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Despite what the internet would have you believe, Aristotle never said such a thing. That quote may be a product of the Fitzgerald quote being mangled and misattributed, or of someone thinking they could say what Aristotle said better than Aristotle did.

The closest we get to such a statement is from Nichomachean Ethics 1094b23-25:

> "It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible."
-- Aristotle Actual
I doubt is a matter of seniority, its a matter of criteria, the way I see it is, FizzBuzz is useful only to weed out perhaps the lower 5% of the developers population and perhaps the lower 20% of the general literate population?

As an anecdote, I asked my wife, who's not a developer, she is an executive at a large beverage company, to solve FizzBuzz and to explain to me how she would do it and she did it successfully. She didn't use the word "for" or "while", but she explained that she figured there must be something that allows you to iterate over the same algorithm several times (paraphrasing).

Personally, I think FizzBuzz are useless unless you use them as part of a submission form before candidates send in their resumes, sort of like a slightly harder captcha. There is no place for a FizzBuzz once the company is already engaging with the company, if they are not able to solve it they will be earlier signs that they lack common sense and criteria.
As a programmer doing sales, this is really informative albeit abit short. Does anyone have a good book to recommend on sales?
What we are moving into is not a world with one cryptocurrency that is hoarded or inflated - but rather a world of many many cryptocurrencies where people will move from one to another adjusting to the circumstances. There will be the 'lateral inflation' in creation of new cryptocurrencies. When the old ones become stuck into the deflation spiral - new currencies will be used eventually unstucking the old ones, by making them less attractive.

I have not looked into the details - but Ripple looks like hitting the nail on the head.
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In fairness, Haskell makes it more awkward to deal in mutable state and arbitrary IO. Like how not using goto in a more mainstream language makes it more awkward to have arbitrary control flow. Debugging is annoying when I can't stick a println or puts in any arbitrary function. (The solution of course is to have small functions and print them. If your Haskell function is over 20 lines long you're probably doing it wrong.)

Of course, Haskell also means if your program compiles, 90% of the time it runs fine. I love that about it. (Unit tests are still required for the things the compiler can't catch, but its a major win regardless)
Same for Objective-C. I disregarded the entire blog post as soon as I noticed.
If you're interested, the quote comes from The Crack-Up, which "tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery."[1]

[1]: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16893.The_Crack_Up
Please read this short thread where I explain why investment is still an attractive option with Bitcoin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403360

I hope this changes your mind.
This is similar to A-B-C analysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#ABC_analysis
Not for me. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/duckduckgo.com/
I'm wary of things like this. They tend to require more cognitive effort than either of the alternatives: strict typing or a purist version of duck typing. That javascript makes either of those difficult or impossible (the former for obvious reasons and the latter because of flexible implicit conversion rules and an inflexible message receiver mechanism) is a failing of javascript that can't really be bandaided over with something optional.

I just think that this is, with even the best intentions, extremely prone to bitrot.
I strongly agree with your rant. The current idea that X is slow is caused by toolkit developers working around X instead of trying to use X correctly and contribute to the project where X is lacking.

If the toolkit developers continue to render to bitmaps remoting on Linux will never be as fast as RDP for Windows.
I didn't find anything useful about generics in any of your links.
Imagine a few kids throwing rocks or sticks at buildings. A rather petty crime, normally punished by a small fine for first time offenders and youths. No reason to throw them in jail for several years right?

Then say they throw their rocks not at some store window, but at a power station. Maybe at a hydroplant (those turbines do not like large rocks), or a solar plant (glass!). Maybe its at a electrical substation (a wet/icy stick or metal rod between two lines will cause shorts and break things).

The damage from such actions can be catastrophic. Life and livelihood can be lost for a large number of people. What if the power for the hospital gets interrupted, or the chemical plant?

This leaves us with a simple question then. Should we send teenagers that throw rocks and sticks/rods in jail for up to 10 years? Is jailtime a proper method to discourage kids from throwing rocks at power stations? In my society, that's has not been the current approach, and we have not had much failures from kids throwing rocks at power stations (or hacks for that matter). Schools, proper parenting, and after school activities has served the role of prevention.
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You have the incentive to spend.
You need to live so you will use your fiat and bitcoin to buy for food, gas, electricity and things that you want.

I know the bitcoin is going to be worth more, but I still spend it today just like

I know that if I wait just a little bit the laptop will be cheaper and faster but I still buy it today when I need it.
Think about what you're writing. There's a huge difference. One is writing a few pieces of code. The other exists in the physical world. That means the person spray painting the police station ("house") effects a greater magnitude of real-world consequences. For example, a person who is willing to tag a police station is more likely to be involved in violent behavior involving lethal weapons than the prankster who changes a few lines of code. The one and the other are NOT the same. Saying they are is a really dangerous idea...think about why. How could you possibly treat the street hood and the 17 year old prankster in the same way...

