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And compared to lowest:

    00000000 000003da 5849ade5 e2112447 73478c46 5fcdc744 9e247df4 11e97b28 (#1 of leaderboard)

    00000000 00000000 0000fac0 39d91fc6 1db532f3 879ec244 15a2bff9 cd1d4efb (latest mined block right now -- another zero added since your post)

    00000000 00000000 00000000 5d6f0615 4c868514 6aa7bc3d c9843876 c9cefd0f (lowest hash ever?)[0]

[0] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/110956/what-s-the...

I've recently built a tagging system based on SKOS [1]. This supports hierarchical as well as associative relationships between tags (while not strictly requiring either), as well as ad hoc groups of tags.

While SKOS was intended for more formal vocabularies, I've found its use as a basis for a tagging system makes exploration and navigation of a topic area reasonably organic, as it allows users to specify relationships only as they see as fit and intuitive.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/

1 year-old and/or 3-year-old wake me up between 5:45 and 6:15. (If my 6:30 alarm wakes me instead, I get up quickly and search for diabolical mischief.)

Make breakfasts.

Shower & dressed.

Begin commute and browse dailies. Fortunately I'm not dealing with different timezones at the moment, so email can wait 'til I get to work.

Vim and Emacs are quite well-suited for textual manipulation of very large data files. Use of a macro is a very pleasant alternative to piping the file through sed/awk/etc. for a once-off transform.

Not plain timestamps, but there is such as thing as a trusted Time Stamping Authority which will sign a document hash + timestamp to prove that information existed before a certain date. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

Also see a recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656154

I was quite a fan of listening to pink noise at work but found after a while that I started to get aural hallucinations. It felt like my mind was finding patterns in the noise that weren't there.

Probably harmless, but it did make me wonder about any lasting effects of extended exposure.

The nose was "only" pitched 15 degrees up. The descent was at 40 degrees. With considerable turbulence, and a storm raging outside even the rapid descent may not have been apparent (body-wise).

As the article mentions, aviation experts are rightly bamboozled by this.

The closest I've come to flying was Chuck Yeager's AFT on the Commodore 64, but even then I knew presence of engine power does not preclude a stall if your pitch is extreme.

Without knowing that Bonin had been pulling-back the whole time, I guess Robert and Dubois were searching for non-obvious reasons (and struggling, with the altered cognition under stress that the article also mentions).

The author did touch on it:

"According to Camilleri, not one of US Airway's 17 Airbus 330s has ever been in alternate law. Therefore, Bonin may have assumed that the stall warning was spurious because he didn't realize that the plane could remove its own restrictions against stalling and, indeed, had done so."

Your alternatives are for the income that hosting advertisements may provide. They are not alternatives for the service that advertising itself provides.

And for that I offer in place of unsolicited advertising:

- Classifieds

- Directories

- Brochures

- Information centres

- Expos

- Local bulletins

- Store signage

- Word-of-mouth

- Sponsored events

- Trade publications

Of course these may well not have the bang-for-buck of unsolicited ads, but I dream that one day the visual pollution of third-party advertising will not be as accepted.

To be fair, their meaningless is their value. Using "real world" names may distract from the logic being discussed or unreasonably suggest that the logic may fit only a particular scenario.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable

Remember the old Windows time zone picker that let you click on the world map to select your zone?

Geopolitical sensitivity about precise borders forced Microsoft to switch off the region-highlighting feature.

(Info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679...)

Also, the user may not always be picking their own country and it may be unreasonable to ask the average user to find, say, San Marino on a world map. While you could of course restrict the use of a map-style picker to only the users-own cases, it would be nice to have a somewhat standard picker for all occasions.

From the Direct Connect help page:

> A page’s eligibility for Google+ Direct Connect is determined algorithmically, based on certain signals we use to help understand your page's relevancy and popularity. In addition to this analysis, we look for a link between your Google+ page and your website. To help Google associate this content, be sure to connect your Google+ page and your website using the Google+ badge, or by adding a snippet of code to your site, in addition to adding your website link to your page.

[email protected] and [email protected] yield the same background colour. Isn't the point of this to detect accidental transpositions? You may want to use a simple hash in your algorithm.

