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Yup, the NYT is at one of their favorite, continuing 'stories' again. And, again, it's 'global warming'. Again, it's measure temperature not with thermometers in degrees F, C, or K but with pictures of glaciers.

Yes, it's a morality play, human sin, this time via CO2.

And it's a trilogy -- transgression, retribution, and redemption. The transgression is the CO2 from human sin. The retribution is over heating the planet, as in glaciers melting. And the redemption? Sure, sacrifice, this time, a carbon tax to reverse much of the industrial revolution.

So, it's the old methods of fiction, e.g., morality plays, going back at least 1000 years. The NYT is good at writing morality plays.

Of course, one of the NYT people on this bandwagon is their Tom Friedman. On a talk show, he explained his view of the problem of CO2: He said that it absorbs light from the sun and, thus, heats the atmosphere.

Okay, let's check: Let's exhale, look at the little cloud of air with the extra CO2, and see if we can see any sunlight absorbed? Or, let's get some CO2 from some other sources and see if it looks darker because of the light it absorbs instead of transmits. Nope, we don't see anything. So, right, CO2 doesn't absorb sunlight.

So, what does CO2 absorb? It absorbs in three narrow frequency bands out in the infrared, one band for each of bending, twisting, and stretching of the molecule.

So, how, then, is CO2 a 'green house' gas? Because light from the sun is absorbed by the surface of the earth which, then, radiates roughly as a Planck 'black body' and, thus, radiates mostly in the infrared, and CO2 in the atmosphere absorbs some of the infrared, in those three narrow bands, instead of just letting it continue to radiate outward and be absorbed by water vapor, methane, or something else or just escape into space.

But there is CO2 in the atmosphere even without the human 'sin' of the industrial revolution, and it's not clear that more CO2 in the atmosphere will absorb more in those three narrow bands than now -- that is, it may be that all the infrared that CO2 can absorb is being absorbed now.

Someday, maybe, we will have news sources better informed than the NYT and, then, using expository techniques 1000 years closer to the present, from the 20th century and maybe even the 21st century.

From an article like this, I would cancel my subscription to the NYT but I can't: I've never subscribed to the NYT, rarely read it on-line, and have never read it on-line since their 'pay-wall'. They used to call me and ask me to subscribe, but I told them that my kitty cats prefer kitty litter or the bushes in the back yard and that I don't have any dead fish to wrap.

The NYT may be on the way out of business. I don't really want to see that and would hope that, instead, they would move forward 1000 years or so into at least the 20th century, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for that.
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This would be like a 20-30 mil acquisition right here.
My problem with this and BTC is that it isn't even a truly fixed currency supply - as people lose wallets, the bitcoins they contained are permanantly lost because only those wallets (that are now destroyed) are lost. So either you brute force the signing key and try to imitate the wallets or you will never get those coins back.

So it isn't just that BTC will (in a hundred odd years) stop growing the money supply, it will probably (sooner than that) start leaking bitcoins from lost wallets, and as the money supply drops deflation grows faster than with a fixed money base.
I don't think so, the people I've observed that have this enabled are very good friends of mine and I don't mind that they get pinged when I post something inconsequential. It's also not my call, I'm posting info for them to see and if they want to use a client that notifies them any time I post it then that's their right.

But there is definitely the potential for stalker-ish stuff there. I suppose in that case, yes the friendship would be the problem.

--edit-- But when the friendship isn't in question, I guess I find it a bit weird and overly-reliant on FB to have your phone set up to alert you every time a 'close' friend does anything.
It's a bit like the universe has folded, back onto 1999.
Whether there is a series A crunch or not doesn't concern me (no negative tone intended, just want to clarify my intent), and I wasn't trying to validate that it exists with this data set. Raising a venture round is hard, and my hope it that this list helps entrepreneurs focus their efforts on active investors.

Here is the data you requested, starting January 1st (225 active series A investors):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdFB...
They are useful but they do have limitations. I'm not sure it would have necessarily detected the faulty battery in this case. Last year, there was a fire at my house and the FD searched for the source for three hours. With thermal imaging and everything. It was inside the walls, no open flame, just a lot of smoke and no clear readings on the imager. That was pretty frightening. (However when they finally did find it, they put it out in a couple of minutes.)
It works because people value goods they can get with their coins more than the appreciating value of coins in the future.

