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One way you can hedge against bitcoins is by making a bet on betsofbitco.in. I could, for example, register a bet that bitcoin will have a value of under $10 USD by the end of May 2013.

However, you are limited by your ability to find a counterparty. Of course, willingness to find a counterparty is a limit in most forms of short or put. Judging by some of the current odds on other bets, finding counterparties to small bets of large swings downward might not be that hard. That particular forum seems to think that bitcoin will go up. Of course getting paid in bitcoin for your bet that bitcoin will drop might be a problem...
Anyone with a severe cranial bone deformity, such as the elephant man, perhaps?
I will provide a hosted solution someday.
Or maybe you have no idea how to write performant code in Java, because if you did, it would actually work just as fast and like every other dickless wonder on HN you actually thought your post was interesting.
They've isolated themselves and their product from external feedback before they've even started which is probably a mistake unless they've got major domain expertise.

If you have inhibitions before you've even interviewed then don't work for them.

If you're just curious, decline signing the NDA and see what they say.
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The Apple wireless keyboard is the best keyboard on the market right now IMO.
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He doesn't use a hammer though, he prefers to use his screwdriver for everything. What you didn't see from the pictures of his work is that they have now burnt to the ground.

Burnt to the ground on purpose because there were too many bugs or it became an impossible to maintain tangled mess of meaningless symbols.

By the way, since he only uses his screwdriver and you project requires nails, he'll take 5 times longer than your deadline.

Your end product will work for about 2 months, then you'll pour the gasoline on it and burn it down yourself.
hey, dont shut down forkthecookbook, i want to try it.
Which Encryption Apps Are Strong Enough to Help You Take Down a Government?
For what it's worth, Emacs already does that last thing. As a contrived example borrowed from a post I wrote a while back[1]:

\ a b c -> a >= b && b <= c || a /= c

gets rendered as:

λ a b c → a ≥ b ∧ b ≤ c ∨ a ≢ c

However, this is a bit of a pain to do in general. It works well for common functions and syntax elements, but has to be built into the editor. Doing it more generally would require the author of the initial function to come up with multiple different names for it, which sounds unlikely.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4742616
Your description makes a lot of sense, though. Most regular users know how Dropbox works, right? So way easier to relate. Cool stuff.
Not planning to. Just got off a 4 week long funk from it... first commit in 4 weeks!
What I'm missing is information about what OS(es) this one will run at. I really like good (or amusing) screensavers, even if they've grown out of fashion in favor of energy savings on laptops and the like. I still troll people with the BSOD screensaver in Ubuntu (although you have to manually install / setup xscreensaver nowadays, again due to energy efficiency)
Why funny? (coming from someone who's thinking about giving Rust a try)
I dunno how well-known the things I didn't know about are, but an example of me doing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5113202
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The best way to reinvent the airline industry is to fly private. Think about how terrible a bus is, and how most of us use cars because it's an immensely better experience. Going from commercial -> private is a similarly massive leap (I've never flown on a chartered private flight, but I am training for my pilot's license). You go to the FBO (the equivalent of the commercial terminal, but on the other side of the airport), sit down on a comfy couch, watch some TV on a nice flatscreen, grab some free snacks and drinks, then walk out onto the tarmac to your plane at your leisure. No backscatter machines, no metal detectors, and CSRs who give a crap and want to help you (since you're paying them!).

Of course, flying private is not viable for most people. I see the day approaching where owning a plane will be on the same order of magnitude of expense of owning a car. Two things make flying really expensive: fuel and maintenance (you can buy a flyable used plane for ~$50k). Fuel is a fairly intuitive expense: avgas runs about $6 / gallon in the northeast. Figure a small piston plane (4 people) burns ~12 gallons / hour, and you're talking ~$72/hr to operate a plane in fuel alone (note: you're traveling about 150mph in this piston plane, much slower than a jet). Maintenance is a huge issue as well. Every so-many thousand(~2k for a piston) hours of flying, you have to shell out a ton of money ($15k for a piston plane) to overhaul the engine(s). This is in addition to standard annual and 100-hour inspections.

One thing is going to change both of those factors: better battery technology is going to make electric planes viable. Energy cost goes down since energy from the grid is way cheaper than that generated from the ICE. Maintenance is hugely reduced as well. No oil changes. No engine overhauls (electric engines last for ~10x as long as their ICE counterparts and are way cheaper). Increased reliability (adding engines is a trivial cost and doesn't increase weight significantly). Recapturing potential energy during descent. Reduced drag (no nasty air inlets for that combustion reaction).

