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That personal slur is uncalled-for and demonstrates that you are completely unfamiliar with me and my history.

You're suggesting that US elites are systematically long dollars and have the power to control the value of the currency, including overcoming coordination problems. If that were true, we'd be seeing dollar deflation. Instead, we've seen about eight decades of uninterrupted inflation. This means one or both of your premises are wrong. I suspect both.

As for the "risk", I didn't mean to suggest that USD is particularly risky, certainly not more risky than EUR. I was just pointing out that the USG isn't "backing" USD even in the sense of Bretton Woods.
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The following papers created one-way functions on words for resilient information hiding in text, first one through synonym substitutions, second one through typos:

"The hiding virtues of ambiguity: quantifiably resilient watermarking of natural language text through synonym substitutions", U. Topkara et. al. MMSec'06
https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/assets/pdf/bibtex_archive/2006...

"Information hiding through errors: A confusing approach", M.Topkara et. al. SPIE'07
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.94.1...
A programmer wants to learn Python. He switches his OS from Windows to Linux. Now learning Linux stands between him and Python.

The procedure described is problematic due to the nature of the Python community, not any shortcoming of Windows.
Not mentioned: Dave Goldberg's wife is Sheryrl Sandberg, who is also known for being home by 5:30.
Completely disagree. That's what is so great about DataNitro's tool to begin with. You get people using a more powerful tool...in the tool they most often use (Excel), then you are off.

Another reason is that Python is a great alternative to mathematical tools like MatLab, Maple, etc. And people's experience with these are most commonly in Windows. Having a python windows environment is key. I don't know how many people I've been able to get them to dump MatLab by showing them python and Spyder.
Hopefully around the same time, but in any case having the guy at the top leave at 5:30 makes it much easier for the rest of the company to leave at a reasonable time (or even earlier than him)

Addendum: In Japanese corporate culture, subordinates can't leave before their bosses (this is the unwritten rule, which I broke all the time, but that's another story). Exacerbating this is the fact that many managers have strained home lives and don't want to go home early in the first place. But the few enlightened managers make it a point to leave early, because they know that unless they leave early, none of their team members can!
Why is this comment exactly the same as the one posted by jeremyjh to the OP two hours before yours.
What's even more remarkable, is these posters on here and other forums, (and even the media outlets), are saying that - an influx of buyers, and a de-flux of markets, is causing Bitcoins to drop from $250 down to $60! Lol. That's pretty much the opposite of what logic and reason say should happen.

MtGox has to be where market manipulators live - and they run the coin prices up every day. Now that it's not trading at the moment over there, the real demand is meeting the real supply.

If they stay shut down for a while longer, it will give all the horders and speculators a chance to rightfully panic and sell. $60 is not the bottom.
It's less nefarious than this. If most people read your twitter because you are a friend, then it's a personal account. If most people read your twitter because you work for some company, then your twitter account is not personal. That simple. Know your audience.
How are ILS frequencies policed? Does the airport have receivers in multiple locations which automatically detect a failure, and notify someone in the tower?
Would be handy to expose the AI step delta in the API.
Looks amazing. It bothered me that I had to sign up to watch the replays though, it's a pretty big threshold and I almost didn't. You might want to have a demo because watching a replay really is quite convincing.
I don't know any JavaScript, but this seems like an amazing way to learn.
oh god i really need to test that QT stuff , sounds great !
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I'm talking about the bytecode instructions standardized in the "JVM" specification. The "JVM" has to implement the semantics of the instructions found in your bytecode program, or your program won't run. Your bytecode program can only use bytecodes defined in the "JVM" specification, or it won't run on the "JVM".
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Don't you think the people in question ought to have some say in the matter of where they would like to live and work? Or do you think their respective governments "know best"?
It's not limited to online services. It's "Don't write anything you don't want to see on the front page of the NYT", full stop. Your internal emails and documents can be subpoenaed or hacked or leaked.

Also, your anonymous ID does not absolve you of legal responsibility, it just makes it a little more difficult to track you down.
Yes, as I mentioned in another comment in this thread, TCE falls out automatically from combinator-graph reduction.
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From the FAQ:

>> Q: Can customers use their Amazon Coins to buy in-game currencies?

>> Yes. Customers will be able to purchase in-game currencies with Amazon Coins.

Good Lord, how many levels of fake money do we have to travel down?
You kill it, but I have to wonder if you kill the information? it sounds like it could be used to do uploads, transhumanism style.
You can benefit from the lock in. Amazon pays a fortune on my shipping for Amazon Prime. I ordered about 90 times last year, and got 2 day shipping on all of them. It replaces going to the store for many things, so more important to me is the time I saved shopping.