The problem everyone is having is not about coins being used for exchange - any money will provoke people to spend it on the things they value more than the money itself - but on how a deflating currency makes investment less prominent because it requires even higher returns than the rate of the currency appreciating value.
Sure, that's the point of the example. Phrased that way, this kind of contract is clearly one-sided and unenforceable.
I dunno, at least the likes of Warren Buffet get richer by profiting from stuff they actually invest in. Deflationary currency seems to remove this link, and in fact make investment a much less interesting proposal.
Value is stabilized by the market. Futures markets are how value changes are averaged out through time. You don't need a central banker manipulating the money supply in a misguided attempt to maintain stable prices. That's destabilize the economy while stabilizing prices.
Currently, using any accepted online transaction policy forcibly immediately associates a real identity with it every time. Bitcoin makes acting anonymously possible, it just requires work. Those that want the anonymity can put in the work to be anonymous, whereas everyone else gets the ease of use of associating keys with people.
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> You have misunderstood the grandparent post. His point was that since states exist as a matter of fact and want to have their taxes paid, Bitcoin is less useful than currencies which are acceptable legal tender for that purpose. For one thing, you'll have to pay a small conversion premium on top of the debt you're servicing.

No, I follow perfectly well, the mugger demands his due in a specific form of paper, therefore that specific form of paper is more valuable than one in which similar predation does not take place, that's precisely why I disagree that it's actually feature.

> You're calling me strident and shrill, when you're characterizing all government as violent and extortionate? OK, if it makes you feel better.

That's not a characterisation, it's a simple fact. Government is a monopoly of force, there are no governments in existence who do not use that monopoly of force for extortion.

> Monetary bases that are not government created are essentially worth only their commodity value

As opposed to absolutely nothing in the event of the failure of the backing state.
I'm glad it motivated me to get ABC Dry and Halon 1211 extinguishers for both rooms and the car, at least.

In a "real" datacenter, you should have smoke sensors which would map where heat/smoke is coming from (since you have controlled airflow, it should be obvious which rack or small group of racks was the source -- it doesn't just exhaust into the whole room). But it's pretty clear this wasn't a "real" datacenter by their lack of protocols for handling fire, it was some office server thing.
Where's the petition against patent trolls, America? (Or has this been tried already / would it fail?)
Gold is never traded or exchanged for its intrinsic value. It is why I hate how people use gold as a monetary base, because it wastes a perfectly good metal with practical applications on being the shiny rare thing people hoard for money.
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A million times this. If turning a whole datacenter off is catastrophic for your business, you've not done your risk management properly. Single events that take down datacenters happen. Not being prepared for them is unforgivable.
For all we know, the difference between google and facebook here is simply maturity of the company, and as facebook matures, it's very possible that they'll recant their privacy evilness, to the extent that they can.

Here's what I mean by that last part: the facebook site/service are all about poking holes in your own privacy (in a controlled manner); it's just that currently, you might be carefully letting out bits of information, but facebook is off to the side hawking all of it to all comers, trying to be profitable.

But yeah I agree, at its current stage of gestation as a company, facebook doesn't give a rat's ass about the privacy of your data.
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But that intrinsic value is like saying you can save 10% of your valuation if the market drops gold for its scarcity, whereas with btc you lose 100%. Any way you slice it, you have lost an overwhelming supermajority of your value, and are fucked.

Gold is almost never used for its practical use cases because everyone treats it as money and use its scarcity for trade. I hate that facet, because it ruins a perfectly good metal with practical applications that we could be taking advantage of industrially if there wasn't this artificial "hoard gold because its valuable for how rare it is" economic mess.

But if the economy fell out and gold stopped being traded as a store of wealth and started being traded as an industrial metal, the guy with all his assets in gold is still devastated.
Salts only really protect against rainbow tables; if the attacker is willing to use a dictionary or brute force attack against a single password, they're not of much use.
That's right. There are a variety of different schemes that have been devised by the pool operators to enact fair compensation for the pool workers. Most pools pay proportional to the amount of work that the worker accomplishes with a fee for the operator. But there are many of tweaks and variations, some of which are to deal with bad actors (pool skipping) or to allow for a steady pay out to the workers in the face of the unpredictable variability in time between coins that the pool successfully mines.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools
When someone's calling you crazy, you are usually on the right track but you are facing some titans here with your idea.In order to beat those titans you have to give people something different than usual, something to WOW them.

Besides, you need a strategy in order to gain traction.But I am sure you can make money with an app like this.Maybe not 1 billion but hey, you can settle for less.Good luck with that.
Good luck dude.

Might be a good idea to link your startup somewhere in the post too ;-)
It creates marvelously built and human products that are designed to express the very human soul.

