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I was originally responding to the challenge "aren't you taking Bossavit's claims on trust?"

I'm differentiating between Bossavit's claims about the citations from Bossavit's analysis and arguments. I have to take his claims about the articles and books on trust, because I haven't read them. On the other hand, I don't have to trust his analysis and arguments - I can evaluate those on my own.

In the case of DeMarco and Lister, for example, Bossavit writes "the only 'studies' reported on therein are the programming contests organized by the authors, which took place under loosely controlled conditions (participants were to tackle the exercises at their workplace and concurrently with their work as professional programmers)"

That's the only claim that I have to trust here. Everything else is analysis. McConnell agrees with that description of the citation, but disagrees that it invalidates DeMarco and Lister's research. He thinks that a programming contest that took place under loosely controlled conditions is a legitimate research study.
Because Rust and Clojure have have better excuses, maybe?

Rust is supposed to be as fast as C/C++ and TCO will slow it down.

Clojure can't have TCO because the Java Virtual Machine doesn't support it. So they have a workaround (trampolines).

Python doesn't support TCO because... it screws up stack traces?
http://www.thebubblebubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/st...

First sell-off - late 2011 whne the price dropped from $30 to $5.

Enthusiasm @ $50.
Greed @ $130

New paradigm over the last couple days.
https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/png/24hours.png?Currency=EUR / https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/png/24hours.png?Currency=USD

edit as per comment, thanks!
You don't own your gmail inbox, you don't own your twitter account, you don't own your facebook account. Google, Twitter, and Facebook own them. You don't even rent them. Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc, fully own them and fully control them at all times, retaining the right to do whatever they want with them at any time.
Sounds interesting, but theoretical. Any practical applications? I'm guessing it has some purpose on dealing with long string sequences, like genome sequencing?
Scheme certainly isn't hard, but given a choice between working on their codes or using a dirty hack to get on with their lives. Everybody I know choose to get on with their lives. A python interface would have been better.
Unless you actually wanted to transact business using Bitcoin as a unit of account.

Worth observing that the opposite swing, where BTC shoots up $50 in ten minutes or whatever, is just as harmful.
I can go right to my online bank and have them send a payment to anyone in the country, at zero charge.
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And I still prefer the free flot or flotr2, because they are easier to modify.
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Mtgox trading engine lag: 3865.59s

With gyrations like that and one hour order execution lag there isn't a regulator in the world that wouldn't halt that market. Comparing this to investing in a roulette game would be unfairly characterizing the risks in roulette.
>>Am I missing something?

Yes. Tesla would have to license to other dealers which is what it doesn't want to do.
A public review of article X by reviewer Y would often be quite different than a double-blind review of the same article by the same reviewer.

There are some arguments for both approaches, but I believe that the double-blind approach is much better.
Not bad for a weekend, but http://www.tldrstuff.com does a much better job. Especially where the sentences don't break on . like where J. R. R. Tolkien is concerned.

And The TLDR Plugin works with HTML and on all western languages.
Does this mean Rust's `be` keyword can be retired? :)
Fucks sake. I went to cash out a few this morning. The transfer didn't show in my MtGox account for an hour so I went out for the day and come home to this.
I got the same problem, opened up the Javascript Console, seems to be some error where something is null. Not quite sure how I can sell or buy at the moment unless I try writing something up with their API.
I can't speak for Clojure, but Rust's rationale for omitting TCO is based on sound engineering issues (as articulated) whereas Guido's sole reason for omitting it (as far as I've seen) is that you lose stack trace information, which is considered something of a red herring (as you can always selectively disable TCO for debugging, and there are ways of retaining stack information anyway.) Note that the original article here is quite disappointed that they can't include TCO, because it would be a valuable tool and allow for different, efficient styles of programming.
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Doesn't loop/recur only help in directly self-recursive calls, as opposed to mutual recursion or tail calls to function arguments?
> Can someone explain me why this could happen?

The market value of a speculative commodity can move for any reason at all, as its entirely a consensus among the people buying and selling as to what other people will be willing to accept for it in the future.

> Large amounts of BTCs moving at the same time

The charts from mtgox seem to show that volume picked up after the price had plateaued and maybe dropped a little bit and then volume shot up further again after it went through a trough and a lower peak and started back down again, and once it got down around 200 volume dropped briefly and then picked way up (with a lot more price volatility) again when it dropped further to below 175.

