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Assuming you mean the non-memristor version of the machine?

Microsoft are not a hardware company by any stretch. There are a few hardware engineers in small areas (Xbox, handsets, Surface), but almost none in server. Apple mostly make consumer facing equipment, again, no enterprise/server heritage.

If not HP, then who has a true system development background?

Well, not sure why you say not Intel. They are one of the few that actually does systems development.

IBM makes the most sense. They've distances themselves from x86, and still maintain a system development mindset, including heavy investment in big data processing. They have the OS development skills.

After IBM, there are a few maybe's:

Google would be a realistic company too, as they have shown system engineering skills, end to end, including a lot of OS development work.

Facebook - continue to do full system engineering in areas they believe are differentiators. I could see them doing something similar for analytics crunching.

Outsiders:
Oracle could be viable. There must be a few Sun guys left there that do system development, and they need to show they are still relevant in big data, but they don't spend much in R&D.

Cisco - continue to do full system engineering, but would likely break this by making it too network centric. No real OS development heritage.

Broadcom - continue to expand their areas. This would be a huge step for them in systems integration, but not big at all in terms of silicon and interconnects.
In your view, are gold and other precious metals commodities or money? If your answer is commodities, why not money?
You still have to pay taxes on currency transactions that generate a profit, so I don't understand why this would be a tax boon. If I buy a million dollars worth of yen and sell it for two million, the taxman will be around.
Never loop a DB query.
Obviously copying anything is not possible unless they have a free license.

I agree that GitHub's rendering of markdown files is much better than ours. We hope to improve it. Our first interaction engineer just started and we're looking to hire more https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

Of course, you're very welcome to submit improvements yourself, as long as you do not submit proprietary code.
New devs do not have a cache of the codebase in their mind, therefore their mental compiler (because that's what you're utilizing any time you code in a dynamic language) is more prone to make mistakes than devs who know what parts of the codebase to "compile" when they make modifications.

Some may argue that tests can theoretically cover all these bases. I would counter that in practice, tests almost never come close to serving as a poor man's compiler.

And of course, not even a dev who is experienced with the codebase could replace a true compiler, but I'd assume that this is deliberate trade-off, if there were competent technical decision-makers involved
In the same way that a language is a dialect with an army and navy, so is money any commodity that's officially recognized as currency.
Isn't this kind of what git-clone is for?
One thing that is often talked about regarding "the most powerful people" is their ethnicity. For instance, a big deal was made regarding President Obama being the first (half-)black president.

So it's only fair that we do the same for the second most powerful person in the world.

Let's start around 1970 since there was a pivotal shift in the US around that time (starting in 1967 - read The Culture of Critique for more information).

1970-1978 - Arthur F Burns - Jewish

1978-1979 - George William Miller - WASP (note: that's when Carter was president; this tenure lasted only one year)

1979-1987 - Paul Volcker - Jewish

1987-2006 - Alan Greenspan - Jewish

2006-2014 - Ben Bernanke - Jewish

2014-20?? - Janet Yellen - Jewish

Considering Jewish people are around 2% of the US population this is a staggering coincidence, is it not? Can someone calculate the odds of this happening? I'm not that good with probability.
Yes, a dark matter halo can lead to dynamical friction, though I think that stars are more important through most of the process. But by the time you get to a ~few parsec orbit the orbital velocity is too fast and the dark matter density is too low to provide a substantial drag.
The world has been beholden to US consumer demand since the end of the Bretton Woods system (which ended when Nixon unpegged the dollar from gold in 1973) up until the collapse of the US center of gravity in 2008 (from which we haven't really recovered). Prior to that it was the opposite: Demand came from the periphery, and the US was the world's factory. Where we are now is uncharted waters. US demand is required to fuel the Global Surplus Recycling Mechanism. With its absence, China does not have enough domestic demand to replace the US and does not have enough power to start its own GSRM.
I completely agree. But it's probably just that nothing can ever live up to our memories...
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Somehow I can never grasp RINA. John Day, one of RINA's proponents usually blames TCP for being fundamentally broken. Ive yet to see a working stack
Gold is a commodity and bitcoin fits closer to that then a currency. Bitcoin isn't issued by the US government and create by a process not by the government's will. Given how Bitcoin works, I cannot think of how it fits the definition of money as opposed to a commodity that is bartered.
Need the ability to search by zip code. I tried that and it didn't seem to work.
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The most popular definition of "money" that I have seen is 'a medium of exchange'. I think that gold has been used as a money in the past, as have a number of other precious metals. The question you are asking is a good one, because it asks whether the use as a medium of exchange must be its primary use, and how popular it must be to be considered a money. It seems gold is an edge case, which could (currently) reasonably be judged to be either one.
I'm kind of surprised by his dismissal of "Cat's Cradle" (or at least his demotion of it) as lighter weight and "adolescent." To this day I still think it is Vonnegut's best novel. I think that it is short and simple (at least in plotting) is a great strength because the book never digresses into distractions.

