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I can tell you my personal issues with bitcoin.

1) I'm still bitter I threw all mine away. I had a few hundred in the early days and thought, "this isnt going anywhere"....

2) I'm one of HN's resident conspiracy theorists, for lack of a better term, and bitcoin can be seen as a threat to freedom because for all the awesome things it is, it is not anonymous. This may seem innocuous at first, but if you subscribe to the globalist conspiracy view, one of the primary tenants of "their plan" involves cashless, digital only currecy easily tied to your personhood. In essence, I fear the future will be more totalitarian and dystopian than people realize, and digital currencies like bt seem ripe for abuse and use in such a system.

3) Along the same lines as 2, I feel like once banks start getting into bitcoin heavily, despite its theoretical mechanisms to prevent it, the banks will find a way to corrupt and control the system. The community has already experienced the first attempts in the form of the huge first price inflation.

4) Another problem with bitcoin is that it requires good cybersecurity, which we all know is much more rare than anyone wants to admit. It's ripe for mass thefts. Once that wallet is gone, not much can be done.

Ok, thats most of it, now I have to say that I understand there are many "ifs" in what I am saying, but to me the threats are real. I still will use bitcoin for the time being anyway, and there are many good things about it and other *coins, but you didnt ask what I liked, you asked what I dont like.

On that note, blockchain technology independent of bitcoin I expect to be a huuge hit. Blockchain all the things!
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There is also a camp of people who don't think Bitcoin has much utility when compared to established alternatives, let alone other advances in other crypto/blockchain tech.
How exactly did Babbage's invention influence the course of history? AFAIK, it wasn't actually realized until like 100 years later. Although a mere idea (of a "computer") could be influential by itself...
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Everybody still thinks that Apple gathered a ton of gold while recycling iPhones. You'll be hearing about it in bars for 10 years. What scrupulous recyclers they are! iDevices are probably good for the environment.

The only reason hobby helicopters are called "drones" now is because the U.S. uses drones to kill people, and people had a problem with that - so now everything is a drone. I guess the next step is to ban hobby helicopters, closing the circle.
Yes, but not as a daily activity for long stretches (months), so my view may be incomplete.

EDIT: Not as a job, but working for weeks, daily on a personal project.
aub3bhat also mentioned image recognition.
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but really, what was actually achieved ?
Off-topic, I know, but what a stellar example of a sanitized, neutered corporate website. The picture of light bulbs on the About Us page.... bravo, you faceless, "elite" consulting company, bravo.
"Would I survive a crash? They're very tiny..."

Isn't the real test how likely you are to be injured/killed per mile driven? Larger vehicles like SUVs might be safer if you are in an accident but that could be offset if they are more likely to actually be in an accident.
Only got one comment but this article was also posted a week ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11541170
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I'd be interested to see a survey of home users with regards to privacy. I think a lot fewer care than we'd hope.
I'm sorry, but you're looking at Bitcoin from a narrow viewpoint. There are in fact people who actually need Bitcoin in their day-to-day.

My home country Tunisia for example has very strict currency controls in place, which means that it is impossible to purchase any goods from outside the country or even transfer money overseas.

The government now provides rechargeable card with a 1000 TND (~500 USD) limit that can be used for online purchases. However, these are only issued to software developers and entrepreneurs to allow them to subscribe to online services, such as hosting, domain names, etc.

Bitcoin provides a quick and easy way to circumvent that: convert your TND to BTC, and use that to purchase online goods or to transfer money outside the country.

I'm actually thinking of setting up a MVP to test out this idea, but I'm struggling to come up with a solution that is completely transparent for the end-user. In other words, I don't want the user to have to understand Bitcoin or buy/sell it manually. I'd prefer instead for the system to use BTC under the hood.

Another example I read about recently is Argentina. People are using Bitcoin there for daily transactions and for their savings due to high fluctuations in the local currency.
Airplane drone strikes: 0
Airplane turtle strikes: 198

Source: http://mashable.com/2015/12/18/turtles-vs-drones-airplane-hi...
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Is this like the Linux on desktop prophecy?
Conversely, someone in Argentina or Venezuela doesn't deal with any (government-controlled) USD.

Why is that so hard for Americans to understand?
I've never mined coal, but I did fly-in/fly-out work at coal mines surveying, and compared to coding it had the following benefits:

- way better pay (not everywhere pays developers like the US)
- kept me in shape
- I slept a lot better during that job
- satisfaction of jobs completed (no maintenance for topo data)
- no micromanagment, open plan offices, daily stand-ups
- predictable, stable working hours
- etc. etc.

