have paid. What do I do?
Help! What do you do if a company claims to have paid you, shows a screenshot of the transaction, and your own bank claims to have zero knowledge of the transfer?

This is a very reputable software company that claims to have paid me $13200 for my work in September, but my bank has no knowledge of any transfer. Meanwhile the other company's bank says that the wire transfer was not rejected, so as far as they know this amount is in my account now. I need this money (it's what I work for), is there anything I can do before getting a lawyer involved? I trust this company and I've already contacted my bank to verify that no transaction occurred.
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That's a pretty big difference. Using referral fees to bring in new business for a product with a different revenue stream is sustainable, provided the core product is a sustainable business. There is no way for a pyramid scheme to not collapse.
From what I could understand, their rootfs (a readonly partition with the OS) uses ext2 and the user data partitions use ext4. But I'm not sure about this.
A Bitcoin - related company committing fraud and acting scammy? I am shocked.
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No, I'm saying it's an irrelevant implementation detail.
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>I'm not saying this to be negative, necessarily, but something struck me in this essay, so I grep'd it. There are 47 instances of "I", by my count.

You already have 2 instances of 'I' in a single sentence (not counting the one in quotes). So on average you're ahead of her already.
I'm noticing exactly the same behaviour of Priority Inbox.
I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina where water is extremely cheap and nobody cares in using it rationally.

For example, you can see doorkeepers cleaning the streets leaving the faucet open while they are doing something else.
Pro tip: Apparently tsu.co has dofollow links, so you can generate quality content _and_ get quality links. Try it out: http://www.tsu.co/seotips
Yet another centralized initiative?

Every new initiative is good if it brings new ideas.

But sadly, most new social networks we see try to convince people that Facebook is bad (ads, privacy concerns, etc) instead of convincing them that the new thing is good. IMO, this is backwards. I have never heard someone tell me "Facebook should share revenue with us". I mean come on: Facebook hosts servers, creates tons of jobs and they should now start paying users?
Can I pay my friends to switch?
I'm curious if anyone has seen a working Robocoin ATM? Jordan says on Reddit there are "65 out an live in the world"
I really don't see any correlation at all, except doing some advertising for ning.com...
Thanks for sharing, let us know how it goes in the future.

That Jordan guy judging from his behavior even with his reply on Reddit seems like a youngster that wants to make easy bucks and doesn't care about the future.

If I was you I'd make a legal case and go full on him.
Super Hexagon will make you waste time like never before as well... Until you finish it. It really is something, the end is like a firework.
Except I suspect many countries actually do without effective espionage or sabotage, if only because they lack the capability.

I guess you can argue that many of these countries rely on allies who perform espionage and sabotage, thus benefiting from those activities despite not doing them themselves. But that still means that closely-aligned countries can survive without spying on each other. I might not have all the facts, but it seems unlikely that Germany or Brazil would be considered an existential threat to the US in the foreseeable future, so why spy on those countries? Slight economic advantages don't seem to justify the breach of ethics.

I guess I can see what you are saying and I don't think we can have a world without spying any time soon. But that doesn't mean all international spying is justified.
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The high-percentage cause is that the transfer was actually sent and it is stuck in processing at your bank. This actually happens to a non-zero percentage of transactions, and this is OK, because they get investigated and recovered by CS teams. (Banks, surprisingly, aren't actually ACID even though everyone uses them as the canonical example of an ACID application.)

Escalate with your bank. You do not want to speak to Tier 1 telephone CS on this. You want to speak to someone in their wires investigation department, or to someone who can escalate a call to them. A very quick way to achieve this is to go to the local branch, ask to see one of their business representatives, and explain the situation then sit while they resolve things. If they get the runaround, you ask for the branch manager, mention $10k+ is on the line, and he escalates for you.

Another example is calling directly into the wire investigation group. Now that you know it exists, you can probably figure out how to find it on Google. (If you can't find their group call the Wealth Management group and say "Hiya, someone told me to call you guys. $BIGCO made an incoming wire to my $MYBANK account and it has gone missing. Can you trace it for me?" then wait while they either do so or transfer you.)

Beyond the instant problem with the wire transfer, which is unfortunate, please allow me the liberty of giving unsolicited business advice. It appears that this situation rates "emergency" for your business. That should never happen with regards to one single payment, because routine business mishaps (like, e.g., a bank delaying a payment) will routinely cause events like this to happen.

There are a variety of ways to control for your risk for this. Two which you should implement, as soon as reasonably practical, are a) building up a savings buffer such that you're not dependent on your cashflow to eat and b) charging more, which is partially justified by risks you absorb from having a freelancer/consultant/etc charging model and not being a W-2 employee who could walk to Payroll and say "I don't care what the problem is, just fix it" and having the expectation that Payroll would leap to fix that.