What theory of justice would that fall under?
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>It's fun how hard it is for a layperson to buy a Bitcoin in USA. CCs do not work

Because it's too easy to claim fraud and have your CC provider initialise a charge-back.

I don't know why you can't go to an ATM or a 7-Eleven and use your CC with your PIN to make a purchase. The CC company will know it's probably you because you entered your PIN and the merchant doesn't risk a charge-back.
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I think the pseudonymous problem you are stating is a huge problem for wide adoption. If you are able to associate a key with a person, you know all the transactions done by some one (of course, with that wallet) You can take extra measures to have multiple wallets, etc, but it can be difficult to truly understand the risks and it could need an extra effort that, simply, is not going to be assumed by lots of people.

I'm pretty sure that wallets associated with service and product providers will be easy to figure out, so you can learn A LOT of sensible information about someone... I guess that the risk will be low, but the consequences could be huge.
Why the downvotes? I explicitly said I just want an answer about how the community sees "Show HNs", not attacking anyone. Is that really that offensive and unconstructive? How are we suppose to improve on quality of this environment if one cannot ask about community guidelines?
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Facebook Home integration into iOS would be a damn good reason for me not to buy an iPhone. My first impression is that FbH looks incredibly invasive.
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This is awesome. Thanks for doing this.
Difficult. What system can really stand against a determined 17 year old with some ten years of experience, including a few years of hacking and network security?

Hacking and network security is a relatively shallow and yet specialized skill. Relatively shallow, because it doesn't require years and years of studying, like, say theoretical physics or modern math. And specialized, because your regular developer is not necessarily stays current with all the latest security practices and exploits.

Because of that properties a determined teen can outmatch skills of people maintaining and designing the system by orders of magnitude. And with that kind of mismatch in skills, what can really stand against that kid?
Intangible ? Bitcoins ? I would say the dollar is pretty much intangible.
Only 7% of it is printed, all the rest is on computers. And my $10 in 2005 had more purchasing power than my $10 do now.

Effectively having bitcoin means each time you buy something over a period of time they cost you less.
So long both teenagers are first time offenders, then the justice system should treat them the same. Its true that the crowd surrounding a street hood tagger is likely to be much worse than the prankster, but we don't normally add harsher punishment depending on the people the accused hangs around (except in regard to conspiracy charges).
Yeah. That. But let's make sure we understand the point of his example. The whole point of the law is to take trials on a case by case basis. More often than not there is no broadly sweeping rule that will dictate the outcome of the case. The phrase "a rule sweeps too broadly," is common in legal parlance. (I studied law for 4 years. I have some experience with this). The kids who cause more damage will get a heavier punishment. That is simply just. What is unjust is robbing them of a huge chunk of their lives. Justice is about contextualization. We have to ask questions like; is it reasonable that they should have known better? Did they intend to bring down a power plant? Did they mean to cause bodily harm?

But 10 years for a 17 year old. Can't seem to wrap my head around that.
For that matter, his portrayal of the right is oversimplified, but that's politics for you.
That's one of the reasons we have fences and security cameras everywhere these days. I personally don't care for it. For example, I noticed a case a few weeks ago where three juvenile were arrested for throwing objects off a bridge into traffic, including one lump of concrete that weighed 50 pounds. Nobody was hurt, fortunately, but it wasn't for lack of trying and they did damage several vehicles.

Frankly, I'd rather see them go to jail for several years than have to convert my car into a tank or see every foot bridge wrapped in thick steel mesh.
It's not really a left or right thing. You have to have inflation via devaluation of currency to fuel investment.

In a fiat system based on devaluing currencies and inflating prices, money shrinks if it is not moved, invested, paid interest on. Why invest otherwise? Just have a feudal-based gold backed system and sit on your gold like a king, loans will lock up creating depression without inflation/interest over deflating reserves to fuel investment.

This is why non fiat currencies or gold backed would put too great a power in mining kingpins like oil does on groups like OPEC. I'd rather have the inflationary system controlled by bankers or algorithms that can keep economies going when they lock up.

A fiat currency where the rates are a throttle mechanism but the throttle has to be watched closely and as public as possible for trust. A currency bound to a physical thing like gold is no longer a good system.

Bitcoins, adjust in currency and value by mining new circulation via algorithm/time/market.

