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Considering the "who" was major bitcoin developers and pool operators, yes. #bitcoin-dev currently has 462 nicks and there were probably more during 2013 due to the crazy price increase. Keep in mind that a ton of communication happens on IRC and even bitcoin itself utilized IRC for finding other nodes to connect to.
Right this moment I'm sitting in an office in the place that represents our hope, a capital of continued progress[0] - Shenzhen, China. Everything Facebook, Google and Microsoft designs gets built here (or nearby) anyway. China has a... quite healthy attitude towards copyright and trade secrets. That is, they don't give a flying fuck here. There was even a term for that, that eludes me at the moment, which described the idea of "I share my specs today with you, you'll share your specs tomorrow with me". And in the ongoing war on general-purpose computing, for better or worse, this seems to be our only recourse.

I'm gonna ask around if they have any Google Glass knockoffs or components handy.

[0] - built on the backs of abused and impoverished people, but that's a topic for another day.
Yup. This is the kind of person you run into of among gen-x gen-y and millennial neo-hipsters. Calling others racist while connecting dots that really just reveals their own bias. Same kind of person that claims 'systemic' racism everywhere when really they themselves treat or refer to minorities as needing special coddling. Immediately when someone uses 'gentrifying' in a conversation you find they are the racist when you start boiling them down. They are the worst kind because they think they are some protector class of minorities but they are just full of themselves and like to keep token friends but as soon as they earn a dollar are just as apt to move in our out of a neighborhood. In other words they don't want to believe what's both in front of and behind their own eyes.
It's interesting that the article kind of skipped straight from X11 colors to CSS. Presumably what happened was that JWZ, who was hacking together the Motif frontend for Mozilla (shortly before they renamed it to Netscape), added <font color="foo"> and <body background="bar"> to it, and just handed that string directly to XLookupColor, so that <font color="red"> would work? And then whoever was hacking together the Microsoft Windows and MacOS frontends had to copy rgb.txt and "#c0ffee" parsing into the Mozilla code in order to get cross-platform combatibility? I don't know, I wasn't there, but to me that's the actually interesting juncture. Up to that point, WWW colors could have been specified in any way whatsoever. After that, browsers had to be compatible with Mozilla (then Netscape, and then later IE) or people wouldn't use them.
Marginal utility of money. If rich americans use oil heating up their 50 unused vacation homes and they have to slow down a bit, the statement can be true.

I.e. it's not "rather than building a factory, workers are making shoes for poor children," it's "rather than spend man hours making hundreds of shoes for a single rich person, make more shoes for the poor, less throw away shoes, and still end up freeing up time to make factories."

If that shoe example is too contrived for you, just do a google image search for "shoe closet":

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nOKYKVt_gf4/TZllEf3kD2I/AAAAAAAADc...
http://www.theshoegirlblog.com/2012/02/celebrity-shoe-closet...
Unfortunately, it appears that many people, both end users, power users and programmers alike, have made up their minds and want their computers to be appliances instead of tools. In fact, strict regimentation, curation and immutable defaults are in wide demand by consumers of all demographics. Having to manually tune something is considered ever more blasphemous these days.

I think we will end up losing a lot in this process, not least of which the ensuing moral crisis as system software research becomes increasingly dead in favor of having our machines just be whatever black box the vendor has crafted, indeed our very mental model of a computing environment being whatever is presented to us obliquely.

And all of this happening while many beat their chests demanding that programming be made a compulsory subject in public schools. What a sickening irony.
Military enrollment.

You don't need to be a citizen to enlist in the US military. You don't even need a green card.
> Did you read the article?

Did you read my comment? There are ways around this. Worth noting also, that if poor and middle class folks have a higher and more reliable income, they are more likely to save.

> Please explain the mechanism by which this would work.

It's called supply and demand. Rich people will have less, so demand will drop for things like jewellery and superyachts, and labor will shift from these industries into stuff producing things like shoes.
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I have to remind myself that no matter how productive I am, I can't be more productive as a whole team of smart engineers. One of my main jobs as a tech lead is an enabler. If I can remove blockers and try to cultivate experts then things get done.

I do about 30% helping and answering questions. 30% meetings and planning. 30% code reviews. 10% coding.
Never trust articles about porn. I've never seen one that represented more than a myopic view. It's a very diverse industry.

