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We already have more than enough places to house everyone in the USA. The quantity is already there.

For every homeless person, we have 5-7 houses empty (various stats around, depending on number of homeless). http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-we-cant-just-put-ho... . We already have the supply. It's there. They are already built.

Now.. Who do these houses belong to? Banks. Insurance firms. In reality, any company that needs illiquid money storage uses property. And they extract as much worth as they can from that. That's only logical from their standpoint. And maybe some office space, sure.

But all those houses are simply rotting as people aren't living in them. I say, put them to good use. Eminent domain them, or tax them appropriately so that individuals and families can get them.

I think you're mistaking me for some capitalist. If anything, I'm more communist for essentials, socialist for 'effective member of society', and capitalist for stuff on the edge.
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Good point :)
I probably should have stuck to picking on Java. Ada is a pretty good example of a language that handles real time use cases with concurrency and memory pools well. That said, it's fallen out of favor in "recent" years.
it could actually happen

(https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6a24et/if_p...)
Why they made the scrubber the size of a pinpoint is beyond me. Good thing I can see the artwork though, which I don't care about AT ALL because I'm LISTENING TO MUSIC
Leanpub pays 90% royalties minus 50 cents per paid purchase. I'm not sure though if some publishers maybe take more steps to help market for their authors or other benefits of differing publishers. 90% of zero sales is still $0.
I think I can claim that I wrote the 1st academic paper on Bitcoin in early 2011. Anyone else trying to claim that title? :)

Unfortunately I was broke in school so bought and sold only a few coins. Asked my lawyer dad for money, he laughed, just as all my Wharton finance friends did.

https://www.scribd.com/document/86764784/Diepenbrock-Bitcoin...
This is correct and possibly seems crazy from some other language communities :-), but Java is fairly venerable (20 yrs) and is a backbone platform for many risk averse entities and this strong social contract has I believe added to its longevity and relevance.
Perhaps that indicates how effective the healthcare industry in the US is at maximizing their revenue. If the choice is paying or dying, people will pay an unlimited amount.
"near-zero transaction fees"? I wish.. it currently costs ~$1 to have your transaction executed within 10-30 minutes (next block).
It's amazing to think of the RoI you could have gotten for a few hours of computer time if you were mining early.

Of course, for every Bitcoin, there's a million stupid schemes that don't work out, and it's hard to tell them apart.
Only if trying to buy songs on an iPod caused your bank to freak out. I'm at a top 5 US bank for my checking and credit card. They were nonplussed with my attempts to move money to Coinbase.
There are still a few sane people left that won't deliberately plant a surveillance device in their homes.
Who have you published through in the past?
> Where does the $52 billion market valuation come from?

That seems to be a mistake in the article. $52 billion market cap is of all currently tracked cryptocurrencies, not just bitcoin.[1] Bitcoin is ~$28.7 billion right now.[2]

[1]: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

[2]: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
short answer: they all are suitable. i even has (unfinished) ldpc-based program that is pretty similar to par2

long answer: what you need is Forward Error Correction, that is implemented by any Error-Correcting Code (see wikipedia for both)

Reed-Solomon and BCH error-correcting codes are known since 60s. They are pretty slow (even my fastest implemenation is about 10x slower than good LDPC one with pretty close recovery ability), but well-studied and mostly free from patents

LDPC, fountain, Raptor and so on codes were started development in 90s as faster approach to FEC. They are preferred now in commercial environment due to their speed. But since they are so useful, they are patented all around

So, one advantage of my library is that while not as fast as best codes, it's still fast enough for any practical needs and absolutely patent-free. Well, i hope so :)
Good for him. I cancelled my subscription with the launch of 2.0. Just awful and buggy as hell.
At Stylitics, we use Clojure & ClojureScript to automate building outfits from retailers' product catalogs, arranging them in a visually appealing collage image, serving those to their product pages and track engagement & other analytics.

Biggest wins for me:

1. Reagent - building UIs has never been easier for me

2. Figwheel - I know hot-reload can be had with other tools & languages, but it's so nice to have and especially when integrated with your REPL

3. Concurrency - lots to say here, but coming from Ruby, literally just `pmap` alone is awesome, haha.

4. Deploying an uberjar is easy

5. compojure-api is a great way to build documented, live API docs/explorers

6. integrant (or component) for building up & managing running systems out of interdependent parts

That stuff's pretty basic but it's been a boon. There's a lot more cool stuff that we've used in the past and/or hope to use in the future - core.logic or constraint programming libraries for implementing rules & constraints, core.async for various things (trying to be more judicious but it's definitely useful), onyx for building distributed computation flows.

