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> And now people think they are going to be left behind if they don't learn Angular, Rust, Shiny7 and all of that.

The question you always need to ask is: "Why is <this> better than what I have now?" If you can't answer that DON'T LEARN IT.

10% better isn't enough to take up brain space. Your proficiency with your current tools easily exceeds that. 100% better probably is good enough.

The only thing I've seen in the last 5 years that has been good enough to make me start learning it is Rust.

Looking at how nice Glium made programming OpenGL was the final push. Programming OpenGL is painful on a good day, and Glium managed make a lot of the pain go away. The fact that nobody manged to do this in any other language caught my attention.

Maybe Rust isn't actually required, but I'm willing to learn something just to listen to a community/ecosystem that can produce something so nice.
yep. but if you have the leftover income and time to invest and maintain rental property, you also have the leftover income and time to research and invest in stock market. or study for a professional degree with higher salary, or seduce and mary a rich heiress, etc... all those will get you more money in the end.

I'm not being dismissive though, I agree with you. In a handful of affluent metros, directing some of your disposal income in the rental market is just a non-starter. In the majority of the country, you at least have that option.
Agreed, I always look for the reasoning behind these types of decisions. It helps others understand the issues that people face with different platforms.
Just curious, what is dumb about it? The transfers work very well.

What dumb things do you hear about happening in the bitcoin world, 900 billion dollar bank heists? wait that was distinctly not on bitcoin's network

Just wondering what you were referring to, since the value transfer works without anyone caring about the drama
The point of this article is showing how MySQL could be used to get a lot of what a NoSQL solution provides. NoSQL certainly has a place, but a lot of people don't really understand what that is and simply use NoSQL because it's popular, which cuts them off from a lot of useful features a SQL solution could provide them. That said, you're right more care could have been put in the details of the article, but a lot of the points could be correct for their situation.

For example, 'Do not normalize.'

This was in the context of a read heavy table that competes with NoSQL. In that context, I think this is accurate. We noticed a big difference after denormalizing when we went from millions of rows to billions of rows.

The general advice of SQL solutions being as useful as NoSQL to a certain scale is good. I don't think the individual examples are horrible, but they aren't universal advice to achieve NoSQL performance.
They're both like databases replicated onto thousands of nodes. All the fancy crypto and mining is just a way of making the replication secure, so every node has the exact same data even though it's on a public network and nobody knows who's running the nodes.

On Bitcoin, there's one table with two columns: username and balance. You have read access to this table and you can call a stored procedure that transfers some of your balance to another user.

On Ethereum, you have developer rights. It has the same username/balance table as Bitcoin, but you can also create your own tables and write your own stored procedures, which can be called by other users.

Of course this is a drastic simplification of both systems, and misleading in some ways, but it's the best quick explanation I've come up with.

I'm getting obsessed with Ethereum because it's amazing to me that, for example, I can write two pages of backend code plus an html/javascript front end, and I've got a crowdfunding system which I can deploy for free, run indefinitely with zero downtime, and have it moving money around without getting anyone's permission at all. (Or it could be an auction, casino, currency or derivatives exchange, vault, etc.)
You must not pay a lot of interest. I deduct this and my property taxes and it's thousands of dollars less that I pay each year. It's significant.
Yeah, came here to say that the migration service was built to solve this exact problem (among others).
How scientific of you! :)

> but who would want to keep using Bing long enough to quantify the suck?

20% of the market?
> If you cannot explain it, you probably don't understand it.

Right, as you and your friends have demonstrated.

There are people that understand it. 7 years in and you have decided not to. That's all it comes down to.
That's a lower power 4-core vs a higher power 8-core. I'd bet money Intel releases a high end 8-core around the same time as AMD releases zen so they don't "win" on top end performance (around 20k on that benchmark). It will be good to see AMD pushing the higher end Intel chip prices down. I have always stuck with AMD because at the ~$100 range for general computing they have always been the best bang for the buck. Looking forward to moving an ~8k chip by this benchmark when zen starts competing.
Or, with the aid of a bit of gaze tracking, have the eyes subtly follow you around. Or an element of the picture that's always where you aren't looking, and flits from place to place while your eye saccades...
Did anyone see a link to where/how to order a kit?
A factor that I feel is more important but was sort of glossed over during the article is the fact that it is a competitive disadvantage NOT to do this.

The average person is becoming increasingly security conscious, and so are small and medium sized businesses. I seem to remember that Azure was having a really hard time selling to an international audience because foreigners thought the data would be vulnerable in the hands of the US government.

As someone who doesn't live in the US and works in consulting the few years post Snowden were quite curious, with clients who previously didn't mind using cloud solutions like Amazon S3 actively refusing any architecture choices which would lead to having their data stored in the US, even if it meant greater expense.