Intuitively say that the first volume pickup was largely profit taking from the plateau and maybe the slight drop, after the slight rebound and smaller peak, I suspect the longer drop was panic selling, and right now (or, given the apparent delay, an hour or so ago) the high volume, high volatility oscillation is a combination of panic selling, bargain shopping for investment, and people taking advantage of arbitrage opportunities between the low price at mtgox and higher prices on other exchanges. But that's mostly just guesswork based on the look of the price and volume graphs.

Where it goes from here...well, we'll see.
What should you google to find out about how people with goods/services are handling instability in currency value? Even if a vendor updated pricing indexed to the dollar regularly (which is not desirable at all) it's seems like it would still be hard to manage keeping any cash reserves of a currency that is not a stable store of value. I'd be interested to read about what vendors are doing to deal with this.
>> I should have been more clear -- I mean sustained fusion generation, meaning a net energy gain over that required to start the reaction in the first place. That hasn't been achieved.

> Yes, it has.

No, it has not. Apart from stars and thermonuclear weapons, there are no fusion reactions that yield more energy than they require, i.e. the achieve break-even. It has not happened.

> Thus, if you can do fusion at all, you will end up with more total energy than you started with.

You just changed the subject. Apart from stars and weapons, existing experimental fusion reactions produce much less energy than is required to create them. For example, all the laboratory experiments to date.

Also, very important, in a fusion reactor at less than break-even, the input power must be used to perpetually sustain the reaction (the state of the plasma), so that power is unavailable for any other purpose. Only the fusion reaction's power can be exploited.

So in a hypothetical reactor that requires 1000 watts to sustain fusion but produces 250 watts of fusion power, only the 250 watt fraction is expoitable -- the original power must be reserved for heating the plasma. That's why break-even is essential.

>> If this project were to succeed, it would instantly replace the existing approaches (i.e. tokamak and laser inertial confinement) as the most promising candidate for large-scale fusion power generation.

> No, it wouldn't.

Yes, it would. Given a power gain > 1, it would be child's play to generate steam and spin a turbine, as just one example.

> And research into fusion generators that work pretty much like that has been and is being done.

To date, there have been no -- that's NO -- laboratory fusion generators that produce more power than they require for initiation.
Now at $150?
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It's not irrelevant. The 4th amendment is enforced primarily by the exclusionary rule. The fact that Carnivore, Echelon, etc, can get to your e-mail anyway doesn't mean that the government can introduce it as evidence in court. To the extent that the 4th amendment doesn't extend to the stuff you store on Google's, Facebook's, etc, servers, the government can introduce that as evidence against you.
I just saw them mention it on CNBC its national news surely hackernews should be discussing the technical aspects of national news, especially when it involves a virtual internet currency.
I didn't say that. But the market value of something is the price at which you can currently buy and sell it, regardless of anyone else claims.
As a UX Designer and front-end guy a lot of the appeal is being able to build something functional without a lot of help.

You are correct about the taking off part. If any of my ideas were to take off then I would need to swap out one of these services for an actual back-end.
well, when you're searching tech job boards, it sure matters. As (another) Systems Engineer (in the sense of Von Bertalanffy not Von Neumann), searching for relevant jobs is a _huge_ annoyance. I've given up on titles, and search for, or look at, job descriptions, filtering mentally the various keywords that are positive and negative indicators for what I do (feedback controls, operations research, etc.).
Legality is an interesting question. I would guess it would not be illegal to manipulate the bitcoin protocol for personal gains, however any fraud committed would probably be illegal on its own merits.
We haven't limited it.

There's a couple of movie makers currently selling 2-4 GB files.

EDIT: HN won't let me reply any more to the thread. Email me directly and we can chat hany@ribbon.co
The system is biased against letting people work a shorter work week in the US for professional positions. a) Health insurance is partially paid by employers, creating a lot of overhead for each employee, and the cost is the same whether they work 20 hrs or 60 hrs. and b) most professionals are exempt from paying OT to salaried employees, so there is no disincentive to not push your employees to work longer than 40hrs/wk
I currently work at a company with a monolithic Rails app that we are looking to break into a SOA and port parts of it to other, more efficient stacks.

Part of the problem with Ruby is that you really need to throw massive hardware at it to get it to scale in the 2-3K requests/sec range that other stacks can reach with more commodity hardware. Depending on your situation, this may be something you're ready and able to do and may solve your scaling problems better than switching stacks. But if you're really trying to scale on low end hardware or virtual servers to minimize complexity/cost, Rails can be a challenge. At Twitter/AirBnB scale it just becomes ridiculous.
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The law of the land shouldn't cater to one company or group.
Does this mean the prices reported are not real-time or does this mean it takes 1hr+ for your order to be executed?
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The problem is the prices of physical goods through bitcoin-accepting vendors are pinned to USD prices, albeit by proxy through bitcoin. Automatically adjusting the price of items, even using an average, doesn't change the fact both you and the vendor run a high risk of taking a potentially huge opportunity cost.
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> If all of the population decided to not pay taxes tomorrow, what power US government has to make them pay up?