He says that the book is about scientists taking responsibility for their creations, but I think that is too narrow a reading. The book is filled with with characters (not just scientists) who think they are in control of their actions (and they are) but every action has consequences that they have no control over, and these have far more impact than the intended consequences. (Ice-9 is just one of many manifestations of this.) The sayings of Bokonon are kind of an oblique reference to this, since many of them are about other (divine?) plans that are performed by the karass, wampeters, and granfalloons. But as Bokonon says at the beginning, its a lie, there is no controlling force, are actions simply have unintended consequences.

There is also a second prevalent theme about deception and self deception, and recurs through-ought the novel.

(the author also says he can't even remember the narrator's name, but I'm pretty sure his name is never given in the novel.)
Why does the issuer have anything to do with the question of whether something is a money?
I'm guessing he is referring to sales tax or VAT, which currencies are exempt from.
Bitcoin Builder started out as a way to trade against MtGox's internal ledger when they halted withdraws. Users could effectively bet on MtGox's future by using privately held bitcoins to trade with users wanting to sell their "Gox coins" at a fraction of the market price. Anyone that sold their Gox coins for less than 100% market value made out far better than those that didn't. It was a wild idea that basically created a functional market for the greedy and the desperate. I'm sure millions flowed though the site during its short lived existence.

Congrats on the new idea, Josh.
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There was a very successful thread back in the day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3325304 ).. but all of it's answers are approximately 3-4 years old. So I thought we should get some fresh takes on some of the more recent acquisitions.
That's the Far East for ya. We gave a Korean company a 30-day evaluation copy of our software in the early '90s. They decided not to purchase, and a few years later we dropped the product entirely.

In 1999 someone from the Korean company called up and asked if we could certify our software to be Y2K compliant.
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Get used to it. It's not going to change before November 2016, and it won't be just the Republicans.

For that matter, Congress doesn't live in a fact-based world much of the time...
Good thing mine are in a non-US based wallet :-)
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So far we have gotten Bitcoin classified:

* CFTC: Commodity
* IRS: Property
* Judge: Currency
* SEC: Security
* TSA: Cash

One step closer to world domination.
You can even put ANSI escape sequences in file names, since there is no notion of an encoding for file names in POSIX. They're just strings of any byte except / and NUL. Fortunately GNU ls won't print most escape sequences verbatim to stdout, but other implementations and/or programs might, and I have had some success creating a file name that GNU ls always prints in a fixed color (this was a while ago, don't have it on hand).
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but Node.JS is a server side javascript runtime environment, correct?

If that is the case, why do so many people insist on comparing a framework, such as rails to node.js? Wouldn't the more relvant comparison be node.js vs ruby, or rails vs meteor.

So many people make such comparisons I feel like I'm the one who is crazy. Of course, I probably am, but that may have nothing to do with rails and node.js comparisons. :-)
By the definition of the article, you're probably a racist no matter what race you are.

> But from an explosion of research beginning in the 1990s, we now know that the human brain uses stereotypes without our awareness or consent. Our brains want to ascertain, as quickly as possible, whether new individuals are “safe” or “like me” or “in my tribe.” It uses stereotypes as a kind of shortcut. We are all susceptible to these judgments, and because they are so fast, a learned stereotype is very difficult to avoid.

There's nothing in that paragraph that's limited to whites.
Consent of the governed is a specific phrase that means something specific. Consent here doesn't refer to the individual libertarian definition of consent, but rather a broader use of the word.

For society to function we need a government, and all people benefit from society functioning and therefore government and so we agree to give certain people power to make decisions and do things no private individual would ever be allowed to do. In exchange the government is responsible to the people, through elections, referendums, protests, general dissatisfaction, and generally tries to take actions which are fair and in the best interest of society and the people.

Of course sometimes the government isn't responsible enough to the people, and sometimes the government doesn't quite take actions that are fair and in the best interest of society; no system is perfect, but that's the principle upon which our government and all modern democratic governments are based. We can discuss all day whether or not it's currently working but that's not what you asked about.

