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Ah, Krugman... love that guy. He's my favorite comedian!

> But Bitcoin isn't the anarchocapitalist utopia enabler that converts the world into Galt's Gulch [...]

I think the Austrians would be the first to admit that the world is complex.[0] ;-) To be fair, BitCoin has come extraordinarily far in an incredibly short period of time. Just imagine trying to explain its present-day state to almost anyone two to three years ago.

It seems to me, the whole point of this posting is that trying to judge BitCoin as a technolibertarian savior today is a bit like judging the internet's equivalence to a fax machine in 1998: it's just too early to tell, especially if (like Krugman), you have so little vision.

Who knows, maybe BitCoin is only cryptocurrency's ARPANET. Just give it a minute.

[0] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/102966-the-curious-task-of-e...
Oh cool! I've seen your stuff, it's very very neat, but gpl makes me nervous about looking at the code / playing with it much.

Yeah, we should def chat! My emails also in my profile. Lets one of us get around to emailing the other sometime this week.
This is not true, in practice. Women report having better experiences when there are many women around, vs being the only one in the group.
We are all capable of acts like this. We are human.
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A very nice move on Twilio's part. The fact they didn't seem to implement checks of Boston IP's and numbers as well and instead opting to rely on people being truthful is also great. Much respect.
I find that the "front-end developer" title is overloaded.

On one end of the spectrum, it means someone that can create and design UI mockups, and implement them using CSS and jQuery. For that type of job, asking algorithm questions makes very little sense. A strong portfolio would be a much better gauge of that person's skill set.

On the other end, it means someone who's able to engineer a web client using MVC frameworks and say, CORS. In contrast, algorithm questions make a ton of sense here.
You're quite the prognosticator.

I would argue that the content producers will survive in spite of the fact that they lose the battle to create an entirely hands off encrypted media path from the website to your viewing device.

They will survive because they make their content easy to buy. They will survive /well/ if they make their content easy to buy and to license.
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Before, you had $80k in debt, now you have $96k in debt. You basically just took out a home equity loan.
The graphs you've shown indicate nothing about "out of control". Krugman"s central claim is actually quite true.

There are very good reasons most economists DO NOT include commodities like oil and food in inflation indicators: they're highly volatile, as you point out. And they tend not to be correlated to other inflationary indicators. Just look at the Gold crash the past two days, and oil crash today.

Please explain what economic model you use to indicate your preferred economic policy? Krugman uses standard IS-LM, which has been vindicated time and time again during this crises.
It isn't?

Being on stage in front of an audience who are tweeting about your physical attributes, not what you are saying; who are snarkily commenting about you being the token blonde; who are assuming you got there because of your birth, not your brains -- that's not a hindrance to speaking?

Even if none of those things are true, they can be running through the speaker's head, just as a stutterer is incredibly self-aware of their impediment. We create our own barriers.
A designer with no experience in development has a higher chance of creating a design that's difficult to implement. The amount of time wasted trying to explain to an illustrator CS buff why using vectors flying all over the place will be difficult... is ridiculous.

A developer with no experience in design has a higher chance of missing all of the features and nuances that make a sublime design kick ass (often the details a designer will ask for will be viewed as esoteric or anal..or esoterically anal).

Hybrids will do things like, look at illustrator...look at html5 canvas...and then combine the two into something awesome like Ai to Canvas. Hybrids will cut down your transition between design and development (which can be huge). Hybrids can cut down frictional labor costs. Hybrids can cross pollinate ideas between the two fields.

Case and point is that Hybrids are a class of their own. No, they may not have the extent of "depth" in their skill that a single focused dev or designer would, but that's because they have a "depth" in something different. And that "difference" is often innovative and far beyond what sticking to the "master of one" fallacy will do.
You may be interested in research into how some groups are more productive when they work collaboratively rather than competitively, and how women are disproportionately better in collaborative environments.

I don't want a team full of the best indiviual performers. I want the best performing team.
Is anyone else having issues accessing the API? https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-api/issues/detail?id=...
There are some pretty small HF transceivers, like the Elecraft KX3.