If all the population did that, that would mean the government had decided that. The population and the government aren't disjoint sets.
Their data is just pulled from mtgox and blockchain.info, both of which have been fairly unreliable today (mtgox more so). It does have a nice way of presenting the information though.
awesome ! I believe you've nailed a very painful pain for app developers/owners.

Wish you all success.

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> late 90s

Ahh, that explains it.
Price and ease-of-use is a huge differentiating factor between ZenPayroll and other large payroll providers like ADP/Paychex. Unlike many payroll companies, we're a tech-company at heart and we're constantly writing software to make payroll more delightful for small-business owners, and now accountants and bookkeepers.

We're starting our roll out to other states this quarter and will eventually have much of the US covered soon.

Just curious -- you mentioned that ADP offers hefty referral bonuses to accountants. Can you elaborate more on what they are?
I'll take a stab at the answer:

1) Their PPC marketing has been solid since the beginning. They really did an excellent job at targeting and remarketing to build the brand name since the beginning.

I have to laugh, as they are the top result for "Google Website Optimizer".

2) Google's shutting down of GWO as a standalone product seems to have benefitted them nicely.

Frankly, I was seriously considering Optimizely after GWO shutdown. I decided to give the Google's new optimizer built into GA a try, and it is actually much nicer to use than their old standalone product.

Of course GWO/Experiments is terrible when someone other than developers are designing the A/B tests.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algorithms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_structures
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Nationwide and 15% of homes is kinda different. I say this because Verizon did spend tens of billion on FIOS and barely reached tens of millions of people.

Also doing it in a few cities as an experiment and doing it as telecom provider are very different too (heavily regulated and extremely expensive). Just imagine what it takes to dig in Manhattan with all the permits, payments, licenses, unions etc etc...
Yes, true, but neither scenario has a working model of a fusion generator with power gain > 1.

> if you want a stationary generator that doesn't melt your city you have to contain that plasma, which is very, very energy-intensive.

Actually, if you think about it, a rocket engine that can create a fusion reaction and direct the energy out "the back" as you put it, and a power generator that also directs fusion energy to a secondary process, are very similar. In the extreme case, you could take the space device, put it in a vacuum chamber, and direct the thrust into a steam generator.
This thing where people frame the currency as a commodity to invest in for huge profit seems like it is driving instability that makes the currency less useful as a currency.
Once you formalize the process, how do you get people to buy into it? This seems like a typical techie thing of coming up with a mathematical solution to an issue that is really more about human psychology. When you have admittedly linkbaity websites screaming "Bitcoint has lost half of its value" all over the place, good luck explaining to people that we should really be averaging the value and everything is fine, and keep selling your goods at the current average price, etc.

This all speaks to the immense difficultly of real-world adoption of any currency that isn't backed by real government policy.
Some countries forbid private currency exchanges (ie Venezuela) or face international sanctions (ie Iran).

If you're middle class you may be worried about a government collapse, ending up as a refugee, hyperinflation, or government seizure.

Bitcoin is a reasonable way to store wealth in those cases.
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You are being too harsh (again). Whatever problems you deal with, whatever mistakes you make in your professional work, are also solved problems, using some technology that is unacceptable to you (probably for very good reasons).

You could have been informative and made your original point tactfully. Instead, you badmouthed a certain technology without even naming the stuff that was supposedly better. I'm a Haskell evangelist and agree with you 100%, and you came off like a jerk even to me.
I find the argument that Gold and Silver are currently in "bubbles" to be unfounded. I think in the future as central banks across the planet continue their reckless expansionary monetary policies, the potential is certainly there. However I don't think we're at that point yet. If you contrast the current precious metals market with the tech and housing bubbles, you don't see the masses running out to buy gold and silver on credit. Nor do you have a Federal government subsidizing this behavior adding more air in the bubble.
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In theory, yes. I've seen more than one woman "confess" that creepiness was more a factor of attraction - that the same behavior from two men was considered creepy, unless the woman was attracted to one, in which case it was considered acceptable, even positively (and though I'm wary of ascribing fiction as another anecdote - witness female-oriented fiction, such as Interview With A Vampire, Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey as being heavily tinged with behavior that, if there wasn't attraction, even if unexplored / unannounced as yet, would be unacceptable).
Screw it, we might as well use Go

Seriously though, why not just use a rec keyword and then disallow any of the things that don't play nicely when you're in the recursive function? If you really wanted to be cool you could put those things right into the type system.
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That's correct. It should be possible to have an explicit guarantee of TCO while maintaining the ability to write things that aren't trivially reducible to loops...
That's the big difference between Google and say, Apple or Amazon. At other companies, this pressure would cause the formation of a new profit center. For Google, they see it as a quagmire of responsibilities.
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Which are the apps that provide hosted metrics? I know of 2 - https://metrics.librato.com/ and http://www.stathat.com/
I wish I could agree with you whole-heartedly but I cannot.

