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There are some nice libraries that ease the pain of callbacks to a certain degree.

Async[1] (the waterfall method) and Step[2] come to mind.

[1]: https://github.com/caolan/async

[2]: https://github.com/creationix/step
Not necessarily, in the context of hacker news.
Is it me or is this not a really fair comparison since the erlang frameworks would be utilizing both cpu's while node and tornado wouldn't be?

In real life a load balancer in front of tornado or node would be a far better solution than going down the erlang road in production.. support and maintenance wise + more programmers out there knowing the language would win hands down IMO...
Start here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1817857
The article contains nothing relevant to the claim that 18 USC 1030 "prescribes automatic jail time for anyone the government thinks is a so-called cyber threat".

That's because the claim is in fact wrong.
Though the topic is broadly similar, this is a better work of fiction than The Right to Read.

For example, the characters in The Right to Read are props in the author's morality play. Whereas these characters are characters, and while you can still see the author moving around behind the scenes he's done his best to let the characters speak for themselves. I'm not sure they fully agree with him.

Nice work.
So, how is bitcoin different than the Million Dollar Homepage? Tradeability?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
> Any card can be converted back into digital bitcoins at any time, but doing so destroys the card.

What if you can convert it without destroying the card? How can anyone check "offline" whether or not the card still has the money?
What are the similarities?
There's actually some truth to this. Cool sci-fi can influence scientists and technologists to pursue ideas they see on screen or read about in books. Alternatively, it can inspire kids to want to become scientists or technologists. While I have no data to back this up, I imagine the genre has done a lot more good for the world than we'll ever know.
My guess is that, as someone accepting payment, you refuse if the card already has its hologram on the back peeled off.
It's probably in part because you assume $200k and four years will make you a "master." That load of arrogance in turn makes it hard to accept the rest of your points. Some Russian/Indian kids are better that those with expensive CS degrees. This forum is about sparking useful discussion. Claiming that there is One True Way to design is overly self promoting.
I think you meant "you need to run... no walk... away from that deal." Other than that, all good points.
The same countries near the top of this index are the same as those at the top of the Corruption Perceptions Index, i.e Scandinavia, Canada/Australia/NZ, Switzerland.

See http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/... Any coincidence?
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Consider Apple product design from beginning to end and how dramatically it has impacted humanity at least 5 separate times. Apple //, Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iPhone.

Design matters. And this applies to the Web, of course, too, just like almost anything else.
The last scene of the movie demonstrates that knowing that a pre-crime report was generated does allow the future to be changed (Burgess chooses to shoot himself, rather than Tom Cruise). The earlier plotline had suggested there was no way to escape fate - the protagonist ends up committing the exact killing he had been desperately trying to avoid (a la Oedipus Rex).
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I agree that the current colour scheme makes the night time hours stand out more than the daylight ones, but I would suggest perhaps a different approach - darken the background so that the daylight hours have more contrast and the night hours blend in more. This would solve the problem of your eyes being drawn to the darker spaces while still keeping the more expected display of daylight hours having light colours and night hours being darker.
I actually want to work for BitCoins. Anyone has a small project that needs work and is willing to pay it in BitCoins?
His criteria are subjective, yes, but isn't that the point? The point of music recommendation engines isn't to figure out the absolute "best" playlist based on a starter song. It's to figure out the best playlist for the individual user. If the user is asking "WTF?" about the songs on his list, then by definition, the engine has failed that user.

While the author could have been more objective about his criteria, ironically enough, I think he missed the more salient point that he raised by implication: that music engines should be mapping the user's behavior patterns vis-a-vis the songs in his collection, and not so much objective connections between songs. This is what Genius does and has always tried to do, and it's why Genius seems to work better for the author. Genius doesn't focus as heavily on attempts to forge objective links between songs, so much as it focuses on attempts to draw links in behavior patterns w/r/t songs by likeminded users.

When listening to songs in a collection, our brain maps out its own connections between songs, as reflected in the way we compile our own lists consciously or subconsciously. Sometimes those connections make objective sense (i.e., "I want to listen to '70s funk, so I'm going to pick ten '70s funk songs in a row."). Sometimes those connections make little objective sense (i.e., "I am listening to a track by Lady Gaga, and afterward, I feel like listening to a track by J.S. Bach."). A good mixing engine figures out the idiosyncracies and subjectivity of our brains, as reflected statistically by the choices we've made in the past.
"a unique wiki where every article is simultaneously a document and a piece of code" <- except that article
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I'd also like to know. I've played around with apache and mod_wsgi, both with a framework (Django) and by writing my own mini-framework. Both were good exercises, but I'd also really like to know if there are other approaches, and why you would use one over the other.
That's a really great essay.
I'm pretty much in your corner--I think copyrights and patents have been extended and abused and need major reform. But let me play devil's advocate for a moment.

