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> But you do see a relationship between racist/nationalist/fascist ideology and racist/nationalist/fascist executioners, right?

No. I see systems of power-hungry humans manipulating other humans by whatever means they can to achieve their ends. Propaganda and ideologies are usually just vectors - potent vectors - for the transmission of instrumental power. Humans, in the large, are like packs of rabid dogs; it takes very careful social and institutional design to balance force against force and prevent single individuals gaining too much power. I believe the emergence of a dictator, along with the mass murder of opponents, as a natural outcome for a large population starting out otherwise unorganized.

Words like communist, fascist, capitalist, are useful shorthands for communication, but they are labels, and as labels they risk short-circuiting thought. Some thing A is labeled as X, some thing B is labeled as X, and you naturally start to think that A and B have some connection.

When I said "pragmatic principle", I'm joining together two concepts; the pragmatic, by which I mean ends rather than means; and principle, by which I mean a rule governing personal behaviour. But I am not an absolute consequentialist; rather, I hold that the systemic consequences of deontological positions should be considered. One should usually be deontological on an individual basis, but adopt certain things as principles - i.e. not necessarily justified under deontology - on a consequentialist basis.

I think you see a parallel between discussion of ideologies associated with 20th century atrocities, and discussion of race as some kind of determinant. And if I deny the latter, that I must deny the former; and since denying the former seems absurd, my position, by analogy, is absurd.

But I don't think that's the right parallel to draw. The parallel of discussion of 20th century atrocities is discussion of racism, not race as a determinant. The parallel of race as a determinant might be an enthusiastic discussion of how Jews run media, banking, etc. - a discussion which is similarly abhorrent and taboo.
Down voted as expected. Hater, identify yourself or be a coward.
Reasons for down vote? Coward.
I don't think he's saying all bias is bad. But bias finds support too easily, even when it's not accurate (prejudice, nationalism, etc). And that reasoning is easily repeated by uninformed people which just adds more noise to an already complex discussion.

When you're trying to have a rational discussion about which factors contribute to certain effects, it's better to exhaust all possible theories before attempting to prove that "some people are just better than others."
Note that Visual Web Developer can be used as a script debugger for IE.
While the result of the PCA is quite well defined, there is nothing well defined about the inferences he draws from that. In the end it shows a marked difference in the suspicious area, but there is no proof that the technique will only show those results on tampered areas.

If you can simply run filters until the suspicious area 'looks a bit different' and thats your success criteria, you haven't proven anything.
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> it lends the appearance of being the very kind of investment bubble that Bitcoin advocates criticize the banking industry for creating.

The quote encoded in the genesis block by Satoshi (creator of bitcoin) was probably a criticism of fractional reserve banking rather than investment bubbles per se. "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

But there are plenty of bitcoin advocates who tirelessly criticize bitcoin speculators for causing its price volatility. Not that price volatility is unique to the bitcoin market (its the same with oil, stocks, gold/silver, commodities in general, real estate, bonds, etc. etc.).
Much as I think this whole thing is a bit unfair on Andy T.. the money quote has to be from Ast, in his reply to Linus:

"I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)"
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Erm... Is this real? It was posted on "don't believe anything on the internet" day
So you are sitting on two closehold, major 0days in bitcoin? I do not mean any disrespect but why would we believe you?

Unrelated Question: Why do you have a pgp cast5 encrypted message in your profile?
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Bitcoin has already served it's purpose anyway. It already is a currency that people exchange for goods and other government issued currencies. It doesn't really metter what anyone thinks. Bitcoin has already succeeded. The only question that you need to ask is; Is it something you should invest in?

My personal answer? No. But who cares what I think. It's simply non productive, and frankly non-scientific, to stand up and say "Here's why bitcion is going to fail..." because it doesn't matter, it has already served its purpose.
And what makes you think this movie won't portray Steve Jobs as a demigod?

I'd be surprised if the movie "Job" has a mean side.
I could, but shouldn't we demand he show some proof for his claims?

It seems to me that if you pull a bit of maths and technical magic out the normal skepticism the tech community melts away into a compliant bundle of gullibility.
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Mining is peculiar in that is serves multiple goals.

On the one hand, it solves the problem of seeding the network with coins. Otherwise, how could you kick this off in a fair way?

Secondly, mining "solidifies" transaction blocks, which acts as transaction verification for the network. Mining basically acts as prevention of "double spending" of coins.