"The money supply is automated and given to servers or "bitcoin miners" that confirm bitcoin transactions as they add them to a decentralized and archived transaction log approximately every 10 minutes." - devaluation built in, we'll see if it is is enough of a lever and who controls the lever or spigot as they say with oil, that sets the price. More importantly, who do you want controlling that?

The article has a great circulation graph that shows it is almost linear, is that enough to make it through large crashes? http://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins?timespan=all... Will it draw slow circulation if there is a crash? Will it pick up circulation if there is too big a bubble? This is where a centralized oversight starts to look good.

Best thing about bitcoin markets, they never close! No after hours shenanigans and rushes at open and close.
This is a lot more than I would have thought. I wonder who came up with the "Series A Crunch" theory. It really doesn't seem to have hit yet, if ever.
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I just used it, so no.

(Also, your link works for me.)
XD

Still, once you get past the snarky opener there's a lot of good advice in this one.
Wow. So simple. So effective. No login. No save button. Just works. I love it :)
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I think this is currently the main issue still holding RWD back right now.

I blogged about the same issue not long ago: http://pxlz.me/44
Are the files public? Then perhaps just use youtube.

If you need a CDN, CDN77 has worked fine for me at a reasonable price.

I'd start hosting them on a separate domain first, then move that to a CDN if necessary.
Purely conjectural, but the Series A crunch that the media likes to sell us on, really really fear-mongering. If you look at the spread of $ to startups, it's on a constant rise. The problem here isn't the "crunch", but rather how information is perceived and understood. The Series A crunch MAY possibly be true on a linear perspective, but falsely on a logarithmic look.
"So long both teenagers are first time offenders, then the justice system should treat them the same."

Once again, I can't agree. That is not the only consideration taken into account. Absolutely not. That doesn't even begin to skim the surface of what's taken into consideration in sentencing and during the trial.

Here's a classic counter-example to this assertion.

PersonA steals prescription medicine to sell so he can buy more drugs to deal.
PersonB steals prescription medicine so he can sell them and pay for his wife's dialysis.

That's the same crime, and let's say they're both first time offenders. Would they be treated the same? No. It's called mitigating factors. PersonB has more mitigating factors than PersonA, and is therefore not treated the same.
I guess this complaint should really be pointed at TypeScript, or even to C#, but also to Jsig...

It's really sad that different languages keep pushing `=>` for "function" type, instead of `->`, which has been the standard mathematical notations for a long time...
"With better code and architecture, maintenance and change become easier"

Simply true!
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No. A normal kid wouldn't throw rocks at buildings. It is just instinct. So there are natural instincts that prevent kids from throwing rocks at cars, hospitals or power stations.

But. A normal kid would not feel any wrong when he/she is breaking in into some computer network. It is again just instinct. To a kid it feels like an awesome and elaborate game with no consequences (and 99.999??% of time there are no consequences and no harm done).
Will the talk be recorded? I'm interested, but not at Stanford (unfortunately!) Even just slides would be good, if applicable.
There are already quite a few. NameCoin, PPCoin, DevCoin, IxCoin, the list goes on.

The biggest (second only to bitcoin) is LiteCoin. Very similar to bitcoin but with faster transactions, and it uses a different algorithm. Using Scrypt instead of SHA-256 makes it much harder to get a fast FPGA or ASIC to mine quickly. Even top graphics cards are no more than 10-20x faster than CPUs. It's risen in price ridiculously recently, going from 7 cents to 6 dollars, now hovering around 4. People who were mining or bought in around the 7 cent mark have made quite a lot. There was no premining thought which is interesting, and I think has helped raise confidence (pre-mining is where the designers of the currency mine on their own before anyone else gets on the network, so it's a concern that they will dump vast amounts at some point and crash the price).

I think having more currencies might actually improve confidence, as there are a few ways of looking at it:

1) Lots popping up, hmm, bitcoin isn't special so SELL!

2) Lots popping up and falling, hmm, bitcoin looks quite stable comparatively, BUY!

3) Another few stable ones appearing, hmm, crypto-currencies looks like quite a normal idea, BUY!

Could go any way, could all collapse or spike. Maybe $125 is low for bitcoin, and we'll be here thinking "Why didn't I buy in?" or it'll collapse, nobody will think it's worth mining and the network will fall apart. Or it'll remain the same.

All I know is I'm currently making some money to keep my flat warm, and that it's not worth putting in anything I can't afford to lose.

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It depends on which part of sales you want to focus on. I've yet to find a good book which covers the discipline as a whole. Many seem to either focus on the psychology, prospecting or just closing of sales.