Oh for pity's sake. They make expensive hardware that looks and feels nice.
Young first time offenders for violent crimes rarely get more than a couple of years so I would say both maximum and typical sentences are in the same ballparks.
> If by that you mean a democratic government (violent extortionate power) empowered to stabilise the currency via a variety of means, including supply inflation (engaged in parasitism of the monetary base)...

It's funny how many different ways there are to paint over the underlying unpleasant reality of the situation with pretty words designed to lend a veneer of legitimacy to the enterprise. It's almost like there's an uncomfortable underlying truth that many people would prefer you would not state in such a blunt fashion.
Wow. So it genuinely does look like ~80% of the BTC in existence are just being sat on.

This is certainly consistent with the attitudes of miners and enthusiasts I've seen on the bitcoin forums.
Even with DR, it has a cost. Especially if you're a colo provider, powering off your whole facility (or, ideally, at least a room) to find smoke is going to have cost, even if all your customers have DR plans.

In most datacenters I've seen, I'd probably be willing to do a run through with IR cam/temp probe, or just visual inspection, with a handheld 1211, especially if I had a respirator, if it were just "smell of smoke". Clear view and path to two exits, someone at the EPO switch, etc.

The "big scary things" are battery plant and generator plant, and any kind of subfloor or ductwork. As long as the fire isn't in any of those, it's far less of a big deal. I probably wouldn't EPO a room for a server on fire, either -- just kill the rack, which takes slightly longer.

I've been in places where "smell of smoke" was a fucknozzle smoking a cigar or burning leaves outdoors outside an air intake, and another where it was a smoker's coat being put on an air handler.
> I've seen a more recent estimate that it would be $20 million to mount such an attack.

The point of BTC's resistance to attack is that as it grows as an economy it becomes harder to attack. It is vulnerable now because it's market cap is in the millions while the US gov't deals in trillions. If BTC markets ever came close to rivaling a fiat currency nobody would realistically be able to mount a trillion dollar or more hardware attack on the "good" guys in the block chain.
What kind of server room is this which is not equipped with smoke detectors?
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about decoding fMRI signals during dreaming into actual images. A paper
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but I've been unable to find a free copy. Some of the videos in the last
link below are really interesting.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/dream-decoder

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-scientists-peek.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6128/21.summary

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/04/03/science.1...
> I don't see how an informed consumer can't avoid this.

"Informed consumers" make up (at a guess) less than 5% of the overall smartphone market, for some value of being informed about online privacy.

Privacy advocates should raise hell about the potential issues of a facebook-image smartphone now if there's any chance of increasing awareness of the issues outside of "privacy enthusiast" circles.
My comment wasn't in anyway intended to be negative on the list, more just a broader comment on the Series A crunch. I think your list is certainly a valuable resource for people looking to raise venture money!
In any case, we're talking about something he did when he was 16. Sure, it's in the story because it definitely fits with the overall "bad decisions" theme, but I'm sure most people did stupid stuff at that age.
If governments tried to shut down the internet they would have significantly more enemies than just currency speculators to war with. Also, any first world economy that cut off the internet today would go back into the dark ages and would suffer a more severe recession than the great depression.

No government in the first world could realistically try to shut down the Internet. And if BTC gains transaction, it becomes harder and harder (eventually prohibitively so) for a gov't to disrupt the block chain or launch an attack on it.
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> Welcome to the New World Order where they can throw you into prison at will with supposed evidence which truth content can be hard to verify even by experts.

The article was really brief and vague. Are you sure this is the case?

From what I understand, the title is not completely descriptive: the kid has a maximum possible sentence of 10 years if he is convicted.

"The suspected hacker faces a maximum of 10 years jail time if convicted and will face court again on May 17."

I obviously have no way of really knowing what exactly happened without more information, but just assuming that random programmers are at risk for getting arrested is a bit of a stretch -- even if there is a "New World Order" as you say, it needs good programmers too...

It will be interesting to see what actually happens at the end of this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a sentence to community service and parole for some time.
Agree - but ideally these are just few exceptions. If these practices take over, then we may have a bigger issue to deal with and have a look at some serious refactoring of the infrastructure. e.g. too many legacy components may just require some rewriting or, if not possible, some kind of wrappers or facade patterns that makes the behavior self-readable (to the point where the legacy code is used).
Sorry, my choice of "doesn't concern me" language probably came across badly.
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First, let me say that I do agree with this post. PHP projects are more often than not full of inelegant solutions written by bad programmers. The "running background tasks in the foreground" is a good example; one that I _hate_ seeing in production.