I don't do it now - 10 days out of every 14 is too long for me to stay away from my family - so I guess in the end the bad outweighed the good. But I just want to make the point that it's easy to assume that building boring CRUD apps is the best road to go down if you too quickly dismiss the other paths that can be taken.
How are EV's disruptive technology?
What kind of days were those bad days?
Short answer: yes.

Long answer: as with anything, it depends. Any programming language is well-suited for some programming tasks and awkward for others. Except Lisp.
this seems like a good way to launder bitcoins. Unless if you got back _the same_ coins you spent - i guess steam holding on to your coins for 2hrs~ isn't that big of a risk, rather than immediately swapping it out for cash.
News should not report stuff they don't know is true. Otherwise it's just reddit on TV and we wouldn't need the profession called journalism.
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> interesting challenge

Understatement of the year.

You'd need to either re-implement an entire browser stack or run a headless version of gecko of webkit server-side.

The former entails millions of man-hours of work. The latter opens up your server to all sorts of exploits. Overall a really bad idea.

Besides, single page applications are the worst junk in the entire Web 2.0 cesspool. If you really need to scrape them, they usually come with their own JSON API which you can just piggyback.
It read to me as questioning the value of BTC since neither Bitpay or Valve are interested in holding BTC themselves.
Yes, and the damage from birds is large: "Experts say bird strikes...cause an estimated $600 million a year in damage to planes."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/birds-plane-crashes-arti...

The cost of a single downed passenger plane is ~$1B, while the entire yearly value of the drone market is $50M.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11425782

Even their usage/value of drones were kept fixed, then it could make sense to ban them even if drones only cause one airplane crash per decade. Obviously, this argument fails when you consider future value, but the point is that the numbers are not intuitive.
http://blog.webkid.io/nodejs-scraping-libraries/ -- Good scraping options in NodeJS .. my personal favourite is https://github.com/rc0x03/node-osmosis
This may sound paranoid, but I have seen it happen: make sure the person you are having problems with isn't sucking up to your managers and also making you look bad to them.

[99% of the people I have worked with have never played those kind of political games but I have seen the utter chaos that can happen if a politically savvy operator is let loose in a trusting and politically naive environment.]
A trivial MSBuild project that simply compiles all C# files in the current folder is not hard to write by hand, although taking one generated by VS and trimming it down might be easier. In any case, there is csc as the command-line compiler as well.
Its pretty much assumed the rate of accident is proportional to the driving miles. Does that comment mean, because of the limited range, electric vehicles have smaller exposure to accident risk? I guess a bicycle would do even better then.
So... what would you call the AMA (http://www.modelaircraft.org/), these stories are generally just examples of shoddy journalism.
Absolutely. I'm involved in systems design & IT strategy for a very large institution. By and large we've found literally zero advantages imparted to end users by Windows 10, besides being forced to deply it by MS deciding to early end-of-life Win7. Some cool features in Server 2016, but nothing that will affect a user's workflow in the slightest.
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> Orders of magnitude doesn't mean 1000x - just 10x is enough.

That's "order" of magnitude, not "orders."
"Just because you could, doesn't mean you should" - that phrase should have been applied to both writing the software and posting about it here.

Plenty of mediocre stuff gets to the frontpage and plenty of gems fall through the cracks.
They were already protected.
That makes sense, though the way this seems to be required to write in CMakeLists isn't maintainable. I can only guess they have diagnostics that would warn if you typo'd that easy to mistype string.
I'm not sure what Bitcoin equivalent of "leaving cash on the street" you're inferring. It might be helpful if you elaborated on that.

Bitcoin's non-physical nature (as compared to paper and coin currencies), I think, makes it more of a metaphor to a bank account or debit/credit card than a currency. This likely is a UX flaw, as you state, but it's a pretty big flaw.

And credit cards, in most jurisdictions, have lots of protections against theft and fraud, as well as consumer protections like chargebacks and transactions are reversible, of course.
In other news, I live in Pakistan, and I used a debit card to buy a steam game 3 days ago and it worked instantly + frictionlessly, without having to worry about confirmation times + exchange rates + getting scammed + getting on a government list.
>Bitcoin is not this, of course,

Then why should I care about it?

>"It's a giant step in the right direction compared to the Federal Reserve.

The Fed system is far from perfect, but despite what the conspiracy theorists think, it didn't spring out of some sinister idea; it's the evolution of a complex financial system that has generated more wealth, for more people, faster, than at any point in history. Those are facts that you're up against when promoting Bitcoin, a system where some early adopters think they are going to hoard the currency until they get rich from it, because other people can't obtain it. Why would any outsiders buy into that system? That's the thing that some people can't grasp; there is no reason whatsoever for your currency to be scarce. It should grow to match demand.
Thanks!