I'm guessing that most people that are serious about making contacts across the world when "the big one" hits have mobile rigs and lots of charged batteries, and there are many capable mobile HF transceivers on the market.
In this day and age, why not watch a YouTube video or read slideshare, instead of snowballing the judgement of people you have never met?
Ridiculous and sad are the two emotions that come to mind. I've run the Boston Marathon and plan on running again next year (want to re-qualify, but will likely run with a charity anyway). I grew up close to the route and have spent pretty much every April watching family or friends run. It's ridiculous because I don't know how else to describe it and sad because a great tradition is going to change, likely in unfortunate ways, for the foreseeable future. It's just an empty feeling, like memories from the years before will never be possible again.

If you've never run a marathon, and especially a big one, it's a unique experience. Rarely are elite athletes on the same course/playing field with "regular" people and all being cheered on (with no barriers) by residents. Watch any footage and you'll see onlookers almost bump into the fastest men/women in the world (hell, they even give out cups of beer at BC). Talk about feeling close to a community and feeding off their energy, I can't think of anything else like that.

It's sad that something like that has likely changed forever. I hope more than anything in the coming months and years this disruption/incontinuity can be turned into a positive that makes the event even better, that the community will overcome everything that's happened. I'm confident it will, but right now it's just sad.
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Oh...
You just made me understand what "shtatics" meant...
I was like, "How the hell am I supposed to know I need to allow that?"
You're bad at thinking.
yes! picking mine up in mtv tomorrow. only i/o 2012 glass explorers are getting the formal invites right now. #ifihadglass folks will need to wait a bit longer.
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What worries me is that the guy who couldn't see the potential of the Internet is the same guy who thinks that five years of quantitative easing is "temporary" and that printing trillions of dollars of funny money is just "fine".

> The practical misconception here — and it’s a big one — is the notion that we live in an era of wildly irresponsible money printing, with runaway inflation just around the corner. It’s true that the Federal Reserve and other central banks have greatly expanded their balance sheets — but they’ve done that explicitly as a temporary measure in response to economic crisis... We have huge economic problems, but green pieces of paper are doing fine — and we should let them alone.
They are very useful when you want to build modular web components, and for just overall maintainability of your stylesheets.

I wouldn't reject someone because they don't know what rem is though! I'd think of the question as a bonus I guess.
Wow, racist much?
Because technical challenges are interesting in their own right, even if there is a larger political backdrop?
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So how do we more equally distribute the benefits of progress without resorting to "socialism"?
You are assuming that the curve of ability distribution is equal between the sexes, i.e. that X% of male pitches and X% of female pitches would be "good". What if the females who have the courage to pitch, or to stick around in programming at all, shift the bell curve further up? (Or, the inflammatory counter, what if women just aren't good at math and should be shopping instead - shifting it the other way?)

We don't lament that there are far fewer women $foo than men

We don't, because we're in technology.

Some of my other hobbies are also male dominated and unrelated to technology, there's definitely an awareness of the situation and active efforts to recruit more women. On the flipside, I've seen some arguments about the biology situation, theorising that the reason there are more women in biology is cultural conditioning for girls interested in science (it certainly happened to me, but that's hardly solid data).
Yes I'm surprised there's not more mention of affirmative action since that debate raged heavily in much wider circles decades ago, and many of the talking points are the same.

Personally I think affirmative action is more justifiable in something like college admissions where it's a critical gateway that a majority of people are expected to pass through on the way to success, versus conference speakers who are ostensibly there to talk about something they've already done rather than some future potential.

In other words, if you let more minorities into college, I think it's a credible argument that many will fulfill their potential and that will help correct structural problems over time, whereas I don't see how getting more women speakers at tech conferences does anything to solve the larger gender imbalance other than paper over the problem at the edges.
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"Terrorism, even the terrorism of radical Islamists and right-wing extremists and lone actors all put together, is not an 'existential threat' against our nation. Even the events of 9/11, as horrific as they were, didn't do existential damage to our nation. Our society is more robust than it might seem from watching the news. We need to start acting that way."

I wonder if there were people saying that to Romans about the barbarian Germanic hordes.
I would think "that was the wrong thing to say", no matter who said it, including myself. Naturally, I am and have been an asshole before so I know about these things, but I learned that tact and working well with a team is more important than being right. There is stability in that knowledge. Creating drama and division definitely doesn't work for me. Too stressful.

It may be generally more difficult for a woman to fit into an all-male group. I think women sometimes conflate normal team-work challenges with gender problems too though. It's easy to be blind to your own shortcomings and blame others. I think the only thing you can truly change is yourself and your own reactions to things. I find it easier than trying to change others which can be risky.

