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by arst 15y ago
Works for me.
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by arst 15y ago
You can include a transaction bounty (traditionally 0.01 BTC) with your payment which the verifiers receive if they're the first to verify your payment. Effectively, this puts your transaction at the top of the priority queue. When you're
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by arst 15y ago
In fact, if the statistics are accurate, my country has a higher murder rate (5 per 100K) than the "libertarian paradise" of Somalia (3.2 per 100K) (2) who have no central government (3). There have been over 4,200 civilians killed in the
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Warner Bros buys Rotten Tomatoes owner Flixster(guardian.co.uk)
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by arst 15y ago
That link is wrong. Python does ship with a robotparser module in the standard library that parses robots.txt files, but urllib2 does not use it out of the box. This can be easily confirmed using Wireshark or a quick glance at the source:
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by arst 15y ago
Yes they did, it just shows up as Wyandotte County. Kansas City and Wyandotte County share a unified government.
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by arst 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something because I'm not tuned into the Rails community, but what is going on here? Someone submitted a favicon to an open source project, and now it's on Hacker News?
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by arst 15y ago
As someone who's never heard of Qbix I came away from this post with the knowledge that you make "tools to accomplish things with" that represent "a leap in social communication." Oh, and that you're out to change the world. Before clicking
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by arst 16y ago
Those conditions don't apply because Google is accused of distributing a derived work. If Google is distributing a work derived from GPL'd code then they can only distribute that work under the terms of the GPL. There's a lot of debate over
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by arst 16y ago
He now has a post on his blog explaining the situation http://devinsheaven.com/im-the-first-to-admit/
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by arst 16y ago
If I copy GPL-licensed code into my BSD-licensed library, none of my code has to be relicensed. Yes it does, that's a pretty central feature of the GPL. See section 2.b. of the GPL (v2): b) You must cause any work that you distribute or
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by arst 16y ago
Apple isn't forcing anyone to upgrade, original iPads aren't going to become useless on March 11.
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by arst 16y ago
as a german I'm a bit disturbed they didn't call it Nazi-Germany in the text. Why do you find this disturbing?
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by arst 16y ago
Considering the iPad doesn't come on contract it would probably make more sense to compare it to the $799 contractless Xoom
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by arst 16y ago
We know he has cancer, and we know he is taking a medical leave of absence. How is it news that he is receiving cancer treatment?
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by arst 16y ago
Looks like it has already been registered, but it's worth noting that the .io TOS includes: No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nati
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by arst 16y ago
A locally-hosted Greplin-like service is an idea I've been kicking around for a while and slowly prototyping -- my angle is more on the archival side, but once you have the data search is a natural step. Another interesting attempt down the
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by arst 16y ago
There's also a difference between trusting various bits and pieces of your data to exist on a variety of online services, and trusting a single service to aggregate all of your data from everywhere. A local version of Greplin would be more
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by arst 16y ago
It won't be a moot point for long; Malia turns 13 in July.
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by arst 16y ago
I think people are tainted on Map/Reduce because they see how it is done with other NoSQL DBs like MongoDB where it doesn't store the indexes Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by stored indexes, but MongoDB supports indexes ( http://www
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by arst 16y ago
Those other entities can opt-out of being indexed.
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by arst 16y ago
While HN's reaction to DDG's 'war on Google' has been mixed, their search traffic doubled in January (according to Gabriel's newsletter, not sure if there's a linkable source on this), so I'm not prepared to consider the strategy a failure.
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by arst 16y ago
Slide rules are still made ( http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap... )
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by arst 16y ago
Economically China will have surpassed the US and Europe and will therefore also have a higher standard of living than US/Europe How does that follow? Do you expect China to surpass the US and Europe not just in absolute terms but also in
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by arst 16y ago
Is the video available somewhere that doesn't require both registration and Windows Media Player?
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by arst 16y ago
If the site can provide value to people interested in the 5 launch states, why is it premature for them to release a beta?
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by arst 16y ago
Discussion from three days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957433
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by arst 16y ago
Micros (which are what you get on the free tier) are only available as EBS-backed instances.
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by arst 16y ago
Indeed. In the Scoble interview posted a few days ago, pg mentioned the surge of groupon clones applying (and being rejected) to YC this round.
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by arst 16y ago
Roughly, bitcoins are generated by hashing some metadata about the state of previous transactions together with an incrementing nonce until you find a hash below a certain target value. If other users verify the hash and you were the first

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