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I'm interested in your third paragraph, particularly "Money demand comes from things like tax codes, debt/bankruptcy laws, torts, ...civil fines, etc."

In prison, packs of cigarettes are money and none of the things you mentioned exist. Yet in a prison I can trade a pack of smokes for a tattoo, drugs, cellphones, etc. It seems like money arises out of the need to have a reliable, constant value for exchanging good and services.

Do you differentiate between money and currency(medium of exchange)?
I think your post lays out a clear case that it comes down to parenting, hard work, and access to the USA. And as an American (Puerto Rican) you had access to the only one ordinary people can't control.

But I feel your article gets derailed with too many anecdotal stories. Some rub me the wrong way, but maybe I'm just reading it wrong...

I was also born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Caguas (Bairoa). But that wasn't a bad thing...

I have a horrible accent (which seems will never disappear) and would probably not pass the Texas State Trooper test. But that has not impacted my career...

My family was religious, but the first person I met who believed the world was only a few thousand years old was in Florida. I find it irritating that you would insinuate Puerto Ricans don't believe in Science...

I don't think being or not being Hispanic has anything to do with it. There are plenty of people, minorities or not, stuck in crappy areas. With good parenting, they can at least ensure their kids have a chance at hard work. It's what helped you, and what helped me. I was also the first person in my family with a six figure salary.

We should chat though, boricuas in tech has to be a very small group ;).
We Need to Think Beyond the Aaron in ‘Aaron’s Law’
Hello! Fellow Alaskan?

Have you heard about Mike Judge's upcoming show on Silicon Valley? I actually kind of assumed that's why this documentary was released at this time

http://betabeat.com/2012/12/silicon-valley-finally-gets-the-...
Hrm. I'd definitely put some forward and back buttons on there, or somehow indicate that it's part of a slideshow. The delay between slides was significant enough that I thought it was just a static page saying "Exec will do your grocery shopping".

In all honesty, I'm not sure that leading with that one specific statement is ideal. Many people would have pressed back before anything even happened.
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The threading here is completely broken. Replies are hidden unless I mouse over the post being replied to. Some of the messages are tagged with "in reply to $username" but I can't tell which of that user's posts.

If I need a forum, I'll create a subreddit.
Below is the Official Rackspace Response to this thread:

vCPU allocations for next generation cloud servers were adjusted to provide more consistent performance, not to extract more profit. Rackspace is not making any more money per server than before. In fact, we recently reduced the price for 512Mb and 30Gb servers by an average of 30%. We take transparency seriously, so we published an article detailing the changes and explaining the logic behind it which you can read here: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/whitepaper/cpu-in-....

Erik Carlin, director of product management put it this way “"Our goal is to find the sweet spot that maximizes price performance while still providing a consistent experience." Customers with larger flavors are experiencing higher and more consistent performance with next generation cloud servers. Depending on the load running at a given time in neighbor instances, performance can be higher for small instances too. We are working with a third party on benchmarks which we expect to publish in the next few weeks.
Thanks for being "that guy." I think that your day probably has one or two peaks in it where you do your best work, and the rest is more low energy work (not bad, just not the most effective work on tough stuff.) Also, not all hard workers are created equally, so among those who do hard work, some can do more than others. I agree they become more successful but I do not agree their working habits can always be duplicated.

I certainly agree it is tempting to read about four hours of concentration and use the article to justify four hours of mediocre work.
Did Homophobic Tweets Spike on Super Bowl Sunday?
Just out of curiosity, did you sign with Microsoft because the money difference?
hire smarter people? I've never heard of this happening; I didn't know people could be that dimwitted.
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Perhaps a label and a "no water" symbol? Like this: http://thumb15.shutterstock.com/thumb_small/290671/290671,12...
The Human Memome Project
What do you think of this idea - recording, analysing and hacking memetics for health, wellbeing and lifespan?
A bitcoin is just a signature, a string that you use to demonstrate ability to transfer it. You can hand someone a physical copy of a bitcoin signature. Of course you won't be able to verify the transaction yourself, but trusted third parties are using things like scratch off holograms to access them.
9th grader signs $200 contract to let dad kill her Facebook account
Hey Jason, I'm a learner just like you and have only been working with Ruby for about 8 months. I'm a Treehouse customer and mix those video courses with Codecademy for reinforcement.

I started trying to learn Rails at the same time that I was learning Ruby. That was a bad choice and I gave up after a couple months. When I started back at it recently, I dove straight into Ruby alone and left the frameworks out of it. After I felt comfortable enough in Ruby, I added Sinatra and love it.

