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Rather than the Cauchy-sequence approach for reals, you could just use a symbolic representation with a standard set of simplification rules, like most Computer Algebra Systems, with resort to floating point approximation for explicit inexact operations (including approximate comparisons).

For strict equality, if two reals have the same symbolic simplification, they are equal, otherwise, not. For greater than or less than comparisons (on possibly a "tolerant" form of equality), but if you can't resolve the comparison symbolicly using a set of guaranteed-to-terminate operations, you can resort to calculating floating point approximations of the reals and then comparing those. You might even have "exact" comparison operations that throw an exception if they can't be resolved without resorting to floating point approximations, and "tolerant" comparisons that allow approximations.
As a way for people to check out the backend and get a feel for everything. I've thought about removing the free option, would you recommend it?
My experience is that the use term "Aspie" divides the people I know who are diagnosed with Asperger's; it's similar to the way people are divided over the use of the word "hacker".

It has negative connotations to some, but if you are precise in the way you define the term, it can be a source of pride.
You've got to bear in mind that they're talking to reddit. I think thats a fair description of why they can't upgrade at the drop of a hat. As they say elsewhere in the AMA:

We are big in the bitcoin world, but compared to a Facebook or a Google or even a bank we are too small and don't have access to their technology

What would you have them do?
Touche -- that's a good point.
Its time developers took gaming less seriously. When I was growing up every game had codes and one of the best parts of the nes/snes/sega era was game genie. I didn't even want a system without the game genie. Nowadays, developers don't want you bashing through their games. Some games like COD's will let you put in codes only after beating the campaign mode. Because every gamer is like, oh wow I beat that now let me do it with codes on...' The other thing I have found is like in Red Dead Redemption where you can use codes, but you cant save the game if you use them.

I spend a crap load on games. Its come to the point now where I will check if a game has cheat codes before I purchase it. IMHO Assassin Creed 3, Far Cry 3, both super shitty games. And on top of being super shitty games the developers are wont let you control the world and insist you play the game the way it was intended.

Developers taking games too serious is ruining video games. Its not suppose to be serious its a video game, at least thats what my friends tell me after I cuss them out for beating me in Fifa...
> AppGratis is a media, and like all media, it runs on advertising.

In most media the advertising and the content are separate things and clearly demarcated. That's the problem that's being highlighted here. AppGratis' content was its advertising.

Ostensible media which is being paid for positive reviews/highlighting of subjects has always been viewed as unethical.

I don't know how much of AppGratis' highlighted apps were paid for, but if the answer is "any", then I think they violated their users' trust.
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Obligatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

That said, I think the real answer is "it's complicated". I'm pretty some businesses benefit from Social Media, but I expect there are a lot of variables that affect how much value they derive from it.

It also depends on how, exactly, you define "social media". It's become a bit of a catch-all term these days, and to the extent that it's been very generalized, I'd argue that the answer to the posed question is even more "No".

Anyway, FWIW, one more anecdote for you... so far the vast majority of the traffic to our blog and our website is traffic from links submitted here at HN, on Reddit, through Tweets, posted on G+, Facebook and LinkedIn, etc. We spend essentially nothing (other than a little bit of my time) on this, but I believe it is increasing our exposure and brand awareness. Social Media activity also seems to contribute to generating backlinks, which improve our positioning with the search engines.

We're still "pre revenue" so it doesn't make sense to talk about the ROI of our social media efforts yet, but my impression is that it's a valuable part of our effort to get the word out, without spending a pile of money.

shrug
And BART and Muni and AC Transit and WestCAT and...

But yes, the SF<->SV corridor is Caltrain and company shuttles mostly.
One of my friends in the mobile space told me about some app doing this, but I don't know if AppGratis. At least one mobile app was offering a free app of the day and charging thousands of dollars for the placement.

Not my strong area, but I will point out that the rest of the blogger's post is fantasy. If you are correct, then nothing he wrote is right.

- Paid links is not blackhat SEO. Blackhat SEO involves building links though browser exploits and spam & getting referrals from hijacked pages that rank well. Major newspaper brands sell paid links. No one would call them or their customers blackhat. In fact, buying links is considered whitehat SEO.

- Paid results absolutely do not take in to account a user's satisfaction. Google has a list of prohibited types of ad customers some of which is strictly enforced (things that are illegal under federal law) and other parts that are not enforced at all.

- Studies have shown a large % of Google users do not even understand that the top ads are ads. Take a look at it some tip on an older LCD screen with a poor viewing angle and you will notice the pink background color is imperceptible. This is intentional.

