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Not sure why you think it would be that hard with customized hardware, but let me ask the question a different way instead.

In a post-CPU, post-GPU, ASIC dominated world, what rational bitminers (other than botnets) would compete against the NSA, or any malicious attacker, who was willing to mine unprofitably? Say even below the cost of electricity, with hardware and bandwidth costs of zero.
Do you mean to use >redirect, or did you mean |pipe?
I disagree.

Individuals from China (a big new buyers market) to India (jewelry) to the US that buy gold, do in fact hold it physically.

Some large scale investors of the Paulson type do hold huge sums in GLD, but they're not your typical gold owner, and they're dwarfed by the smaller physical gold market transacted between individuals.

Americans own more gold than the US Government / Fed does, and they're not holding it in GLD ($64 billion value).

Your typical gold owner has less than $100,000 worth of gold, and holds it physically.
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i think you have it pretty good :) 15 years experience here and i'm on the equivalent of 44k USD (small city in europe). i'm not happy with it, but it pays the bills and i have some money left over to have fun now and then. no pension included. no health insurance. i don't have a network and the only jobs going here are all very short contracts, so i'll stick with it while i can.
I agree - on the majority of entreprise system (ERP) I have worked this was the case. I can confirm that GROUP BY are huge performance killers and sometimes the simplest solution is to avoid them by slightly changing the business logic if possible.
As an interesting sidebar, there's a series of photos of some of the scientists on Tinian posing with a small box containing the core of the Fat Man bomb - a 3.5" diameter sphere of Plutonium that was apparently worth at the time the equivalent of about $5 billion dollars.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2011/11/25/friday-image-posin...
Is Mr. Damn Good Android Developer single? Take his temperature and tell HR he has a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry w/ Specialization In Mecurial Heat Transfer from the New School of Thought where he completed 98.6 units.

I'm not sure that joke actually made any sense, but it sounded good in my head. Your HR department sounds so thick skulled they might actually by it.
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Came here to say exactly this. I read the article, but I couldn't see any logic to substantiate the claims of the title.

Also, what is this supposed to mean? "After all, unlike real money, Bitcoin isn’t the coin of the realm. It is, at best, currency competition. Since it lacks the social contract of real money, it’s likely to last only as long as the U.S. or other governments allow it to last."

How does bitcoin lack a "social contract" and how does this have anything to do with the U.S. government?
This doesn't seem to actually explain "why", besides mentioning deflation.

Why would I buy a computer now when I know the same computer will cost less in 6 months due to technological advances? Because I need a computer.
The former german education minister Annette Schavan(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Schavan) also had only a PhD-Degree, which was taken back last year due to plagiarism, leaving her with no academic degrees whatsoever.
.. in the US, according to rules imposed upon the society by the high priests of Industrialized Mental Health.

Not everyone wants a pill for their un-normal quirks, yo.
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If it's worth million dollars, you can pay a security expert to back it up properly.
For me at least, sparse vector support means you can do elementwise operations (on the non-sparse elements) and in particular linear algebra like vector dot-products and matrix-vector multiply.
1. I disagree, on many ERP the DB is totally overloaded and the middleware is sleeping (and/or easier to scale). I think this is the kind of case where the ideal architecture paradigm has to be bent.

Your others points are really informative thanks.
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At that time the Ph.D. was something new in European universities; it was basically imported from the US.

Many professors didn't welcome the novelty, including one of Wittgenstein's examiners, who wrote in his report:

"The Tractatus is a work of genius, but it otherwise satisfies the requirements for a Ph.D."

EDIT: I should have said "British" instead of "European", see comments below.
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I think you're a bit out of touch as those browser warning pages have changed a lot the last few years. It's actually pretty hard to get through those warnings now in most of the browsers.
Perhaps I misunderstand your point, but members of those groups don't have a real say in what the others do. They don't coordinate in a coherent policy. In contrast, my US culture does have a formal political system, where I do have a say in its decisionmaking. So we share some responsibility for its violence.

That decisionmaking power is less than in a real democracy (a top-down republic with some democratic forms), but more than a dictatorship. So there's some shared responsibility which does not exist in your examples of other groups.
The global banking system is (currently) controlled by the US Government. There's no such thing as an international currency outside their reach.

It's how the US is able to attack Iran's currency from the outside so easily and spike their inflation to the moon.

It's how when the crash occurred, the Fed was able to stabilize the global banking system by shooting hundreds of billions around the planet to international banks (from Berlin to Tokyo).

