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>Nope, disagree here. I am fully confident that I can hire a great rocket scientist, especially with the resources of a major corporation. And I'm most certainly not a rocket scientist.

How would you hire a rocket scientist?

I mean, I'd go ask a friend who is one, but that's... largely blind luck. I mean, I know the guy is smarter than I am; I can tell he knows more physics than I do. but that's not saying a whole hell of a lot. And even if my friend is a good rocket scientist, I then have to trust he's good at picking other good rocket scientists.

It's a similar problem to how I'd hire an accountant. I mean, super important job, right? keeps me outta jail. Me? I found someone that ran a public q/a site. I knew she was good at explaining things, and I know she had certain certifications... but really, I had no idea (and still have no idea) if she's really doing the acccouning correctly. I mean, I have refered her to a few friends, who all have said positive things about her, so it sounds like I made a good choice, but I don't really know. I can't, at least until I get audited.

I mean, picking good people is a skill; sharing a knowledge base with the role you are picking is not sufficent to pick someone good. I have a very good friend that is a much better programmer than I am. But, her initial impressions, like most people's, mostly focus on confidence. She was interviewing for her boss, and was very excited about one prospect. "I think he's better than I am" she gushed. But, being a rational person, she gave some take-home work. The next day I got a call. "Would a person fail a take-home test on purpose?" Turns out, the guy was just a big talker. But still; the take home test saved her from an embarrassing co-worker. If she didn't have the knowledge to make and judge that test? she would have ended up hiring the idiot.
One problem that I have with Bitcoin is its complete dependence on the strength of its crypto. While breaking it may seem impossible at the moment, advances in computation speed and cryptanalysis may one day lead to it being broken. This would basically make Bitcoins worthless overnight.

Of course traditional currencies can be forged as well, but printing huge amounts of forged bills and bringing them into circulation involves all sorts of logistical challenges that don't apply in a digital world. Moreover, forged bills are typically not absolutely perfect and can be distinguished from genuine money, this is not possible with a purely digital currency. The fact that paper currencies can be forged is incorporated into the design of the system, whereas the Bitcoin system is based on Bitcoin's crypto being unbreakable.
This feels like handwaving. How is "key employee" defined?
I can't access Google Docs, can someone summarize what is on there (assuming it is summarizable)
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Yeah, that was my initial thought. A single play on radio in a big market could easily reach well over 32,000 people. The revenue model for streaming seems to be based on the payout systems that are used for radio. Unfortunately for artists, streaming services like Pandora and Spotify tend to compete against their iTunes and album sales, at least much more so than radio ever did. (in fact radio airtime was mostly considered to be promotional back in the day, very few artists made money from it, and there were a number of scandals were labels payed radio stations to play their music).
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You'll note that "Hark, A Vagrant" is written by Kate Beaton, a comic artist, history major (and woman) who hails from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, now based out of NYC.

Her comic focuses mainly on historical, literary, or just ridiculous topics, and is awesome.
Bit coin isn't anonymous.
but they raised $33,000,000(!) That's enough to last quite a few product iterations.

Right, well I guess the question here is are we talking abour Airtime the product, or Airtime the company? Because the product can flop even with $33m behind it. Very easily.
Including this gem:

Some people say that if I was on a record label, I'd have a larger reach and therefore would be making more money. To this I'd like to point out that I make instrumental cello music.
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nVidias argument for not opening up the Linux driver is that it shares a lot of code with the Windows driver. I'm not saying that this argument makes sense, but it's the one they use.
So what you're saying is that this is for people who want to stay in touch with others, but don't feel like talking realtime.
>in the past 2 weeks we've seen its value appreciate by 50%, something that just doesn't happen with traditional currencies

It happens with gold, which could be viewed as a traditional currency.
I'm a strong supporter of bitcoin, and I have a bunch of it, so don't get me wrong. But I suspect we may well be seeing a second big bubble here. Only time will tell.
Tv news might be terrible, but there is definitely something to be said for having a certain selection of stories pushed at you. If nothing else it gives you perspective and context knowing what news everybody else is paying attention to. I noticed a terrible confirmation bias seeping in to my news when I got all my news from Internet sources.
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To be fair, the avatar is a guy with a beard.
google "SilkRoad Bitcoin Balance"
Wish you guys the best of luck! As someone who has worked on and thought about location based gaming like this for a long time but failed to launch I'm really hoping you guys pull it off. We even called our prototype "Turf" :)

Location based gaming throws up a lot of challenges and problems that we felt were less than ideal as a gaming experience and instead of just launching something, we over analysed and try to solve them all upfront (without evidence that they are really problems). My only advice is just launch!
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Noteworthy enough to be detected by their news sifting algorithm.
Yes because everything is always black or white.