You can vote out a bad government official who wields power unfairly. If it's a bad CEO, well, you can sit back and pray to Ayn Rand that our lord and savior "the market" punishes him for his choices one day though you know chances are he'll be rewarded.
A bitcoin represents a portion of the blockchain, the dominant distributed-consensus protocol. Since the ability to do blockchain-stuff that takes a huge amount of processing power to revert is valuable economic activity, bitcoin is basically a cryptographic commodity.
I'm pretty certain you guys on the React team have lots of increasingly clever ideas to speed up the diffing, not limited to actual functions browser vendors could add in native code that could speed this stuff up.

Generally React is 'very fast' to 'fast enough'. A very admirable situation to find yourselves in :-)
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According to this[1] Reddit post by a supposed tax attorney:

Note: There is a code section that might provide some relief here, but only if bitcoins are categorized as a foreign currency. Under this code section, the use of bitcoin to buy goods and services would be tax free as long as the transaction was personal (i.e. not for business or investment) and did not generate more than $200 of gain. Unfortunately, the IRS ruled in Notice 2014-21 that bitcoin is not a currency for tax purposes. So, this code section is inapplicable unless the IRS changes its position sometime in the future.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1uccfz/i_am_a_tax_...
Isn't bitcoin explicitly a currency? I don't see any ambiguity around that. Or do you only get to be a currency if you're backed by a government entity that can be manipulated?
Most races and most people in the world are racist and believe stereotypes..against somebody. It just seems to be the most popular thing to only focus on white people.
What you are saying is that bitcoin is a claim on the use of the blockchain, and that the blockchain is a resource. This is not incompatible with the bitcoin itself being money. A US Dollar can buy you a computer which has a huge amount of processing power, but the dollar is no commodity, though the processor may be.
IIRC FSF's position on this is that the original author has to include inlude explicit GPL exemption for things like MFC, VCL or even OpenSSL, if the program depends on them, in order for anyone to be legally able to distribute binaries. I would assume that something similar comes into play when building the program requires proprietary compiler that is not "component of the operating system" (although in that case it might very well be implied).

That in practice nobody except FSF and Debian cares is another thing.
Great points. I'll add back some of my copy and content from the old site.

If libraries buy at all, it'd be sold as an antidote to shrinking budgets: the app would be a way to virtually expand shelves without the expense of paper books, ebooks or shelf space (every book has previews and full text links).

There's a lot of talk right now about libraries and their future in a digital world. I really think libraries will need some kind of a digital interface to browse collections in the future, as search boxes simply aren't enough--we don't always know exactly what we're looking for. I'm not alone in thinking this way. This particular app may not be the final solution to that problem, of course, but it's an attempt.

I understand kids won't flock to libraries just to use this app, but I can see it being a draw while they're already there, kind of like haphazardly browsing bookshelves was for the last generation.
Academic or Mozilla supervisors?
How many people do you think would pay for jsbin via Bitcoin but not via regular money?
Relationships aren't fungible like skills.

Some people find this out the hard way, as non-competes are short or hard to enforce (if enforceable at all).
Yes! I am so excited!
"A portion of the blockchain"? How so? The blockchain stores transactions, not Bitcoins.
indeed the two terms are orthogonal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_money
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Both are moneys
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When developing Rails applications, I rarely, if ever, include 'Rails' in my search terms, but rather drill down to the applicable component library: ActiveRecord, ActionController, Haml, Rack, etc.
I think your general critique of American political culture and the state of affairs is pretty spot on.

As it turns out of course as in every case consent is a slippery concept to grasp but the point we are getting at here is that it simply isn't that bad yet. The government is functional and generally it does what it's supposed to do. People have normal lives. Egypt had well-funded intelligence organizations and domestic secret police. The egyptians were perfectly capable of expressing the fact that they did not consent to be governed. They rioted.

People generally care about their daily lives. As long as their daily lives aren't interrupted and they can live happily and get most of the things they need they might complain about stuff but they won't REALLY refuse to be governed. But they could, of course. Americans just choose not to.

Partially that's I think a change in the American character: we are economically driven now, not driven by principles. We don't riot and kill people because of a tax. We're pretty far away from Bastille day. We care about buying a TV and getting a job to get out of debt and putting food on the table. Until those things are threatened we will consent to be governed; all of the threats are abstract and for all intents and purposes don't really exist in a tangible way for most people.

I'm not sure if it's sad or not but it's the state of things; we consent to be governed by not rioting and burning down government buildings.
Though both Android and Chromium still build in a way more similar to that for a monolithic repo. They use repo and depot_tools, respectively, as abstractions on top of Git in order to clone and manage all their Git repositories together as if they were a single large repository.
I would like to state quite firmly that releasing the signing keys is absolutely the wrong solution to this problem, because that destroys the security that code signing was designed to create.

