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I respect all these views, really.

But now I have a big question, if your users love your product and they keep investing, but there are many people out there who may never have tried to understand how the product works are yelling at you to stop, what will you do?

I have to admit that many Bitcoin investors are not rational at all, and they don't know what they are doing. But there are also a lot of Bitcoin miners who want to short sell to protect their investment along with some speculators who want to long positions with margin. The market is already here.

I have never claimed that I'm not responsible for the security measures, I just said that many people were over-sentitive in these matters. Bitcoinica is probably the first Bitcoin-related website that doesn't have Bitcoin wallet. And vast majority (I'd say nearly all) of security incidents happen with stolen or lost Bitcoin wallets. I know my bottom-line clearly - I know I may be good at writing secure apps, but not good at keeping a wallet secure.

I don't know what's your attitude towards Mt. Gox or TradeHill. I may have over-used these two examples but in fact, the system works the same way. It's just that I have only 3 years of experience of Ruby development and have done this project more quickly than others.

I'll be working with TradeHill together to expand the service further, because TradeHill requested so. And many users want to see Bitcoinica continue.

Bitcoinca was launched a bit more than 2 days ago. I know how high the stake is, but I'm not going to close it. Our finances are running very smoothly and trading volume is higher and higher.

I will consider hiring a security expert after a month or so. Currently there are two adults working with me in terms of financial systems (they are professional forex brokers). I think everything has just started.
Austin's certainly not as lush and beautiful as Northern California, but it's definitely not "dreary and worn looking". Yes, it gets very hot in the summer, but the rest of the year the weather is fantastic.
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there is definitely a very high risk but there is definitely a very high reward -- the keyword here is 'speculation' -- nothing wrong with it as long as you know that that is what it really is
Exactly! Milwaukee and Madison have huge pools of programmers that are largely ignored.

I'd try to recruit them in late November or early December...
Yes me, we use it to formalise documents and explicitly declare what data we store.

For total flexibility dictionary fields are best, they will handle any complex type eg: embedded dictionaries, lists or even other documents (automatically converting to a DBRef), however, you dont get validation, which may or may not be an issue based on your circumstances.
Austin is not like the rest of Texas. It's common to hear others here comment the same: "Austin is not Texas". "Keep Austin Weird" is also a common t-shirt and bumper sticker slogan.
It's kinda dreary and worn looking. :)

The Hill Country is nice tho.
While i find this discussion interesting to some extent, I find it odd that no one mention that the native and web applications use cases do not overlap completely.

We have text editors IDEs, command line utilities, etc. not every application needs to interact with a network. More importantly, not every web aplication is some kind of fancy CRUD interface, we do a lot more with computers than managing our online presence.
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"We never bet against our clients." - The most repeated sentence regarding Bitcoinica.

There are people who long and people short. If these positions were opened at the same time and price, they can be canceled out directly. Otherwise, we will trade at other exchanges to hedge.

We are partly responsible for the crash yesterday because we dumped more than 800 BTC into the market when the order book was quite thin due to large amount of short sell orders. The spreads were large due to lack of liquidity.

We have roughly the same financial status regardless of our clients' profitability. We may lose some on guaranteed liquidity, but the loss will be compensated by the subsequent (small) increase in spread.
I did not know that. Hilarious :)
Native vs Web isn't what you should think about. At a higher level, what matters is whether the software you're using or writing is centralized or distributed.

Anything that does not specifically require decentralization probably should be written as a web service.
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It does not offend me but I just don't like it and would not use it in my own code (which is indeed not necessary).

I don't like it because it's relatively hard to type and naming it in this way does not serve any goal. I'm not satisfied by just changing it because it will, at least, hinder reading of third party code and generate silly arguments between developers.

I'd rather have the developers of the framework suggest something easy to type like 'e', 'E', or 'eb'.
There is always an internal API or even kernel level functions that can be used. Of course, they may break in the next update but you can use the same way of reading input, displaying graphics, getting device location as, say the mail client and Maps.
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Remember the iPhone is, inside, a Darwin system. Put a terminal, and the sky is the limit. Plus, there is always an API. The API, in the first days, wasn't public, but it was there. The base apps included (calendar, browser, etc) needed it.

