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Works for me.

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…

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 governme…

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 …

Yes they did, it just shows up as Wyandotte County. Kansas City and Wyandotte County share a unified government.

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…

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." …

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 w…

He now has a post on his blog explaining the situation http://devinsheaven.com/im-the-first-to-admit/

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…

Apple isn't forcing anyone to upgrade, original iPads aren't going to become useless on March 11.

as a german I'm a bit disturbed they didn't call it Nazi-Germany in the text. Why do you find this disturbing?

Considering the iPad doesn't come on contract it would probably make more sense to compare it to the $799 contractless Xoom

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?

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 por…

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 se…

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 dat…

It won't be a moot point for long; Malia turns 13 in July.

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…

Those other entities can opt-out of being indexed.

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 th…

Slide rules are still made ( http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap... )

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 surpas…