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There are wallets that let you do that. Eg:

"Electrum [...] allows you to recover your wallet from a secret phrase." [1]

[1] http://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet
I suspect this "Fitzgerald" fellow copied every single one of those words in his "book" from the dictionary. None of it belongs to him.

"Belonging to" is just what we agree on together for a short time. In the end, everyone dies and no one gets to keep anything.
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Yea, bitcoin almost completely fails as a currency when the receiver doesn't have an internet connection.
With Paypal you get one option for dispute resolution: Paypal. With Bitcoin, you can have any number of companies compete to be the arbitrator for your transactions. May the most even handed one win.
> What would you predict as the most likely other steps in the filter?

I don't know. Robin Hanson blogs a lot about it, but none of the steps seem terribly plausible although my favorite currently is big brains being feasible - in a number of ways, heads seem to be rare, big brains even rarer, and the costs of big brain almost too expensive to bear because neurons seem to be unable to get more efficient; one paper I liked on the topic was http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/19/1201895109.full... but you can find a lot of relevant material in http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics
The only issue I'd take with this is that when someone says "I feel this way," I take it to mean "I believe this but can't prove it." If you know something, or if you have a good, scientific basis for a statement... that's not a feeling. That's a hypothesis, and it shouldn't be cheapened by being stated as anything less (at least when speaking to people who aren't already familiar with it).

When you've gotten beyond "I feel like this will work, and that's motivating me" and you've moved on to "this freaking WORKS and now we have to do something about it," then you have a new set of problems to go with your opportunities.
Under that theory, how do we (society) handle duplicate invention? It happens a lot more than you might think: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1270160

Also, consider KMP string matching algorithm. Who owns that idea?
Chicago ought not to be lumped in with Boston and DC. DC and Boston are both quite nice (comparatively).

The CTA is not. It's barely tolerable (and by tolerable, I mean that people are even capable of using it to get around and/or commute at all. So, the system might technically be a functioning transit apparatus, but barely.) I've used it daily for a sizable portion of my life, and it fails with remarkable consistency.
it's gonna be another perl 6.
There are multiple questions here:

What do the transit vs. income graphs for SF look like?

How do the SF graphs compare to the NY ones?

Is there a clustering of rich and poor stops in SF like there is in NY?

And then finally, what are the possible explanations?

Sure, they didn't answer the last question, and you have to inspect the data to answer the second and third ones, but it's okay to provide data for other people to look at.

Surely if the first question was worth answering for NY, it's worth answering for SF. You don't answer questions simply because you expect to find something, you answer them because you're curious.

Do you know the story about Richard Feynman and the wobbling plate in the cafeteria? It's another question that "nobody wanted to answer".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x98SEQUo48c
Lots of private companies with R&D don't like their data leaving the building, but want a collaborative tool that's more technical than G docs. We're exploring this space, hopefully while providing a kick-ass, free or very cheap graphing tool for the public at large.
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very nice. I'll keep an eye on it.
Oh, there is a very distinctive Chicago accent. One property of that is that 'chicaago' is more likely to be the pronunciation than 'chicogo'.
And a payment processor should not hold the customer's money for a longer duration. That is what the Government is trying to push them into complying.
Just like any other payment processors operating in the country, Paypal can also keep the money with them for just enough duration that is required to process the payment. After that they need to TRANSFER the amount and not hold it with them.

If the India Govt relaxes it for Paypal, multitude of such payment processors would start operating and one day you would see them disappear with people's money. Then again you will blame the Govt.
Yes, I agree. Those who hold gold through passthroughs, depositories, or similar mechanisms are not likely to fare well. It's only applicable for metals owned directly.
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Problem: I'm very ADHD & terribly undisciplined. The last three counselors/coaches I've been to independently deemed me the worst case of adult ADHD they'd ever seen (without knowing others had also done so). I'm building out a comprehensive management plan for myself and one of the things I desperately need is a way to prevent distraction by going to off-task sites. In a few weeks, I'll be attempting to change multiple habits at once and it feels like this habit may be one that I can simply nullify through some tech solution.

Solution: Block all websites I don't need when working. To start with, I figure I'll only allow myself to have access to Stack Overflow & anything redirected to or referred by Google. In an ideal world, I'd be free to add (but not modify/delete) sites to a blacklist. Modifying the blacklist or whitelist would require someone else to allow it.