I hope that Kink implodes. That side of the industry started as an almost joke. Bush, pre-911 Bush, talked about going after violent porn. So a couple producers got together and said: "Well, lets give them a target." They had first amendment lawyers primed for battle. Then 9/11, and the feds never showed up. Fast forwards a decade or so, and the violent porn meant to trigger a freedom of speech battle is practically mainstream. Kink.com is now a giant and customers are leaving for content that even Kink wouldn't touch. The old hats are aghast at the beast they've unleashed.

I've got clients that come to me when employees are caught downloading things they shouldn't. I'm the guy that has to go through this material and figure out whether anything is illegal, whether we have to bring in the cops. It isn't fun.

(But i did once practically fall out of my chair at a client meeting when I was introduced as "the external expert on child porn". I was in fact the guy there to explain that the material wasn't such. The employee was fired, but the police were not involved.)
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If rich americans use oil heating up their 50 unused vacation homes and they have to slow down a bit, the statement can be true.

Did you read the article?

"A rich person, presented with a tax refund, will not necessarily increase his or her consumption. Instead he or she might well save the money ...When the poor and lower middle class get cash in their pockets, they generally spend it straight away..."

Or perhaps this comment from 27 minutes ago where I pointed out the exact same thing to another person who didn't read the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397010
“Animations are just the time axis of layout.”

That was very well put.
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> And all of this happening while many beat their chests demanding that programming be made a compulsory subject in public schools. What a sickening irony.

Indeed. Also note how the typical curriculum offered by proponents is geared towards teaching people to create things that will be ad-supported or will be providing ads.

I wish to know if there's a way to fight back somehow. Maybe not to reverse the trend, but to separate ourselves from it? Let the masses have their appliances if they really like them, but let us keep our tools.

The thing I fear is professionalization of programming, when we become a legitimate engineering discipline and thus will have to work for an expensive license to legally use a turing-complete language, and compilers is something you can go to jail for if they see you trying to run it without credentials.
Who is "they"? The foundation that paid Bristol isn't run by Sarah.

IMO, $262,000 is a lot to pay a spokesperson for a year's work, but at the same time, it's very little to pay someone who comes with a ton of free PR due to who her mom is.
If you had lead with this instead of taking issue with the name I wouldn't have accused you of pedantry. That said, I am sorry for being so negative. I'd seen several instances of that sort of behavior in the prior days and I was more annoyed than I should have been.
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I'm talking about companies. I don't know if pornhub counts as a studio.
> Also, there are actually a lot of people who deny any psychological involvement with depression, and you'll see this a lot on forums (including HN).

To be fair, a lot of psychotherapy advocates claim the same thing about physiological causes. This is kind of funny because the first step in a mood disorder diagnosis is supposed to be the elimination of physiological explanations, but in practice that process is often... let's be kind to the GPs/PCPs and say "optimized for time".

Basically, anyone who claims to have the one true solution to depression is either lying or believes a little too much in their own hype. Some are people who got lucky and had their first treatment work wonders (not a typical experience) and now think that everyone with depression needs to try their specific treatment, but a lot are people with a financial, reputational, or ideological stake in people's beliefs about treatment.

On one hand, depression treatment is certainly a case of "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" [1]. On the other hand, it's also a case of "it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose; that is not a weakness, that is life" [2].

[1]: popularly attributed to Wayne Gretzky

[2]: Jean-Luc Picard; Star Trek: The Next Generation 02x21 Peak Performance
I feel like you are making the complete opposite argument from the linked article: "We should have a BI because it will reduce consumption by the rich and increase savings by the poor, thereby increasing investment."

Is that a fair statement?

Also, given that you believe the rich and poor have equal propensity to spend, I assume you have no objection to Keynesian stimulus targeting the rich during times of recession?
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Do you recommend any good primers on topology? I thought this (https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/) was an interesting article and I see what looks like some great papers and videos available at http://www.ayasdi.com/approach/data-scientist/, but I don't know the difference between homotopy and homology (yet) :) .

What kinds of infrastructure/tech do you think will have the most utility for topological data analysis in the near future? E.g., GPUs, Apache Spark, FPGAs, etc.

Any thoughts on an Ayasdi public offering? I'd like to consider investing but I don't have millions of dollars (yet) :) .

Thanks for your time.
If you have questions, please ask! Using Arc in real applications has been such an interesting experience that I can barely shut up about how ridiculously fun it is.