The biggest side benefit of working in Clojure, in my opinion, is training your mind to think data-first and simplicity-first. This is kind of cliché, but I've found it to be true and I feel like if I had to leave Clojure I'd be more equipped than when I started to work with the types of systems the future will need. But I'm hoping to stay :)
Have you paid attention to these exploits the they produce? They're often not "easy". Also, if they are, that's the dev's fault, not theirs. Shooting the messenger to avoid responsibility, it never gets old...
The K-Mart merger was probably a good thing, you can't cure a terminal illness. Lambert is carving up the pieces and redeploying them where they will have more value.
Litecoin also activated the segregated witness in the past week.
I lean towards Reaper the most as far as DAWs go.

Often I'll use http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ and my synths and a fair bit of SuperCollider/Overtone.
ETH has actually gone up 9x since mid-February. That was when it was first available on Coinbase too, so it was easy to buy then. I got some myself at that time, just not enough.
they don't raise specific technical concerns.
they want to have more time to address/disucss stuff about the specification. also maven is not the de facto package manager. the only thing which might be defacto is the publishing style, however there are many other package manager in the java world.
also a lot of this stuff could've been cleared up way way earlier.

p.s.: even if the one outlined is not a policitcal move, some votes definitly are.
> I'm surprised that making something simple and easy to use would bolster activity like that.

Really? This is Apple's business model (you know, the biggest company in the world). This is what I've built my career around (UX designer).
> The RTFM language was created ... to develop real time systems for which FreeRTOS didn’t fit the bill.

I'm curious how they determined FreeRTOS wasn't appropriate for their use cases?
Ehhh, this is kinda dumb. There isn't a vulnerability in NFC per se, just that you can encode NFC tags with malicious URLs. If the user isn't paying attention, they might get served with a phishing page, or a page that scrapes the user's location. QR codes would have the same vulnerability. This isn't an NFC problem, this is a social engineering problem - don't scan tags you don't trust, just like you shouldn't open up emails you don't trust.
The bitcoin paper was the first academic paper on bitcoin.
The benefit the Sears catalog brought America are basically identical to the ones Walmart did.
NASDAQ is 46 years old. Bitcoin is 8. How many years until chart analysis applies?
I think the swipe gestures for add/next should probably be left/right to match tinder... not that it's really much better than up/down, it is somewhat more natural to swipe from side to side in terms of holding the device casually.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
I'm not sure which features of Tinder are part of my daily UX. I know it has a different notion of "swipe left/swipe right" than most things I use - in the apps I use that means "go back a page/go forward a page". In Tinder I'm vaguely aware that one direction means "I want to have sex with you", but I am not aware which direction that is.
The problem with 4 is you can't actually trust the professionals they recommend to you. For example You never want to use the inspector your agent recommends. (They won't want to blow a sale and lose the relationship with the agent).
Yes. Many people, from all classes, make terrible financial decisions - particularly if they struggle with addiction. Giving such people money usually does nothing to improve their situation. They must first address their addictions and learn to make good decisions before they can really benefit from an infusion of money.
When money is no object, you have to get a commercial display (like this [0], w/ 55" class (54.6" diagonal) Edge-Lit LED IPS Digital - $1350MSRP). Otherwise, something like a Vizio P series (which has an embedded chromecast) is good if you turn-off the wifi radio and/or never give it your AP's credentials.

I grew up with a TV that would immediately turn-on when you pressed the button (you could even hear an audible sound from the TV set), and the cable TV remote (it was separate in the 80s too) could change channels at 4-5 per second (this is when channels surfing was born because they would render so fast).

Vizio has a line of OTA-free displays, but they still have a Linux kernel. This is a good start, but going back to whatever RTOS they use to have would be better.

[0]http://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-display/displays-tv...
Here is one way to just extract the frames:

ffmpeg -i in.avi -q:v 0 imagename_%04d.jpg
Are there any tech solutions for cap table management?

As an alternative to bespoke legal counsel.
I agree with the article's main premise. I have a huge VPS on GCP that I can quickly spin up, make a few runs, then halt it. Cost is about $0.60/hour
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Hold up. Is it your belief that Apple's smartphone market share in 1Q16 is equal to the number of people who have iPhones or Apple products?
Honest question: How much $$$? Are you sure you're paid more there than elsewhere? The market is still very hot for senior developers, and most of the top companies I know of are willing to match current stock with theirs, even in the low millions (over 4 years).
"rapid clearing" as well. Takes a while to wait for the recommended number of confirms.
I often revert to pandora for this reason when driving... the BT integration allows me to go to the next song, whatever it is, and usually don't have to skip too many an hour.. while being able to thumbsdown something easier would be nice... a driving ui, where thumbs-down and next are easier would be nice.
BookWell ( https://www.bookwell.com.au/ ) uses Clojure on the backend, ClojureScript on the front, and Datomic as the database.
> Also, the notion that "they test each other" is likely to be dangerous.