Finally, mining keeps the money supply scarce (necessary for any currency) because despite everything just being bits, you can't just fake new coins without expending enormous amounts of computing power -- you need to prove you've done the work by solving hashes.

The bitcoin wiki has pretty good technical explanations of all of this.
(I'm the author.) The idea here was that there was a well-defined market with a rapid rollout strategy and a relatively hands-off operation, that this would be "easy money". Turned out to be wrong! And if we were going to work hard, we might as well focus on bigger ideas. Would love feedback on the process here.
This has definitely been the single worst HN thread of all time.
This sounds like game theory, the best solution in this case seems to be when everybody is better off (inclusive), instead of just trying to achieve individual gain (extractive).
Supporting IE means taking on board a technical debt that will follow you for the life of the project. There are lots of things that can be accomplished in ie6 but then you need to consider performance. If you're building an app that means a lot of JS and possibly DOM manipulation... which is dog slow in ie.6,7,8

Now factor in support costs. I can picture it now:

Customer: Uhhh your app sucks it's so slow.

Support: Hmm looks like you're using IE6. We've worked really hard to make our app function in every browser, however if you'd like the best possible experience then please upgrade.

Customer: What's a browser?

The best solution is to use chrome frame. The installation can be made seamless and if your app is worth using then your customers wont mind the extra 60s it takes to install.
I see nothing wrong with that. The sale price should reflect what customers are willing to pay so as to maximize profit, not what the actual cost is.
Agave nectar is probably not that healthy either. It's highly processed and more akin to HFC than sugar.
Right. And I'm saying that doesn't matter.

Your approach might be enough to win a lawsuit. But he probably can't afford to fight a lawsuit, so whether or not he'd eventually win doesn't matter. Even if he could, it would be a hollow victory. He'd get to keep his modestly successful iPhone game, but it would cost him his job and maybe a year's salary on lawyers, plus 2-3 years of aggravation.
Can you put this in the invite for May's meetup?
I am being hyperbolic about the timing by about 2 minutes. I timed it from the call to the police to pulling up in a squad car next to the fast food place where the police detained the muggers and had me ID them.

It was crazy. I told my neighbors: the muggers asked for my bag, I said no, so they settled for $12 and a device that tracked them from space.
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Ask HN: Entity and state for scaling lifestyle business
I've previously done a startup with the whole Delaware C Corp scenario but for the current stuff I'm working on, I have no intentions of raising outside capital, no intention of selling (although maybe it could happen), and certainly not going IPO. It's basically a pure lifestyle business. Web/Mobile base.

Pretty much almost like a startup but really just personal projects that produce cashflow. I am curious if anyone else has gone down this route and where/what is the recommended state/structure.

I'm sure some people here will suggest doing it in my home state but like the startup scenario, I'm left to wonder if its better to do it in Delaware, Nevada, or elsewhere with a foreign setup (if necessary) in the home state. And would LLC or S Corp be better.

Since I have no plans on raising capital or doing anything like that, I have no plans to convert this structure either if that makes any difference.
You're an evil man posting this here on a Sunday night, knowing damn well people have work tomorrow.

IDEAS TO CHANGE THINGS UP:

- Here's something different: If there was 1 path to my "base" and every few levels my home would move and extend the path for the enemies. Something different to try if you wish.

- Do NOT show the path that the enemies take, just show me where my base is and where the enemies spawn from, and generate 3 or 4 slightly different enemy paths that are invisible so it looks like the enemies look like they're choosing their own paths towards you. The rule should be that you cannot place a turret on any street, only on property or parking lots.

LOVED:

- endless levels to choose from. The google maps themeing.

DIDN'T LIKE:

- Inability to move turrets.

- Short multiple enemy paths, I would have preffered one long and winding enemy path.

WISHED:

- You used the little "street view guy" icon as a enemy boss.

- Less straight lines, more turns for the enemies.

- Longer enemy paths.

- A lot of what roryokane said:

BUGS:

- I caught an interesting little glitch, I bought and fully upgraded a Yellow tower then sold it but it looks like its still doing damage as if it were still there.
Also from Katz:

What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9210492700696416....
I guess I'm more in favor of putting all the theories on the table rather than deciding in advance which ones are permissible to hold. Let the false ones fall out because they are false, not because they cannot be discussed. What I deny is that there are true ideas so unpalatable that they must be taboo. I think this is what Barrkel is suggesting is necessary in the case of race.
As johan pointed out, agave syrup (I won't use the fancy marketing term "Blue Agave Nectar"), is highly process and a lot more dangerous due to high fructose content. Here's more on the topic: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jonny-bowden/debunking-the-...
To you guys calling this alarmist, it's not. It has been known for a while: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Most of the same dangers as alcohol.
Take a look at: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
and: https://www.coursera.org/course/algo

to fill those gaps. I've taken both classes at my university and have learned more in the first few lectures of these free online classes than I learned all semester at university.
In all three of the cases you cited, you've broken a law. In one of the three cases, you broke a pretty serious law. Why am I supposed to worry that the police are collecting evidence against you if you're actually breaking the law? Who disagrees with those particular laws?