Rails is powerful, but Sinatra is "just enough" for beginners like us.
And what about the parents who were systemically denied access to wealth, denied equal access to education, denied the right to vote, and denied equal protection under the law for generations? Isn't freedom from persecution a privilege?

Your argument only makes sense in a bubble where institutional sexism, classism, racism, and xenophobia doesn't exist.

Hard work alone should be enough - but that is an ideal, not the reality.
Which means this is not available in PyPy? :(
I know there is no point in continuing this useless debate but I wanted to bring to light that if it was financially feasible and I had 6 children, a mansion might actually be USEFUL.
Previously, car controls were designed so that you could find them "by feel" and not take one's eyes off the road. The radio volume and A/C knobs are the prime examples. With a touch screen, this is no longer possible. The benefit of a screen is the reconfigurabilty, but the curse is that the screen can be in any number of different modes, requiring the driver to take time to rescan the screen and reorient. For this reason I expect Tesla's design is less safe. It could be worse, of course--the use of the screen isn't required for more critical functions, like turn signals.
To clarify: with MurmurHash{2,3} or CityHash, it's easy to generate arbitrary numbers of reasonably small keys which all hash to the same value regardless of what seed is used. This is much worse than most people initially assume when they hear that "collisions in murmurhash have been found".

That said, it's a fine hash function if you're not worried about malicious keys.
I'm going to bring up the Microsoft Starbucks machine again, as it has also solved this problem. They used the 2nd solution - a water line directly to the machine. Also, the beans-hopper holds 2 kinds of beans, usually house blend and decaf, which rarely go empty at the same time.

No worries about watering the hot chocolate powder hopper, either. says "Hot Chocolate" on the compartment lid, and inside it's covered in chocolate dust.
To put it another way, if a government decides to issue some new, incompatible currency, and whatever currency you had previously lost some or all of its value, would you trust that the new currency would not also be replaced by yet another currency later on?

And that's not just a hypothetical, as it's precisely what happened with the Myanma (Burmese) kyat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanma_kyat#Banknotes ("Third kyat" onwards)

Multiple times, in fact, eventually leading to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8888_Uprising
Tesla needs to empower a network of traditional mechanics and service stations who can run diagnostics and do basic maintenance on these cars.

Imagine a sign on auto service centers that says "TESLA Serviced Here" or something similar. This would build public awareness and confidence and create an entire new class of Tesla advocates.
github work fine for me to host my static html,css,js pages.
There have been a number of times in my (so far) short career where it's been made evidently clear that if I didn't pass as white, things would be very different for me.

Can you expand on that?
How about a visible warning sticker "Don't pour water here" (ideally with a pictogram for people who can't read)?
This is so awesome. A handful of other Stanford students and I entered a Node+AR Drone hackathon in SF[1] a while back and we had a blast.

We had so much fun, in fact, that we integrated AR Drone hacking into the Robotics Club. This started as a few friends messing with 2 drones and its grown to the point where I'm actually teaching NodeJS, Javascript+Coffeescript, a bit of Unix, and various algorithms to 35+ students fresh out of Stanford's Intro to Computer Science course! (Its still mostly the basics, but I've been writing up & posting lesson info here http://drones.johnback.us/).

I'm very excited with what the various AR Drone communities have created so far. The popular Node library[2], a Go implementation (in progress) by the same author[3], and this Clojure option[4] are all amazing avenues for teaching interesting CS languages (that remain largely ignored in formal academics) to students new to CS.

[1] http://dronegames.co/

[2] https://github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone

[3] https://github.com/felixge/ardrone

[4] https://github.com/gigasquid/clj-drone
You have a practical way to generate collisions in, say, SHA-256?
I've thought about that too. If you could get the signals to penetrate, racing through the woods with first person view would be agonizingly close to actually riding a speeder bike on Endor.
If you can learn what you want without stepping foot in a college, and if you can convince an employer that you know it as well as a college grad, then go for it. Otherwise, you're going to need to go to college. It's that simple.
Surely this needs needs Mr. Bean pointing finger.
How does this help you make a game? It seems to me that it would not be very helpful unless you could already make games.

Anyway: Coursera classes often use premises like this to motivate teaching some specific set of technical skills which are the real point.
Google wins landmark AdWords case in Australia
On Arch the 'gvim' package also includes a more featureful console vim, including python (2, not 3) support built-in. The downside is that the dependencies for gvim include GTK and a good chunk of X11.