It sounds like you are happy to sacrifice Hollywood movies. Fine. But there are so many other creative activities that do require some form of copyright or patent protection and enforcement in order to generate revenue. Do you really think we would still have professional studio musicians and recording engineers, journalists, fiction writers, critics, copy editors, if all copying were legal? Do you want to ditch all of that and be left with only amateur work? Or maybe we can have extensive product placement in all creative works, so there's some revenue source.

Linux and Wikipedia are amazing but I don't think their model applies to everything.
If you read the article closely you will notice that the Erlang VMs were started without SMP support enabled; everything was single-core. If you turned on Erlang SMP support then the comparison would be even more lop-sided than the example presented in the OP. In real life a hardware load balancer in front of a pool of Erlang servers would be even better :)
Pepsi paid over $1 million dollars for it's latest logo redesign.
http://adage.com/article/agency-news/breathtaking-word-purpo...

Check out the 27-page report about the logo: http://adage.com/images/random/0209/pepsi-arnell021109.pdf
Agreed if only to stay firmly on our side of the clickbait line.
I don't understand why an intact hologram is a proof of security. What if you saw through it?

And not just me, I mean lets just say I'm being ignorant and hologram is perfectly secure. How are you gonna convince the masses?
I had to upvote this for the humor, but I have yet to flag a Bitcoin post. It's technology, it's interesting, and some are clearly interested in talking about it, which sounds on-topic to me. Funny, though.
And what happens if mybitcoin or whatever third party proves itself untrustworthy?

I can't see myself trusting any unregulated, unsecured entity with any significant amount of my personal wealth.
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I like to say it isn’t sci-fi it doesn’t have social commentary or at least a warning from a possible future.
Bitcoin "can be really dangerous to social news ecosystem"

So you agree with the article, but you don't want people to talk too much about it on HN? I think it is a very weird position to hold. Imagine there was a very dangerous disease, should it be discussed openly in physician congresses? Yes? Same here (HN is the hackers congress, right?), so let us discuss the topic freely.

Why is Bitcoin so dangerous:

- Could break the current economy.

Ok, and so? Is the current economy that perfect a thing that we do not want any replacement? Just have a look in countries where all the wealth created is sucked by a very few corrupted nababs lying down in sofas, and meanwhile people starve silently in the streets. I don't say Bitcoin will fix this, I just say that changing the current economically rules is still a possibility, and Bitcoin-like currency could be a part of the picture. The current economy applied to the world is in fact a very specific and recent invention. In Imperial China (only 200 years ago), the inflation was artificially set to a very high level, so the price of money would go down very fast, and nobody would think of "keeping money aside", so everyone was just spending. That's another model, it did work not so bad for a big part of humanity for some centuries. I am no technotarians, I respect the law, but I think it is quite possible that our economical model is not the best possible.

- Bitcoin could ease the work for wrong-doers (drug traffic, etc.)

This argument is very weak. The same has been said for cell phones, Internet, etc. If this powerful tool is kept secret and hidden in a kind of black market, it will help mostly people in these places. If we discuss it openly, and make it accessible, it may help more "normal" people.

- Tax

Tax is the biggest issue, but let's not be in fear: Governments are very imaginative when it comes to getting money from their administrates. For example, they could easily ask for Bitcoins in exchange of the right to use information vectors (cables, wireless).

Every great innovation have been seen as extremely dangerous by the people in place. Do you take the plane? Yes. Did you heard about this guy a 100 years ago who tried to fly like a bird: he held tight a set of man-made "wings", jumped from the top of the Eiffel tower, and flatly crashed on the floor. One of my good friend's father did refuse to take a plane to see his newborn grand'son.
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I have been trying to study .net but cannot find a structured way of going about studying it. The index of various books is varied, and only scares me with its vastness. Can anybody suggest me a ordered syllabus (course plan) to study.

My background: I have worked a little in c++ and have good understanding of the programming concepts(like OOP etc.)

Essentials: The topics that I essentially need to study are - understanding the technicalities of the framework, c#, asp, ado.
There is no reason you can't use both. I tend to structure my projects using an IDE but do most of my text editing in vim.

