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I think this is a translation error. The article is possibly an English translation of an article that was originally written in German. Algorithmen is the plural for algorithm in German.
It is true the more complexity we add to the system. The more complexity the more problems the more opportunity. Of course a system can be so complex that becomes unworkable.

But technology allow us to take a lot of that cumbersome complexity and make it trivial.

Denmark has one of the most streamlined and optimized tax-reporting systems yet you don't see it nourishing because of that.
Apifier looks actually awesome.
I am not sure APIs being subject to copyright and pretend languages being subject to copyright are really the same argument?
If you want to stay up North, Manchester is a good place to live.
Why does it seem everyone in the UK that doesn't live in London dreads it? Is it just the high rent? London is the only part of the UK I'd seriously consider moving to. Everywhere else reminds me of something out of a Radiohead song.
For those interested in the engineering behind it, there's a few elements of this app that might be of interest.

1. Workout builder: there's no stored workouts. Given a bunch of inputs: # of minutes, muscles to target, goals, the builder generates a workout for the user. The goal is to constantly get new workouts.

2. Workout calibrator: workout builder gives a workout that consists of exercises, sets, and reps. Workout calibrator assigns weight to all the sets, based on the user's past performance for that exercise and other strongly correlated exercises. If it isn't confident enough (not sufficiently high correlation coefficient for any past exercises) it leaves it blank for the user to fill in.

3. Set calibrator: the set calibrator is for calibrating a single set while in a workout. If it tells the user do 100lbs x 8 reps, and the user does 12 reps, it will adjust all subsequent exercises of that type to a more appropriate weight for 8 reps. There's no ML here, it's just a formula (8 rep weight = .6 * 12 rep weight, for example), but it works pretty well. This has the nice effect that if you don't know how much weight you can lift for x reps, just grab any weight, do what you can, tell the app how much you did, and it'll be accurately calibrated in 2-3 sets.
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That's a wonderful use case for BTC.

But the overwhelming majority of bitcoin investment, marketing and ownership isn't coming from Tunisia. It's coming from the West (and China), where most people have no problems spending or obtaining currency (maybe China does).

Why are Westerners so eager to make money off of people's inability to move money around poor countries, and why is it supported?
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But the fact is that most of those are off limits unless you know the AWS APIs, Chef or Puppet, and jQuery like the back of your hand. And by "know" I mean "have demonstrable paid work experience in".
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> Nobody cares if I'm a few minutes late in as long as I make stand-up.

I see this sentiment a lot. What is HN's aversion to showing up to work on time?
Does that mean Germans can buy uncensored games now?
Isn't it a crucial feature of a precedent that it actually precedes the question to be resolved?
>> Consoles once represented predictability, stability and ease of use. Do they have much left beyond the set top form factor, 10 ft UI and a bit more flexibility on how often you're required to be online?

I'd say console still have all of these properties. Also, some of these things like set-top form-factor should not be underestimated. Other important advantages are that the buying experience is much nicer (only 1 online store, or a disc), you can expect any game that runs to at least run well enough for a decent experience, every game is optimized for the control scheme that comes with the console, and initial cost of buying a console is a lower than a capable PC.

Really, the only downside is lower graphical fidelity, and lack of games that are not well suited for controller input.

I have a PS4 and a PC with Steam BPM hooked up to my TV, and while I enjoy both I still can't cease to be amazed by the abysmal experience playing some PC games, it really is hit & miss. Even though my PC far exceeds the system requirements of some games they still run like crap (screen tearing, framerate spikes/drops, crashes), they have poor to no controller support, tiny fonts that are unreadable from the couch, they like to pop up mouse-only launchers, popups, updaters, whatever.

PC gaming can be great but let's not pretend any of the advantages of consoles are suddenly lost because they will have mid-cycle HW upgrades (which I personally think are a great thing, if executed well).
How do you convert TND to BTC?
Here's some of the better advice on hiring I've seen after bring on HN for a while.

One of tokenadult's posts on hiring - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8232963

tptacek - http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
It's almost like it reinforces that you are just a commodity, meat.

I do think it's important to have a fit on teams, and I have hired people with awesome skills that were terrible cultural fits more than once.

But I'm not going to fill out personality quizzes unless I am desperate. And I work really hard to try to make sure I'm never desperate. :)
What we have here is one of the true great footnotes in legal history:

"2. Mr. Okrand himself has asserted that the Klingon language, tlhIngan Hol, was received by him from a captured Klingon named Maltz. See Okrand, Marc, The Klingon Dictionary (1985). Thus, Plaintiffs may be estopped from asserting otherwise for the purposes of this litigation. See Arica Inst., Inc. v. Palmer, 970 F.2d 1067, 1075 (2d Cir. 1992) (author who disavowed inventing enneagrams publicly cannot claim invention inconsistently to improve a litigation position)."
It says "Model (pending)" on the project page and that's an empty link, so presumably they will release the code at some point in the future.
It is about quantity. If you have a fair number of meetings with people that also have their fair share it can become difficult.