It's how the US was able to pressure the world's second largest - and fastest growing - economy (China) into floating its currency more freely and 'allowing' its value to climb.

It's how the US was able to dictate terms to the Swiss (of all people, given their history).

The fact that it's international will just make the Feds more frantic about either controlling it / replacing it / destroying it. The solvency of the US Government depends on the FRN standard, and the ability to 'print' at least $15 trillion dollars over the next 15 years. You don't think they'll attempt to kill anything that even remotely threatens that?

And to be clear, what's likely isn't that digital monetary systems will disappear, rather, that bitcoin will be usurped by official standards. The US will merely get the G30 to agree to some common frameworks and regulations, that will stuff the dollar / euro / yen / yuan into a new shiny digital box. The G30 will jump on board with glee, as they all want to control their own currency systems as much as the US does.
In other words. Idea people who can't execute.
I think the similitude is deceptive. Since declarative programming is side-effect free, the runtime can perform the operation in the most efficient way it knows. Python isn't, so it has to ensure some execution order that breaks possible optimizations.

In your example, if you replace max() with a function that prints something, you'll see it's executed for each value in 'table', which is extremely inefficient. This happens because Python can't guarantee that max() will return the same each time.

Similarly, while in a side-effect free context the runtime could, for example, slice 'table', perform the work using multiple concurrent threads and then join the result, Python has to guarantee that the execution is done sequentially, since a change in order could affect the result.

Unlike in SQL, in Python you're always telling it HOW you want it done.
Not instantly. These aren't starting salaries.
Okay, the culprit is Ghostery. Disabling it solves the problem.

What's weird is that on Windows it doesn't block the requests to css or js files like this; but obviously the problem lies with this extension.
> If the Government wanted to destroy BTC it should be trivial for the NSA to take over 51%+ of the network which then allows it to pollute the system with malicious data that would eventually kill it.

That's not how bitcoin works.

If you control 51% of the mining network (not a trivial feat, as you seem to think it is), the best you can do is either:

a) reverse your own otherwise valid tranactions (presumably the government doesn't care about defrauding its citizens -- it can do that without resorting to bitcoin hacks), or

b) slightly slow the effective transaction acceptance rate by only accepting your own (garbage but legitimate-looking) transactions. This would have to be done in some inconspicuous way such that the client authors can't reliably filter out your transaction spam with a clustering algorithm, or else a client update that rejects your spammy block chains would completely nullify the attack.

I don't see how either would "kill" bitcoin, or even have much of an impact.
I'm in a similar situation to yours with similar numbers now. Just curious, what technology are you using? I'm on Rails, outside the valley, but my clients are inside. Ironically enough, 2 years ago I was working for $500/week, and working twice as hard as I am now
Only just realised what it actually does after looking at the screenshot closely.

Very clever indeed, you definitely need to get an animation of it in action or something on there because I visited the site earlier from your Reddit post and I thought it just put a little clock timer in the menu bar.
"7. When in doubt, over communicate all concerns with your team." I hope someone would have given and stressed this advice right in the beginning of my career. Every time I communicated for my taste too much, it was overly helpful. I know some individuals were they are really communicating too much, but even daily newsletter of your current state to other people in the process chain seem to work just fine.
It's certainly detectable with precise instruments, but it's not practical to test each and every bit of gold one acquires so thoroughly. Hence the opportunity for counterfeit gold that passes casual inspection and weighs about the right amount.
It really depends on the area. I would classify my current salary as low-end for middle class. For your (low-end) basics (travel, food, accommodation, health insurance) it's around $24K a year in the slightly more expensive areas. Gasoline costs typically offset accommodation costs - especially now that it's around $45 to fill a 35L/9.2 gallon car tank.

South Africa is pretty strange in the sense that certain areas have a huge effect on living costs - you might pay 10%+ less on groceries simply by driving to another suburb. Some cities (ex. Pretoria) are more prone to be targeted by the government for money making purposes - ex. increasing taxes in Pretoria to pay for new roads in Durban (600Km/~400 miles away).
At the time, the PhD was not seen very highly in the department, and in the report on the defence of the PhD Moore famously said:

"It is my personal opinion that Mr. Wittgenstein’s thesis is a work of genius; but, be that as it may, it is certainly well up to the standard required for the Cambridge degree of Doctor of Philosophy’

So, it was not seen as an achievement at all!
Wow, is anyone on that page over 30?
How would you be able to network as effectively as you do now, if you were outside the valley?
If there is hard evidence of prior art, then filing an ex parte reexaminiation[1] is certainly not $3M.

