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Has Bitcoin been subjected to serious academic research? Quickly scanning this bibliography [1], at least, I don't see many top ACM conferences.

[1] http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/biblio.html

There is the critique that if that energy and money were instead directed toward Muni and BART, everyone would benefit.

Especially relevant today: Slave records from the 19th century were used to enforce racial purity laws 100 years later.

http://backstoryradio.org/shows/keeping-tabs

This is a project we built with the Red Cross to help drive donations. Particularly relevant now.

We'd love some design/product critique. Thanks!

Alternate title ... A startup discovers Wizard of Oz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment

(nice article, though)

SOPA is horrifying. No doubt about it. But it's funny how many people I meet who share this view, yet think Congress is perfectly capable of regulating just about everything else. Because Congress understands that stuff. Like economies. Those things are simple. </LibertarianThursdays>

My favorite is the forum that runs on (and only requires) a Linksys router. https://github.com/FLOSolutions/openwrt-forum

This is a variant of a radial menu, first seen in an application in 1969. A beautiful variant, but a variant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu

That's effectively what LaTeX Lab does. http://docs.latexlab.org

Bravo on launching day one with serious documentation.

... says the guy posting his comment via social media. (Yes, HN qualifies.)

This is a project by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg (at least, that's what I've heard). You can see some of their other work at http://hint.fm.

This is great. Thank you. If you're interested in this stuff, also take a look at ChucK, a project out of Princeton's CS & Music departments. I've been extremely happy with its results when generating backgrounds for videos, for instance.

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu

A communications scholar at Cornell named Lee Humphreys has a paper under review that compares Twitter to 18th century diaries. Apparently, it was common practice for people (mostly women) to keep short accounts of daily life in their journals. Every six months, they swapped the diaries with their friends and family. The Twitter of the 18th century. Old is new again.

I've been internet-only for over 3 years now. No cable. I have an antenna for live sports.

There is still so much room in this space, and Netflix is more vulnerable than they look. No matter what set-top box you buy (e.g, Roku, Apple TV) or software you use (e.g., Boxee, Clicker), something important is left out. Please, somebody, make something solid.

Wouldn't "countries" like this be super vulnerable to attack? A few well-placed charges and it's like the place never existed.

Most of you know how to code, and so you might be turned off by the easy style of Ben Fry's Processing (http://processing.org). However, even as an advanced programmer I often turn to it to prototype visual ideas. After 10 bad ideas (discarded quickly), one comes out right--then I port to straight Java, Scala or ActionScript.

(John Resig also ported Processing to Javascript: http://processingjs.org)

An aside: your blog's theme is gorgeous. Care to share?

The juxtaposition of the top two stories, "How to Level Up as a Developer" and "Gamification is bullshit," is pretty hilarious.

Greece ^kinda defaults. More context in NYT, of course: http://nyti.ms/pyJ9Ho

Somehow I missed parallel collections in 2.9. I'm in love.

"90% just want to consume." Do they only want to consume, no matter the service/site? Or, does somebody just need to build a better experience?

I'm looking for feedback, HN. The goal is to make email less opaque. You put a link in your sig to a abstracted version of your email load. ("high", "normal", "light")

Absolutely. The commutes are the worst part about living in the valley.

Yes, especially since it seems like that's what the author wants to imply. In reality, I think we're seeing Google hiring volume marching with the broad tech outlook, here proxied by MSFT.

I considered building an exporter to existing services, but I'm lured into to a new site by the idea of controlling the design.

Should I keep going?

I loved this design. Easy to hold in your hand. Rounded, cute and cuddly. And, the wheel was such a clever interface choice. By comparison, today's iPod feels like a waify supermodel to me.

Nature, however, provides a very unique academic service: they can give you a "no" within two weeks. This is light-speed in academic publishing. Most ACM conferences take 4 months to return an answer. Journals in other fields can take years.