Also, when one person's schedule changes it can have a cascading effect.

In the end, all of this scheduling work get in the way of doing real work. I for one welcome anything that makes scheduling trivial.
You can't get people to stop sorting each other no matter what you do.
Become a UI/UX designer.

You could earn twice a programmer's salary.
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A $100 cellphone isn't a decentralized peer to peer network. You are comparing apples to nose-hairs. Bitcoin will scale in the same way the internet scaled... slowly and then suddenly.
I liked the idea and the sample issue that was provided. Have even registered my email address for the same. However, I really hated the background gif on your landing page. Never been a fan of moving pictures in the background of a website.
Buy hats with steam credit, sell on a third party marketplace. Lose n% in fees and price differentials.

It is done completely legitimately - you're just not getting money from steam
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> That neglects the fact, that most of the maintenance costs are not engine related.

It probably doesn't. Already today operators of taxi and bus fleets are doing the sums on full electric vehicles and deciding to spend more up front to save over the long term. Generally lower fuel and maintenance costs are cited as why they can afford to spend more on the vehicle. Possibly these multi-million dollar deals are signed without sufficient due-diligince by people who run vehicle fleets as a full-time job, but it seem more likely they know what they're doing.
That's a seriously cool project by Gianluca :). I'm surprised by the diversity of the bikes that come out of the sample -- and what's with so many people attaching both wheels to the chain? Some of the designs look like they might work though (except for those people hell-bent on disabling steering, though...)!
As long as they can convince the court that their original claim was not meant seriously, this shouldn't matter.
I thought Bitcoin had run into a fundamental problem that transactions were now taking hours co complete. And that an internal battle among developers on the fix remained unresolved. Did I miss something?
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Thank you for confirming. A few people told me this but I was a little suspicious, but again you can never truly know.
Perhaps your view of what's "mediocre" and what's a "gem" is not consistent with the views of Hacker News readers at large
Yeah well the first cell with a nucleus didn't amount to much either... come one, what kind of question is that?
I agree 100%. When on salary you are buying a piece of my time in exchange for an agreed upon amount of compensation. For an employer to make the former variable but not the latter is B.S.

Also, the whole more than 40 hour per week expectation is nonsense. I am independent now and can do the same (or more) amount of work in 30-40 hours a week now. In fact, I worked ~500 fewer hours my first full year of being independent. Did I make a little less money? Sure, because I don't get paid time off anymore. And I also worked a lot less.
"Gladiator, make no friends of gladiators" - roughly from "Spartacus".

Of course, intra-office competition at that level is highly destructive but that's what people are acculturated to.
See I neither agree or disagree with your opinions about wolfram.

But by discussing wolfram's character in this thread you have managed to steer entire discussion on wolfram rather than mathematics of Ramanujan. Unfortunately this happens too often in any online discourse, where subject matter is entirely ignored but most of the discussion focuses on tangential stuff. It is especially true when commenting on actual subject matter requires some solid background or research, but somehow many people feel obligated to comment anyways. It is classic low hanging fruit vs contributing something real to the discussion.
That's super! I'm 43, but when I grow up, I want to be just like you.

What languages and technologies do you use?
Ah, must have missed it. Maybe if we let this one up it might attract more discussion a second time? I posted it hoping that some fanatic Lispers had some interesting thoughts to add.
I don't believe so, the brief covers this claim:

> Thus, this case should not be confused with the recent litigation over the Java computer language. As observed by the Federal Circuit, that case “was not a situation where Oracle was selecting among preordained names and phrases to create its packages.” Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google Inc., 750 F.3d 1339, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2014) cert den’d 135 S. Ct. 2887 (U.S. 2015). Here, speakers of Klingon are limited to preordained words and syntax. (Page 12)

This is called the 'doctrine of merger', I believe (IANAL):

> Furthermore, the doctrine of merger provides that if an idea “can only be expressed in a limited number of ways,” those means of expression “cannot be protected, lest one author own the idea itself.” (page 9)

Since Klingon words are not an exact transliteration of english words (not a 1-to-1 translation), you can't express the same ideas in multiple ways; so if the language were to be copyrightable, only the person who owns the languages could express those ideas, which seems patently silly.

(My legal analysis isn't; so I'm probably off on exactly why; that's why I spent most of my time quoting from the brief).
Really? 31.47 * 52 (weeks) * 5 (days a week) * 24 (hours a day) = $196,372. In some place other than San Francisco (so pretty much guaranteed lower cost of living). Plus benefits, overtime, much lower likelihood of losing one's job, a pension...
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To me it seems, Stephan Wolfram talking about his company with nary a "Wolfram" would approach Knights of Nee don't say it absurdity. His name is on the door and the box.