- Google's job is not to provide the best results. It is to provide the results that benefit them best. ( http://www.benedelman.org/news/011212-1.html )

I'm not sure who the original author is, but it is a bit disturbing to me that there are people in this industry that have swallowed Google's propaganda in its entirety, and then are applying those concepts to the world at large. Assuming he is not a Google employee, I think he may be in for a shock on how brutal, inconsistent, and cut throat this business is.
You say it like these things are mutually exclusive. I know of several people who fall into both categories.

For instance, one of my good friends is one of the smartest programmers I have ever met. I've been bothering him to come down to our hackerspace (shameless plug: http://heatsynclabs.org) for YEARS, and he recently started obliging.

I came in one day and saw him sitting at a workbench hovering over a microscope.

Me: "Hey, Trav, what are you doing?"

Him: "Sharpening knives."

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Ah, yes, of course. Because most people who want to sharpen a knife head down to the lab with a bottle of aluminum oxide because they want to use the microscope.

In the month since then, he has become an encyclopedia of knives. Every material, every manufacturer, every sharpening technique. I was at his house the other day picking him up for a road trip to Colorado, and his workshop is filled with sharpening stones (and rods) and different knives. On the ~9hr drive to CO, we went back and forth, me soaking up seemingly everything I could about knives.

Next month he's going to present at our little Tedx style event at the lab. (Members present on a topic they're knowledgable about).

But this obsessive learning technique isn't limited to knives. Back when we were roomates, he decided that he wanted to build a stepper motor controller, and I don't mean "assemble the kit from adafruit". He wanted to build a controller for the type of ultra-high-performance DC stepper motors found in hobby airplanes and helicopters because he wanted to build a quadcopter, but didn't want to use somebody else's electronics design. I spent that summer learning, by proxy, about control theory, what is back EMF, what do "closed loop" and "open loop" mean? How do motor controllers work, and why?

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Examples of my friend aside, I think that your #2 is enabled by the traits that make up your #1, or that they can at least feedback into each other. You get the super broad domain knowledge because you've gone really, really deep into a few subjects, and can intuit most of the rest of the domain because of it.
I didn't realize that there was a built in gumroad refund policy.

Charge backs in that case are sleazy.
If you repeatedly add 2^-25 to a single accumulator register, then you'll hit a wall (1-2^-25 is not representable). If you do something less efficient like pairwise addition or Kahan summation, then you can avoid that problem.
Heroku has long been investing in making programming education available to more people just by providing their free tier. Continuing and expanding their support for engineers contributing to educational programs is smart for Heroku, just as is investing in open source software. Both endeavors benefit Heroku's marketing, recruitment, and employee satisfaction.

And, just like contributing to open source, helping with educational programs has hardly any barrier-to-entry, and is something pretty much any tech company can get into. At the very least, encouraging engineers to participate in programs like Rails Girls is something every company should do. It's just smart.
It's only barely more 1-1 than C to assembly is without any optimization steps. When you see a C program, you have a very good idea what the assembly will look like.
Most of us wouldn't think of contacts as security information that needs to be kept private. Unless you've been through the account recovery process yourself, you're very unlikely to worry that accepting a contact request could let someone else hijack your account.

This is even worse than all those 'Where were you born?' security questions. At least with those you see that the site is using it for security, and you can choose to make up an answer. This way, you don't know what you need to keep secret until it's too late.
Then surely you would support the argument in the linked article which would allow building more square feet of living space by increasing allowed building heights, right?

You're equating living space with physical land area, and that's not right at all.
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The existing San Franciscans seem to be pretty effective NIMBY-ites too... and for a city that seems so proud of being progressive, they can be pretty damn reactionary about changing anything.
Any willfully ignorant nerds should read the bill's text, which is available here: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h624/text
This.

"Caveat emptor" applies heavily in b2b transactions be they financial or otherwise. If you're buying a product then you need to spend money to hire sophisticated buyers, because if your buyers are dumber than the sales-people you're buying from they're going to be fleeced.

This is true if your buying a financial asset, a car or an enterprise software licence.

Just because Oracle sells into companies that could just as well have used postgres that doesn't mean that Oracle aren't producing anything of value, it just means they're taking advantage of the buyer being less sophisticated than they are.
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There are [extroverts] and there are [introverts]. You can choose your own two words for those placeholders.

As an [introvert], I would find such an approach both overwhelming and uncomfortable.

In work socializing, as in most of the rest of life, I believe in "opt-in". I'd rather have the choice to engage when and where I see fit.

I'll take one more pass at this: The new person is joining an established social structure (through the convention and primary focus of getting work done and earning a living).

From my perspective, the type of attitude described in the OP forces a lot of social interaction, and perhaps an immediate, corresponding sense of social obligation / reciprocity upon the new person who is, grand gesture aside, still an outsider.