As for your last sentence, the police have needed warrants to tap your phone since the 1950s, and need a warrant to place a GPS tracker on your car, so I'm not sure what the point of those examples is either.
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The idea of a dynamic Ruby-like language with C-like performance reminds me of Avi Bryant's talk "Bad Hackers Copy, Great Hackers Steal" : http://vimeo.com/4763707

He explains that dynamic languages are not inherently slow. It's their current implementation that's slow. Java is not fast thanks to static typing, it is fast thanks to the Hotspot VM, which builds upon the StrongTalk VM implementation.

Quote taken around the 13" mark (some trolling included ;) ): "Ruby has the dynamic part, and Java has the fast part. And this has led to this assumption that people have that the reason that Java is fast and Ruby is slow is because Java is static and Ruby is dynamic. And that's just not true, that's just a myth. Nothing about Java being fast has anything to do with it being static. It's simply that the papers that the Java people read were the ones that told you how to make it fast, and the papers that Matz read were the ones that told you how to make it usable."
What you've done here is instead of addressing my argument, invented a cartoon caricature of the arguer (your cartoon version of me favors heavily armed police who assault people for "mouthing off") to argue with instead.
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> Therefore this entire HN Item is flamebait - bait for flames.

Exactly - makes you wonder about whether this applies to other 'modern' flamewars that we still have today....
> I am a newbie

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All preferences are subjective. Art is art because people think it is.
I am pretty used to many sites not being able to sustain the HN traffic and I never commented on those, but my main point was that I did not expect a service from LearnBoost to be like that as I respect those guys.
Is the line maybe at "real-time"? Maybe the concern is best expressed as, "we don't feel it's OK for the police to RETROACTIVELY pull information about our location history; perhaps it's not reasonable for us to feel private about standing on a street corner or driving down an interstate, but we certainly feel private about the totality of everywhere we've been for the past month".

Maybe we feel it's more reasonable for the police to tail us because they're collecting the information actively and in real-time.
I honestly don't think that my job is going to be soulless and boring. I'm not developing enterprise software. I'm developing software that runs in millions of Ford vehicles.

I'm not going to stop hacking on side projects. I'm not going to stop learning new things.

I'm not settling down, I'm just getting started.
I worked on a Node-based multiplayer Snake game for a while last summer, and was really excited to see this post. I was hoping the code would be public so I could see how he handled the sync issues. Took me a few minutes to figure it out... disappointment of the week.

If anyone is curious or wants to hack on something like this, you could check out my (unpolished) code: https://github.com/roblourens/nodesnake . My first crack at both Node and a multiplayer real-time game.

Edit - and the game is still live at http://aws.roblourens.com/ but looks like it may be a little buggy yet - I wish I'd known something like this was going to be on the front page of HN, I would have taken another look at this project and tried to have a polished demo!
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I detect confusion here, and I'd recommend you take some time on the bitcoin wiki to clarify:

> "If the rewards go down over time, eventually it won't be profitable to mine bitcoin."
> Yes.

No. Because the other part of mining is that you get transaction fees for it. Mining isn't a luxury, it's necessary for the network to function (otherwise double-spending isn't prevented). So as time goes on and less coins can be made by mining, transaction fees will increase to compensate and keep mining profitable.

> Also, computational power gets cheaper with the passage of time.

But, mining does not get cheaper because the network (by design) adjusts the mining difficulty to keep the incoming block rate constant. So in relative terms, mining will never become significantly more or less expensive with time.

> The largest caveat I see there is the part about more of them being demanded.

Not a problem. This is solved because bitcoins are infinitely divisible (up to 8 decimal places currently and this can be extended if needed). So if there's more demand, the value of coins increases but you can still trade them in whatever meaningful quantities you like. This isn't something you can do with cents, but you can trade one millionth of a BTC just fine.
You can also start without an idea, if what you really want is creating a startup.
http://www.ycombinator.com/noidea.html

Yet, I think you might want to develop more abilities before that so you have better resources and a wider perspective.
I dropped CS after first year and majored in Pure Maths.
"No joke" editorializes the title. HN is supposed to be neutral.
No..stop rewriting history..please!