Perhaps there is some vanity behind ̶i̶t̶ that. If so, ̶i̶t̶ the vanity is in the tradition of Ford, Bell, those HP fellows, Cray the supercomputer, and a long line of entrepreneurs. Yet, if the naming is vanity, tis a wan one by Silicon Valley benchmarks, I am thinking of Sherman Fairchild who did not bring the valley to the silicon but instead brought silicon to the valley...and put his cameras in his planes up among the clouds.

For me, putting one's name on the door is not just vanity. Doing so also entails taking the-Truman-buck-stops-with-me responsibility. When Wolfram Mathematica produces an erroneous numerical result, I don't search in vane for Bob Pentium and Lawrence K. Intel, I am afforded the convenience of curseing the man Wolfram directly by the intertweetsbook.

Irregardless of vanity or responsibility motivations, seems to me that people much prefer writing of their contemporaneous experience than writing of the historical Ramanujan. Curiously evidenced here, is writers love more writing of Wolfram not writing of Ramanujan. Who can blame clever Stephan for combining the two.
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It seems to me like the problem is the complexity of the laws; the author complains about enforcement/compliance issues. I don't know how you can really more efficiently ensure employers aren't cheating workers of their breaks.
No it's because the fed actively manages money supply while Bitcoin managed money supply by setting money growth at a predetermined rate.

That and the vast majority of bitcoins are held for speculation instead of used as a currency.
There is nothing organically wrong with cowboy coding, especially if you're trying to find your footing with a new thing. But it's not sufficient, and probably not necessary.
"Just let me do whatever I want; trust me."
It is very difficult to do code reviews when beside the technical topics politics come into place. After 8h of reviews on 2000 lines of code finding 100 issues, it is almost not possible to be nice anymore. But hell starts when manager decide to give a GO because deadline approached without even fixing the 3 major bugs.
The fact that this does not detract in any way from this filing just further attests to its greatness.
Excellent. I love the SHAME Project.
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"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

(From the submission guidelines.)
Steam/bitpay don't wait for transaction for put money into your steam wallet. Also, no exchange rates are involved in any meaningful way. This offer is for people who can handle few percent exposure on their 100USD "investment" into BTC.

A lot of people don't have debit cards. A lot of kids can't own debit cards legally. For them Bitcoin might be the only option.
IANAL, so I'm hoping I'm understanding this right: because Okrand wrote the dictionary, and in it claimed that he learned it from an actual Klingon, he may not now say he invented it? The argument kinda being, if the language is real, and he wrote a non-fiction authoratative book on it... then he can't be inconsistent about the origins?

It's hard for me to wrap my head around it, but it's hilariously clever if I'm reading it right.
> I find the seemingly obligatory condemnation of him to be tiresome too.

It is indeed totally boring. In fact this whole thread that happens every time anyone posts anything by Wolfram is very dull.

I would say that I do get some value from seeing a rough inappropriate sales pitch : interesting information ratio on posts (not just Wolframs), and it is one of the reasons I frequently visit the comments before going to the page. HN can be susceptible to front page links that have poor ratios.

Still, I'm not sure how we can get that benefit without these terminally dull threads of condemnation and counter condemnation. Really I'd just like a bot to figure out the ratio and display it next to the link. Sounds like a hard problem.
24 hours a day 5 days a week is a pretty tough schedule.
Miners can elect to not include certain transactions. I'm not aware of any evidence that this is happening now except with low/no-fee transactions, but the centralization of hash power makes it possible and, I would contend, inevitable, given sufficient time and adoption.

We already see this with the banking institutions that grow like barnacles on the side of the blockchain - they track where their customers spend coins, and blacklist the customer if they go to e.g. DNMs. If bitcoin gained wide enough adoption that people could cut out these middle men, the government would have much more incentive to inject itself into the mining process. There is already ample evidence they are doing various things on-chain to track the spending of large/active users, see e.g. https://reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/4fov8h/i_regula...

Edit: FWIW, Bitpay is one of these institutions. Steam doens't accept bitcoin, they accept fiat paid by Bitpay on behalf of someone with bitcoin.
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> Faking emissions, avoiding taxes... those are illegal actions, just because you are trying to fool government for profit.

Huh? Without regulation, VW could just claim whatever they wanted about the emissions of the car and it wouldn't be illegal.
I love that tweet. Although it happens on the management side too. Manager comes in runs a team into ground(that the previous manager spent years building), pushes all kinds of work on other teams as well, takes credit for all of it and keeps getting promoted.
I think that we need to implement a new layer between software and users to solve this problem (like antiviruses do this nowadays but they solve very narrow problem). It should be like Wikipedia so everyone can fix bugs. There should be also smth like Wikipedia bots that automatically fix bugs.
I could see this as Steam testing the Bitcoin waters. Steam games created an entirely new market of digital items changing hands for real world money, and this is done globally across all currencies--bitcoin would be an ideal fit. I could also see value in using bitcoin to reward content creators (modders). Obviously this is crazy speculation, but seem to be solid use cases.
It is funny you should bring up brakes. On most hybrids and plugins brakes seem to last forever because regenerative braking is what is mostly used over using brake pads.