I really do believe that not taking an approach similar to this where we use End to End encryption and companies minimise their access over their customers data as much as humanly possible can and does lead to lost business.
Doesn't that mean 15 bpp? Since 2^15 = 32K?

Or am I misunderstanding what bpp is?
during my graduation in telecommunication engineering,
i has studied relevant subjects such as "Telecommunication Switching, Traffic and Networks", "Computer Networks", "Digital Signal Processing", "Wireless and Mobile Communication"
Topics such as OSI Layer, Network Topology, RF Engineering, Microwave engineering,
You mean in "Steam Gaming", Steam is not all PC gamers.

Also, Steam defaults to "Windows lastest version" in some situations (example: the stats for game purchases by platform, count as lastest windows when you buy using mobile)

Also Wine counts as Windows.

Finally, you forgot to count the 32 bits versions of each OS.

Win10 64+32 is 39.51%, Win7 64+32 is 39.54%

And for a dev standpoint, going exclusive DX12 now would still be a stupid decision, if you look in the "DX graph", you will see that only 33.52% has Windows 10 AND DX12 GPU at the same time, meaning a DX12 exclusive game would lock itself to a minority of the market.
> but the real geniality of it is the blockchain

and the blockchain only works because nodes only agree over the updates as they rewarded in bitcoin for doing so. if they cease agreeing then they cease getting useable bitcoin.

hodor

there really aren't two sides to the blockchain without bitcoin debate. nobody in the history of computational science has ever found a way to get computers to verifiably agree. an incentivized network is the only solution right now. its great that people want to attempt this without the fungible digital currency reward, but no other consensus method has been found since the beginning of time
It amazes me that an alpha product (The DAO) is control of ~$150,000,000.

Plus the way that "The DAO" operates is going to be crazy. Basically people submit proposals of things they want the DAO to build, then "The DAO" "hires" contractors to build it (A roundabout way of investment). So Slock.it would be a contractor of "The DAO", but could theoretically be replaced.

But Slock.it is a DAO itself. So basically the chain would look at minimum something like this.

"The DAO" <-> "Proposal" <-> "Contractor Agreement" <-> Slock.it

Bear in mind that "The DAO" and Slock.it are managed by distributed consensus. And what if a company was a contractor to >1 DAO?

Add in all of smart contracts contained in each DAO, the amount of interconnected unmodifiable software that will run these organizations will become staggering. Attempting to design something to be fault free in a normal network is insane, but then you add possibilities for social faults in voting and consensus.

I am sure something like Ethereum will be the future. But the current state is extremely alpha to be handling that sort of financial power.

EDIT:

To prevent a takeover many ethereum contracts will implement an exit strategy, like splitting the minority into a new contract.
Here is something else Thiel financed

http://twitter.com/italkyoubored/status/730470870360203265
There are other reasons to value your shares, other than to buy or sell them. For instance, to pay taxes.
here's my review from when i saw the movie:

Finally went and saw Brave. And, I have to say, I was disappointed :(

Oh, the movie certainly had its good points. It was technically gorgeous - both the artwork and the character animation were Pixar at the top of their very considerable game. And despite complaints of the story being overly Disneyfied it was satisfyingly subversive[0] of many of the tired tropes it referenced. I didn't even mind that it was predictable[1] - fairytale movies tend to be, and that is often part of their charm.

No, what ruined it for me was that it was a fundamentally boring movie. The dialogue was bland, the humour was slapsticky (which tends to fall flat for me), the moralising was heavy handed, and there was no real tension other than that required for the linear development of the plot. Even the "jokes for the adults" that have practically become de rigueur for big-budget animated movies weren't all that funny (though I did blink a bit at the Wicker Man reference).

All in all, not one of Pixar's best.

[0] http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/just-another-princess-movie/

[1] it was nice that it ended with her going her own way rather than finding a nice boy to marry, but it wasn't really what I'd call a plot twist
The Hulk Hogan case must have hit a ratio of how much money would Thiel have put up vs probability of success and damage to Gawker. Having a sex tape made and leaked without permission is an easy win.

And why would Thiel file an amicus curiae? He can pay for Hulk's lawyer and if the case is thrown out, Thiel does not get outed as Hulks sponsor. If he wins, he might get a portion of the money, which most likely will not happen, but most importantly he gets to crush an enemy.
Sure, but Intel's chips still won't be the best "value for the money" if Zen is as good as AMD claims it is.

Intel will never go toe-to-toe with AMD on pricing, at least not in the long term (1+ years), and unless it's approaching bankruptcy, which I assume isn't the case for now.

Intel's chips are the best value for the money right now because AMD totally messed up its last microarchitecture. They bet on something (high parallelization) that didn't pan out. And they suffered greatly for it. Kind of how Sony went with the Cell processor in the PS3 (although Sony did make the best of it in the end).