I don't think this change is going to happen overnight, but given the focus on battery technology for EVs, I think the requisite batteries will become available within 10 years (historically, battery density has doubled over 10y).
It doesn't. Compare Dropbox on Android with Dropbox on iPhone.
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And I think that is a valuable lesson too. As a developer, the end-goal is to produce something of value, working software, not spend hours frowning over pointers and references. That was my early experience with C/C++, in any case. I did end up finishing my assignments (ranging from a fractal generator via a microcontroller operating an RC boat to a simple 3D FPS game), but I did feel a lot of overhead with non-functional things.

Of course, you get the same thing in Java when you first encounter a NullPointerException, ;)
That's a very narrow assumption as to why someone would express their opinion. The OP might be sharing their experience (in what was a humorous way) purely to be sociable in this discussion...

Not everyone is out to convince others.
The problem with these middlemen is that they do absolutely nothing to increase the legitimacy of bitcoin, and in fact undermine it a bit by shining a light on the fact that you can't really buy much with bitcoins. When you pay $10 USD for a good but convert it to bitcoins at the last second, you aren't buying things with bitcoins, you're buying things with dollars and using the instantaneous price of bitcoins for a marker.
Things like the Counter in python collections. Actually, the python collections library in general. You don't need that stuff to do the job, but it makes the code a lot clearer.

It probably took a couple of months full time in python before I had enough understanding of the std lib to know where to find everything (I sat down and read through a description of most of the functions in there).

There are still plenty of libraries that would have made my life easier if I knew about them. I'm sure there are plenty more.

Having said all that, that's just for example. When it comes to hiring I'd still pick a good experienced developer over a specific language expert for a full time position. For me it's not so much about the understanding of a specific language as it is the appetite for understanding computers / systems in general that makes truely good developers.

Ultimately the task is going to dictate the best type of hire. Short term contract, get a specific expert. Long term hire, find someone who actually enjoys developing software :)
Your distinction between conscious and instinctive is already based on the assumption of a definition for consciousness. What place does each one come from?
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It depends. If you're the only one knowing the language at this company... it's a bad idea, because the bus factor becomes unacceptable.

Otherwise you have a methodology problem. You don't do daily standups, where you'd have the opportunity to say "Yesterday, I started implementing X because I couldn't find a library" and more experienced coworkers would tell you "Use library Y instead".
Signing an NDA is not really a big deal but the contents of the NDA is what really matters. It is likely that they have lawyer or someone on board who is forcing them to be give undue importance to the NDA.

If they want you to sign a NDA it is your right to read it first. Then I think you can conclude yourself if it is safe to sign or decline to sign.
Is that relevant though? The parent is asking about a comparison between python+c and Go for the OP's software, so doesn't it make sense to answer to that?

Of course, you are correct. Rewriting in any other language with static typing or an available compiler implementation would also provide the benefits of static typing and detection of runtime errors.
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The Canonical conundrum: Why the Ubuntu hate?
This always amazed me:
"A Jewish tradition that dates from at least the 19th century is to write plus using a symbol like an inverted T. This practice was adopted into Israeli schools (this practice goes back to at least the 1940s)[11] and is still commonplace today in elementary schools (including secular schools) but in fewer secondary schools.[12] It is also used occasionally in books by religious authors, but most books for adults use the international symbol "+". The usual explanation for this practice is that it avoids the writing of a symbol "+" that looks like a Christian cross.[12]" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_and_minus_signs#Alternativ...
I want to apologize for reposting the same story. I missed the earlier one and since the HN didn't detect it as duplicate I thought it was new.
Those are not USELESS data, those are my all authentications over the Internet, Facebook account, Gmail account and...
> Most pirated content is content that would have otherwise not been paid for in the first place.

If we're going to criticize this study for being less than rigorous, I think citations like the above need to be backed up as well.
Please read more carefully. Your "dual point" is meaningless noise. I didn't say all novelists were archaic typewriter users. The class of novelists that are not "helpless ... typewriter [users]" are not included in my statement which was specifically restricted to "helpless ... typewriter [users]". Novelists, however, are definitely more likely to be helpless typewriter users than the authorship of O'Reilly's publications, however. Please curb your outrage. It's trite pedantry.
They probably needed a rewrite anyway, after learning more about the problem space they weren't happy with the api they'd made thus far.