Difficulty: I'm rebellious, even against myself. I'm also a tech-savvy coder. If it takes less than 5 mins to bypass or disable the blocking mechanism, I'll probably be able to figure it out and won't hesitate to use it. If the code required to automate the bypass can be done in less than 100 lines, chances are I'll write it. Since the goal here is to minimize the effort involved in curbing this habit (to make it easier to focus on changing other habits), the solution needs to force me to stay on task instead of simply training me to.

Also, keep in mind that I'm a developer and there are 3rd-party systems I need to be able to access outside of the browser.
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I'm not saying that at all. I frankly don't think copyright should be more than maybe 30 years. If you can't make money on it by then maybe someone else can.

I don't have much experience with patents but thought I had read that they were 12 and renewable with maintenance for another 12. I guess I was wrong.
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Hey cool, thanks! Incidentally I think the time loop mechanic from Groundhog Day is also from a TZ episode.
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I don't really get your point. Its obvious that game developers would produce better interfaces / experiences, because that is what they are selling.

Enterprises are selling a product or service, and the customer paying the bills doesn't see the internal software that facilitates some part of the process of delivering that product or service. You could dream up a few examples where the end customer might be impacted by a poor UI used by internal staff but it would be an edge case.

If every enterprise software project attempted to produce game quality interfaces and experiences to the user, the costs would explode.

The only benefits of producing better interfaces / experiences / workflows for an enterprise are user moral and user efficiency. The latter is quite often addressed in my experience, as it affects the bottom line.
This is great art. It's the kind of art that makes you question your beliefs, the kind of art that makes you consider things in a different light; the kind of art that makes you question your existence and the futility of the world and capitalism.

Thanks for making this a reality.
The thing working with data has taught me is that humans are bad about guessing outcomes. Expectations are constantly trumped by the data, if you look at the data with an eye for your own biases.

In any case, thank you for sharing your experience.
Cool beans. MATLAB's plotting tools need to improve a lot, and hence i use export_fig.m a lot. Is a Skydrive option in the works?
Here's one: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2123355930/minsky-reform...
Well, let's suppose what you said is all true. That doesn't preclude the fact the regime is playing this game as well and in fact is utilizing it to its advantage. The fact of the matter is, Syria has been under the control of a mafia-like government for over 40 years, and ruled by one family. It's one of the most repressive regimes on earth.

You're also forgetting that the revolution started peacefully. People protested simply for freedom and liberty, which all human beings aspire for. It was the suppressive and violent actions of the government, which immediately resorted to killing its own citizens, that has lead the conflict to eventually turn violent and to where it is now.

No matter what the global interests are, it's the very actions of the suppressive regime that's worsening the situation and leading to the country's destruction. None of this would exist and we wouldn't be talking about it today, had the mafia-like government initially conceded to the will of the people and worked on transitioning the country to a fully democratic government. But notice the "mafia-like" adjective? A mafia-like government obviously does not have the best interest of the country in mind, so they're not going to adopt the will of the people and threaten their iron-grip rule. They're going to suppress every dissent with maximum force. That's exactly what has been happening for over 40 years.
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I agree - matlab's plotting is not nice, but found ggplot2 and never turned back (also had to switch languages though)
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Personally, it's just interesting to see the original creator start such a port. Especially when the original creator is of the calibur that Carmark is.
Thanks for the feedback! We're most excited about collaborative data analysis. Imagine being able to simultaneously view/edit a graph and script for a computational problem being solved in a team... Programmers can do this in git, but a data scientist might want a tool that is more visual and focused around graphs. I worked at a semiconductor R&D company for a while and we often shared scripts and graphs by email... it felt like the 90s (:
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$120K is typical? Even if you only isolate the executive/management positions from SF, which is one of the most inflated markets in the world, the median is still only about $100k. Obviously, the average of all white-collar jobs will be far lower. In more representative parts of the country, I'd imagine that it's below $50k (which is only two to four times the poverty level, not ten.)

Honestly, where do people get the idea that the average American makes $120k. That salary is astronomical.

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Cool. Really helpful stuff.
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Nice work!