In any case, the sales and business people regardless of gender, never listen to the technical people...so at the very least we all have something in common :)
Haha, yeah I'm gonna use that line sometime with your modification :)
While I understand the benefits the author presented about having many small packages, I still wonder what kind of effect this has on resolving overlapping dependencies.

EX: I have package X that depends on A, B, and C and I decide to use package Y that depends on C, D, and E.

D and E may very well be an alternative implementation of A and B, given the large number of packages and a finite solution space.

On the one hand it's easy to think that the best libraries for a particular task will rise to the top, but as a newer node dev, having to reinvent so many wheels for use in node is not very attractive. (However, this is almost counteracted by having to only write in one language).
Thanks for sharing. Do you have any idea how many sales came from your newsletter and/or twitter?
This would be solved with single payer. Would remove a ton of inefficiency from the system, as well as increase worker job mobility.
Likewise, I had no problems in Firefox 20. I don't know why people are complaining so much.
Thats good advice, thanks.

That bug with the transient variable. You could only would really catch that if you had e2e or integration tests covering a majority of the code in your application, right? Even then, only if you were to persist the data, read the data back out, then again run more tests on it.

I accept testing isn't a silver bullet, but ouch.

As a general strategy, it sounds like it's better to run your higher level tests as a gauntlet (feeding the result of test one into test two) then with tightly controlled inputs (using explicit data for each test).
Do people who accuse a passionate writer who wants equality of going "off her meds" represent the tech world?

> "the anonymous white male militia that threatens to rape and kill us when we speak up"

This is a thing that happens. You don't have to go to 4chan to find it. It shows up at your doorstep and at your office.

Shut the fuck up and quit dismissing a problem you don't understand.
What you do with your leisure time is still up to you.
One of the problems in the hierarchy underlying this is simply that women (empirically) don't take that first step of reaching out to a small conference to speak. It's similar to data about self-nomination rates for promotion. Simply raising awareness of the promotion case managed to even the rates out, so arguably anything that raises the visibility of the lack of conference submissions by women could have a similar knock-on effect.
I think for HN it's worth noting, perhaps in the title, that this article is written by Bruce Schneier.
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>>By the way, are "grades" still considered as a worthy predictor of one's performance in the workplace?

If you work hard to get good grades, you are likely to work hard at your work place too.

Though its true not every hard working student gets good grades.
There's a key difference between the two, and I'm confident that you know that yourself :)
Yeah, I assume that works if you want to test how cards display, though there does not seem to be any interaction.

Considering the API only allows viewing cards, taking pictures, sending your current location and taking textual input, there's nothing that prevents them to have a glass implementation on Android to test things out, other than the time/resources to develop such an implementation.
Appeasing the political class (RIAA/MPAA).
It would be interesting to see the cycles-to-failure distribution for these parts. I wonder if the textbook "bathtub" curve would appear even for such a simple piece.
Anyone of even modest reading comprehension would understand that Krugman is quoting Mr. McCulley, who talked about creating a housing bubble to replace the NASDAQ bubble. (By the way, McCulley wasn't advocating it either, just talking about Greenspan doing it.)

But Krugman-hate has strongly negative effects on reading comprehension.
It's a binary blob loaded on-demand with hardware access, what's the worst that could happen?
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Love the stuble title.
Yeah, having the same issue. Initially, I thought it was US only, but even with a VPN and fake US account it doesn't work.
You won't get rich. You will have a somewhat easier time hiring people.

The difference may be small enough that you wouldn't even notice subjectively.
Agree that forcing the balance is not the right approach. However, making people aware of it is not a bad thing. Sometimes organisations may (unconsciously) have bias in their selection process; having an invited speaker decline because of gender imbalance is certainly one way to make the organisation take a look at whether something is going on, rather than accepting the status quo as OK, which it rarely is.

Outreach to encourage more submissions from women, and looking at downstream ("lesser") conferences, to help those also encourage more submissions from women, seem like the right steps to me. It can be self-perpetuating though. You go to a conference and no women are speaking, you subconsciously think you don't belong there.

But hey; if you go to a conference and 20% of the speakers are women, yet 5% of the attendees are, isn't that a different kind of red flag?
Glad this got posted quickly.

I can already see the glee in intelligence / law enforcement agencys' eyes as they think how they can use this latest incident as reasoning for more over-arching powers.