The correct solution to this problem is to release a tool for people to change the code signing certificates on their devices to ones which they control, and to arrange for this tool to require a reasonable level of physical access so that it cannot be used remotely. Then device owners can have code signing security on their own terms and be confident that only their own trusted builds can be pushed to their devices via remote updates, which is a super useful feature when you have more than two devices.
Interestingly, Bitcoin does not fit neatly into either of Wikipedia's categories of money, as it is not supported by a government, and it is not based on a material.
There was a post here recently trying to figure out why Europe's startup scene was falling behind the US.

Kudos to companies that can survive past monstrosities like VAT and VATMOSS.

Out of curiosity, how is VAT enforced for a non-EU seller and an EU buyer? Let's say my business was registered in the Cayman islands for example.
Combine this with https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste and you've got something especially nasty.
What if they're doing it deliberately, because they personally believe in allowing users to install customised firmware, and feigning ignorance/incompetence? They certainly wouldn't be able to do it "officially", so they work around it. Once everyone else knows, they'll admit their mistake and "fix" the problem, but add another way in?

Of course it could just be incompetence, but it's particularly interesting to consider the alternative. Seeing all the other companies who have leaked keys, datasheets, and other useful but officially proprietary information on their products, really makes me wonder. Also, those vulnerabilities which allow for jailbreaking and rooting of locked-down devices? Are they also there deliberately? For some reason, I really hope so.
Bitcoin is not legal tender (i.e., required to be accepted in payment for any debt). Government-issued money is. If someone owes you money you're required to accept payments in U.S. dollars (in the U.S., of course, and the same in other countries with their official government currencies). You're not required to accept Bitcoin.
Wow, it's so refreshing after using Google Maps. Wikimedia Maps are just fast. Reminds me of how I remember Google Maps being. (My machine is much faster now, but GMaps just _lags_.)

The data quality is a bit weird, as if it doesn't know what things to highlight. But I'm sure this will improve over time.
In other words, every government entity happens to believe it is entitled to regulate it.

Not sure this is cause for celebration.
When I submitted it, the s was automatically capitalized. Maybe dang can fix it.
While that might be true, it has no effect on requirements of GPL. If the actual contract explicitly stated that the buyer will not exercise his rights coming from GPL, that might be another thing.
That comment's description of Erlang is wrong.

In Erlang, message queues are tied to processes. You can't have multiple processes reading from the same mailbox without writing your own message broker process to implement a multi-reader mailbox.
Legal Tender == Government Issued Money in Jurisdiction

Legal Tender != Money
The Fire TV stick is the best $ I've spent on a TV device. I love it - fast, responsive, does not drop connections, and has all the apps I want.

I've used Boxee, Google TV, Roku, Chromecast, and (XMBC on Raspberry Pi) and none of those compare to the FireTV stick. It blows them out of the water.

Boxee was my favorite until the team building it deserted it
Cool, I'd be pleased to submit a merge request. :)
This is an interesting development. Typically commodities futures and options contracts can only be traded on a DCM (designated contract market) like ICE or CME. After leaving once DCM, the Chicago Climate Exchange, I started an exchange as a service startup, Exchangery, and sought DCM status. It requires a 12-18 month approval process, typically > 500k in legal fees, and a guarantee fund that is based on the amount of money moved across the platform. The last requirement could easily be 10s of millions for something like Bitcoin. It used to only be imposed on clearing firms, but post Dodd-Frank it is applied to the exchange as well.

This is drastically going to thin the players in the space, and probably force most bitcoin exchanges to stay strictly in the non-derivative trading world. It might also tempt players like CME and ICE in to trading futures on Bitcoin if they think the volumes are potentially large enough.

As far as SEFs go, they are limited to swap trading, which can be dressed up to act like an option but isn't really the same thing.

Fun times ahead.
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Being of italian decent (first generation american) and knowing most italians are pretty laid back, i am never late, to anything. So much so that the first thing out of my mouth after getting to a job interview a half hour early is if i'm ever late, i'm probably dead or someone or something effected my plans that was completely out of my control.

One job i had, i remember having no idea where it was and before smart phones / gps (it ended up being in some obscure business park) so i drove there the day before so i could gauge the time, then went back home. still showed up for the interview a half hour early.
...or that's it's remarkable.

It's the default belief for a government entity.
I really like your writing style, I wish more people did this. It makes it fun to read, almost like a story. :)
In addition to Glassdoor, try data.jobsintech.io (H1B) or angel.co (startups) for salary information. Go on indeed.com, and look for companies around your area to see if any are in those dbs.

After a while, you should start seeing some common ranges between regular software engineers and senior engineers. Use those as a starting point in negotiations. Interview at enough places (10+), and you should see what your market value is.