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Wait, "Deal" means paid placement and "Discovery" does not? Or is it the opposite? How exactly is it you think this is clear?

It is true that there is certainly plenty of 'old school' media that intentionally confuses the difference between paid-placement advertisements and editorial content too. And venues that do that are disrespected and considered deceitful too, even if there are plenty of them.
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Have you considered the option of actually paying taxes like a respectable member of society?
Have you used tent? What has been your experience with it?
It's good. I wrote my own rainbow table code several years ago, and I had to read and re-read white papers and wikipedia articles for several days until it finally clicked. This would have helped a lot.
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Do you refer to the "40% attack" also? You know, the one where the attacker only does 40% of the work of the entire network, and has a 1/2 chance of successfully forking the block chain.

There is nothing wrong or misleading about calling it a "polynomial time attack," because that is what it is.
Each bitcoin has an attached chain of transactions. If it's a matter of public record that a certain address belonged to say, Stephen Colbert, then you can definitely brag that you own Colbert's bitcoin. (That he donated to the Libertarian Party or something.)
If I give gratitude, then, you demand a separate kind because it does not suit your tastes seems more rude than my ignorance of what you initially wanted in exchange. The example of currency follows a completely different set of rules than gratitude of the 'thank you' nature for me. I suppose I am not one to judge what is(n't) rude.
I agree with you here, there are certainly skills to be gained from playing games, and World of Warcraft could certainly be giving a lot as far as social interaction, cooperation, and leadership.

Even the horrible example I was thinking of (Call of Duty) has some benefits.

The problem is, I don't see real life ever being as seductive emotionally as the gaming life. More and more our synthetic realities (video games, social media) are becoming more emotionally charged than our physical layer of reality.

Just look at the number of people walking down the street with their faces in their phones. When they come home it's back to the computers and video games.

Where do we regain the ability to focus in the real world? Or is the constant distraction the new norm for us as a culture?
I'm no expert in scalable algorithms, but my rudimentary understanding is that there are a few different ways to handle a problem with n inputs when n becomes a very large number:

1. Run it on a faster processor

2. Rewrite your algorithm so that it can run in parallel and the tasks can be divided among more cores/processors/servers

3. Rewrite your algorithm so that it's non-locking and the tasks can be completed asynchronously

4. Rewrite your algorithm so that each task takes less time (fewer/faster queries, fewer array accesses, fewer object instantiations, etc).

In terms of the analogy, #1 is equivalent to working harder on the problem--just throwing more time/money/energy at it. Staying late at the office. This is the wrong approach in programming and in life, because it does not scale with the size of the problem.

#2 and #3 are basically division of labor and task delegation in order to divide the time that it takes to complete the problem. This gets the job done faster but at a cost--you're paying for more heads to work on the job.

#4 is finding a better/cheaper/faster way to do each individual task or sub-task in the problem. It's improving your big-O. Having a better big-O alone will not make #2 and #3 unnecessary, but it will exponentially increase the effect of #2 and #3. It's what business types call a "force multiplier." It's really just reducing the amount of sub-tasks an individual worker has to do in order to satisfactorily complete a task. It's achieving the same thing by doing less.
Well I think that the United States will simply be eclipsed on the world stage if it does not develop more mega-cities.

However, I am not saying that we should promote massive growth of concentrated centers without addressing the social, psy, and enviro impact! Because the purpose of a great city is not to build buildings but to create the best conditions for people to cooperate and concentrate their efforts.

Also, I am not saying that a place like San Fran has to or even should make the sacrifice. Because going big is a huge sacrifice that destroys a lot of wonderful things.

So, as a former resident of LA: "I choose Los Angeles to be sacrificed for the betterment of the nation" LOL.
Thanks so much for the heads up :)
Don't overlook those who do it for reasons other than earning money.

Look at how many people solve complex crossword and sudoku puzzles everyday for free...
so sad. i've seen hundreds of similar sob stories from the wall st fallout during 08 09.

from his linkedin I can see this guy didn't last 2 years at lehman. He states he started as an analyst, presumably never even made it to associate, and has the balls to call himself a 'trader' in linkedin. What a joke!

As a first year s&t analyst you don't do shit. You are not a trader. You are not a junior trader. You are not an assistant trader. You are basically a back/mid office donkey.

All this demonization of wall street by wannabes that never made it past the first five years in the business is all too common. "Oohh they're all too evil, I just had to get out of the business" "oh I got out of the industry cuz my moral compass wouldn't allow it"

BULLSHIT. they would be singing another song if they made it. michael lewis and henry blodget, i'm lookin at you.
NY didn't always have that transport system: it built it as it grew. The same can be true for SF. Again you're making an assumption (SF can build apartment buildings but somehow not subway tunnels) that is both flawed and addressed by the linked article.