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2210.html
http://understand.io

For discussion and ideas:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485073
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I wondered why I was seeing `checkBulletin()` in my logs.
There are 3 major flaws in his criticism of Bitcoin.

1. "Why would I buy pizza with it when it’s far more profitable to hold onto the money and let the value appreciate."

Because you need to eat. Now. Not in 5 days. In other words, nobody sits on "paper" money forever and ever. Eventually everybody spends it, reinvests it, etc. Do you think Bitcoin holders are going to sit on their stash, never spending it, and watch the economy and value dies as nobody spends it? Of course not!

By the way, the market has already proven you wrong: all indicators show that Bitcoin spending is increasing, despite everybody knowing about Bitcoin deflation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5296889

2. "Bitcoin is backed by, well, the faith of those who are willing to put money into it."

Nothing backs gold either. By your logic, gold is a dangerous investment. We all know this is not true. Bitcoin, like gold, does not need to be backed by anything to succeed. Both assets are valued because people value their properties. That is all. (For the record, industrial demand for gold is negligible compared to demand from the speculation or jewelry markets, so saying gold has value because it is useful is not enough to justify most of its market value.)

3. "After all, if someone steals your bitcoins — hacks your account, let’s say — is it really a crime? And if it isn’t, then what incentive does anyone have to actually honor them?"

If you had done some research, you would be aware that the US FBI and SEC are investigating and have investigated numerous Bitcoin thefts. They do consider it a crime.
Y'know, it just occured to me that many democracies use voluntary responses, since they only count the votes from people who go out to vote.
By "real currency" I assume the author means a viable long term currency substitute -- he can't mean a medium of monetary exchange, as Bitcoin is already being used in that manner.

While there are some points worth a look in this article, he is sadly ignorant or misinformed about Bitcoin on a variety of points:

- refers to Bitcoin as a "Internet play money fad" when the monetary base for Bitcoin is now over $1 billion dollars and has been running for over 4 years

- claims its "origins don't inspire a lot of confidence" because it was invented by a "pseudononymous hacker", ignoring the fact that the client is open source and can be (and has been) read by anyone

- asserts that "Bitcoin is backed by, well, the faith of those who are willing to put money into it", ignoring the cryptographic foundation of the protocol which is slightly more important than the faith of the users

- confusingly states that Bitcoin could be a "glorified Ponzi scheme" because it might not be "really a crime" if someone steals Bitcoins from you (how would that be a Ponzi scheme?), ignoring that Bitcoins can't be stolen without stealing the Bitcoin wallet.dat, much like cash

All in all it's a pretty shallow commentary with very little basis in fact by a business columnist with an obvious axe to grind.
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>If you need to buy something with Bitcoin, you can do it right away. With a brick of gold — not so much.

In the UK, my local high street jewelers will trade my gold same day. At the moment I can't even buy bitcoins, let alone sell them.
If your performance bottleneck is at the database layer it's a difficult problem to solve, scaling relational databases requires all kinds of witchcraft and magic such as read-only replicas, sharding, result-caching ...

But it is very simple to add another application server and update your load-balancers configuration.

Some large (internet) applications have moved operations such as joins to the application and only use the database for simple storage.

I think it's a reasonable advice.
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The term 'self study' is strange here. He was trained to MSc level by his employer. The army do this all the time. The Chinese government do it very often.
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I see this as an article written at the command of some interested parties to limit Bitcoin's adoption. I don't fancy these kind of attacks, but in the current context I think it may be in the Bitcoin's benefit - the steep growth is not good.
Not in the way I meant it; like Bitcoins, Satochis don't have anything that identifies them. They're just a number in the ledger.
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Not a strength for Splunk.
Not only that but it appears people are using Comcast as a DOS proxy http://blog.ryankearney.com/2013/01/comcast-caught-intercept...
I have an MSc in Computer Science but lack a BSc or A-levels.

I was homeless and sleeping rough when my peers were in secondary education, I was living in squats and hitch-hiking around the UK when they were in university.

Being self-taught, I applied for the MSc after 15 years experience as it was a source of personal anxiety for me to lead large technical projects in which almost every other person was highly educated (MSc or PhD) and those that were not had a BSc. I felt a constant career vertigo in my position, due to not feeling sure in my abilities.

During the MSc I struggled with revision technique and exam skills, having never sat any before. But where I was weak at exams I frequently scored above 95% for coursework, research projects and coding tests.