Go wasn't the only thing that made their new stack better, but you can bet that Go would have made it very difficult for them to achieve performance as bad as ruby gave them.

That said, they are STILL using rails for the frontend stuff and Go for their more computationally intensive stuff IIRC.

They still kept some of their rails code, for things that were easier to keep in rails without hurting performance.
Who cares? Who would want the iPhone's map or iBook on Android? Ask Windows users forced to use iTunes for their iPhone if they like it. Ask Safari users on Windows (oh sorry, I forgot - nobody uses it).

Apple is a hardware company, their strength is to control the hardware and the OS. Apps they make for other systems are crap.
Funny you should take Go as an example, since it's often bashed for not having taken the last decade of language design into account.
Wow, that comment was pretty pointless.
It is. There are so many alternative sources of pirated content, that thinking that someone that normally downloads movies would simply switch to buying it if just one of these sources shuts down it's just naive.
Do you happen to have any pictures of any of the creations you made in childhood? Maybe just a general description?
"If the results had found the opposite, I doubt the study's legitimacy would have been so vigorously questioned."

Maybe because they would have made more sense ?
> Public domain is explicitly part of the Berne Convention.

That doesn't mean the legal/IP system of Berne signatories has to allow putting things in the public domain before copyrights on it expire.

In fact, I know for certain that France does not allow it under any circumstance. And I believe (though without certainty) that this is the rule in all EU countries.
Tell them no, and that you'll be happy to talk to them providing they tell you no confidential information. Their response will give you a good idea of how much they want you.

A good way of reading legal agreements is to assume that someone else will take over (ie it doesn't matter if the person you are talking to now is nice) and what that person could do if they had it in for you. It is extremely likely that the NDA is very one sided. If you really want to wind them up, ask them to pay for you to take the NDA to a lawyer to have it reviewed. After all if the NDA is that important, you should also treat it way.

That said, I know several people who just sign them all without even reading them on the grounds they are unlikely to hold up (one sided) or be enforced.
Berstein isn't the only one who dedicates software into the public domain. SQLite is perhaps the most widely used software delivered in that form.

http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

They recognize that the public domain might not exist in all legal domains, so a licensed version is available, for a fee.

Others have decided to decline to use copyright protection. There's a list of such software at http://unlicense.org/ .

I wouldn't look to the Berne treaty for some statement of the international existence of copyright law. You need to look towards national laws instead. For example, the US recognizes the public domain, and a work of the United States government is automatically in the public domain in the US. (Though it might not be in the public domain elsewhere.)

So like any social movement, if enough people release software and disclaim copyright protection, then those jurisdictions which don't recognize the public domain might change. If no software ever takes the risk, then it will never change.
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With StartHQ (http://starthq.com) I've been posting comments on HN, as well as relevant Facebook groups like local JS meetups, startup incubator & meetup groups etc. Those seem to work much better than e.g. LinkedIn or Google Plus.

One thing that dramatically improved the conversion rate was a blog post giving the background on what problem the service solves: http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/03/11/starthq-targets-and-...
Another option is to cross out sections you disagree with before signing. It has been a very rare NDA that I've signed that didn't require a lot of crossing out!
Just a guess, I'm guessing python isn't your favorite language either? They seem to be rather unopinionated languages that let you have access to lots of tools. I hear they manage to keep it pretty simple despite having a "kitchen sink", so definitely interested in both.
I like the quotes, however:

> With his new thrust on whats called "deep belief networks" he is challenging his own early seminal contribution in the field

I don't know if I agree with that, he still uses backprop. Backprop has always been known to have problems when you scale to millions of connections, and his work on RBMs/DBNs is really quite old. What was novel more recently was showing that the contrastive divergence step need only be performed once, rather than 100 times, while the performance remained similar. The networks are generally still 'fine tuned' with backprop.

Still, the focus on generative networks (not sure if that's the right term still, been a while) and single layer training is fairly recent even if the concepts are quite old.
> But it's completely removed all of my two years (cookie and authentication) data, without asking/confirming me.

So at your behest Chrome deleted what is probably the most common, and commonly misunderstood, everyday security vulnerability, and now you're all mad about it?

The majority of those cookies were ways for advertisers and merchants to track you and your consumer preferences, and violate your privacy. I've heard reports that Amazon shows one set of prices to those with a long record of browsing and purchases in a given product category (a record keyed to browser cookies), and another to someone with no history in that category.