The fact is that Gatekeeper is not designed to protect against malware in ALL cases. It is designed to make it easier for ordinary users in MOST cases to protect against malware.
The anti-fraud aspects of a card are usually checked as well by cashiers at least. I'm not sure this would be accepted.
I think Google could go a long way towards addressing their current woes by doing away with their blind allocation policy. During my brief tenure there, the number of times I was told that Google runs on generalists and not specialists was ridiculous. Seriously, would you allow a podiatrist to do your heart transplant because the heart surgeon was too busy with his many proctology patients? That said, the food was great and TGIF was always fun.
This reminded me to check her schedule. She'll be in Boston October 11. Tickets purchased. Thanks!
A bunch of numbers showing what she made off her music from various sources, such as Spotify, Soundcloud, NPR (that surprised me), Pandora, Bandcamp, others.

Hard for me to summarize the meaning of all this, the comprative values, unexpected results, and so on, but I think the other comments here cover that.
No, everything is not black and white, but in this particular case, there doesn't seem to be any middle ground. If it's easy to bypass then it's easy to trick the user into performing the bypass. If it's hard to trick the user, it's hard for the user to bypass it intentionally. Am I wrong?
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"... To be fair, the avatar is a guy with a beard ..."

and under the icon a name, 'Kate Beaton'
Voicemail is owned and run by phone companies, and thus harder to extend and digitize. It was only recently that visual voicemail became possible, and only because Apple demanded it. I can see the benefits of pulling this out of their grasp, especially in the case that was mentioned (intercontinental communication).

That said, isn't there already a very popular app that does this?
Depends on the airport. The new terminals at IAH have some pretty good restaurants. I'm partial to the Terminal C-South wine bar.
Cool, but the solution to this problem is not another card.
Upvoted purely for the story of the Guinea Pig Club. I think the poster is bringing his own spin to the comic ;)
Mobile Safari... iOS itself is a Flash blocker.
Why use a url shortner and/or why not link directly to the article or image?
The thing is no one seems to like voicemail, including us. You're trying to reach someone, and end up having to leave a voicemail. The listener usually just listens to see if she needs to call you back or not. It's all out of necessity.

VoiceGem is for times you have a story to tell, but you don't need the other person on the line right that moment. You can send or reply to one whenever you want. I have received many great jokes or stories from folks in my VoiceGem inbox over the last couple days. That hasn't happened with voicemail before.
I do think it is important to have a platform that is easy to access, and I'm sure you guys are working hard at that.

Is there any data that validates the notion that people will be leaving 5+ minute long messages for each other? I honestly can't remember the last time I left a voicemail for a friend/family, but that is purely anecdotal.

Anyhow, good luck!
From what I know without jailbreak iOS doesn't support JIT at all.
This won't last, they'll still be worth money, but there is a pretty big security hole in SilkRoad. Once that wallet is emptied the crash is near.
>in the past 2 weeks we've seen its value appreciate by 50%, something that just doesn't happen with traditional currencies

You do not see deflation with fiat currencies because the issuers of the currency print more to counteract deflation. Gold however is prone to extended periods of deflation, and that does not prevent gold being useful as a medium of exchange and as a vehicle for investment or savings. (The reason gold stopped being used as a medium of exchange is that paper money is more convenient, not because of its vulnerability to deflation.)

If your reply to this comment is that Bitcoin cannot be compared to gold because gold has "intrinsic" value whereas Bitcoins are just an artificial construction, you do not understand monetary assets.

True, gold has probably not deflated as rapidly as Bitcoin has over the last 2 weeks. That would be because the fraction of the world's savings invested in gold is much higher than the amount invested in Bitcoins. If a greater percentage of the world's savings come to be held as Bitcoin, Bitcoin's price would probably act more like gold does now.
Yes, there are already apps that let you send shorter voice messages, but you have to have your friends install it first. VoiceGem lets you send as long a message as you want to anyone. They can also listen and reply without signing up, or installing anything.
Yep, that's why I mentioned that it was Kate Beaton!