And there was an app store (well, a fully free store) before Apple even released their APIs. I don't know how people discovered the APIs (reverse-engineering ? Leaks from Apple ?), but they had them.
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They can always just pick the one that looks best.
That is fair too, China has more history than any other country, and only few cultures can claim to be as old.

When asked about democracy most Chinese I have spoken to refer to their last hundreds years of history, which is filled with all kinds of turmoil. When thinking of managing a billion people stability is an easy concept to appeal to.
Another reason: Wrap-around with modular reduction is a snug fit, so it's L[i % n] rather than L[1 + i % n]. You could have taken 1, 2, ..., n or indeed any set of n integers with distinct residue classes modulo n as the representatives, but the standard choice in mathematics is 0, 1, ..., n-1 for consistency with the division theorem.

It is often very inconvenient when mathematicians number from 1 instead of 0. A classic example is with Fourier matrices. Let w be a primitive nth root of unity. Then numbering as computer scientists, starting with 0, the formula is F(i,j) = w^(i j). But using the mathematician's convention, it is F(i,j) = w^((i-1)(j-1)). The same issue exists with all Vandermonde matrices.
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Good article. Now can anyone recommend a service for replacing the copy in a site with copy in different languages, so I can use my same templates?

Like Google Website Optimizer, but replaces strings with the appropriate language.. ?
I'm not sure whether you're referring to a part of my comment or the whole comment.

What I mean is, security is every financial platform owner's big challenge. This includes banks, escrow service providers, payment processors and e-commerce solution providers. Sometimes it's hard to know how secure a system is before anything happens. But I have already explained my experience, ability, current situation, my strategy, how my product works, my objectives and what I have done to the public to help everyone make informed choices.

Not everyone will like every single product. I have been careful about everything I can.
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I wonder if this is one reason why World of Warcraft does all transfers of real money through your account on the website instead of offering an in-game store. On the other hand, I have played other MMOs, online FPSes, and so forth that have in-game stores.

Come to think of it, the only correlation I can think of is that web applications are more prolific for online sales than desktop apps, which typically relied on a model of "buy me, install me, and you own me". My experience in the gaming world suggests that people are happy to pay for things within the desktop game interfaces, too. I have also read that iPhone apps with in-app sales (particularly for free apps) are greater than the initial app sales, and it is obvious that users have no problems making payments for things through their phone apps.

I assumed that "web app" refers to things that must be run through a web browser, as opposed to "app that can connect to the Internet", which will cover recurring subscriptions like Norton's latest virus updates and so forth.

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Isn't there any dropdown menu to select properties? Does it register AVE? or Avenue? Also, you're asking the user to make a lot of guesses and estimates, kind of takes away from the precision of a "calculator"
First, Austin is NOTHING like Texas. It is a beacon of progressive hope in an otherwise bass-ackwards state. I moved to Austin from New York City by way of Portland, Oregon so believe me, when I say that there is no way I would live in TEXAS; Austin is anything but that.

Also, other reasons Austin may be attractive to potential candidates:

1.) No state income tax. This is huge. If you make $140k a year in SF, you take home significantly less than you do in Texas. Also, there is no "city tax" like SF has.

2.) Cost of living is HALF, that's right, HALF of SF. Beautiful homes or urban condos are available and priced well below what you would spend buying OR renting in SF.

1 + 2 = lots of $$ in your pocket.

Not to mention the fact that Austin is arguably the hippest city in the country from a growth perspective. With events like ACL and SXSW (plus the thousands of live music shows throughout the rest of the year), the creative arts scene is flourishing.

Finally, the weather. It was 86 degrees, no humidity on December 19th last year. And yes, it is HOT in the summer, but with all that extra cash, you can go live in Europe for a few months to beat the heat.
was this inspired by this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979655
As someone who went SF->Austin (and is originally from DFW) I'm curious why in the hell you'd pick DFW after you looked at Portland and Austin?
Most of the people I respect in Austin leave the city during SXSW. It's really the worst time to be here.