The upside for them is I spent about $4000 on Amazon last year, which is way more than I would otherwise. I don't know if it is good for them, but it sure seems good for me.
Yes, Capital Vol. 1 should really be required reading. We're never going to resolve that tension until we can talk about it clearly.
You can easily check if the username is taken via the register form - it is.

Flaw: someone could potentially have tried the same thing before me and accidentally registered it.
This is a perfect example of taking a simple idea and making it big:) We always clear our brain sections prior to imaging, it's a common practice, but doing this throughout the whole brain is...well...f'in awesome:)
Looking forward to seeing how people use these tools.
Amazon can't really avoid doing stuff like this, because their business model (retail) sucks, and makes very little money due to razor thin margins. So they trot out every trick in the book.
I'm starting to think that if a library won't switch to Python 3 then it's time for the library to die and people move on to a new library that offers similar functionality and does work on Python 3.

For example, PIL doesn't support Python 3, but there's a GraphicsMagick wrapper [1] which does. Graphics Magick is more functional anyway.

You may have time invested in PIL and other Python 2 libraries, but newbies don't, and there's no reason to start them off on a dying version of the language. It's contributing to the chicken and egg problem that's holding Python back.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pgmagick/0.5.5
Why is this on Hacker News. Who has a vested interest in more of our jobs going to cheap Indian labor? Do people really think we don't know that's what this is about? Who funds this organization?
The "Apple Dollars" you have in your iTunes account from gift cards are no more "real" than Amazon Coins.
Isn't the early Google work a good definition of a Hard Problem, though?

[Startup X] does not need a CMU PhD to build the latest Node app. The domain is blocked at my office so I can't read the article, but I'd argue that spending the extra money on "10x" talent does nothing but shorten your runway.
Those coin renderings look a lot like Bitcoin. Thanks for adding to the confusion, Amazon.
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My first instinct, after figuring out how to turn, was to try to ram the other ship.

I was very sad when I realized I couldn't even point myself at it.
Not necessarily. While you seem to recount the history as I remember it, it has been said on here many times that Google did not maintain those policies. Perhaps they ultimately saw the same risks in continuing down that path?
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Riot keep the balance of you RP that you paid money for if you don't spend it in League of Legends, would it be different if it were called Riot Coins?
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Interesting. Per [1] they can't be cashed out or exchanged. So you buy coins, that's the transaction. Amazon is probably then free to do whatever they want with the money. Their only obligation is to later pay out to developers who receive coins as payment. So they're frontloading their earnings. And devs only receive 70% as usual so Amazon gets 30% totally in the clear (no potential future obligations).

[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/heads-or-tails-amazon-co...
> but unless this type of smash-and-grab situation can be traced/avoided/insured

Why can't it be insured? Mt. gox or any other exchange could easily charge a premium for ensuring your bitcoins. If people wanted traceable currency they'd use a traceable currency.
There is a long history of cycles in immigration to the US. There were discrete periods of high immigration, followed by resulting social stress and unrest, and then long periods of zero net immigration. From the 1880s through the 1910s there was mass immigration and near the end of that period something like one in five native born supported the KKK. It was too much, too fast, and immigration was shut down. From 1924 to the late 1960s net immigration was zero and this was a period of improving social cohesion, and great economic progress.

We are in the midst of an immigration wave unprecedented in length and volume. The number of people who have come here since the late 1960s and their more pronounced differences from historical immigrants do not compare. An immigration time out is clearly called for, as it was in 1924.

I also can't wrap my head around people being OK with the idea of the US population growing to over 500 million. Why are folks in a hurry to turn this place into India?
Exactly. Because the ILS range is short, it becomes easy to pin point location. Those protections are embedded in the ILS system itself
At least it's a (nearly) 1:1 rate.
Even if he gets back online after 8:00, his leaving the office premises at 5:30 makes it much much easier for others in the company to leave around the 5:30 time frame as well.

If he didn't do this, many employees would implicitly feel compelled (even if the CEO "says" that everyone should leave at 5:30) to stay much later than 8:00pm.

His behavior is definitely something we can learn from.
Note: Duo Security's app (for android) is better. It supports TOTP and lets you rearrange accounts. With more websites adopting TOTP 2-factor, rearranging accounts is a mandatory feature.

Google Authenticator's bug on this issue (android specific) has made no progress. The iOS Google Authenticator app rearranges accounts just fine.

https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/issues/detail...