The main ML component is to guess how much weight you should lift for an exercise you've never logged before. To accomplish this, I periodically ingest all the exercise data offline, and for all possible pairs of exercises, see which ones are most strongly correlated. The client app downloads the latest data before every workout, and uses it to calibrate exercises if the user hasn't performed them before. If the user has logged the exercise before, guessing the optimal weight is pretty trivial, but if it's been a while, which can happen because every workout is somewhat randomized, it will override and make a prediction based on more recent exercises.

There's also some learning of progress rates, it'll slow down or speed up the rate of increasing weights based on the user's performance.
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It's the main reason I refuse to take part in the whole 'social' media circus. Many people have called me strange and anti-social and whatnot, but one look at my girlfriend's timeline every now and I feel proven right again.

If I ever have children I'll make sure to teach them from the moment they are old enough to understand that social media is just posturing, self-promotion and narcissism, and in no way representative of 'real' people or 'real' lives. I wouldn't mind if they would use it, as long as it's pretty damn clear that the image other people paint of themselves is not something to aspire for.
But he also won't understand if you tell him directly.
Creating things, seeing stuff grow while you work on it and seeing other people using it.

Also, making mad bucks while sitting at home.
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Bug fixes and such don't really tell much either though. We do hiring via an assessment, where people need to implement (parts of) an application similar to a real-life thing; involves things like creating a REST / JSON api, etc. The trick is we don't tell them exactly how to implement it (language, environment, secondary requirements are all left up to the applicant).

This really weeds out the candidates; better than fizzbuzz, better than live coding. Of course there's a chance that someone copies stuff off the internet, but that's what the actual interview(s) are for, just ask some questions about the implementations and the why and such.

We've hired people that did it in python, node, ruby, even J2EE. Language doesn't matter, it's the thought and reasonings behind it that count.
'Its just the algo stuff you usually have to review before hand vs all the others'

There's the problem. If it's something you have to review, it's not something you use that often. Unless the job is going to have you using it often, why is everyone's time being squandered on it?
Because a lot of us understand the underlying tech, and how bullshit it is that a $100 cell phone has a higher TPS rate than the entire bitcoin network, which consumes more electricity than a small country (and all the CO2 emissions that go with it)
I wish this was realistic in India.
That would not change my stance.
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Plus, uh, actual value for people who want to pay with Bitcoin.

> Valve reached out to us because they were looking for a fast, international payment method for Steam users in emerging gaming markets in countries like India, China, and Brazil. While more users are coming online in in these countries, traditional payment options like credit cards often aren't available.
Are you complaining that there are multiple ways to pay for games on steam?

Is that really an issue?
Software engineering is not a flat domain.

I work in a web-based e-commerce outfit with 30+ other SEs who are all really into their work, smart, and committed to doing the Right Thing. This is a good gig.

If I was working on a COBOL app on a mainframe where all the documentation was in German - and I was offered the chance to interview for that gig just a year ago - I doubt I would have as much fun.

As a Ruby/Go/Rust/Python type of developer, I suspect - but can't be certain - my days are more fun than a Java developers. They all seem miserable, anyway.

I don't wear a tie. I don't wear a suit. Nobody cares if I'm a few minutes late in as long as I make stand-up. Nobody cares if I work from home if I feel like it as long as I make core meetings in person.

Would I get that writing J2EE code for a large corporate? Probably not.

Would the people who enjoy those environments enjoy working in a startup? Or a games dev house? Or where I work? Probably not.

I think the best thing about a Software Engineer is we kind find places that fit us culturally more easily than many other industries: medicine, law, most heavy industry, etc. all have a very strong culture that absorbs almost all players in that field.
One interesting fact is that gasoline price in Algeria was increased. It has always been subsidised (20 cents/liter or something). Now diesel/gasoline, etc are almost double by Government decision.
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OK, so if Paramount loses (as I would expect), does this then mean that the lawsuit between Oracle and Google around speaking the language 'Java' gets an interesting precedent?
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Please stop using us non americans as your justification for bitcoin.

I live in Pakistan, and happily and easily use a visa debit card for buying steam games.
They are also typically used as a "mutually assured destruction"[1] war chest. For companies that have no intention of filing a patent lawsuit, but need some kind of insurance against that happening to them.