But Zen completely changes that equation. Zen is basically a direct and very close competitor to Intel's current microarchitecture and they should have rather similar performance.

However, It doesn't mean AMD's chips will necessarily beat Intel's chips in "peak performance". Because for one, Intel still has a better process technology, and second, AMD still had to compete with a moving target (albeit a very slowly moving target - Skylake is only like 20-25% faster in single-thread performance compared to Sandy Bridge).

But I imagine Zen is going to be within 10% or so of Intel's equivalent chips in single-thread performance, but potentially much better at multi-threaded performance if AMD actually sells twice as many Zen cores in its similar priced chips (8-core Zen vs quad-core Core i6, quad-core Zen vs dual-core Core i5, etc). On top of having more cores, AMD may also offer lower pricing points that outweighs the 10% difference in single-thread performance, but that remains to be seen (I probably wouldn't do that if I were them, as double the cores at a similar pricing point should be more than enough value for money).
rural enough to not to get a line-of-sight from a BTS (zero signal strength in cellphone overthere)
can spent money enough to serve, can not bear much loss.
It doesn't matter. You don't need logical certainty("If you violate the law, you will be punished"), just some statistical possibility("If you violate the law, there's a small chance you might be punished").

The small chance that someone somewhere might file a lawsuit against you could be enough to frighten future Gawkers, which protects even the small-time people who can't afford their own lawsuits.

And if some Gawker executive says to himself, "Let's do a risk assessment on this person to see if he's likely to get outside support to fight back." Well, there's now the risk of leaving a paper trail demonstrating intent.
That's pretty much the prevailing opinion now, and probably moreso than even during the Gilded Age.
The real problem is that you _shouldn't_ be running bare Tor in front of a hidden service, at least not if you really want to be private. You need something like Whonix[1] to protect you from all kinds of server information leaks.

1: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Hidden_Services
Are you saying a NoSQL solution is better for this use case? Because that's what this article is asking. Sure, they could do things better (can't we always?), but that's not the point they're trying to make.

Like you said, 10GB of data isn't very much, it really doesn't matter if you go with NoSQL or SQL. But SQL will probably give you more flexibility and will be easier to manage until you get really, really big.
On Dynamism (Swift)
Ethereum is definitely cool, but I stand by Bitcoin as the best solution for a "public sector" crypto
> Will some sort of neo-feudalism do better than historical feudalism?

I think that what I'm groping towards by saying "neo-feudalism" is the existing European social model with the optional addition of ermine capes, as someone else commented below... This discussion has actually taught me a few things, and I don't have a pre-existing opinion here.

> Kings and lawlessness

A president's timeframe is likely to be "until the end of my term in office," at least if the behaviors of the last few presidents are any indication; a king's timeframe is, at least, "until the end of my life", more likely "forever" since he's handing off the kingdom to his children. (Or she to her children in a queen's case.) This should make it easier to resist panic and opinion polls, and make decisions that pay off in the long term -- like remaining a good country to surrender to.

On the other hand, when a king goes wrong it's hard to stop him -- especially in a context where the king has most of the country's military power. (And decentralized military power creates its own problems; the French religious wars, for example, lasted 80 years and ended in autocracy.)

A tyrannical elected leader (like Hitler) could secure power just as solidly as a tyrannical king could, so elections are no protection there, but what about an incompetent king versus an incompetent elected leader? Get a president with bad judgement, it'll be over in four or eight years; get a king with bad judgement and your country might be permanently wrecked.

So, I'll revise my previous statement: the world needs the European social model, but should probably stay about as democratic as Europe probably is now.

But I stand my position that "capitalism is the problem" means that there are multiple other choices that can be looked at, not just communism. Problems with communism don't mean that capitalism is flawless; and problems with capitalism don't mean that we should abolish private property.

Or maybe what I'm groping towards is this: if people behave responsibly, things will probably be all right, but if they don't, things will go badly. But that's what Confucius said, and his system ended up as a cloak for autocracy...
Was that when they followed through and kicked butt at the top end? It has been quite a while. Or was that when marketing started writing checks their engineers couldn't cash? (Which has been a theme throughout the bulldozer line)
22? when was his birthday?
That's interesting. Perhaps the colors respond to different frequencies. They did say they use all 8 primaries which would include black and white. So it's a question of how they proportion them at the front of the pixel.
The easy answer to this is decentralized protocols. For example SMTP. You can just delete evidence of criminal activity and then run for president.
Contracts don't exist within currencies; contracts exist on top of currencies. Sticking a turing complete language into the currency doesn't remove the problem of third party management; it forces the currency to absorb some of the complexity. Is there any reason why this can't just be layered over an existing crypto currency instead of needing to be built in?
So just like the US, but the elites are less elitist, and the people are less broke?
> I am probably in the minority here on HN

No, HN is generally bad for discussion of bitcoin.