Sorry, my intent wasn't to pedant the situation (although i think i have done anyway :\ ), i just wanted to point out a female comic artist who i think is badass :)
To be pedantic, and to note I'm not an economist, I thought the value of gold or silver was always constant, it was the currencies based on them that inflate or deflate.
Nice, icache.com 's solution is bulkier and pricier.
Microsoft ditches ‘Metro’ design name for Windows 8, all other products
83 Million Facebook accounts are fake.. oops
Plus, while there are a lot of 'free' fonts online most of them are licensed such that you can't embed them in your app. From my understanding (IANAL) the SIL open font licence DOES allow you to embed and redistribute.
Could we consider Armadillo Aerospace a competitor? John Carmak et. al. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
good idea - upvoted! :)
The desktop is even more segregated from metro than XP mode was (since you had the seamless option for XP mode). As far as I can tell the point of Windows 8 is Metro and everything related, so I don't feel like it's splitting hairs to focus on it. If you want to get in on that new Windows 8 touchable tiled wonderful candy unavoidable primary interface you have to play by microsoft's app store rules.

Edit: haha I wonder if this article is true about microsoft abandoning 'metro' in favor of 'windows 8-style ui' Seems relevant.
Yes, the people who got it when it was cheap are making out now, but that doesn't preclude others from using it as a currency.

I mean, the point is that it's a currency. It's designed to be a currency which isn't governed by any one person or group of people (except those that created it, but at that point it becomes governed by math and logic, not the whims of the creators).
> Are you really going to argue that any human with any semblance of intelligence (and I don't mean deep thought here) would have to risk mauling to hunt for subsistence?

That's why we invented farming, dear.
This needs POE/POE+ capability to be perfect. (if it doesnt have it.. I couldn't tell from the spec)
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Finally! I tried using a previous port and it was missing a ton of features. This one is complete!
I'm surprised the author chose to visualise this data the way they did. This is crying out for a stacked bar-graph, where each 'bar' is the colour in question, and the height of the bar is the frequency.
Once PostGIS is out of beta, will it be available on dev/Kappa/Crane? (I tweeted @heroku about this, but never got a response)
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>Webkit is the premier cross-platform browser engine.

Taken from the KDE guys, who had to make a lot of noise to get contributions back from Apple. And if the KDE guys hadn't done tons of work before, why didn't Apple just start from scratch? If the bad press about it hadn't forced their hand, I doubt they would have done anything. And, at this point, when you count KDE at the start and Google at the end, Apple wouldn't even have a majority share of the reasons for Webkit's success. Good to see your only point on this issue is a weak drowning not waving one. That's the best you've got?

Regarding Apple getting help from MS, $150million is actually a lot in those days. And even more than that was having MS Office and IE on the Mac. I accept if MS hadn't done it though it's likely anti-trust would have come sooner and they would have been broken up. But it's a pretty minor point in argument, so I don't mind refuting your refutation that it was "minor" but then defeating my own argument with a better more contextualized one (MS needed to do it for anti-trust), as it's not a central point. Besides that helped the monopolist by getting in bed with them, seems they will do anything to survive.

>And now we've taken off straight into fantasy.

The key point here, is I don't actually believe it is true right now (like Jobs believed his lies, or at least his fans did and do), I just propose it as a likely future. Anyone with a passing knowledge of computing history knows Apple is neither a hardware or a software company, they are a lifestyle marketing company that has invented very little indeed. On top of that, the pattern of their actions says "big corp/profits".

So in summary, you have used a lame-duck Webkit argument which actually proves my point about how little open source they do whilst helping themselves to as much as they can. You then attack a minor point about the MS investment but nothing on the GUI or design issues, customer service, or lawsuits. Then you finally accuse my plausible projection of being a fantasy. It's not really much of a fantasy to say that it looks like the trajectory of the "remove two buttons from the Xerox mouse we invented because our users are stupid" public company in search of profit that lies constantly about itself and engages in near fraudulent legal proceedings against competitors will at some point decide that their desktops should run like their phones.

All my points show they aren't any different to any other corporation, and how in many cases they are worse, and they already have a device which is locked down like that with many App store scandals. Now they are developing in a very similar direction on the desktop, so we just complete the trend-line and we have 1984-lite (which they notoriously abused for profit in their ads along with many other historical figures in the cynical attempt to tie their bottom line to things people care about, Orwell must truly be turning in his grave to be associated with such saccharine ingenuous phonys).
Ask HN: Looking for examples of "really great code"?
Is there any code that is "widely accepted" as being "really great code"?

I would like to use this in a research exercise.

The context is that many companies wish to "examine your code" as part of their recruitment process.

I believe that "examining code" is an extremely poor way of evaluating someone, and that the results of such assessments are extremely subjective and ultimately meaningless.

One of the most effective ways to prove this is to take some code that is widely regarded as being "really great code" and ask various people how they would rate the programmer based on that code. My prediction is that many people will assess this code to be of poor quality.

In an ideal world I'd like to find "generally accepted" "really great code" in a variety of languages, but even one example would be a starting point.