For a long time Londoners had to put up with IRA bombs but "Kept calm and carried on" (to use the phrase). I hope the US can follow suit.

[EDIT] Changed "secret service" to "intelligence / law enforcement agencies" to avoid confusion.
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Its rarely the case that you can fix 100 errors, and everything is working just 100%. There's often one corner case that works just a little bit differently.
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I'm relocating to SF from Portland at the end of this week. I will continue working for my startup in Portland remotely, but wanted to find some coworking space or a desk at another startup's office. Any recommendations?

I've seen Hatchery and a few others, but the pricing is a little crazy for what they offer. I just need a place to sit and hack at.
There are even smaller homebrew QRP (low power) transceivers that will easily fit in an altoids tin (minus the battery), although I'd love a KX3. You need to know morse code for those to be practical, however. I'd also be, uh, slightly hesitant to bring a circuit board in an altoids tin through a TSA checkpoint.

And HF antennas are still going to be large, no matter what you do. Yeah, with enough loading coils you can get the size down a bit, but then you compromise efficiency. Physics is working against you for small HF antennas.
The problem with articles like this is that people who don't work in web startups and aren't writing tests at all will see this and go "writing tests is hard, that guy on HN said testing wasn't worth it, therefore I'll carry on without writing tests". You seem to live in an environment where people are already advanced in their software practices, but I doubt this is representative of out industry as a whole. Your analogy with SQL-injection is quite revealing. I can assure you that protecting against SQL-injection is not a given for everyone.

The irony is that if testing is over-hyped, it's not where it would be much needed. Too many big-budget long term developments don't use testing at all. Because there are no tests people are scared to make changes because it might break something, so they never refactor and the code becomes a big mess which obviously makes it even more scary to change.

I felt like a hungry man reading an article about how food is over-hyped :)
What does the secret service have anything to do with this?
To speculate a little about the huge rate of package growth (none of this should be taken as critical of the article, which makes no claims about this):

1. Reuse - a lot of NPMs also work in the browser. There are good reasons to make your browser code run in Node too; it makes command-line-driven testing easier and it requires little additional work to add support to a whole platform. And it should be obvious why there is so much JavaScript in the world; in fact, one of Node's biggest advantages is JS monoculture.

2. Take-off time. Node itself has gotten really popular really fast (there are good reasons for this too), which means its ecosystem needs to do some catching up. It has half the packages, but Node developers still need to get the same things accomplished. I've contributed more to the Node ecosystem than the Ruby one even though I write more Ruby in general, mostly because more needed to be done. You look around for a good existing solution, and if it's not there, you roll your sleeves up and you write it.
You nailed it. My view is that bitcoin fans tend to be so enamoured with the cool technology that they wholly ignore the economics and social aspects of it.

From a mainstream view though, the technology is completely irrelevant - no one cares if iPhone apps are written in Objective C or Lisp - what matters is the end product and what people can do with it.

When someone like Krugman looks at bitcoin, they do not see any of the technology (nor should they). They see a deflationary currency with vicious boom-bust cycles. Knowing the miserable experience with such currencies in the past, they don't think highly of this particular one.
Agree, that close to the finish line I would have done the same. Especially as everyone would be pushing so hard because it's Boston.
love how those calculators start with 200~300k houses prices.

in most areas where i want to live, this is the going price for a buying an extra parking spot at the building garage. when you get a good price.
"Checkbox features."

The customer will never run the code, but that doesn't mean they don't buy your product because of the code.
Only Breivik never planned on suicide. I simply identify terrorists as those who spread terror, either with or without a government mandate.
A Cato contributor describes Krugman's alleged advocacy:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/06/defending_what.h...
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It was a great moment of national pride for me (which are rare in the UK) in the wake of the 7/7/2005 bombings. People were back on the Tube and buses the next day, refusing to allow their lives to be disrupted further. I've always taken solace from those people- I hope that the people of Boston can be equally inspiring.
That's not the end of story. The reality is that utilities are filled with thousands of employees. Not every employee has the sole goal of enhancing shareholder value.

Anyway, enhancing shareholder value isn't necessarily at odds with allowing people to generate electricity with distributed solar. You can defer quite a bit of capital expense (e.g. power lines) if the load gets reduced by generation.

Finally, for some regulated utilities, maximizing revenue doesn't mean maximizing profits. Sometimes regulations set the profit, and there are ways to game it that don't involve running the utility as a private-profit-maximizing firm.