Double click to autoscale is intuitive. Love the simple click to change Title/axis label.
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he said he "could care less," not that he did care less. this kind of sloppyness is emblematic of HN's decline. not to mention the fact that what does food trucks has to do with HN?
Cool, thanks. We could probably tone down the size of our demos.
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There are many differences in addition to this, but this starts to give you an idea.
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That is not true. The attack works regardless of how many confirmations you wait for.
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Most people never complain about Java or C++ not having REPLs, but somehow C# is expected to have Python/Ruby features even though it's a static language.

For reference, 7 years ago would have been around when C# first introduced generics... well before it ever grew lambdas, LINQ, local variable type inference, or other more expressive features. Which makes the idea that it should have had a REPL then pretty silly.
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One is to sell the technology and team to a larger company that building a suite of cloud-based related products. For example this might complement the Google Docs suite well, or any cloud-based data analysis toolkit suite.
It's funny how Bitcoin is supposed to be a P2P currency and we are essentially going back to using banks.
Oh, no doubt.

I guess I'm just prejudiced by seeing "case stories" held up as some sort of "see, this person was able to do it, language/technique/tool/whatever X is ready for everyone to use! And will solve all problems!"

So, yeah, I'm projecting. No, I don't know why. :( Sorry.
Yeah! Well, another point comes up here too. Do we really need to look at subway lines to find out if rich people live in Manhattan? It seems like you only need income tax returns to answer that one. It's more like, are the stops on subway lines segregated into rich and poor clusters the same way that physical neighborhoods of rich and poor people are segregated on a map? And then speculation as to why or why not is interesting. For SF it's hard to answer, but for New York, well, to build a train track that leaves Manhattan is expensive unless you're going to the Bronx, so you're going to put all the Manhattan stops together.
When Viddy raised money, it was when folks were jumping on the who will be the "Instagram of video" bandwagon.

Socialcam and Viddy appeared to be the front-runners for that, but then certain things got in the way

- FB cracked down on both for being aggressive with people's feeds. This killed growth.

- SocialCam got acquired for $60M by Autodesk which as a comparable transaction wasn't very favorable for Viddy (on a price/user valuation multiple basis since there was little to no revenue)

- Investors had control of the board and likely decided based on the above and other factors (such as company founders departing) that this was throwing good money after bad and so decided to take their money back
We've had a lot of luck just using gunicorn with a post_response hook for doing some extra work without making the client wait on it before getting a response. It avoids adding another dependency and is pretty straightforward. It makes sense for us since we don't have HUGE tasks that need to be queued, but some things that can take a maybe 0.5 to 3 seconds and where the HTTP response can be sent back before doing this work. I should open source this at some point, it's a small amount of code but pretty handy.
Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545823
your throwing in "nonlinear" when referring to food choices, and your coinage (no? just copying then?) of the term "de-risk" are what I identify as the most entrepreneur-hostile patterns in this thread. HN used to be better than this!
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Maybe if all of the objects just referenced a read only version of the world state, and we copied over the updated version at the end of the frame… Hey, wait a minute...

This sounds like a game development reference that I'm missing. Can anyone explain?
I know this isn't a very HN thing to do, but ...

relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIN4tC5Zwx0
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The biggest difference is that in forex there is a clear distinction between trading and "clearing." Trading occurs when two people agree to trade (SURPRISE!) a specified amount of two (or more) currencies for a given rate of exchange at some point in the future. Clearing is the part where the money actually changes hands. You're probably asking yourself, "But what happens when someone agrees to a trade but the transaction doesn't clear?" This is referred to as counterparty risk. Counterparty risk is pretty self explanatory: the risk that the other person doesn't pay you.

Therefore, compromising the exchange doesn't necessarily mean the end of the world since the "front office" (place where trading happens) is logically separated from the "back office" (place where money changes hands etc). As an aside, this is why France is in the process of regulating the movement of employees between the back office and the front office. If you are familiar with how both systems work then it becomes trivial to start hiding your trading activities and positions. The most damning part about compromising, say, a forex exchange, is that you get to take a peek at everyones trading history and hidden orders. So if you compromise the exchange and see that fund X has an open resting order for 20b EUR/USD @ some price you can then use this information to profit from. Or alternatively based upon the data you abscond with, it then becomes possible to reverse engineer their trading strategies.