Mostly I felt that the MSc taught me the language with which to communicate and argue the things I already knew.

When I completed the MSc I reflected that I would've been more competent at a PhD than the MSc. But I didn't know in advance how I would fare at the MSc and that a PhD might interest me. Mostly I was just 'checking boxes' to improve confidence in my existing work, but I found myself very seriously debating whether I wanted to pursue a PhD when I got to the end of the MSc. I really enjoyed the research work in the MSc.
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Not sure which spot you're referring to but here's a vid of Phelps speaking Chinese
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTevZ7a5mM
You have things the wrong way round. The Ph.D. degree originated in Germany.
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Considering how many codecs there were before h.264 and Xvid became widespread, and considering the existence of http://xiph.org and Ogg, people would create codecs regardless of patent incentive. It may be research intensive, but it is definitely not capital intensive.
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> The proper ambition for a tech entrepreneur

> NOBODY has any standing to tell me what my "proper ambition is."

Nobody is telling you what YOU should do or not do as a human being; I think the debate is about the meaning of words.

If you buy a piano and proceed to destroy it with a chainsaw, you can certainly do that. But you don't get to call it "playing the piano" or "composing" (although nowadays it may be considered some kind of "art").
Another well known CS researcher without PhD was Robert (Bob) Floyd, of graph algorithms fame:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Floyd
This is either a bad april fools joke, or it might be related one of the following:

* ISP - 'six strikes' of content abuse

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/internet/broadband/six-stri...

* EBS - Emergency Broadcast System

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/wheres-an-...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-57321623-250/wheres-the-em...
Huh. I'm surprised by how many comments here are of the "but we already have XYZ" flavor.

You're right. We don't need more. Let's just stop trying to make things better.

Wakey, wakey. JetBrains is investing time and money (or is that the same thing, anyway?) to develop a new C++ IDE, a market (though I don't like that word) where nothing new has sprung up in a while. That's __good__ news, what's the matter with you? Can it harm you?
Maybe i haven't seen the insides of enough large companies - but watching their demo video, this sort of product seems to glimpse past what LtU call the 'middle-ages' of programming. Like seeing map, fold and CPS for the first time. I spend how much time writing graphs, charts, filters, sql, password reset interfaces by hand for my SaaS with my web stack?

The coolest part for me is someone here has what seems like a quite pure software gig, writing interfaces with no real need to care for the underlying business, only for the data adapters. Mostly if you're working with business software the result would be polluted by some specific business logic or domain knowledge.

(Excuse the gushing, that video blew me away slightly.)
Vague mumbo jumbo including the sentence "I had recorded songs before with other producers (...)" as a not-so-zero experience indicator. The guys has a well frequented Youtube channel for 5 years. And he does not even get into that pre-benefit.

Skip, you are not missing anything in this "let's drop the word 'hack'" fluff piece.
> Tasks
> Consistent exercise of independent judgment and
> discretion in matters of significance.

This one literally stipulates that you will be expected to think for yourself on a regular basis. Why on earth is this in there?
If NSA would just discard mined coins, the cost of remaining coins mined by bitminers will rise proportionally.

If NSA will sell their coins, they are now a part of bitcoin economy.
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His numbers are there, did somebody call him?
Well that's all very good, well done etc, but now what?

This guy, through a combination of youthful good looks, utter lack of shame, and sheer hustle has managed to get himself onto the british top 10. But he can't sustain it and the song itself is utter crap; he never set out to make good music, after all.

So what's the point?

The author mentions Tim Ferriss and I see the parallels. Ferriss also "hacked" his way into the Chinese Kung Fu champion's position, by unconventional use of the rules, in a paper achievement lacking any real accomplishment or respect. To his credit, Tim followed up by writing several books of actual value, and never confused hacking a competition with actually being a kung-fu master.

Like Ferriss's win, this is a stunt, a conversation starter, a prelude. It's AirBNB's Cheeri-O's, or whatever they were called. A cool anecdote to talk about - and kudos to him, genuinely, and AirBNB, and Ferriss. But it's not a real achievement in and of itself, not one that I particularly care about, anyway. At the end of the day, you still have to make AirBNB.

So now what?
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I've done this twice for candidates with speech impediments. It works well.
AeroFS is awesome! I've been using it since the alpha release and have had nothing but positive experiences. Like rdl says, it does everything I want in a file sharing system.
Arguably you should also public key pin the key for https://www.aerofs.com/ anyway, just to get initial protection. IMO you're important enough and clueful enough to get this from Chrome, but I'm not agl.