My Volt has 54K miles yet my brake pads look practically new.

Also, my Volt has only had its oil replaced once (because of how often the engine runs.) When I get my Tesla 3, I'll obviously never change my oil.
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In Ada's case I demand she deserves more credit.

GP is right to insist she did not invent the 1st programmable computer, Baggage did, yet I argue she wrote the 1st program.

Historian's rightly test the hypothesis of Lovelace's primacy in our field. I show she was the both the 1st to publish and contend her overall vision was greater than her contempories.

Babbage's, never built, Analytical Engine was programmable with punch cards and Ada published a program to compute Bernoulli numbers - it is uncontested this is the 1st published program for the Analytical Engine.

Some have argued, by analysing her other correspondences that she had not the wit to conceive such a program and only transcribed. I argue this is both mean spirited and so uncertain as to be unsound.

Uncertain because her other correspondence must have reflected contempory mores. Both the egos involved & the strict gender expectations of the time, that for 'health reasons' a 'too clever' woman should face censorship. Further she must have used every means at her disposal, charm as well as ability, to win such prestigious position.

Unproven because she certainly was well versed in Mathematics, her mother ensured she was mathematically educated, so she certainly understood Bernoulli numbers.

Her greater achievement, IMHO, was to envision the porention of the Analytical Engine. Babbage's Analytical Engine was devised, capable of computing different tables, programmable with other arithmetics, tides, artillery.

Ada saw beyond mere arithmetic to all numbers could represent: algebra (& thus meta-programming) and t
he imaginative arts. She envisioned the engine computing music, poetry and pictures, which implies creativity & thought , proto-A.I in idea. This extraoridinarily prescient vision is quoted by Turing himself as a direct inspiration.

Perhaps Babbage speculated we have no record; Lovelace published and that's what counts.

Her actual words leave (me) little doubt she grokked computation is kin to cognition. http://nlcatp.org/30-incredible-ada-lovelace-quotes/
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Well, that's the thing; I agree that the regulation should be clear and consistent, but there are people here arguing that there are problems with regulation and therefore it should be thrown out altogether.
My biggest satisfaction is the ftuits of automation my software brings, manual labor that used to take hours and prompt to errors due human interaction now is done in seconds with no error marging, saving many work hours to employees so they can go home early and stress free, I almost never get recognition for it, but is worth it.
>Define 'squishy'. You can't, can you?

Is that supposed to be a counter-argument?

Because, that's the parent's whole point: that the same (they can't be defined or at least defined easily) holds for those "squishy human requirements".

>What is it about information machines (as opposed to humans) that make them unable to handle ambiguity?

Obviously the fact that they only follow specific instructions at their lower level, and thus any ambiguity has to be explicitly translated to a non-ambiguous set of commands.

A fellow human does this translation automatically in their mind (and even they, not always perfectly).

>Why can't a machine handle ambiguous input? It could defer to the operator, did you mean this? did you mean that? It could randomly choose from a number of possible ways to continue. It could deal in probabilities rather than only 100% certainty (both true and false are epistemic locations of absolute certainty).

Most of these sound recipes for disaster in any practical application...

And even that's besides the point, since all of these need to be programmed just as well as non ambiguous commands, but with more branching and special casing -- again explaining why handling ambiguity is hard.

Oh, and "randomly choose from a number of possible ways to continue" sounds like Clippy from hell...
"First day in the job I figure that their main tech/language was TCL (of course they never mentioned it in the interviews)."

And you've never asked?
> "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."

Bitcoins are a form of digital cash.

You store Bitcoins in a wallet. If you lose your Bitcoin wallet you lose your bitcoins. In a similar sense, if you lose your wallet containing notes/coins, you lose your notes/coins. The security risk is the same.
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Nah. That was just media insanity. Bitcoin functions just fine in the face of crazy politics. The whole point of it is to be unkillable.
Evaporated cane juice should mean a product like panela or rapadura [1] -- a dark brown unrefined (non centrifugal) sugar containing all of the molasses from the original sugar cane. Unfortunately, in the US, there is no legal constraint on how the term is used, and so when you see it on packaging, you should read it as "sugar", or, perhaps more optimistically, "brown sugar".

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Successful stories about good hiring usually involves most of/the whole team being part of the hiring process and less delegated to HR people.
I mean, we appreciate now what he did but no-one stood on his giant shoulders