This is a bit different than a bitcoin exchange as my understanding is that the clearing and trading occur all at once and there is no separation. E.g. the exchange occurs as soon as the two parties agree. Although this eliminates counterparty risk it poses significant (insurmountable?) problems for the way automated trading currently works today.

Another difference is that the vast majority of forex trading volume happens between institutional investors (usually on behalf of a corporate which is just trying to pay workers in another country) or other hedge funds. This makes security vastly easier since all of these servers are walled off from the public internet and the traffic they exchange never hits the public internet. Additionally it is also reasonable to expect that the system administrators of the end users understand how to operate a computer and keep it relatively secure :). Not always the case, but the assumption.

Edit: Additionally, the clearing is handled by the counterparties themselves and not the exchange. With bitcoin the exchange handles everything and thus is the central point of failure.
In my experience the public at large is satisfied with Excel/Numbers, while scientists prefer their power tools like R or Matlab. Perhaps you should pivot and build something like RStudio but for numpy.
His post about the iOS port of Wolf3D was a great read, and also a crystal clear reminder of why I never play 3D games on a touchscreen-only device. The means of input are so truly terrible that I do not understand why anyone bothers. But, clearly, there's an audience that does not care, and it was neat to read about all the things Carmack tried to figure out how best to pull it off.
Using celery for the first time, coming from PHP-land, blew my mind.

Python is now my language of choice for "getting shit done".
Touche. The attack you mention could happen. In fact it's impossible for anyone to to prove that it can't, other than by removing the script running capability. I suppose I should be more convinced now. I guess what I would really need to be convinced is to be shown a flaw in the fundamental idea of Bitcoin that could not be fixed, rather than in specific features of it's current implementation that can probably be fixed. Is it worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater for something fixable like this?

Wouldn't it be great if Bitcoin worked? Wouldn't it be great if it didn't take several days to move a few grand from one account to another? Wouldn't it be great if no one could take your money without your permission? Wouldn't it be great if you never had to touch physical currency again? Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to fill out a piece of paper and sign it to give someone else a significant amount of money? And then they didn't have to scan it into their phone, or shove it in an ATM or wait in line to deposit it? Why do I still have to do that? Wouldn't it be great if it wasn't so expensive to send money with Paypal?

Bitcoin has a sordid history of theft and fraud -- not more sordid than any other currency/commodity I can think of though. There will continue to be thefts and fraud. People will probably pay for better security. Who knows maybe people will end up paying as much for bitcoin security as they do now for the privilege of using visa/mastercard/etc.

Let people play with their Bitcoins -- the results might not be all bad.
thanks for the excellent link. the comments on the article are also very nice. here is one from "NathanM" (nathan-c-meyers perhaps ?):

And yes, I'd love it if the compiler (or other static code analysis) could detect how pure various bits of code are, and give reports. For far too long, compiler authors have treated compilers as a big opaque box that end users (developers) submit code to, and the compiler hands out code as if from on high. Smart developers want to have a 2-way communication with their compiler, learning about all sorts of things -- functional purity, headers over-included, which functions it decided to inline or not (especially in LTCG), etc. It's not the 1960s anymore -- developers aren't bringing shoeboxes of punchcards of source code to submit for offline processing. Let's get closer to a coffee shop where we can talk in realtime.
here's clip featuring it in Bill Maher's movie, Religulous - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2O3kvvTxPk

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Regarding prime lenses, what he says is generally correct: They offer very good quality for money and you can just move around to 'zoom'.

However, you have to consider the types of shots you take and the types of spacing you have to move around. I have a 50mm prime with my Nikon and there have been times when I just couldn't get back far enough to take the shot I wanted.
That's a rather low bar, don't you think? Haskell/ML family languages had all that and more.
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That's because Baby Bullets hit stations that tend to be in more affluent areas. Palo Alto, Mountain View, Redwood City, San Mateo, etc. Certainly Bayshore (Visitacion Valley) isn't dragging those down.
I know that feeling.

I remember seeing a post regarding the popularity of C# a few months back and the comments were filled with complaints that C# was more verbose than Python, lacked the instant gratification of PHP, had poor OOP when compared to Smalltalk and had worse support for functional programming than Haskell.

While none of the criticisms are necessarily false, it seems bizarre to me that the only way people would use C# is if it came in first in every single category.
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