It's fine that you don't want to live in SF. But that simple fact doesn't make increasing density a bad idea for those who do. And to be clear: there are a lot of people who want to live in SF.
"Mining" is really accounting. Miners add new blocks to the blockchain which provides for verification of transactions and the value of individual addresses. So providing a reward to mining (initially) was a means of providing a reward for performing an essential function for the bitcoin economy. Now that more bitcoins are in the wild it's possible to collect transaction fees, the second method by which miners can profit from their activity. Eventually the transaction fees will be more than the mining reward and the theory is that miners will remain in business in order to collect those fees.
God damn; PATO is exactly my proposal. I shall sue him, having come up with it 15 years after his publication... ;-)
What garbage. People buy phones to use them, period. Apple consumers are not special and more productive than other consumers.
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I wonder if there are any active patent trolls outside of the US, or is it just not viable.
>That's pretty much against the hacker mindset.

I see how you would think so, but I lean in the opposite direction. If all programs in X language are written in the same style, you never have to pause to think about how to style something. This also means that you can quickly read other programs without being thrown by differences in style, and it's a great use-case for a tool that does the formatting for you. You can just write a quick example, run the formatting tool, and you won't have to pause next time. If you really can't afford the interruption, you can just skip formatting and run the formatting tool later-- though this is the sort of use-case that only occurs early in your relationship with the language.
Just provide your friend with a deadline for when you're shutting down the service along with the list of possible services he can use to replace the existing one.

I would also just provide him with the option of taking over the server account and paying for the monthly maintenance fee himself. Basically: "Here, please have this, I don't want to deal with this anymore."
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> I highly doubt Google would intentionally hurt themselves by ruining their search results.

Arguably bubbling is ruining the search results. Sometimes such a thing can be advantageous but I do go to https://startpage.com/do/search sometimes to break out and it can be quite productive when trying to find a new result. The only difference is that one is tracking me and bubbling results and the other is not.

Since Google has recorded my IP, I have a hard time breaking the bubble when using Google from at home, whether I am logged in or not. I know this be cause I once decided to set my locale on Google to Spanish. Now I have cleared my cookies, etc. and I am not logged in but it assumes from -- I can only imagine -- my static IP that I want all my search results in Spanish.
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I'm very impressed with what I've seen from this project, and I'm truly sorry I missed it's Kickstarter. However, I'd still like to contribute; is there a way to still donate? Folding money into paper airplanes and throwing it in your direction doesn't seem like it would be effective.
Yeah. They had a saying for this in the 80s and 90s: "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." Interesting reading here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
People play for very different reasons.

People play to waste time, to socialize, to take their mind off things, to role play, to test their skills, to play a role outside their normal role, to practice English (or whatever their guild is speaking), to feel needed (in social games), to feel reckless (driving car and spinning out of control with no consequences). I probably left out hundreds of other reasons people play video games.

Telling this diverse group of people 'this is how you should play' isn't productive. You can target one of their goals - lets say the group that wants to socialize, and say 'make sure your guildies are fun loving people, not a boring bunch'. Or if the article is targeting role players - make sure the game is meaningful in some way.
But simply saying "What’s the underlying message or moral with this game" to a group of people that may just be using the game to play hit-man, isn't very productive.
The benefit of using an ORM is that if you did want to change the type of database, most of your code would be able to go unchanged (theoretically). If you did switch, you should be able to just change a config file to let the ORM know which database you are now using. The ORM will then run the correct underlying queries.

This usually comes with a hit to performance though. Raw queries are generally quite a bit faster. So if you dont plan on changing databases on a project, it might be beneficial to skip the ORM where possible.

The ORM also doesnt help you with migrating the records from one database type to another. So if you already have established records that is a separate issue.
Off topic, but re. your [1] above:
How does one get to know of such links on HN? :)
I might have not looked closely enough, but it does not seem to be linked to from anywhere on the main HN site.
Also looked at the Guidelines and it is not there either.
Sending my user to you in the hopes of offloading them. :)
Bitcoin isn't a great form of money right now, but that doesn't mean it can't be in the future.