I would rather get to know people and have the chance to decide who and how I genuinely like, at my own pace.

I know how to get along professionally with most anyone. Whom I like and with whom I want to really socialize, is my decision and is a more nuanced decision that takes some time.

And I don't do "fake". Turning the "social" to 11 on the first day, feels like forcing me towards either awkward, if and as I'm not ready to genuinely reciprocate at similar volume and enthusiasm, or towards fake.

Help me to focus on the work, so that I feel like I'm up to speed and contributing. On my own, I'll feel more comfortable, socially, then. That, to me, feels more like putting things in the right order. Be friendly, sure -- but with a bit of reserve, so that I can feel comfortable exercising the same.
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Hello HN community. Usually, I write open source code and release it to this community for you to all enjoy, but last time i released this code, I expected more feedback than I had actually received. That being said, I would benefit greatly from some feedback, whether it is about my code or my process of publicizing it. Any help would be great!

https://github.com/jakiestfu/Snap.js

Enjoy!
That's...that's not how it works. I was talking about the scalability of the database as that's a brick wall you hit long before anything else. You can always fire up more rails workers, scaling persistence is a PITA.

Are you intentionally misunderstanding me in order to make a strange and irrelevant point?
Not to detract from your metaphor, but I think the main problem with scaling is to make as much as possible parallel, so that you can throw more cores / servers at it. Often this is at the expense of raw big-O efficiency I guess.

I guess in terms of your business metaphor, that would be establishing 'big company' things like written processes, constrained departments, and managers who don't code, so that more people can work for the company than the founders can talk to in a week.
I agree that the article perpetuates broad over-generalizations about people with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

On the other hand, if you are high-functioning enough for the advice in the article to not apply to you, I would also hope that you are high-functioning enough to tell your manager(s) and co-workers what accommodations you do and don't need.
I think American public policy has a hard time grappling with Wall Street because the financial sector has disproportionate lobbying power.

Also, I don't think most Americans care about how free from regulation the financial sector is. Most people have a feeling that Wall Street is screwing over everybody and there's nothing they can do about it.

I'm not exactly sure who you mean by "we," either. Hacker News commenters?
>When $50K of BitCoins is stolen today, and is $500K of BitCoin five years from now, every last cent of that filthy lucre can be monitored with acute cryptographic precision until the end of time.

Thats just false. Its easy to convert Bitcoin into other altcoins. And then convert those alt coins into other altcoins. And then convert those alt coins into Euros/Rubles/USD. And in the future some of these alt coin chains will vanish totally and it will take a miracle to recover the block chain history.
I believe the keyword here is "average". There are probably examples of cases on both ends of the spectrum: cases that dragged on to be very expensive and others that were resolved with a phone call or letter.
IMO if a game doesn't make me think about the characters and story after I'm done with the game, there wasn't much thoughtful art that would appeal to me there, anyway. Some games are straight up artistic expressions that go beyond trying to provide immediate fun in the here and now. For those, I naturally think about what happened in the game while and after I'm done with it.

PS: Video Game Tropes:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameGenres?f...
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You are now 1/3rd of the discussion and I find it interesting! Looks like you don't decide anything anymore!
Despite it's sensationalist tone, this article raises certain issues that deserve to be raised.

The link between Aspergers and the infuriating (and abusive) behavior of certain tech companies seems extremely plausible.

Having Aspergers does not make someone an innocent victim, especially if they yield considerable power. People don't dislike Zuckerberg for having Asperger's, they dislike him for his behavior and policies.
Most people have probably first encountered the word forte in the context of music, where, as an Italian word, it is actually pronounced "for-tay".
I guess, but Bitcoin's security comes from the protocol and network design, not something inherent to C++.
I get that Bitcoin is now attracting much more mainstream media coverage, but do we really need to rehash the same debate every time this sort of thing appears under a new byline?
Perversion also has a spectrum. Calling it a spectrum allows you to talk about two people, one with an extreme condition, and another relatively normal, in the same breath. One would wonder why one would be inclined to use language like that, unprofessional almost.
If you believe that Lie theory is "pratical," then yes. See John Baez's excellent survey: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/
Hi there. American living in France and helping others to move to other countries.

If you don't speak French, it can be much harder to integrate into French companies, but more and more IT companies in France are growing and realizing that they've no choice but to adopt English, at least to a degree. Almost everyone in my office speaks English. However, I've leaving to go freelance and maybe that's your opportunity? If you can find remote work, you might be able to make it work.

As for "can you afford it", that's hard to say. Most work is in Paris, but Paris is ridiculously expensive. My wife and I have a two-bed flat with a garden for €1,350 a month and everyone's stunned by how inexpensive it is (we're actually outside Paris by a five minute walk).