> I have asked many of my techie friends

An introductory whitepaper [1] was written by bitcoin's creator in 2008. That's probably still the best place to start.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper
That feels like a big presumption. The court system often seems to operate on a "biggest pockets wins" basis.
Rails is a mature framework now. A lot of people love to hate on mature stuff in programming.
The Biggest Industry in the World Just Got Served
I have found people are frequently ready to kill one another to protect THEI specific brands of the disempowered of choice, often at the expense of the disempowered brand they despize.
Population growth is one of the major reasons. There are simply more people competing for the same fixed amount of real estate.
Are all Atavist articles designed to be so distracting, or is it just this one?
I took some time and read this blog post [1]. It allowed me to explain everything to my friends who asked.

[1]: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...
Yeah, VARCHAR and TEXT are backed by the same datatype, but VARCHAR(N) gives you a limit check (that can be a pain to change if you ever need to.) There shouldn't be any noticable performance difference. For UUIDs, the native type is way better.
Give me Java and a real-world problem vs someone using using Scala and I will beat them on the initial write, and destroy them on the maintenance. :)

> in five years' time I'm sure Idris will be a better language than Scala

Idris? In the entire history of computing there has been a single[1] complete non-trivial (though still rather small) real-world program (CompCert) written in a dependently typed language. Even though the program is small and the programmer (Xavier Leroy) one of the leading dependent-type-based-verification experts, the effort was big (and that's an understatement) and the termination proofs proved too hard/tedious for him, so he just used a simple counter for termination and had a runtime exception if it ran out. Idris is a very interesting experiment, I'll give you that. But I don't see how anyone can be sure that it would work (although you didn't say it can work, only that it would "be a better language than Scala", so I'm not sure what your success metrics are).

[1]: Approximately, though I don't know of any other.
There is nothing remotely precedent setting about what Thiel is doing here. Billionaires have long used courts to silence dissent [0][1].

[0] - http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vander...
[1] - https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/06/11/steelback_ceo_sues_s...
it might be awkward if gawker or valleywag staffed journalists.
The article's actual title is much more inflammatory:

What’s driving Silicon Valley to become ‘radicalized’
I don't fully understand the article, but they're applying it to bubble sort and addition. This is about where things were with Lenat's Automated Mathematician of 40 years ago.[1] Lenat was doing something similar, but on LISP programs.

After a few years, it turned out that this approach only worked on problems for which hill climbing worked really well. You need a well chosen metric for "sorted", and that guides the hill climber to converging on a bubble sort. (But not Quicksort.)

This needs to be demonstrated on a harder problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Mathematician
Bitcoin cannot survive a majority attack.

Proof of work is a different kind of majority though.
Wait! This is the same place where all the underpaid computer scientists left for Uber!

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...
Cost, performance, size limitations
You don't have to convince me. You have to convince Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, tech companies in the valley, etc...
I think that what I really want is the current European social-welfare model, rather than anything as world-shakingly different as feudalism.

As for semi-permanent elites, I think I've been reading too many books on old money lately. You're right: people who start poor easily become rich, and people who start rich easily become poor. "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations" is a human universal...

And, now that I think of it, "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations" was just as true under feudalism as in any other system: the average noble house was extinct in three generations.

Shrugs.

So much for that...
> it's still not as good as printed paper.

Perhaps not as good as a glossy full-color textbook, but a few days ago I bought a paperback and I was surprised how much I wanted to read it on my Kindle instead. Paperbacks often have terrible resolution, and the contrast isn't much better (paperbacks often have ivory-ish colored paper).
Nothing But The Truth
This story has little to do with fairness and justice and everything to do with power. It's this shameless exercise of hidden power by a prominent member of the billionaire class that is deeply scary. When you discover someone with way too much power and accountable to no one wielding it, it can and should be terrifying.

It doesn't actually matter that much how much the victim of that power deserves it. This is a bad sign for our culture.
It sounds like that sums it up nicely. I should move...
You just have to charge enough to make it worth it.
Their videogame deal with Lego seems to be working out OK. And they've got loads of experience licensing out their IP for toys etc.
Why can't autists just use whatever they want and stop trying to convince people that their way is best.
You seem like the type who is unlikely to change an opinion, so I'm not going to expend any more effort on this. However, for your own edification, you might want to stop and ask yourself whether this:

"If the median price of a house has increased by 75% but the house is 50% bigger, the effective price increase is barely above inflation."

can be reconciled to this:

"For the first time since the 1880s, more young Americans are living with their parents than with a romantic partner."

People are angry about the decline in the standard of living, and for most us, the justification for that anger is obvious.
Has DAO really raised $150M, or is that just the market cap of a pre-mined cryptocurrency after some limited buy-in?