I predict a lot more of these bubbles, but over the long term, unless it's displaced by a better system (which is certainly possible) or regulated out of existence, the trend will be upwards and greater stability.
I'm trying to figure out why you think IAP was "meant for" this and not that. And you keep dodging it, even though you made a factual statement that you should be able to back up.
NYC kind of did always have that transport system, though. The subway hasn't significantly expanded for 100 years.
Have you considered being on point?
Sounds interesting! best of luck :]
I do sometimes wonder if mega-cities are no longer necessary due to tech advances, and whether medium-dense places (not sure if this is the right term) like San Fran are actually ideal.
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Social media and SEO are fields employing many thousands of people. They will do or say anything they can to defend their existence regardless of their efficacy.
Hmm. The page has ads for something called "sacred geometry explained," astrology and "psychic science." The site at large contains heaps of further pseudo-scientific nonsense, including articles about Kabbalah, occult scholars, and the healing properties of herbs.

An excerpt from one article visible on the front page - "Health is the balance between the physical, Etheric, Astral and Mental bodies. We nourish the Etheric body with food that is enlivened with electro-magnetic energy, clean air, good water, sunlight, positive thoughts and loving feelings."

You'll pardon me for not taking this terribly seriously.
My style? Not my style, a style.

And there would be no "forced" unless the reference implementation were to error when un-standard styles were used. I see absolutely nothing particularly "un-hackerish" about this. We standardize syntax and keywords, why not syntactical style?

You know what does seem hackerish though? Having tools that do mundane tasks (for example, formatting) for you so that you don't have to. Lisp, and lisp pretty-printers, also strike me as pretty hackerish.
Ah interesting, that makes sense. Can miners set their own transaction fees? And related if I want to make a bitcoin transaction can I (or my software) choose which miners to use to verify those transactions? Or are those fees determined by the protocol itself?
As someone who grew up in NYC I don't think many respondents here understand how depressing and lightless it is to live in an urban environment of 30 story buildings where you almost never see the sun. That which has drawn many people to San Francisco would be nearly completely destroyed if it were developed the way midtown manhattan is.
And you seriously assume an attacker with that kind of resources (be it millions or billions) would be dumb enough not to realize that a crash of bitcoin would merely spawn the next, more resilient crypto currency?

That would have to be quite a large irrational player because this isn't compatible with today's corporate and government firmware (game theory) at all.
This article actually has some substance and doesn't read like an opinion as much as others. The conjecture on Bitcoin may be getting a bit boring and over played here, but the highlights are still interesting. We are witnessing something very unique and unpredictable here, possibly with great historic consequences. For this reason, yes, it is still interesting to me and worth watching.

DISCLAIMER: I have never seen a Bitcoin in real world use as either an investment or currency.
Definitely makes sense for multi-player games. I had Draw Something sending me notifications for a brief time now that I think about it, until I got bored with it.

I guess that shows the importance of the policy in question, to provide an disincentive for companies to abuse the privilege. I'm not sure if that applies in this case however, when marketing-driven notifications are actually desired by the users.
Of course bitcoins value is volatile, it's relatively new and being adopted and accepted. I blame the people speculating on it like crazy without any idea what the fundamental value actually is (and to be fair it's impossible to know until it stabilizes and the bitcoin economy becomes established.)

But this is only temporary, a necessary evil when a currency is starting out.

However it is arguably a good thing though, because all the attention and people buying it hoping it will increase in value, is exposing a lot of people to it that otherwise wouldn't have been. It's helping it grow much faster.

>To replace our entire dollar base money with Bitcoins would require that each Bitcoin be valued at more than $370,000.

I'm confused by what he means by this. Bitcoin is infinitely divisible. Even if there was only one bitcoin in the economy it could still be used perfectly fine as a currency.

>In contrast, a good monetary control system would fix the value of the currency unit (in terms of gold or something else real) and then adjust the size of the monetary base on a moment-by-moment basis in order to maintain this value in the markets.

This doesn't really make too much sense either. It takes a long time for arbitrary changes in the currency supply to have any effect. And all they can do is print more money, which makes everyone else's money worth less and therefore makes them worse off.

One interesting thing I've been thinking about is that since it's digital currency inflation and deflation can be corrected for a little. People could have their sites change prices based on the current inflation or deflation rate (if they really care about it so much.) This was harder to do with real world price tags. It's not a solution of course but it might help a lot. Usually the criticism of changes in a currencies value is that prices don't adjust fast enough to deal with it. But with the internet information is transmitted and changes can be made instantly.

>No modern economy could survive the constant, grinding deflation that having a fixed monetary base would eventually produce.