Disclaimer: I don't work for, or have any stake in, Duo Security. None of this implies a preference for Duo's service (I prefer TOTP wherever it makes sense).
On Amazon Payments, the small transaction are more expansive than the bigger one. For example when you pay 0.99$, it's actually 0.893$ = 90.2% (5% + $0.05) but if you pay 20$, it's 19.1287$ = 95.64%.
There's 5% more in their pocket.
That's cool! I had no idea about the keyboard!

If you had a reprogrammable 6502 in your keyboard with a few hundred bytes of RAM, what would you use it for? Keyboard macros are one possibility. Or you could encrypt the keyboard-computer connection. Maybe some games would benefit from a "rapid repeat" key that let you send a single key or keyboard macro at 100Hz?
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So what part of India are you from bhb916? Because that's the only way you think it is ok for Americans to suffer so people from other countries can take their jobs.
Most of the visas go to consulting companies like Tata not individuals and American corporations are happy to let Americans suffer if their costs are cheaper. That is what this front group is about. If you are an American you should be ashamed of your comments.
http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/posts/2013/2/10/making-aviat...
This is uncertain. The game steps at a specific rate (the physics is deterministic) but does not wait for callbacks from your AI to proceed with the game. If a specific ship hasn't replied to the last request for instructions, the game won't call it the next round. I was thinking that rather than providing the game step in the API, the simplest thing is for an AI to study the gametime and draw its own conclusions.
Last I checked, I could only setup a Ruby box. Where do we setup a python box?
The cost of becoming marginally proficient in Linux is substantial. Futhermore for most people the cost of Windows is already sunk, and even the cost of a new copy doesn't mean going hungry.
> Walmart can't really avoid doing stuff like this, because their business model (retail) sucks, and makes very little money due to razor thin margins. So they trot out every trick in the book.

Wait, no, Walmart avoids things like loyalty card discounts, etc. They also seem to have a decent business model. You're going to have to elaborate a little more.
I have noticed that many people here think that jokes do not add to the quality of discussions. A joke is just one of several ways of introducing non-direct references to arguments (I think I can call them "hints"). I had a hypothesis that people may not like such hints which, after all, may be culture-dependent. So I tried other ways of hinting and found out that they do not seem to evoke such a hostile response. So it must be something else, but I am not sure what exactly. Another possibility is that people may be offended at jokes, even inoffensive ones, but this is not something I would like to test.

As far as rhetorical devices are concerned, there are many of them that may be used in a discussion without detracting from it. HN does not need to be dry and often is not.
First Round's page design and high quality / useful articles have definitely made me think of it in a much more favorable light (e.g. the Stripe hiring article) even beyond this most recent "friendly and reasonable culture" article.

It's certainly an interesting positioning/differentiation move that they're doing vs the standard "top VC" pack.
That's along the lines of what I was thinking. Google glass will change porn in the same way that camera phones changed photography. It'll be more accessible to amateurs maybe, but professionals will probably not use this tech considerably.
Congrats on the launch Simon and team!

Re: the design of the pricing page on http://lanyrd.com/pro/ (I know it's probably in alpha):

1) The second set of plans on the dark background below the slides looks so much better aesthetically than the first set of plans! Did you find that having the plans below the slides/lists of companies converted better?

2) I found Bronze vs. Bronze Plus and Silver vs Silver Plus confusing, and organizing in 3 columns with Bronze/Bronze Plus and Silver/Silver Plus in the first two columns made it look disorganized. Why not just show 5 columns with more distinct names? The "Book 14 day trial" buttons are sort of scattered/hard to find and require a lot of scrolling to get to (esp after the huge list under Silver).
That has nothing to do with what is happening now which in The middle of an unemployment crisis Americans are losing jobs, wages, and befits to foreigners so a handful of people can't get richer. Wake up.
It's a profitable private company which is a far cry from the normal BS on HN.
http://support.google.com/gmm/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ans...
I've had my Github account on my resume for a while now, and the last time I had an interview, they literally pulled it up while I was there and made some comments about it. It didn't seem like a huge factor in their decision, though.
They apparently have over $100MM in revenue/year, so a $1BB valuation doesn't seem unreasonable.
Jokes apart, does someone know if the same thing could be done by an iPhone?
>this has been in the works for a while now

How long is a while? Bitcoin is in its 5th year of being a thing.
This seems to be as well, just multiply the USD amount by 100 or divide the Amazon Coin amount by 100.
Caveat: This will yield different results whether you initialize the string as

> String a = "foo";

vs.