Here are some unfinished notes about what the diffs mean: https://gist.github.com/laarc/a07799e89940dc7c31c9 It's interesting how short the diffs are vs how many features and fixes they deliver.
Ouch. This job must really suck. Still, you probably have lots of interesting stories and insights to share; I'd love to hear some if you have a moment to tell.
(Nothing personal, Marc)

This is comical. Marc Andreesen is the least OpenGov-style person I can possibly think of. He is literally the definition of the American Oligarchy. When confronted with the Snowden revelations he said both that:

1. Everyone knew that the government was doing this.
2. That Snowden was a traitor.

Snowden's treason was only possible if the public didn't know what has been going on, so really this is code for "us guys with investments into company's that the INT organizations have contacted know what is really going on; we don't need a pesky whistle blower leaking it to the public".

OpenGov my ass.

"If you look up in the encyclopedia 'traitor' there's a picture of Ed Snowden."

That is fucking Andreesen. He's not on our side. He's the enemy, in the same group as the banks that are corrupting our governments.

I get political realism / anarchy in international relations. I really do. I get how every telegraph ever sent is recorded in some American or British INT station.

But publicly shaming someone that validated that we essentially live in 1984 as a fucking traitor / criminal is despicable.

Some of us can't be bought. Some people don't care about money so much that they'll keep silent about assholes ruining our democracies.

Andreesen is just the one we have on record. Half of fucking wall street and Washington think like him.

And if you find this comment downvoted just remember that our intelligence agencies have tools to manipulate internet discussions:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-snowden-docs-reveal-british...
Yeah, while I agree that the 2013 fork could have resulted in significantly more lost money than it did, I'm far from convinced that it would have proved catastrophic for Bitcoin. For one thing, the idea that a Bitcoin fork would be likely to endure for anything other than ideological reasons is pretty far-fetched. There are strong incentives for miners to be on the same side of a fork as the economic majority, and vice versa.

Now, in the case of a major ideological disagreement, as this block size debate has (suprisingly) turned into, I could see a lasting fork happening to the Bitcoin ecosystem. But back in 2013, there were no such major disagreements, just a bunch of minor squabbles.

So yes, it could have been worse, but not that much worse.
They don't really feel the blowback of a PR disaster when 1. most are uninformed, and 2. of the few informed there are enough people like you who will cover for them and give them benefit of the doubt. If a hospital on US territory is bombed, it would be out of the question whether it was simply an oopsie. But if in the carriage of justice and liberty some humanitarian workers find themselves collaterally damaged, it was a "terrible mistake", which the men with grave furrowed brows, clean suits, and heavy burdens to bear no doubt weighed against imminent national security concerns.
So, it's your fault that porn is free? :)

It's interesting that this article touts "Sandvine, the primary source for internet traffic research," without mentioning the company's unethical astroturfing on Glassdoor http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Sandvine-Reviews-E32683.htm and their criminal past activities disrupting BitTorrent: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/06/21/1814239/sandvine-ceo-...
I wouldn't recommend this. I have over 15 years as lead dev experience, and this isn't good advice. This tells your team that your time is more valuable than their contribution. No matter how good you are, you can't do as much as your team if they are properly guided, supported, and motivated.
>Can you touch on the Hammurapi (however you spell it) and its lack of animal food prohibition (or as far as I can remember, pork at least was not prohibited)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

I love wikipedia for the links to related subjects. I have read a ton of the various codes and have written papers on the similarities and differences. To keep it short the main idea for the eating is "unclean" and in Mosaic Law it had a good rational on keeping people separated that were "unclean and for health reasons probably saved a ton of people.

In our society we know what is bad for us and most of us including me still do eat the bad things. They made it a law even though the general population enjoyed pork, like I do.

> Can you talk more about "most are terrified at learning too much"? Do people think through studying rigorously they will inevitably shed beliefs?

To really hack to death "Platos Theory of Form" TL:DR The more you know something the more abstract you know it.

My theory: Most people struggle with abstract thought i.e. math beyond business math. When they struggle with the abstract thought what happens to their concept of their faith? Do they lose God like they believe others.

My wife and I share our belief very dear and close and it is the driving force of our lives. We never talk theology. Her idea is that since I have 2 years of ancient Hebrew and 2 years of Greek and even taught 2nd year Greek in college that I have answers. I would read anywhere between 5,000 to 20,000 pages per class in seminary, that would be around 400-500 pages a week minimum. I usually go, "It seems ...." or "It depends ..." and than she walks out frustrated.

I embrace the unknown and the mystery. I hold to the idea that if God was to be provable He would have made Himself a concrete object. This came from reading a lot of Soren Kierkegaard and in fact I named my son Soren after him. Kierkegaard came up with the "Leap of Faith" well after studying that the popular belief in that is wrong. It is a leap of despair and dread into the unknown and land upon faith. So it wasn't a Leap of Faith but a Leap to Faith.