About as dangerous as double entry bookkeeping. Of course it doesn't provide any absolute guarantees, but having people state things in multiple contexts and checking their consistency is one of the better approaches we have for finding errors.
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Same as with NASDAQ: never
That's only true if you are in certain IP spaces that get lumped in with residential users or are public spaces that are heavily used like AWS.

I've run on-Prem email for years in different capacities. It isn't nearly as difficult as its often portrayed.
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>Well it's entirely possible that if overly broad patents had killed the initial market for steam engines

yep, it's entirely possible that overly broad patents would have completely killed all innovation in the 20th century and we would not have electricity, internal combustion, patent medicines, flight, and in fact we would probably be flinging feces at each other. We would have probably forgotten how to read and write, under too broad of a patent regime.

(Sorry I'm dripping with sarcasm again, the statement I quoted you making is just so ridiculously wrong.)

By the way as wrong as you are, don't you think you should expand on your wrongness by at least trying to apply a wrong analysis of patent law to Roman times? Can't you at least speculate that somehow your wrong ideas are what kept the Romans from having an industrial revolution of their own?

I know they didn't have a patent law but for the sake of the narrative can't you lie and say they had very broad patents which completely stifled innovation? It would help your comment hang together better than your historical example from societies that did not have the benefit of patent law.

Just make the argument, somehow, that patents are what led firstly to the Roman civilization never developing internal combustion, electricity, modern metallurgy, or a host of modern inventions, and, secondly, maybe you could somehow expand the lie to show that the patent regime is what caused their downfall as a civilization. I know you could work it in there. you're already so wrong, it really is within your reach. just try your best.

Thank you for standing up for innovation. I think we can all agree that lying and being wrong about truth and history is a small price to pay in exchange for preventing our grandchildren from growing up in an illiterate world without electricity and where they have to eck out a living scrawling modern art out of feces. clearly this is where broad patents lead, and the fact that history has never shown this to be the case is just a coincidence.

Is the fact that something has never happened a good reason to believe that it doesn't happen inevitably, and all the time?

No, it just means that as a society we've been incredibly lucky. Like astronomically. It's all been one lottery win after another after another - the whole industrial revolution and all of the twentieth century. It can't go on forever.

We need to take a stand against (broad) patents. They lead to the exact opposite of what they have been shown to lead to in every society that has ever had them. What happens is NOT descriptive of what happens.

Only a fool would study history to see how things happen. Much better would be to write some lies about patent law in Roman times. I look forward to reading it.

(sorry about my tone - you're just so wrong, I can't reply in any other way.)
What are you doing that's so complicated with email?

I get email. I read them. I archive them. I only interact with each email for about 10s and then it's gone, usually forever. Very occasionally I need to search for something in the archive. I also need to send so I just need a text box to write in and somewhere to drop attachments.

What else is there that you need in a client?
Perf is fascinating to dive into. If you are using C and gcc you can use record/report that show you line by line and instruction by instruction where you are getting slowdowns.

One of my favorite school assignments was we were given an intentionally bad implementation of the Game of Life compiled with -O3 and trying to get it to run faster without changing compiler flags. It's sort of mind boggling how fast computers can do stuff if you can reduce the problem to fixed stride for loops over arrays that can be fully pipelined.
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This is literally just a text file. Stored on your computer. Only accessible through your browser with a textarea editor. A text file.

I'm at a loss for words...
An app that let me replace 80% of my apps.
You're right, I stand corrected. Nobody uses Apple products. Let's move on.
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Yeah honestly, why do people keep saying this? Real life bitcoin transactions are much more expensive to users than credit card or ACH transfers.

I can move money for free between my bank accounts and the money is settled in three days. I can pay friends for free with venmo and it settles likewise.

Bitcoin needs to become significantly faster and cheaper, since there's nothing holding back the competition from getting more efficient from self-imposed limits.
Truthy. But That plan didn't even work out for Firefox.
Another problem with that number is there is no way to tell if a coin is being hoarded or if it lost forever. If that hoarded number is high, it presents a risk that a hoarder could offload their coins and crash the market. If that hoarded number is low, it means the actual size of the market is much less than people claim.
I use DAW's as well. I make ambient music and sound collages as a hobby. I have a large loop and VST instrument collection and have purchased and used numerous apps. My argument is that to have a thorough understanding of music one should be well-rounded and begin with analog; one should become proficient at an instrument. I can't imagine not knowing how to play guitar, tune it up, improvise on it, play it in real time using scales, affecting its sound with my musculature, feeling the infinite nuance of the striking of a single note by how you strike it with said musculature. I can't imagine not having spent time in garages with friends communicating through instruments. That education is invaluable and will deepen your understanding. I just think starting in an artificial realm is a bad idea for a proper music education and people will benefit more by learning music in-the-world, at least initially. This isn't to say that doing this won't make you the open mic guy doing drivel Dave Matthews covers on an acoustic, as you mention.
I really don't understand this anger. I can't imagine using it either, but it's optional and off by default. If people like it, why shouldn't they have it? If they don't, they won't use it.