But if you live in a good location you can rent your place for $$$. :)
3D game programming in pure Python, anyone? :)

If this is real (and since it's IBM and they're claiming production by 2013, I'm optimistic), this is going to be a huge game changer on so many levels.
This is a really good point and often overlooked. A native app gives you a sense of ownership--a subtle yet powerful concept that attaches value to the application. I'd like to think I'm above such psychological games, but I know I've paid real money for apps that I wouldn't have paid for things delivered through a URL. Also, the common way to bill for a webapp is with recurring fees. But not everything fits that mental model of a monthly service very well. For example, it feels better to me to pay a one-time fee for a todo list app than to pay $5/mo--even if it worked out to where I was spending the same amount annually.
I've founded a couple of startups in Austin. The thing to know about Austin is that, at least right now, there are only about 6 consumer Internet startups of note who can afford real talent. Unless you move here for a specific position, or are a developer, finding a decent job will be tricky. If you like enterprise software, though, you'll be happier than a pig in mud.
The criticism of film copyright seems very short sighted to me. Are people that cheap that they resent paying a few bucks for a great movie? Copyright protection means producers can take much higher risks in the films they choose to make, because even if something has a bad run at the box office, it's still got decades of potential profitability ahead of it. Why should you get to watch On The Waterfront for free?
The problem is everyone coming out and saying "let's ban Gruber" every time one of his stories are posting. This compels people like me to respond because I think he posts interesting stuff. If it weren't for the knee jerk reaction from the haters then we could have a decent discussion. I certainly wouldn't come in here unilaterally praising Gruber, I would respond to his points just like I do with any other post (except Dvorak, I always propose banning Dvorak because he is actively corrosive to intelligent discourse).
What would this mean for the global economy?
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Do you get paid the same as in NYC?

I get recruited by companies in the midwest who tout that the cost of living is half of NYC. But, they also pay half as much as NYC, no relo package available. Whenever I do the math I still come out ahead in NYC.

The other downside I have found is that there are usually only one or two interesting companies and the rest is enterprise software.
> but it's definitely not "dreary and worn looking"

Not so true this summer...

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bi...

(I live in Austin.)
Would you mind naming the startups?
> The other downside I found is that there are usually only one or two interesting companies and the rest is enterprise software.

I moved from SF to Austin last year and have found this to be true.
This could have quite an impact on CPU-bound cryptographic algorithms.
If Apple doesn't want your app published, good luck providing that "better experience".

The smart money is in making a web app for everyone first, perhaps not with all the bells and whistles, but sufficiently functional, and then making platform-specific apps.

Regarding "offering the same lowest common-denominator user experience on all devices"—know your audience. You don't have to make your app pixel-perfect for IE 6 if iOS users are all you're targetting. Web browsers "degrade" gracefully.

One of the features of web apps is that they can be anything—"the web is open". Mobile native apps are (often solely) available through app stores which are dictatorships, controlling when—and if—your app and its updates are released.
Do you have automation in place to do such dumping, and shut trading down if you don't have the bitcoins/funds?
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I guess, that and few other false stories floating around.
An extremely important point that most native english speakers just doesn't seem to get: Don't force a localized version to your users.

In many countries your users are probably going to prefer english than a translated version for many reasons, and that's even before taking into account that you probably can't translate it well anyway (even with a lot of resources and effort) which makes it even worse.

Always make it ridiculously easy to switch to english, always. In many cases you probably should make english the default even though you have a localized version (this is especially true for web sites, few things are as annoying as having to change language again and again and again and on every device, browser etc. (example: youtube has this annoying message telling me that a localized version is available that forces a page reload to dismiss (and thus you have to reload and restart the video, true story))).

This of course depends heavily on your target audience and their culture but just don't assume a translated page/app is a favor, you just might end up with some confusion and a group of really outraged users (boy do I loathe applications that assume I want a translated version - always give me the option to change it to english during the installation).

Direct machine translations might be better than nothing for some cultures but for some it's a slap to the face and will just make your company look pathetic. Example: Adobe.
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Family.

They moved down after I went away for school. After being away from them for about 6 years during/after school, I went down the summer before my brother got married and ended up staying for a bit after meeting a girl.

This was well before I considered Austin or the others. I didn't intend to settle in Texas when I first got here.
The same as always, more "value", specialization and jobs created which means more money for the rich and less money for the poor.
The group is targeting engineers with experience in Java, Ruby on Rails and Python programming

I read this and thought, "hm, although the markets for RoR and Python are not massive, they have been growing at a good clip, perhaps that's a good area to focus on." (I'm from a background of C++ and PHP, and I'm thoroughly burnt out on them)

Then I realized that these guys are idiots. They're follow-the-crowd types who are ignoring masses of untapped talent elsewhere in the nation and flying around to recruit in the same "rockstar" seeking circle jerk as everyone else. It's no wonder they're short on talent, they probably don't have the slightest clue what it looks like.