Sorry I am use to writing 20 page papers on subject like this all the time.
> 1. Will there ever be a zero-knowledge option at Dropbox?

JungleDisk provides this. It offers a Dropbox-like native interface powered directly by S3 with support for client-side encryption. That is, your computer encrypts the data locally and then stores it directly into S3. You provide your AWS credentials to the client at setup time.

Not needing to depend on any company beyond AWS to store my data appealed to me. Beyond the trust that one must place in the JungleDisk client itself, at least.

It used to be available to buy as a single software program, but now it's a monthly subscription service.
Knoxville is still a frustrating state of affairs. Comcast has really set it's place in stone throughout most of the city, with city representatives declaring they are not interested in developing municipal options and that comcast is fine.

Even more aggravating are all the billboards listing "Get Ready Knoxville! Fiber is HERE" ... at a 2 year contract $300/mo price and $1000 setup. Gee thanks.
Kink is actually relatively tame as far as "violent porn" goes. Insex set the standard in hardcore S/M during its day and was actually forced to close over scrutiny from its perceived obscenity. Many modern S/M sites owe their style and aesthetic to Insex's grisliness. Speaking of which, a documentary I'd recommend viewing on the topic is Graphic Sexual Horror. Be sure to watch it during the day.

Of course, I'm not counting things like guro, crushing or vore. S/M is a long established subculture, though I suppose the more hardcore stuff is relatively recent in practice. I don't think it should be marginalized in the slightest. It's certainly not a joke, however.
Misleading indeed. A more accurate title is "People are still buying FinFisher, and they still don't do much to hide their C&C servers."
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It isn't my all-day job. I just know a thing or two about filesharing. So people see articles I've written for trade journals and occasionally bring me on board when filesharing is involved. The real question is often whether the sharing has created any potential liability for the company (p2p v cyberlockers etc).
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and compilers is something you can go to jail for if they see you trying to run it without credentials.

I'm a little skeptical this will happen with software, but it is well underway in the case of hardware[1].

[1] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi
>I get your point, but calling her a "terrible human being" is kind of extreme, don't you think?

Depends. What would one of the victims families say?
If you read an algorithms book, like Sedgwick's, you should be mostly set. Usually they're trying to figure out who actually understands how pointers, memory, and complexity work. (A lot of devs don't know basics at all, like binary search or even how to do am in place reversal of an array or something).

I wouldn't expect a very genre specific question (like graphics) unless they provided enough info that you could figure it out from first principles.

And sometimes they just wanna make sure you can think it through, even if you don't find the most optimal solution. A lot of devs simply give up with an "I don't know", without indicating that they have any ideas on how they'd figure it out.
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I didn't read things right.

That argument would make sense as a short term thing if fighting a contracting economy during a recession, especially if there is an ongoing flight to safety and if banks are worried about reserves and not making loans so the extra savings aren't getting spent (e.g. 2008).

But I do see some of the contradiction you are talking about.
No, a mere engineer who takes writing correct code very seriously.

But the simple fact you seem to throw the term "academic" derogatorily tells me a lot about you.
Pretty danged cool!

JTA compliant???
> "I share my specs today with you, you'll share your specs tomorrow with me"

This is how Silicon Valley worked, back when the silicon was actually made there. My impression is that Google's obsessive culture of secrecy (necessary because it grew up in an environment where loose lips really did sink ships) is the strongest influence in destroying that culture of information-sharing, although of course NDAs, interface copyright lawsuits, DRM, and software patents have also taken their toll.

California's century-old legal limitations on what rights employees can sign away to employers have also been very helpful.

So it's not surprising that technological development is happening today in a place where employers' ability to own their employees' minds is more limited — the innovation is done by the engineers, after all, not the investors, so shifting the power balance in favor of the investors will damage your region's competitiveness.

I'm interested to hear about the abuse and impoverishment.
I can't recommend this book highly enough. This is the best book on tech leadership I've come across and I've read a lot of them.

It underscores the importance of NOT trying to solve problems for your team. Instead, help your team learn to solve problems on their own--so you don't become a bottleneck to getting things done.
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We might've had similar starts.

I bought my first computer with cheques from a porn affiliate program. Soon after I started, they required visitors click through an age-verification to confirm and pay out.

So I put together a protected zip file of M-rated images and set the password as the xth word of the yth paragraph on the page after the age verification.

That only worked for a couple of weeks, but it was enough.
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You should include in your standard contract a US$98k fee for each time someone refers to you as an "expert on child porn" in exchange for waiving defamation.