I don't think the spying concerns are reasonable. If somebody wants to spy on somebody, there are already plenty of ways to do it. Why require that developers buy an expensive Amazon widget when you could require that they buy a $40 webcam, or better yet just say "if you don't answer the phone whenever I call you during working hours, you'd better be dead or in jail, or else you're fired."
I find it interesting that this would happen based on a cafe location rather than a library...
I've been using Spotify since 2008, but lately the app on iOS has become a massive battery hog. I usually start playing music when I leave home and continue playing a few hours at work. But after about an hour at work my phone is burning hot and the battery has drained massively. It's ridiculous and makes me want to move back to Apple Music.
The same way you would unit test a Python function, except you invoke the actual C function using e.g. ctypes:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html

but your unit test is written in Python, including all the setup/teardown stuff and asserts. And you run it using the stock Python test runner (or some wrapper around that):

https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html

(In theory, this all can be done even smoother if you use Cython, because that lets you interface with C more naturally than ctypes. I haven't tried that, though.)

Note that this all makes sense for C APIs, not C++ ones. With C++ APIs, as soon as classes etc come into the picture, and especially once you start dealing with STL and Boost data types, it becomes too difficult to invoke that stuff from Python. However, the implementation can be in any language - what matters is what the tested API looks like.
This is a great illustration of how we grapple with the abstraction of scales and key over time.

First, you have tabs, which describe the physical position of the notes on the instrument.

Then, we have root / chord type notation, in which we describe the starting position and shape of the notes on the instrument, and the musician must translate that information to the physical position of the notes, on the fly.

What is important about this second stage is that the musician has a pretty good grasp on how to play, and can usually sight read a piece and get a pretty decent version of it just by tracking chords, or in the case of the piano, just chords and the melody on the other hand, or a small pattern.

Finally, we come to roman numeral notation, which describes the chords based on their relative position to the root note of key, not the chord. This is a powerful abstraction. It provides incredible insight into the relationships between music, notes, chords, and progressions of chords at a level divorced from the 'root' of that key. A 9th played over a minor 7th chord is going to give you a very similar sound in any key. This is a great skill for songwriters and composers, who need to have a strong working intuition about things like what chord will sound good in this progression, or what notes we want to appear in our melody (which is related to the chords beneath it).
It'd be interesting if Amazon (or even Sears) did sell a "DIY House Kit" system.

Imagine if the house came as a series of 3/4" plywood sheets, pre-marked with cut lines; you cut out the pieces, then they are assembled slot/tab style into a home using an instruction booklet (plus glue, nails, insulation, etc to complete). Almost like a flat-pack home delivered in a 40 foot container or a flatbed trailer.

That could be the "base model"; there could also be a model where you purchase a custom 4x8' bed CNC router table. Feed it "blank" 3/4" plywood sourced locally, and it cuts out the parts from plans "in the cloud" or in some other manner. Parts are assembled in the same manner.

Final level (?) might be an on-site crew to assemble it, if you don't have the skills or time to do so yourself.

Only thing you'd have to supply otherwise would be a foundation; this could potentially be concrete slab, or maybe wood or other material raised above ground on pylons cast from concrete or made of native materials (or, maybe it too could be included in the kit?).

Kinda pie-in-the-sky, but the concept of building such a house has been prototyped (first saw something like this in the book about the MIT Fab Lab), the software and hardware all exist; in theory you could DIY this whole solution if you wanted to today (you'd have to create your own custom home design, though - that's where it would be tough).

There'd also be the maze and potential rejection of homeowner's insurance for non-standard construction (similar to what people building straw-bale or rammed-earth houses face), or rejection for the same due to strict codes on construction allowances for the home site...

...which is probably why it hasn't been done yet.
CommonJS (via npm) is used on more front-end code than TC39 modules are to this day.

I should say 'HTTP request' rather than XHR but the point still stands: having different objectives doesn't make it OK to ignore mime types, have people manually encode JSON, have people manually encode query strings, and all the other things we already have now in fetch. Which nobody will use (unless they want to cancel requests) because we already have better solutions with less needless boilerplate.
Also, beware that the marketcap figures are not quite true [1]. They calculate based on the total supply rather than the circulated supply and on some (scam)cases like the recent Gnosis ICO it results in crazy amounts.

[1]: https://blog.sia.tech/want-to-deflate-the-token-bubble-fix-t...
Funnily enough between the time this article was posted and now BTC crashed from $1800 to $1700 and then bounced back up