Specifically it would be good to find some of Bill Joy's original TCP/IP implementation code. This unfortunately will only be of limited value however as it's not going to be object oriented, and OO is something that all employers look for these days.

EDIT CLARIFICATION:
I'm looking for code that can be specifcally attributed to one individual programmer.

For example it would be good to identify code that is written purely by John Resig, or code that is written purely by James Gosling. I need to be able to attribute all of that code purely to one individual programmer.
Nice try, my boss.
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I could see HR throwing a fit if they ever found out that an employee used a non-approved third party service to voice an official complaint.

Interesting idea, but tread lightly. A better idea would be to implement this as enterprise SAAS. That way employees wouldn't have to worry about HR policy.
News provides the gestalt for what's going to be rattling around in other peoples' heads. It also gives you material to work with for small talk.

If your work or day to day life doesn't involve interacting with people even a little bit the utility of this is somewhat limited. I doubt there is a very large number of people for whom that is true.
It's not a Ponzi, but it does have built-in volatility due to the fixed rate of coin generation. Some even say that Satoshi designed Bitcoin as a bubble machine because it would generate the press coverage that Bitcoin needed to take off. I prefer to think that the volatility is an unforseen side effect of Bitcoin's naive economic policy.
It's not just speed, but number of nodes. If someone could, lets say in 10 years, build a block-chain of equal length to then-current one, they would still need to control > 50% of the nodes a significant portion of the network sees.
Thanks! Yes, our data shows a surprising amount of longer messages. As for voicemail, same here. Arda addressed this in a comment above: it's just not used for asynchronous communication.
I had an awesome post and you firsted me. Damn...
I've just read forward a couple of comics, and there's some amazing stuff in there. Just finished reading about Matthew Henson and how he was first to the north pole.

It's like xkcd, but for history instead of maths/physics/CS.
MLB has a similar arrangement for between $40 and $50 a year.
I don't understand why that prevents them from releasing the source? There's no reason the Windows driver need be closed-source.
The people who view bitcoins as a currency don't like these huge fluctuation. Just like in a country-issued currency doing this, it causes problems doing trade.
Too bad that strategy almost never works.
But when judged as a payment method it has such poor usability that it seems pointless.
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Webkit is a fork of... wait for it... KHTML! The open source rendering engine from KDE.
Interesting. How do you evaluate different affiliates to see which ones are worth the time? Do you just stick to major ones like Amazon, or talk to them individually? It seems like it can be risky, in the sense that you can spend a ton of time setting something up, only to have the affiliate change the terms.
Some people will disconnect when their contract is up. I signed a 2 year contract but it expires in January. My biggest apprehension is having to turn my 2 HD DVRs back in. Then realizing a few months later that I want 'real' service again. This would mean that I would to pay another upfront cost to rent the DVRs again.
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It's asymptotic growth of coins. There will never be more than x number of bitcoins. (I forget the value x is exactly, but it is a finite, pre-definded number).
To be honest we haven't gotten to start on it yet. We wanted to prove that there was demand for the iOS version first. When we make the move to Android we will have to build a team for it. Keep the hope alive!
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Perhaps you are correct, but the Senate was also originally designed to represent the interests of the states, and was not directly elected until the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913. The original design would have acted as a brake on popular impulses.
What advantage is this going to have over Startup Guild[1]?

[1]: http://www.startupguild.net
The illusion of productivity can actually increase productivity.

The feeling of gettings things done motivates. Even when that feeling is an illusion.

So what if it actually took 4 hours: if it feels like 30 minute, its easy to invest another "30 minutes".
Of course it can flop. The whole company can too. The point is that judging a company that launched so recently doesn't make any sense.

This post just feels like someone who wants to point at laugh at someone for not winning a race that they've only just begun.
Is Apple's Passbook a competitor?
Since the dblink extension is available even on the free dev plan, is anything stopping you from creating a bunch of dev databases and linking them together to overcome size restrictions? Sounds kinda fun, although there will of course be concerns over performance, integrity constraints, etc.
Hmm, now that you mention these two points, random chat with my facebook network actually sounds pretty fun.
I think it works better at destroying competition than it does at acquiring talent.
It goes further back than that. The software stack for all modern AMD GPUs is based on the original unified shader compiler for the first AMD unified shader GPU, Xenos (XBOX360) written largely by Microsoft. AMD just has a license to the code, MS still owns it.
History comics? This is amazing...
Haha, hadn't seen that. Decent concept, execution fell flat.
https://github.com/facebook/tornado/

https://github.com/django/django

https://github.com/git/git/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux
This looks like a good solution if you have limited wallet space like in the twelve-south book book case for iPhone.
After being at this for a while and being successful enough to get a label account on iTunes.
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