You file, buy, acquire, etc, a large enough portfolio of patents such that if another company sues you, your broad portfolio almost assures they are "violating" one of your patents. Now you have leverage to make the initial lawsuit go away.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
It's always the last guy's fault. :)
Again, the problem is the initial unfounded reporting. This is why people who have been accused of heinous crimes without proof or conclusive investigation, because the town people were looking for an easy to identify perpetrator, have a hard time later being treated the same as before the accusation. It's what stays in the minds of most people that's the harm.
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Not sure what you call hobby drones. My guess is that with the more expensive hobby quadcopters it should be easy to get way to close to landing planes at 2000 feet. Basically at a busy airport you will have one plane every few minutes taking roughly the same path. So flying close to that path, for example to make video recordings of the landing planes will eventually result in a near miss.
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> Bitcoin provides a quick and easy way to circumvent that

Is that reality as of today, or is that a hope for the future?
> Any programming language is well-suited for some programming tasks and awkward for others.

Well ... with 50 shades of gray in between. You can do pretty much anything with Python f.x. But can you write a web service in Haskell without having to hire a team of computer science PhDs? Not so sure ... but luckily you're nephew will happily realize it with PHP during holidays for a couple of bucks :E
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We know a lot less than we think, especially about the future
What I meant was that discussions of vehicle safety always seem to start with assuming you are in an accident - what if some kinds of vehicles are more or less likely to be in accidents (all other things being equal).

NB I have no idea what the answer is and I've driven everything from large(ish) SUVs to the old style minis.
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Have a read of the "Notes by the Translator":

http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html

Do you now think Lovelace was only useful to Babbage in the manner you describe?
I think it's also counter to good work harmony. Whenever I have worked with or hired the genius/best and brightest, a high proportion of them have difficulty playing nice with others or staying focused on routine work.

You need a couple really crazy smart knowledgable people. And then fill out rest of the team according to their roles and fit.
Certainly they were still influential figures who contributed greatly to the field regardless.
>I'm sorry, but you're looking at Bitcoin from a narrow viewpoint. There are in fact people who actually need Bitcoin in their day-to-day.

Well, perhaps, but

(a) these people are a very small amount compared to "first world" bitcoin champions

(b) they would be better off pushing for actual policy change regarding their problems, instead of using a technological workaround who (depending on the whims of those in power) can land them in jail/money loss at any time...
so. now its impossible?
I mean total compensation. My father made approximately $30,000 a year in wages in 1976. You have to remember that there was overtime pay. He also got high quality free health care, lots of vacation, 100% pension, and lots of other fringe benefits.

I estimate he made probably close to $200k, in 2016 dollars. And, he wasn't even a 'lead'. In total compensation, he made more than I do. And, IIRC, CPI inflation calculations don't account for home inflation, and we all know that housing costs as a portion of total household spending was much, much less than it is today.
The best part for me about being an open source web developer is that the capital required to bootstrap yourself into working is as low as $100 or even nothing at all.

A few months ago, I had an idea for a side project that could lead to a lucrative business. I ordered a used Thinkpad with no operating system from eBay, and off I went, developing the same sort of website I do on a $1,500 MacBook at work. If I already had a laptop lying around, I could have just reformatted it and used it without spending a dime.

When I lost my job in the city and had to move back home in 2011, I didn't have a computer except for an old Windows desktop. I pulled it out of storage, formatted the hard drive, installed Linux and Rails, put my resume on Craigslist, and within a week I had signed a contract with a company as a remote developer. I was lugging that desktop around everywhere -- on trips to visit family, to co-working sessions in hotels, to my new employer's office -- looking just as goofy as I wanted to, but didn't care, I was working again.

Edit: I see my post is gaining upvotes quickly. If any open-source project maintainers are reading this, thank you! My story would not have been possible without your time and effort.
What's the crux of this concern?

Price or rather TCO. That is, if the amount of cars needed is the same as today, then why should people prefer communal self driving cars instead of personal ones?

Of course same cars could be used during the day, the question is just how much it would bring the cost down.

That will go a long way to eliminating unnecessary journeys during peak times.

Or eliminate the idea of communal self driving cars. There are no unnecessary travel when you have to get to the point A on time.
Isn't it because big ships don't maneuver so quickly?
Not the case. The bitcoin you paid in and the bitcoin refunded to you are tied directly to your real identity, so I'm not sure what value "laundering" would have. There are no dirty bitcoins--see the U.S. Gov sale of the Silk Road coins as proof of this.

Bitcoin does have mixing services that would "launder" or obfuscate the link between bitcoin and your real identity, which does provide value for some users.
One of the claimed benefits of Docker is that developers build and test the same images that are run in production. It seems like multi-platform support negates that.

Multi-platform seems like a good direction to go in, so it might be a worthwhile tradeoff.
>Plus, uh, actual value for people who want to pay with Bitcoin.

Yeah, there's always that, too.