I'm part way through "New Sales. Simplified" which seems heavily based on "prospecting" which a lot of books seem to neglect. I've also got Dan Pink's "To Sell is Human" lined up next which is more about the psychological aspects. Many of the classic sales books by Zig Ziglar or Brian Tracy seem, IMO, to be more closing focused.
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Is there any evidence of nation states or three letter agencies dipping their toes into Bitcoin? Its seems like a perfect solution for the CIA when they need to move money quickly and discretely to 'difficult' regions or individuals.

I know that Gavin Andresen (unofficial leader of Bitcoin movement) did a talk for the CIA in 2011. But I dont know if their interest was about catching bad guys, using it for themselves or seeking to control/manipulate bitcoin: http://www.bitcointrading.com/pdf/GavinAndresenCIATalk.pdf

So I think an interesting question is whether these same agencies are generating bitcoins or attempting to manipulate the market. The big news recently for Bitcoin is the introduction of ASIC hardware dedicated to mining. An ASIC miner the size of a PC can generate bitcoin hashes 100x faster than a GPU at approximately the same power usage.

ASIC miners have taken a while to hit the market because making an ASIC is hard and expensive for a small company. You can bet they didnt get funding from a brick and mortar bank. There are only a couple of companies with a shippable product.

But surely making this same hardware is a relatively trivial exercise for a nation state, particularly the NSA who run their own fab and would be experts at making silicon tuned for crypto algorithms.

Thoughts?
I wonder if online gambling and gambling in games would be legal with bitcoins? Or less of a hurdle? This could be a huge boon for bitcoins if so to becoming the web currency/virtual wallet.
In Europe it's not that much simplier.

What I like is localbitcoins.com (disclaimer: I have ads for selling and buying on there). It's simple, you actually meet some people interested in bitcoins, it's pretty safe (because of the escrow) and a little more decentralized than mtgox/btc-e.

I say "a little", because the escrow is centralized anyway.
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In this case, I am deferring to the notation adopted in the upcoming version of JavaScript, ES6 - see http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:arrow_functio...

I think jsig's role is more to describe JavaScript, rather than to say the language is "doing it wrong"
Exactly. We were prepared for a "quick rush" but when the details were released we did a combination of nmap to look for any accidentally exposed Postgres installs + adding explicit firewall rules to reject all traffic on the related ports (all of them should be rejected by default rules anyway, but we wanted to ensure none of the ports had been accidentally opened up) "just in case", and at that point we felt we could take a slower, more measured roll out of the upgrade. In 5 minutes we were "in the clear" and could breathe a sigh of relief.

It's still important to apply the udates, as I wrote elsewhere, because it's one more way someone can mess you up badly if they have managed to penetrate other parts of our systems, but upgrades no matter how seemingly safe can also cause problems (fore example I test upgraded one VM that refused to come back up again afterwards - not Postgres' fault, but a config change someone had clearly not tested properly).

But in this case, knowing we have blocked the main attack vector means we can take the time to take a copy of each database VM we run, test apply the upgrade and verify everything works correctly before applying it live, instead of rushing it out.
I agree entirely.
In general, developers work against most of the ideals of an operations team. For developers, Operations teams serve as obstacles. "DevOps" is a bastardized term for getting rid of operations and letting "developers" work unfettered. Obviously there's some merit to allowing fast or unfettered development, but then again you get giant clusterFKS bourne upon the world that should've never seen the light of day. For things to work, you need both, but DevOps will never truly exist outside of organizations that can drop millions of dollars on truly exceptional people.
What amazes me - or at least what really leaps out at me - from this is how high Andreessen Horowitz is relative to the other giants, in the measure "Historical Total Investment in Rounds Participated In", given how recently they were founded.

I know for a lot of entrepreneurs they've become the number one "dream" VC to be funded by in the "if you could pick any VC to fund you who would it be" drinking game.

Great list. Love the work you've been doing on all this stuff recently. It's interesting reading.
Legal is unclear but a lot easier for sure. Google SatoshiDice
Yes and then they will develop corporations called bureau's who will rate each individual persons currency worthiness on a numeric scale. Other institutions will determine if they do business with you based on this scale and it takes 7 years before the transactions you screwed up get sharded to an archive database.
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I haven't finished it but "Secrets of Master Closer" seems good and covers the whole of sales, encouraging the reader to learn sales from first principles and then apply it in their own domain.
Hoarding is not saving.

Saving generally involves investing, the money is used in a variety of other ways. The money grows (hopefully ahead of inflation) by being used to fuel growth. Savings that are not invested slowly lose value, a good incentive to either invest or spend and keep everything flowing.

Hoarding BTC is much the same as stuffing cash into a mattress, it's totally unproductive. A currency that rewards hoarders is not useful.

Also this is not a left-right issue. You'll find many on the right who are in favour of a small, controlled amount of inflation.
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