The thing that I don't agree with though, is that you've described a "capable" programmer who uses good programming techniques and obviously knows how to structure an application. If this programmer is doing the "background-in-foreground" thing and hasn't heard of message queues, then I would argue that they aren't a capable programmer - in which case you're just describing bad programming practices; not a fundamental flaw of PHP.
No, what's funny is how differently people see the world.

You see a violent extortionate power, I see a cooperative, democratic government. You see parasitism of the monetary base, I see an important stabilising role in the common currency that keeps the economy ticking.

These are not words I use to gloss over "the underlying unpleasant reality", there is no "uncomfortable underlying truth that many people would prefer you would not state in such a blunt fashion". We genuinely have different views on these things.

This is one of the things I find so fascinating (and childish) about internet libertarians and objectivists - they assume that everyone that doesn't agree with them is either actively evil, totally deluded, or just hasn't been exposed to their self-evidently correct way of thinking yet.

I bet it never occurs to you that other people think about the very same things you do but can come to completely different conclusions?
Wow, I wonder what the range of that is. I.e. if I can use it to analyse the thermal loss of houses.
I'm just saying these things can quickly get more complicated than expected. I too had extinguishers handy at the time but of course I didn't know what to use them on (and neither did the FD for three hours). These electrical fires can be tricky to debug, especially when different kinds of barriers come into play.

> But it's pretty clear this wasn't a "real" datacenter by their lack of protocols for handling fire, it was some office server thing.

Probably. What's the right protocol though? In this case, it was apparently clear that something minor was amiss, nothing that would justify shutting down the whole thing. In any case, flooding the room with inert gas would probably not have made much of a difference, as it looks like the battery was never actually burning.
Money speaks a lot louder than PHD's who haven't made a competitive currency. Bitcoin is booming - nothing else is even on the radar. Bitcoin doesn't have to play ball with anyone if they are, by magnitudes, the largest digital currency in use.

So far, it works. If BTC stops working, you can expect everyone to jump ship and hopefully a more secure alternative will be developed with lessons learned from the BTC ride. But for now, unless you can produce an attack that can lose people money in the bitcoin ecosystem, ranting about theoretical cryptosecurity in digital currencies and how BTC only being as secure as the majority of the swarm allows doesn't make anyone hesitant to invest in bitcoin.

> I have no real problem with having a "bank" that issues currency

The problem with banks is that they can always act in their own self-interest to fuck over the holders of their currency, and by having the only right to "counterfeit" their currency they have abnormal economic power in the economy their currency drives. It is the reason the US Federal Reserve is so corrupt right now, can wildly print US dollars to their own discretion, which is effectively stealing from anyone holding dollars by devaluing the currency as a whole, and they can do it at their own whims.
I got downvoted on the first comment, which I thought was entirely ridiculous. So I responded, the first comment is now a +7 and the second at -4. Go figure.

I thought your comment was enlightening, though not in a good way so I upvoted it, btw.
No worries. You might find the vcdelta page interesting as well, it tracks changes to VC portfolio pages so captures rounds that may not be in Crunchbase:

http://neuvc.com/labs/vcdelta/
As I see it there is an ongoing propaganda to brainwash the masses about how hacking is a sin against life, and how we should routinely handle out prison sentences for it, so they can ruin the life of anybody at will, without consequences.

Especially, nowadays, when tech savvy people has more ways to spread rebellious views than the general population, this is a good control mechanism for those in power.
If stock markets and currency markets have taught us everything, to some degree, human behavior is slightly less random than a shuffled deck or rolled set of dice.

Just a bit, though. Not much.
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[ ] What separates the 10x devs from the 1x? (what _is_ it? Environment, skill, ...)
[X] 10x productivity myths (why you shouldn't believe it)
[ ] 10x productivity truths (but, but, it IS true, see?)
[ ] Be the 10x developer (aspiring to be one)
[ ] Startup perspective (should startups try to acquire 10x devs?)
[ ] Why the 10x notion pisses me off (why it shouldn't matter)
[ ] If 10x productivity why not 10x salary? (or similar)
[ ] Some meta discussion on the metrics of "productivity" (solve for x)
[ ] Technologies/Languages/Tools/Methodologies that facilitate/impede 10x?
[X] 10x in other professions?

I feel there is a cycle to this 10x talk on HN. Roughly twice a year, some post will trigger this event, at which and a series of posts are made and new articles written, as if oblivious the the last cycle.
It'd be nice if more thought went into other ways to thwart a possible attack

Given that the BitCoin community/industry has been getting hacked lots and there is widespread ignorance of security ("unsalted md5s for passwords!"), I don't have faith this'll change.
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