> String a = new String("foo");
Good to know, thanks. Duo Security's app will work just fine with this tutorial. I just decided to use Google Authenticator because it seemed to be the best known TOTP client implementation.
Whoops, complete oversight on my part. Thanks for catching that!
The point remains; I still have very little faith in Amazon's android adventures given their shady history.
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It seems like it might also reduce processing fees to payment processors that charge a flat fee + % of sale. Notably I believe PayPal does this. Here, they would still get their percentage, but would only get one flat-fee for many purchases where before they would have gotten one flat fee for each purchase.
> Favoring those "in your tribe" over those "outside your tribe" is a classical, deeply embedded social norm.

Some of us dream of a world where we rise above some of our baser monkey instincts.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."

In any case, my tribe is not defined by where I happened to be born.
Wonder if you can tie in with Adobe to verify authenticity of CS* product before allowing purchase.
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... Gets Home By 5:30 PM
... leave the office by 5:30 PM

Which is it? Or does he live next door to his office?
Crowd-sourced localizations don't turn out well. You'll just end up using a professional solution to review and finish your crowd-sourced translations.
Unless you have a source, that's just plain bull to feed hate. Even in western countries you typically have uneducated/underemployed people take the cop/security jobs... you don't see a PhD or even a Bsc doing a cop job.
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Not just that, they actually removed educated people and replaced them with ignorant loyalists.

for example: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/head-of-ir...
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Well, if you’re using Firebug you install FireFontFamily[1], which crosses out the unused fonts in the CSS inspector.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/firefontfamil...
If it was an option, like you can currently choose to buy Amazon gift cards or enroll in Prime, sure. Even an option with incentives. But if you move towards making proprietary currency the only way to pay in a given area, it seems shady to me. Not illegal-type shady, but has-bad-motives-type shady. These kinds of proprietary currencies are a typically deliberate attempt to reduce the transparency of prices, by adding an addition layer of indirection people have to mentally jump through in order to think accurately about and compare them (you can see that in part in how most such currencies pick weird exchange rates, not decimal ones that would be easier to think about).
Spyder's nice too, and free:

http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/

I use it on both Windows and Linux.
I'm 100% with you there. I don't even bother price shopping anymore because I know with Amazon it will be close or better than average big city pricing and I get everything in a time period which seems instant.
It's not a matter of asking you individually to consider a random American more important than your friend in Italy. Rather, it's about what should be the priority of national immigration policy. When a people get together and form a social compact and a government to secure their interests, the guiding policy of that government must be whatever maximizes the interest of its constituency.

That's why the open borders/free trade talk is often deeply troubling. It's one thing to argue that these policies will ultimately maximize American prosperity. You can argue that stealing away the brightest people from other countries will ultimately benefit the U.S. in the long run, etc. The problem arises when the arguments loose that utilitarian mooring and end up arguing that American policy should be concerned with lifting up Indians and Chinese in a way that doesn't necessarily maximize the prosperity of those Americans who are already here. The American government has no business caring about the "huddled masses" elsewhere. At one time it was in our interest to accept anyone and everyone, by virtue of the fact that we had a huge relatively unpopulated country, but that incentive changed as we became a mature, populous society.
Perhaps a more fitting title would be "designing a modern spam message"?

Those emails are exactly the kind of emails that I never read.
Interesting. I have been developing an educational game for well over a year now and was supposed to be released a few months ago. We got to 4 weeks before the deadline and the boss came in and had a one-to-one with myself to explain we needed to put the date back, he just wasn't happy with the product. As frustrating as that was, the game is now in much better shape, far closer to how we had imagined it from the start. One point I would make, as a very small company (only two full time guys, myself and our artists) we had to create short term contracts to help out at various times. The rate of pay for them was ridiculously low (as was ours), and we truly got what we paid for. If you pay peanuts be prepared to get monkeys.
I think that is pretty clear that is what they are saying.
The most evil anti-piracy measure in any game:

http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protec...

The article claims that it would only happen to experienced ROM hackers, but I could easily see some lazy bootleggers only fixing the first copy protection check without completely testing the game and selling the half-broken result to some hapless kid.
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Really getting frustrated now. Tried to start a company. It failed. Now I am back searching jobs again and no one wants to hire me. My resume is actually pretty good I think but most people dont get back.

Have you been in a similar situation? How did you get yourself out of it?
As for the Bay Area, I've consistently been impressed by Cal Poly SLO guys I've met.

Their education is so much more practical and real-world-ready than my Ivy League engineering education (which was largely theoretical in nature).
If you're in a position where you need to follow a guide to install Python on Windows, then you're probably so new to Python that you're unlikely to be working with legacy code. Therefore, I'd suggest working with Python 3 and using 64-bit.
It's not a currency at all, they're prepaid gift cards without the card.
Really? I thought photosensitive epilepsy usually related to flashes at very certain frequencies.
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