I place a high value on treating others with respect, helping without expecting anything in return, etc. For some things, yes, I see clear evidence of "good karma" coming back to me. For other things, I feel like my life is a case of "no good deed goes unpunished." I am pretty angry and bitter about it. I feel like I must be doing something wrong somewhere, like I am stupidly casting pearls before swine or something.

I can't figure out why I keep getting used and walked on. I can't figure out how to get taken seriously and turn all this supposed good karma to financial benefit in a business way. I strongly suspect part of it is that I am female and a lot of people seem to see me as motherly and seem to think "motherly" means I should cut my own throat for their benefit.

At this point, articles of this sort just kind of piss me off. If going around being nice and helpful really paid, I should be a rich woman by now. But somehow that just does not happen for me. I wonder if women need some opposite message, if this message benefits those who already know all about extracting value from others.

I don't know the answer. I just know that reading stuff like this feels like salt in very raw wounds for me.
People are inherently biased. It's impossible for any person to read news and not inject their own personal tendencies into a summary they write.
A daily range of $70-259 shows how over hyped/heated this thing is. Buy low sell high if you're trying to make money. Stay out if you have any common sense at all.
It might be useful to people with bad credit scores.
Yeah, NO ONE saw this coming :)
Of course DDOS attacks, split market places and a gains of 100% per week for a few months are going to require hard falls.
I do not believe that common courtesy should have anything to do with properly positioning oneself, scoring points, earning a good reputation, or anything else remotely associated with a "zero-sum game".

We should be courteous for one reason only: because it's the right thing to do.

The older I get, the more I realize how unimportant most details are and how critical some of the big issues are. I don't think anyone said it better that Hillel: "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."
Buy gold and silver instead.
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Hi HN!
I have been a lurker for about a year, and I just created this account (and this first post) to ask you guys what you think of this new product idea I found:
Here's their website: http://gostacked.com/
Here's the kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1017518008/gostacked-hybrid-smart-case-system-for-iphone

The ability to have different attachments on the back of your phone with different functionalities (key fob, fm transmitter, solar panel, etc) seems really exciting to me, and would be something that I think I'd regularly use.
What do you guys think? Would you be interested in purchasing such a product?
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I can't follow the "breaking the rules" argument in this thread: They were talking to several people at Apple and were told everything is ok.

Additionally Apples rules are not clear guidelines, everybody is in some kind of validation.
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Hope you're right for your own sake...imaginary money is at the end of the day imaginary...doesn't matter if I hold it in paper or if it's set by an algorithm.
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People buying at 180$/btc when the price is at 130? Nothing suspicious here, move along.
Outdated technology like this?
http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/computers.jp...

DPRK has modern computers. DPRK has internet connections. It has smart people who did well in maths class and know how to program. It has very tight control on all of this, but it has it. Hell, if they needed some more off the shelf PCs, they could just wander across the border into China and buy some; the train crossing into Dandong was full of DPRK citizens going into China.
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Is it just me or does this seem very much like mainframe architecture from 30 years ago? Not that 30yr design is bad. More that all trends/technology are cycles.
Sometimes, you need to look for the simple answers not the "exotic" ones. This pile of rocks was created by ships, merchant ships to be specific. You see back in the day you needed a ship with a lot of buoyancy to carry a lot of cargo, more cargo, more money. But unlike today's ships which use computers to pump on or pump out water as needed, your typical merchant 4000 years ago would get a big rock on the 'empty' run (when they were just returning with profits to get more trade goods) and they would dump the rock overboard just before port so they could fill up on oils or skins or other trinkets.

Not very exciting I know. Sorry about that.

[1] ballast pile as result of wreck -- http://www.marinearcheology.org/Shooner.htm
The problem with that is, however, that you also couldn't sell at that price because it was just a cached page.
The lock on my door is to prevent someone from pretending to be me to enter my property. This is not the same as trying to keep my stuff private or safe.

Note how your statement does not hold in the real world.
and just wait for the SEC to reverse their recent no action decision when the people on the losing end start crying foul.