Paul Revere..was a poor blacksmith and had a press....printing presses were not expensive!

Jesus effing Christ can seem even more idiotic?

Read the US constitution..there is nothing implied about the price of the press..better read the effing essays that formed the thinking behind the US Constitution..there thinking was that anyone at the speaking tree(look that up..if you can sherlock)was someone of press..presses/printing press was not who owned a press but who could speak!

Get the history right!
But very appropriate IMO.
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Dudeguy9999 is almost certainly referring to the assertion that a nation's average IQ is an excellent indicator of its wealth. It was petty to call moldbug a racist without addressing anything.
thanks for the info, i guess i was wondering if all the computational power was being used for some purpose like the SETI project. It sounds like at least part of it is used for maintaining the bitcoin network itself.
But that is the actual title. I think it's meant to defuse the notion that it's an April Fool's joke.
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It's because of coordination between states. From the MegaMillions website:

> Unlike some multi-state or multi-country lotteries that have central offices, all Mega Millions duties are shared by member states as part of their membership in the game.

Each state handles their own tickets and they don't all use the same software systems to manage them.
Why hasn't Evernote placed an emphasis on creating a uniform experience?
The GPS coordinates of my phone are not known to the general public.
Indeed. And if you look at it from a cost basis think about what a fortune 50 company would have to do to get an IT department to design and deploy an appliance like this. A lot more than $500 I bet...
A lot of times, I really don't think there is a need for a whole new language. I use R and python for scientific computing all of the time. There are packages which have been well validated and a community of folks who support the software. Making a new language may be interesting, but if it doesn't really bring anything new to the table, it's just asking for a micro-niche user base (just think of the million and one web frameworks out there).

Julia looks interesting, but I don't see anything that makes me jump up and say, "I want to use that!" Everything I have seen so far can already be done with R, Python, or a combination of the two. If there are a few minor drawbacks to any process in R or Python, I would rather live with it than learn yet another language. Speed is not an issue -- if it is then I am likely coding incorrectly. If I have coded correctly, then it is worth taking the time to create a C library (and since everything else is in perspective, this is just "monkey coding" and never takes as long as we think).

I wish all of the folks who are bright enough to create their own language would voice their wants and needs to the existing coding communities to see if their needs can't be met rather than making something brand new. This kind of community interaction is crucial for a language to mature. Wouldn't you rather have a few very mature languages rather than a million young ones (each of which has its own pros and cons)?
The problem is that Unicode doesn't know about language. Unicode is just characters.

Language-aware bits are more gross, but then language often is. It's not nicely structured like most of the other things we encounter when transforming data.
Enrollment for all the Stanford Coursera offerings is currently closed. Are they expected to repeat in the near future?
It was also my little form of rebellion. It's not the piece of paper that says you learned that matters, it's that you learned at all. Now that I'm out I can continue my autodidactism. For instance I just learned Go.
Counterfeit currency is only low on your list because the governments are working hard to prevent it.

If it was possible to print notes that could not be easily detected as counterfeit -- millions would be printed and it would devalue the entire currency.
Producers and merchants trying to hedge their cash flow.

It would actually be very useful to have a liquid options market to help producers and merchants overcome the current volatility.
Took a month off in March to relax and do some traveling. Two weeks in and I can't take any more doing nothing, this popped out: http://www.getonthegame.com.au

It's a price comparison website for Australian video games. Still early days yet, but it's been a fun distraction and an opportunity to learn some new tech/tools in the process.
I asked a similar question a while back:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3226708
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Cool shit? Working for Microsoft? I must have missed something.
Leaving aside the appropriateness of lumping IE6 with IE8 and 9, the support costs are already in the $100,000 number.

Slow speed of execution in IE might well be considered a vast improvement compared to the current state of affairs in regard to the potential customer's standpoint - i.e. IE not working at all.

Again, "change your browser" is a poor way to convince the customer that 4ormat.com is worth using given that the customer has already responded to the call to action.

Indeed, one might argue that there's no excuse for failing to inform the potential customer that IE is not supported before the call to action is clicked - obviously 4ormat.com is capable of testing for browser versions.
Notice the dot. He's making two separate statements.
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Git was built using said "outdated theory bound knowledge".