Cookies aren't your data -- cookies are the data of merchants and advertisers. They should be purged regularly.
The most important thing is consistent effort. Keep posting links and info and questions into relevant forums, and try posting them at different times of day to catch different audiences using the same site.

Definitely get a Show HN up.

I would also recommend commenting on Sulia posts by recognized industry experts - It's a good way to get noticed by them and over the course of a few comments on different posts you can start to build a relationship.
you can only offload processing that has barely any requirement on latency. If you send of loot or hit calculations (like d3) onto a cloudy server and it takes minutes for it to finish, the game would become unplayable.
The Objective-C garbage collection is deprecated.
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> Those are not USELESS data, those are my all authentications over the Internet, Facebook account, Gmail account and...

Yes, and because of those cookies, anyone sitting at your computer can log on and pretend to be you without having to know your logon names and passwords. Anyone who hacks your computer from afar and gains access to this treasure trove of sensitive information can use those cookies to steal your identity.
And the symbol for the 4 cardinal directions (like on a map) gets written as: ⊕ (A circled plus.)
Typically a language is considered slow or fast based on it's most popular implementation, sadly.
Challenging reply. Are we all then using freezers from instinct? We have not all created it but I would say we "consciously" decided to buy one. Do common behaviors become instinct? What is the difference between instinct and social norms? Also diversity may exist within the same class of instinctive expression (e.g. fear could mean running away or freezing.)
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You're arguing my point: target practice is to gain skill to kill with the weapon. I wasn't taking a specific moral stance, I actually believe as long as the government is allowed to have weapons the people should be able to as well. I simply have no illusions what guns are for.
that's just not right.

see how many port activated upstart starting scripts there were before systemd entered the scene.

there is the difference as well, that mir has no solid reasoning (or its reasoning gets debunked shortly afterwards).
Cliche but true: Become your client and swim in their circle.

I sold a product for business users. I presented myself as an expert in the field and became active in the field. Although the product actually came after the fact as I figured I might as well monetise on my publicity.

My first paying client contacted me days after I posted an open for beta landing page without any marketing.

Edit: after the first few customers, I failed to keep momentum and my business flopped. I folded it a year after.
It's certainly possible that you'll miss some oddball idiomatic way of doing things in a new language (e.g. Python itertools or using C++ STL algorithms or something like that), but this is rarely a real problem. The job gets done correctly -- and in any case, we're all learning new ways of doing things. It's not as if you gain total prescience after N days on the job with Blub.

The point isn't that the generalist programmer will be 100% correct in all the details in new language, it's that they'll be able to quickly (and correctly) implement the important parts in whatever language you're using. Idioms tend to be the low-order bit of a solution anyway.
DataDog[1] + PagerDuty[2] do a good job at being linux-doctor. You have to be pro-active about it though...

[1] http://www.datadoghq.com/

[2] http://www.datadoghq.com/
For some reason, I understood this headline as "75% of a human brain replaced with 3D-printed material". I must say it left me perplexed for a few seconds… (maybe my brain could be replaced by 3D-printed material after all…)
Thanks for open sourcing. How hard is it to convert server-side from ruby to php ? I was expecting a simple ajax post. However it looks like ruby everywhere.
Interesting to know that you're building on target machines, I have yet to explore cross compilation, but it'd be great to be able to build before deploy.

Sorry, deployment was probably the wrong word - I was not so worried about getting the files up there (like you I have a simple home-grown solution for that), but more how you were handling process management, swapping out processes etc.

Perhaps with Go this is less of an issue because startup time for new processes is minimal, and you can simply kill one process, start another and not really miss any requests (unlike say Rails with startup times of 10 seconds or so for instances)? Did you find this wasn't a big issue in practice and something very simple works for you?

I'm currently playing with go but if considering it for client use would have to be sure that things like this were not an issue. Are you using any off the shelf tools for process management/load balancing or is it something that you have built yourself? Did you run into any problems?
I can’t remember the last time someone else used my computer. And if someone hacked my computer from afar, I would imagine random cookies to be the least of my problems.
I always thought the plus sign had to do with two entities meeting or being placed on top each other, like a road crossing or a pair of sticks, and that the minus sign was just a spinn-off of that sign and also made sense in the same way that Descartes used "..." according to the article.
You talk as if we develop code by chiseling it out in stone. We write it in text files, usually with IDEs. No one needs to learn the new libraries the newbie made, they can talk to the newbie, point out what the library already gives (and where to look in future) and write to well known interfaces.

Any project should have time allocated for "tech debt" and that's where this sort of thing gets addressed.
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