If you do need a console-only vim on arch, it's probably best to build it by hand as you did, since the PKGBUILD in abs for the vim/gvim/vim-runtime set of packages doesn't lend itself well to custom builds.
Amazon Coins Will Be A Welcome Disruption To Android Developers
You should try powershell. It's a much better windows terminal, included with win7.
I get your point, but a legal opinion from the Department of Justice is not the same as a "program." Set the hyperbole aside and realize that laws are always in flux, and that the courts largely define things like "unreasonable search," etc. The statement from the parent is still true. There are penalties on the books. It takes people bringing abusers to court, though, to decide the exact nature of those penalties.
Prison has a lot of structure, in the form of laws,customs,and constraints imposed from without and from within. The role of money in expressing the power of the state may be distinguishable from its role as a medium of trade, but I think if anything the prison example contradicts the point you seemed to be making.
I just don't see the point, it's lacking in basic features and there's nothing wrong with a browser tab in my opinion. Best if luck, but I try not to replace perfectly functional web pages with apps.
Is that your true reason?
What does the PAL do when it detects unauthorized tampering?

For fission weapons, isn't the most critical part the core? One design criterion for a PAL is to prevent scattering of fissile material, so the core remains intact, right? How hard can it be for a rogue state or group to create a new bomb given that the fissile core is the most valuable part of a fission bomb?

For a fusion bomb, I guess the PAL would damage the aerogel ("fogbank") among other things. That would take some advanced knowledge to redesign, but whoever has the weapon would still have the fissile material from the first stage even if they can't get the fusion part of humpty dumpty back together again.

The original fission bombs were designed in the 1940s with slide rules. It seems to me that PALs do a better job of protecting against unauthorized fusion detonations than of protecting against unauthorized re-engineering of the bombs into fission or radiological versions using the fission core.
Blatant self promotion -> Thats one of the reasons we built Slant. Summarize the discussion so you don't have to read it all. Example:

http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-programming-language...
Super interested to see if this turns around Dell and makes them a competitor to apples product line.
Spring training begins in a few days. It was a light jab at the NFL--in the middle of the power outage--that the MLB season is starting soon.
To put it another way, you don't have to talk to a person to 'know' them to varying degrees of certainty. You can gather bits of information and build your own image with out ever meeting.
Apple is… Apple’s 9 definitions since 1995
Don't have any opening to fill in beans or by mistake water, Get beans in a sealed container, sealed with cardboard at the bottom, which the machine can penetrate. Another solution is to connect bean jar through a pipe to bigger source of beans similar to how water is sourced. The bean source is maintained by a dedicated person. If they cannot learn how at use it,restrict access thats the way to go!
Instagram's very low resolution, 612x612 just won't scale to modern desktops.
>An advantage is like having a secret television in North Korea or living near the northern Chinese border.

I think one could argue that your example is a privilege.
The main reason is:
'Immigrants' do not have 'welfare' support.
Mostly are 'undocumented'.

Yes.. we can get at ER and school. but no stamps, disability or unemployment checks.

So we have to help each other and never rely on gov...
The general public, including most hackathon organizers and corporate types, have no clue about how long it takes to make software. No one has a build a car in a weekend contest. Even if someone could build a car in a weekend, they find the parts, find suppliers, and plan the design out long before the weekend and have a dozen people on standby to do the work. What you end up with a hackathon is the equivalent of a soap box racer. It looks feasible because it can take you from the top of the hill to the bottom of the hill. But it's not a car.

The entire concept of productivity out of a hackathon is born out of a perpetual misunderstanding and lack of knowledge about software development because the people that organize them usually have always A) found someone else to solve their problems. They have no concept of how long a problem should take to solve. and B) payed money to resolve their problem immediately. Again, they have no basis for how long a problem should take to solve. If someone suggests a hackathon and expects actual results, which lots of people do, those people have not come to terms with the idea that engineering is where the "find someone else to solve it" chain comes to an end.
"proper"? Teach me your magic, my Java IDEs still stand out like sore thumbs compared to ST2/gedit/vim/etc.
The persistence of talk about top engineers (or 1%, A players, etc.) makes me wonder whether there are any uses for the bottom 90-99%. Is the 89th percentile unemployable?

Is it always really that important to have the comparatively best people (however you define and discover that), and not just someone who can do the required jobs well?
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Joel Spolsky
Do you know why this blog post is great?

1) The author is humble. Which is very important, especially in a world where people get away selling clumsy photo filters for a billion and think it's something revolutionary.

2) VALID Advice. Everyone wants to tell you the happy part of their story - How they got rich, how those riches let them buy the stuff they wanted to buy and how successful they were. How all this happened in less than 'x' months, etc. They just want to make success sound so easy.

But this author takes the pain and effort to tell you the truth - That hard work is the only key to success. Anything else is as temporary as it sounds. This author tells you that success isn't easy, which is VERY important.