Nothing beats vim for grunting through a pile of code that needs cleaning up. Just set up your IDE and vim to autoload when it detects changes.

My workflow generally goes Edit in vim -> check IDE for syntax errors -> Run/Debug -> repeat.
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So true. It's happened many times; most of the big companies today weren't the first to come up with the idea. I've yet to see someone successfully copy Twitter though :)
Of course you are right that it will be a leaky wall due to the nature of the Internet. But it will increase the cost and hassle and reduce bandwidth. And that is good enough to prop up publishing industry revenue.
> the claim is that it cannot be taxed.

The tax laws may be difficult and expensive to enforce ... with an anonymous digital currency.
What amount do senators not on this list receive, for comparison?
Gold standard for scalability? There are certainly others. Check out numbers for Haskell:

http://snapframework.com/blog/2010/11/17/snap-0.3-benchmarks

http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/preliminary-warp-cross-language...

Would be interesting to repeat the author's experiment exactly, but in any case I would expect an order of magnitude upwards difference in performance.

Haskell gives you non-blocking IO without the hassle of callbacks, multithreaded operation and more.
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Doesn't work with IE. I wonder what feature of IE9 isn't supported? Oh well. Maybe will have to write my own for IE.
Lambdas? LINQ? OOP? This looks nothing like js.
What's with the change of title to add "scientists react with fear"?

As a scientist, I react with skepticism and the depressing knowledge that a bunch of people are going to put far more stock in these test results than they deserve. Is your "true age" any better than the one I'd get out of Wii Fit?

The only way I could support this is if it comes with some very careful statistical analysis and a comparison to the actuarial tables of the general population. Don't tell me how many more years I should expect to live, but tell me the chance that I'll be dead by 2021, 2031, 2041 et cetera, with proper error bars, and how that compares to the longevity of the general population of my gender.
David Adams, you're exactly the type of boss to avoid. If you're paying me less than you know I'm worth and hiring other people who contribute less and are less important, but are being compensated more--then that means you disrespect me as an employee and an individual and are taking advantage of me, knowingly, which makes it far worse.

"et them know that you feel you're not being adequately compensated, and you've been thinking of starting a job hunt, but that your sense of loyalty dictates that you let them know now"

I absolutely would not do this. Wait until you have other offers, if you play your cards now they could withhold giving you a reference or not as good of one as you truly deserve since they know it will be to their detriment.

Do what is best for yourself, not some startup which has clearly illustrated, by the facts presented, that it does not value you as an employee. Someone else will, go find them--you owe it to yourself.

As jfarmer said above: the kind of company that takes advantage of you when you're ignorant isn't the kind of company you want to work for even after you're fully-informed and can renegotiate a better deal.
You can list your availability as a freelancer on http://bitcoiners.org

or on the Bitcoin wiki:
http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Freelancers
While that might make sense in using a logical definition of what a "WTF" is in this context, assigning 0 WTFs for the inability to generate a playlist is useless for the purposes of this comparison.

From my perspective, I'd say an empty playlist is worth 24 WTFs, in the sense of "WTF, I expected 24 similar songs and got 0!"
I have put together the code to implement the benchmark using Snap and would be happy to share with anyone willing to boot up the instance and run.

I might do so myself if I find the time tomorrow.
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I have two thoughts on this:
1-As has been mentioned multiple times on HN recently, many of the best minds of our generation are working on the algorithms that go into products like genius. They are basically the same as recomendations, online advertisements, etc. Its not surprising that theyre really damn good at this point.
2-Google probably doesnt care about the product itself, more likely it just wants to mine the data that gets put into it. Like goog-411, the service is just a conduit to acquire data.
I'll admit I am not extremely well versed on the BitCoin market, but the situation you just stated sounds no different to me than trying to pay someone with, say, my GE stock certificates?

How is this different than stock?
Only if you believe in the people

If they do not cough up equity or salary then they don't believe in you. Which should be a red flag, you are letting the fact that they got into YC blind you to the fact that it is a bad deal all the way around. It is the only reason I could fathom that someone would even be entertaining such a deal.
I agree somewhat (although I do feel that debuggers are useful) in that IDEs can influence the design of your program by encouraging a debug first development style similar to "programming by coincidence"
It's not surprising to see that the logo isn't amongst the list :)

I use a mix of Elvis and Vim as I'm training up on vi-likes, and I'm not sure which I prefer yet. Vim has more-intuitive-to-me stuff like character-by character deleting (ie characters are removed when you delete, not when you leave Insert mode), but elvis has things like pressing = twice to reflow paragraphs.