So now I wonder, "hm, maybe those are actually just buzzword technologies and they won't hold up in the long run..."
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> I've found the output of that unreliable

Cron is pretty solid software that has not changed much the last decade. If your Cron is unreliable at sending email, there's something unreliable about your setup, basically.

> having control over the output - email or log

Just have Cron pipe the output to a log file, and then cat the file if the script fails with a non-zero exit code:

(/usr/bin/myscript >/tmp/somelog 2>&1 || cat /tmp/somelog)

> Another neat trick is putting counters before and after the CURL call

Just run the script with "time":

((time /usr/bin/myscript) >/tmp/somelog 2>&1 || cat /tmp/somelog)

Your solution of using Curl to run a PHP command is a bit silly because it relies on a web server to do something that does not need involve a web server. It's complicated and failure-prone: if the web server is down, your scripts won't run, and if the web server overloads or is restarted during script execution, the script will probably be killed, or at best will continue to run after Curl finishes up.

At a systems-architectural level it also breaks separation of concerns.
I think it doesn't make them a 'bad person' because people are always capable of changing (even if it only happens once in a while). And it doesn't make them a bad person because our actions are mostly a reaction to our environment, and we don't always have a correct/full view of it to begin with.

So, applying your judgments to a person who reacts to their environment based on limited information and experiences, and saying they are fundamentally good or bad may not be totally logical.

Then the saying "only God can judge" means that an omnipotent being, who perfectly understands everything, is the only being capable of perfect judgments and certain condemnation or praise.
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Ok, that makes sense. You'd figure for $100k they'd throw that in! ;-)
And most of California is nothing like LA or SF! This drives me a bit nuts... I've done a ton of traveling, and while I think you can generally and accurately describe life in a certain city, it doesn't expand well to bigger geographies. Parts of France are nothing like Paris. Parts of Japan are nothing like Tokyo. In general, when choosing where to live, it's best to make sure you are a match on the city level. (Perhaps, too, give points to a city for being enough of a hub to make traveling easier.)
Yes, but because of what they'll be able to write in C++ :) (And in Python you'll be able to write Call of Duty)
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I think you're right...except for the part about Python and RoR. I think those are here to stay, though I doubt many people know why to would pick one over the other, perhaps other than the buzzword value.
I think you think these multi-paragraph responses you're writing are convincing.

I think the best thing I can do for you is to be blunt about how unconvincing they are.

Very few people with Rails or appsec experience will read them and think that you know what you're doing with regards to security.

You should not be taking "thousands and thousands of dollars" from people. Full stop.
My net income was significantly higher after leaving NYC. Let's put it that way =)
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I wish the defense and corporate sector wasn't so enamored with conveying information through slide based presentations. I do my best to create short (1-3 pages) technical reports with informative graphics.
Does anyone know by what metric it will be 1,000 faster? It seems like a technique for having massive numbers of cores in parallel, but I'm not sure how the adhesive would address any specific improvements to the cores themselves.

That said, even if it's just a way to get 1,000-core CPUs or whatever, it sounds like a remarkable breakthrough.
Update: I just added the word "private" twice in the "How It Works" section.

Hopefully this is a good enough explanation for now. Though it still doesn't explain the intricacies of Twitter for the non-Twitter-user. Perhaps I should add a "more info" or FAQ. Thanks again.
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Which I take to mean no, but you pay less in rent or mortgage.
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Well 3d processors have always been out there as a research subject. The issue is heat when you crank it up. The stream processors (your GPU) gets around it by doing less work per core.

And so the heat dissipation seems to be the major point of this news. Will be interesting to see a more technical writeup or some published papers on this.
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They are not based on anonymous inner classes (the implementation is likely to be much different) but they have the same restrictions as BDFFL_Xenu described.
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"It is a beacon of progressive hope in an otherwise bass-ackwards state." If you thought about it, wouldn't you say the same thing about Portland or NYC?