3) Success without PR and the funding. When was the last time on Hackernews that you got to read someone being successful without getting PR and funding? There have been a couple maybe, but not much. And everyone of them only wants to share with you how much success they've had getting funded by some VC firm 'X' or even being a part of something like 500 Startups or YC, being an 'ex-product manager' from Google, Facebook, etc with all their fancy getting featured INSTANTLY on Techcrunch strategies, etc. Ofcourse, they did get featured on TC, but doesn't mean, they got it instantly - They worked for it.

What teespring has written there is most likely going to be the case for the ordinary you and me, and that's why this is very important and ofcourse, it also gives you a lot of perspective.

This author deserves nothing short of an applause, thank you so much!
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Don't put the coffee machine next to the sink or water cooler.
python -R should enable it in 2.X (in the patched version, 2.7.3 is fine). PyPy does not include hash randomization (see http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cpython_differences.html).
I wonder if the same commentators who disagree with the author's usage of "privilege," also believe Silicon Valley is a meritocracy.
In my very humble experience, I can't answer this scientifically, but I have known engineers that can be 1000% more productive than others. So if you have 100K$ to spend, looking for that top engineer is not just marginally better than the average one, it can be exponential. and this can determine the success of your business. I'm not talking about "smartest" or "knows the most technologies" or "has most stars on his github project", no I'm talking about people who can get things done, solve problems on their own, use the right tools for the right job, test their code, and have a good design. Surprisingly, it's so hard to find. Sometimes experience helps, but not always, sometimes pure IQ helps, but it's not a test of intelligence, it's a test of a mixture of qualities that gets you working software, consistently, with minimal bugs, without premature optimization, and code that doesn't look like an Italian favorite dish.
you don't need to login in to have session cookeis isn't it? The google session cookies work in all google services a like isn't it?
I hate the word privilege (used in this way), but I'm having trouble articulating why. It's become a loaded term, indirectly associated with sexism, racism, and other isms (just look at a Google search - you'll see "male", "white", "straight", etc. - amusingly enough "American" never seems to make the list), so it can too easily come across as an accusation or attempt to guilt. I'm well aware of my privileges and very grateful for them, but it feels like it's not anyone else's business to point them out to me.

Here's a thought experiment - when you try to bring it up, replace the word "privilege" with "blessing" or "luck". Does the concept lose any of its meaning? How do people's reactions change?
This has happened at Google, too, to similarly hilarious effect.

An excellent writeup of the incident (by someone else): http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/16/replyall/
Please do expand.

I look very Hispanic, and have a marked accent. What have I been missing in life?
I share their opinion on other forum software, but for god's sakes the UI is an eyesore, literally. I clicked on try, and when the home page loaded, I didn't know what to do next because everything looked clickable.

I know they'll be improving on it later but I don't understand how UI was not a priority in the first release. One of the main reasons why the other forum software suck is that their UI sucks.
Of course it happens. The same way that people get hit by lighting everyday, or that someone wins the lottery every day. But to pretend that in soccer you can get the same kind of dangerous injuries as in American Football is disingenuous.
I have been following bitcoin since they were less than a penny each, and got my first coins at about .20 each. I have written articles (really the only thing I have ever written that has been widely read) about bitcoin, and I want to see it succeed, both because it will change my financial situation and because I believe central bank issued currency that flows through the hands of banks is a mechanism for control over people.

All that being said, I think we are in the middle of the next big bitcoin surge, and I don't want to see "bitcoin reaches all time high xxxx" posts everyday.
It's amazing how far back, and how complicated a chain of events can be that lead to a specific outcome. Similarly, I look back in awe at the luck and good fortune I've had.

I owe my entire life-path of technology to my grandfather on my fathers side. He was an electrical engineer, far ahead of his time, and when he was done playing with something he sent it to us. I was privileged to receive a TI-99 at age 5, a C64 at age 6, and an 8088 after that. I was hooked from the start, and computers have been the single most important constant in my life ever since.
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Simple log server with NodeJS and MongoDB (Mongoose)
Yeah, but I felt the same way watching the US housing bubble from the sidelines.

(I'm assuming you meant missing out on an investment. If you are interested in the technology, it's worth checking out bitcoin.)
Fair point, I meant it in that prison officials don't issue the currency and in fact they actively discourage trade among prisoners. betterunix makes it seems like the state and money are essential for each others existence.
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The mesh wouldn't need to be that fine if it just had to exclude whole coffee beans.

I think I'd use a bottomless bean bin that pulls out with a handle. While it's pulled out, it's over a grid that lets water pass through (and ideally makes it clear that any water added is just going to be dumped right on the counter). When it's pushed back in, the beans fall into the actual bean reservoir.