Vim may win in the end as Elvis is hard to google for...
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Is it not just as likely that platforms like Shopify just make sure their templates are well-optimized for mobile devices?

Ideally, the best mobile app is a well-crafted web site.
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i like the android tablets more than ipad for the same reason i like android devices more than the iphone: customization. android gives the user credit for being smart and recognizes we don't all want our phones to look and act exactly the same. what a boring world it would be if we all had apple devices. android is my little buddy that can be setup and function in the way that is best for me...not steve jobs.
It's already an acceptable approach with other money substitutes (gift cards, pre-paid phone cards, etc), where you have to scrape off a film to get a code.
the arrogance of a company to even propose such a relationship with an employee blows me away
Personally, yes. I like to use eventlet in Python partially because of that. Interacting with the scheduler is implicit in eventlet (and gevent, which some prefer) so you write code that looks synchronous.

On top of that, you get nonblocking I/O almost for free, similar to what node attempts to provide, where instead of real nonblocking I/O the system will make blocking I/O look like it's nonblocking. Scala does this too.

But, users of Twisted could also use inLineCallbacks for a similar feel, though it's not required. I'm curious if Node.js could just build the same?
At the time the film came out, I was in a long involved argument about the theme of the film on screenwriting board.

There, I said:

"The issue of her predicting the future as it actually ends up taking place is more or less irrelevant in terms of the story the filmmakers chose to tell. That's set up from the very first precognition and subsequent raid. Agatha sees a murder that does not happen, because there is interevention. The premise underlying the story the filmmakers chose to tell us is that what she sees will in fact occur if we do not stop it. We are free to stop it, of course, but only because we know it is coming. If we didn't know, the world would continue on the rails it has been traveling on, and it would arrive at the destination Agatha has foreseen. This is the essential point that you have to buy into for the premise to work at all."

I dig a little deeper here, including analysis of the eye transplant scene. With a bit of a snarky tone, but I was arguing with friends...

http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/moviesarc05/index.cgi?read=...
It would be nice if there was an "expand all" option, rather than forcing excess clicking to get to the end of the line.
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You are raising some very interesting points that I have not heard before. Could you give more specific examples of what Android lacks and how Google does not get it? Not to challenge you but I am curious to understand a new thought process.
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There are two types of design: you are talking about the one with the big 'D'.

I think spec work such as 99designs is perfectly fine if you are looking for someone to create something pretty. Just like in programming there are some things that are trivial and are easily outsourced. A plain website with static HTML and maybe a contact form? Simple.

But once you start talking about big 'D' design then you have something else all together.
Is this any more of an asylum than what we have today? I'd much rather see a world where $BIGMUSICCOMPANY sues ten million people for $5 each for stealing (oops, I mean violating the copyright on) music rather than a world where an effectively random set of 50 people each get sued for a million dollars.

The big problem with legal processes right now is that they have a high frictional cost. If that cost can be brought down -- on both sides, so that suits can be filed more widely for smaller amounts AND people have a reason to defend against frivolous suits -- then I'd say we would be better off, not worse.
No real difference, I was just driving the point of BitCoin's usefullness as a way of making general everyday transactions.
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Brings up a very interesting question I haven't seen wnswered yet:

What happens to the bitcoin economy when peoples bills get lost, or more interesting, if disks crash without a backup?
But as I understand it, each Bitcoin has a unique hash. So when you start dividing up the ownership of that hash, how do you keep track of partial transactions, etc?
I am not an android user so do not know. What kind of customization is possible with Android? I am assuming you are not talking about apps as the apps available for Android are also available for the iPhone.
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Irony is that it's Wikipedia entry is being censored. http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/219/g-wan-cens...
I don't think you can be certain offline, but it looks like the back of the card has an address where the money is stored. Presumably this will indicate if the card has been redeemed. It also lets you be sure someone didn't just print up some cards and hologram stickers themselves.
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So what if, like almost all startups, no income is being generated?
See, you learned! You learned not to store all your cash in one place (on your person, or in your home). Surely you will also learn to store or bitcoin stash in an appropriate electronic analogue of the safe deposit box. Like dropbox, only with real encryption.
I Agree, I read it when it first started, now it is totally spammy/scammy/sleazy. He is just preying on 'self help' types.
The founders clearly do not consider this person a founder so I don't think founder equity is appropriate at all.
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