As for salary, that's going to be whatever you can blag off of your employer. They tend to be a bit lower than what I was seeing the UK, but I think that's largely due to the 3 month notice period requirement. That makes employees expensive if you get the wrong one, so employers (IMHO) compensate by offering a lower wage. I can't honestly say what you'd be looking at, but in Paris with only 2.5y, I'd be surprised if you'd get more than €40 or €45K, but you'll certainly be offered less!

Instead, maybe check out the larger cities such as Lyon or Bordeaux? Lower costs, still large enough to have an IT industry.

What's your IT background? There's a world of difference in opportunities between a VB hacker and a C hacker :)
What about Red Hat's Openshift or VMware's Cloud Foundry?

http://openshift.github.io/

http://cloudfoundry.github.io/
The reason that developers are removing cheat codes is so that they can sell them to you via downloadable content or in-app purchase (such as nearly every EA game made in the last couple years).

That's why game modding has been popular (and made super-easy due to Steam Workshop), but that's PC only.
I've worked as a patent prosecutor for a top ranked patent prosecution firm; and I know first hand that most patents are 'pencil patents' worthless subtle distinctions that are allowed because 'obvious' arguments do not stand up.

However, some innovations, maybe 1 in 1000, are really worthy. And if the inventor did not have some way to protect their research - google or microsoft or anyone else could usurp the idea from the average joe who spent a lot of research and effort to resolve the invention. just my 2 cents.
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> Cloud solutions are not meant for large scale operations such as trading systems

Arguably, hosted cloud solutions aren't ideal for large scalable operations, if you define "large scale" as in "someone with the scale of Amazon, Google, etc. that can afford to run a private cloud."

But MtGox makes it pretty clear that they aren't on that scale. Their argument seems to be simultaneously that they are both too "large scale" for hosted cloud solutions and too small scale to be able to effectively address the challenges they face in-house, which, if we accept it, seems to indicate that they are at a scale that cannot effectively operate.
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I'm bullish on Bitcoin, but I'm glad this particular bubble has apparently/maybe/possibly burst. Now hopefully the media will stop writing dumb articles about Bitcoin, and we can get back to working on making Bitcoin better to actually support the transaction growth needed to sustain the prices we've seen.
There's lots of good books on the topic (It is a hot field after all). But I really wish there was a good online community for the subject along with NLP and AI.
"Social media" is considered to be a noun to define that type of site/community/service/etc. and can therefore be used in singular. The title is worded as "Is <concept> ..." rather than "are all the things that make up <concept>...".
Although it didn't warrant a clickable image in this post, reveal.js is a very well-designed and actively-developed framework.

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js
"Bitcoin's security comes from the protocol and network design"

If we ignore the already-known polynomial time attacks on that protocol, I suppose that statement is true.
There is definitely a subtte trolling factor on our name, no reason to hide it. But it does not affect to the fact that moot.it is a damn good name for a product like ours. In case we get popular (which might be the case considering the title of this Hacker News post) this trolling factor will decease.

Speaking strictly about the branding I really think it doesn't matter whether the inherent meaning is closed or open. Product naming is an art form and it doesn't have to be realistic.

I hope we can use Moot successfully on our issue tracker

http://moot.it/issues

So we can "close the debate" on those moots :)
Just because Oracle sells into companies that could just as well have used postgres that doesn't mean that Oracle aren't producing anything of value,..

Oracle doesn't sell software. They sell risk reduction. Someone to sue or blame.

Once you understand that, you see how brilliantly they've achieved product/market fit in a way many people here can only dream of.
Yes. This is true.

Also, on your quoted statement:
I do not believe the author consider money laundering with bitcoins. Say I steal $500k worth of bitcoins. I contact launder XYZ and he places my $500k worth of coins with $5.5mil worth of coins, then, funnels using smaller amounts to a multitude of addresses back to the thief. Since there are so many transactions to/from in the Launder's wallet, it would be hard to trace past that point where the $500k actually went.
It's definitely wider but I wouldn't say JohnBooty has tunnel vision. He was just responding to p6v53as's comment which was about understanding people.
Actually, there's another similarity to biology. This also advertises to any other patent trolls thinking of suing them 'We are willing and able to fight back'. So patent trolls will pick on some other company that's more likely to pay up.

Some species of antelope, when pursued by a predator, will suddenly leap high into the air, jumping from all four feet at once. This is called stotting, and the best theory for why they do it is to signal to the predator: 'look, I can afford to waste energy doing this while you're chasing me; better focus on something a bit slower and weaker'.
Well, running a lightweight desktop helps. I cannot say how much, though. Try monitoring wakeups using powertop while your machine is iddling. Anything above 30 or 40 is bad.