The input field may need some explanatory text to alleviate the user's astonishment as to why the field is cycling colours in the first place -- it's a very unusual UI quirk.

Also, I suspect your colour palette is not friendly to the colour blind.

Edit: This is reminiscent of Lotus Notes' password hieroglyphics and Chroma-Hash: http://foxxtrot.github.com/Chroma-Hash/. The latter has been discussed on HN several times.

It seems your first comment to invoke the shadowban was a link to your own site with a (rather contentious!) post calling-out famous physicists as murderers.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2413485

I guess it got flagged rather than modded.

Does it integrate with any HRMS or payroll systems? It may be a nice bolt-on to such systems which have rather dated interfaces, and would allow you to target past the small business focus you have at the moment.

"There’s really only one way to solve an email reputation problem. You have to make an effort to clean up your list. Here again I was thankful for the awesome reporting built into Aweber. I was able to quickly track down which subscribers were receiving my emails via @gmail.com addresses but not opening the email."

Does this reporting use some method other than tracked image loading (which GMail disables by default)?

This table is a round-up of C++0x support in various compilers:

http://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C++0xCompilerSupport

Perhaps "Software Sculptor" or "Crafter". I find "artist" a little broad.

The end idea may well be an emotive expression, but there's a lot of disciplined craft that must go in to creating the piece.

Similarly, an architect may design an evocative history museum for example, but it's an engineer that must get the thing built.

It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard

Good stuff. Sports like this are ripe for presenting their many statistics in interesting ways. I'm working on a hobby statistics/prediction site for Aussie Rules football at the moment and am having tremendous fun displaying interesting visualisations rather than the boring tables of data you find on most sites.

Your landing page is extremely light on details. This fails to entice, and the requisite login will immediately turn-away X% of visitors. Add a simple preview.

That range is 58 characters which (perhaps suspiciously) is size of alphabet + 2^5. (Although a whitespace character is also encoded, making that suspicion a little less "round".)

From comparing the multiple encodings of Quick Brown Fox, the value distribution across that range is fairly even and every value is used at least once.

Perhaps this is something that may be mined from the Twitter firehose (which may be easier than marketing a new site).

Let's be generous and say:

  Two mentions in the firehose would be sufficient for a correlation
  8% of people twitter
  25% of twitterers would tweet that they were food poisoned AND name the restaurant
  25% of the patrons got food poisioning

Any restaurant with at least (2 / 0.08 / 0.25 / 0.25) 400 patrons for the given time period would trip the alarm.

Those are pretty generous numbers though, with the figure jumping quite significantly as they're tweaked. A 25% poisoning rate for a reasonably-sized restaurant would probably hit the news beyond Twitter anyway.

I've used Noisy for OS X and also Aire Freshener for Windows (which includes ambient recorded sounds such as rainfall) but notice that after an extended period I tend to have "aural hallucinations" -- I start hearing patterns in the noise that aren't there. This usually worries me and I have to turn it off.

  many startups reckon you are too expensive or less likely to work insane hours
  if you are over 23

Perhaps.

They didn't say HTML5 is "mobile-only". They implied that including media, storage and extended graphics capabilities in the standard supports a better mobile experience.

Sites and applications can target these capabilities without having to rely on plug-ins, and browser developers can optimize for mobile performance.

It's a design I've been tinkering with for while and have a bunch of notes about. Reputation would be handled by a transparent history of all projects worked on.

The profit-sharing design does not prevent collusion. E.g., if there are a glut of programmers and a shortage of artists in the collective, then two may collude to submit and share a low programmer bid and a high artist bid (and vice versa on another project).

Collectives are hard and are subject to many problems that the free market does not suffer.

My thoughts about a collective have included a bidding system. For each project, the coordinating team identify the work units. For each work unit, the collective's members may submit a bid comprising of:

* time available to work on project (start date, commitment, etc.)

* time estimates

* profit-sharing margin

The project coordinators choose a best fit.

All assets created by the collective are added to a common pool and may be used in a bid by another member for a different project with the original creator getting a cut of that project's profit.