So this is more controversial, but I don't see why not. A currency that actually increases in value rather than decreases would have a huge advantage over everything else. Because if you had a choice what would you store your money in? It also insures that bitcoins can never artificially be devalued by any central organization. Sure new bitcoins can be mined, but that's heavily limited and a necessary evil to distribute the first bitcoins fairly.

As for them being collectibles that may be true for some people, but they have a few very good advantages to them that can't be beat by other currencies and that insures they will always have a use as a currency with some people. Mainly that they are anonymous and don't have transaction fees. I have seen a lot of interesting uses for them that would be unfeasible in real world currencies. Like people giving each other small tips over the internet.
> The criteria seems to be that one has a terrible
> personality, is simultaneously high-maintenance and
> inconsiderate of others, thinks very highly of one's self

Speaking of self-diagnosis ...
They're not willing to pay anything for it.

Yeah, I know.

Thinking of making the end of the month the cut off.
I just don't think people buy many items that are 3D printable.

Using myself as an example, there's not a single thing in my Amazon purchase history that would be 3D printable.

Even looking around my office for items which might be 3D printable (coffee mugs, drinking glasses, plates,...), I can't imagine it being more efficient or cost effective to 3D print them than simply ordering them off Amazon or running to the store.

I think 3D printing is a great prototyping tool, and I'm sure it'll really speed up some manufacturing processes, but I have trouble seeing it as a break through with directly for consumers.
i guess it doesn't have any stock tickers then? since its IBM ticker is just the ticker for USD<->IBM
And interestingly the housing density along the subway lines hasn't changed much either. Manhattan has always been as dense as its infrastructure will allow. The point is that you can build infrastructure to support density. NY did, SF didn't. But now SF is in a situation where increased density would be preferable, so the solution is to build infrastructure (housing and transit, etc...) and not to use the lack of one to refute the need for the other.
No, that would not be a better system.

You are just pushing the complexity somewhere else. It might make computer programming a bit easier, but everything else would be harder.

And people still sleep at night, so you would still need to know when they are awake, when they work.
I think that collect-ability doesn't really have anything to do with this situation. This is a classic asset bubble, and people could really care less what the actual asset is.
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Seeing this kind of thing is like finding a jumbo healthpack for my career.
You're not wrong, but the motivational ship has already sailed. However, I'm sure much the same was said about television and radio before it.

The problem isn't the technology, it's us. However, we've survived OK so far. Do I think people spend too much time on their phones Wall-E style? Sure. Do I think it's the phone's fault? No. I think it's an us thing, and we're still working out how to deal with it.

It wasn't long ago that a social convention was popping up where people would put their phones on the table and turn them all onto Airplane Mode. We need new social conventions, but the technology that invades our lives away from the desk is all very new in the grand scheme of things.
The UK has concepts of "Reasonable adjustments". Some things are intrinsic parts of a job. A taxi driver must be able to drive. An accountant does not need to be able to drive. Thus, you can justifiably not employ someone for a taxi driver if their disability prevents them from driving, but you could not justifiably not employ an accountant if their disability meant they could not drive.

> As a manager, you should understand how to handle the unique opportunities and challenges that come with hiring an Aspie.

Wait, what? This is weird. Now tell us what it's like employing Jews.

I generally agree with the intent of the article but it comes over a bit "Oh the proud and noble Aspie".

> They will never accept "no" for an answer without being told the reason for it.

That's probably true, but some people with Asperger's will have given up on asking why, knowing that sometimes people use stupid incomprehensible bizarre sub-optimal reasons. When someone tells me no I tend to just accept it, because I know that asking why leads to a rabbit-hole of bitter argument and disappointment.

I sound overly critical of the article. I don't mean to. Oh well.
Toyota's idea of a good UX
Their iphone app for making car payments makes me want to wretch.
Lossy plus alpha isn't cheating, its a legitimate gap in the market. It's also the feature that prompted Mozilla to look at the format again.
Divisibility doesn't really help with the overall money supply however. There's also the loss of currency that occurs from loss of Bitcoin wallets.

Even without deflation I think there would still be problems with high variance of BTC just from the psychological aspects of the currency. With central banks you can at least say that there are persons whose job it is to watch currency exchange rates and take one or more of many available actions to curb both inflation and deflation. As far as I can see you just don't have that with BTC (and by design). You can't increase the money supply, any action to decrease the money supply is permanent, and how can you change interest rates for loans when all of the money is already issued?

I just can't imagine BTC being useful for transactions in general (especially important stuff like payroll) when the inherent variance in value seems to require systems akin to what a high-frequency trader would use. It might be useful as a commodity for similar reasons that gold is (but with the improvements that come from its high divisibility).