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the business cycle goes up; the business cycle goes down. We all know this to be the case, and the business cycle is obviously up, so quit whining and get to work.

If you have no name, this is the time to make your name. If you have a name, this is the time to make money with that name. These are the times in which you have the most leverage.

Yes, of course, the business cycle will go down again. when will it change direction? How sharp will that transition be? Nobody knows. Worrying about that is... trying to know the mind of god. We all have a set of tools, a set of resources and abilities. We need to use those resources and abilities to make enough money (or enough notoriety) that we will be able to deal with the thin times. Now is the time to run hard, not to wonder about macro. There will be plenty of time for that during the next downturn.

Sitting here and complaining about the business cycle doesn't help you, it doesn't help me, and who knows, maybe some people feel that it brings that day of "the business cycle goes down" closer to now. That was the primary reason why I'd guess you got down-voted.

The other thing? Do you remember the '90s? I worked through the crash. It was not at all obvious ahead of time, which companies would come through, and which companies would not. I mean, it seems obvious now, sure, but it was not obvious then.
and then there are those engineers who have intentionally built weapons, hoping that they would be only be used defensively, but knowing that's likely not the case. . .
>I am not sure any line in the world has cost that much, even in inhospitable terrain like China's high-speed rail in Tibet, or Japan's high-speed rail through the mountains.

you should check cost of highways in Moscow - $300M/mile. Hint - it isn't about terrain :)
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I don't think its a good idea. There's value in doing things from scratch when you are learning. It helps you learn to stay organized.

There's plenty of people who can tweak and cajole code into working. There's a lot fewer people who understand the principles behind software and can manipulate those principles to create what they want, instead of tweaking little bits of code and copy-pasting.

Yes, most of your time in industry will involve working from an existing codebase, and a lot of time will be spent cajoling and tinkering, but if you have experience building semi-large projects from scratch, that isn't hard to pick up. Going the other way, on the other hand, forget about it.
I wouldn't call any of those things services so much as arbitrary costs. The military is ridiculously larger than it would have to be to offer just defense, education is terrible and they way overspend, and the regulatory system is corrupt and does way more damage than it prevents. Not to mention alternatives for any of these things.

Besides my point is even if a group of people went into the wilderness and declared independence, the government would still go after them and have power over them, even though they aren't consuming any government services at all.
If the government steps in to "de-anonymize" bitcoin, then people will simply begin using tumbling services. People don't use those services right now because there's no impetus to. But as soon as the trust inherent to the public ledger is violated by creating a large-scale effort to track the flow of bitcoin, then people will counter that action with tumblers.
While this is a great start, the majority appears to be just evidence inventory. There are some good parts around pg18, which is weirdly continued around pg97, along with an interesting, albeit heavily-redacted, interview on pg98.
Train cars must be connected to each other because of how trains work, whereas the Hyperloop pods are separate from each other. I haven't yet seen anyone actually crunch the numbers on the proposed weights for the Hyperloop (which are in the PDF) vs existing light rail solutions. You certainly can put a light rail up on pylons, it just might be a lot easier/cheaper to do so with the Hyperloop. I do think he's playing up the benefits of using pylons too much, since the real benefit here is the 35 minute travel time and affordable ticket cost.
My mom was a high school teacher in a small rural district with a Ford plant. In the early 80's, she took a couple of programming classes as a hedge against possible layoff, and ended up starting a class at her school. She paid for the computers out of her own pocket, and class met before the regular school day.

It should be noted that during this time period, outside of a few affluent districts, virtually all teaching of programming at the K-12 level was done on an ad hoc basis by teachers who volunteered their time and money.

Edit: Not "was" a hacker but "is" a hacker. ;-)
In fairness to Ericsson and Gladwell, they didn't say "any old 10,000 hours will do". The basic hypothesis was, as you say, that it had to focused and deliberate.
v_64, nesting is too deep to reply directly, but it doesn't need to be a merged miner for it to accept non standard transactions. Transactions are coded in a mini scripting language. A 'standard' transaction is one using opcodes in a particular format for normal transactions. 'non-standard' transactions allow for a number of different things but because bitcoin developers are cautious they're not relayed between peers by default.

They are accepted and valid in blocks though. So any miner can include them in their blocks. What Eligius, and some other pools do, is they allow accepting the transaction directly. So you connect your node to it directly and send the transaction as normal. It won't be relayed to other peers as they reject it. But those running a modified client will and can include it in a block.
Could you then explain what the problem is? That's what jbaudanza was trying to do, but if he's wrong, then it'd be helpful for someone to clarify.
Either Bitcoin is just a bubble, and it'll stop, or it's actually useful, and not just "imaginary points". Either way, it'll probably be decided way before it has any real impact on the global energy consumption.
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the info.
The weight of the track ballast alone is more than that.

? You don't need to use ballast & tie track on elevated structure, in fact it's rare to do so on modern rail structures.
Sorry I am not up on all the code intricacies with bit coin, but is this a way to publish a batch of text anonymously? Is that what the author is trying to show (a new communications channel) or is that something already known to the bitcoin community?
Probably not, the pressure and thus the density of the air is really low and therefore it simply does not have the energy density needed to cause problems.
Anyone can embed messages in a Bitcoin transaction. It looks like this one was sent using a transaction script.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/3440
Amazing that there are so many safeguards in place to prevent what happened to HCY 522, and yet the crew managed to miss/ignore them all. I'm sure there have been many thousands of instances where a safeguard prevented such an incident, but in this case I suppose the fates aligned.
Um huh? What the heck are you talking about? Imap and pop can't tell if the body text of a message is plaintext or not beyond poop left by encoding /encrypting engines. Certainly my proposed system would allow plaintext messages disguised as encrypted messages to be sent to the end user, but so what?

I am not talking about how lavabit worked, I am asking why not design a system where the service provider need hold no private keys and thus have no way to comply with requests for keys. Yes, they can help the government track users and they can try to install malware on your machine, but fundamentally they don't know whether you're reading your email on a mac, pc, raspberry pie, or microwave oven.

Here's a pgp encrypted message. What can't I send by conventional email? (Or simply post on usenet, as my earlier post.) "They" can try to track every person who inadvertently downloads messages left for me.

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- <-- poop

Version: BCPG C# v1.6.1.0

hQEMAz/dtuqQ9lvGAQf/Rqb+/hNYGhdTli66144SlhBIDineb9uY0tc7p5kDOEm1
DmwqoQNoyX8LshRe1YlpCIiS7nW6Mmzhs86U65yA2/W4Rfs0gsfBx8R//01bBr54
qgRAMsoW426hIVc16XjlIVy+o7/FrynHkY3Vf0E7Ft7qbHL2OcKjIMxDtl0mK2dj
W2c5/rvTiZeq6j1iKTn22DaD94PFjHVcE7H4IRGRKRnp5TxgZq0OAzGD00aSqWMM
4xZdiqFNr7J9o9Akoz8qYotSBjLXFoep+pDyD8EU9I6oA4Eqea3Ka2YXQ9m6/QwS
9VS6cPYccfqjms4X0V/E+fWRnkpyXomVETSamar2IMktO4BiRY6/qCjhpUywcag8
bJ+rOFrwVsSS+xy3XpXvRtlYRPGk8dA/BYH4b3Wz
=D8kd

-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
That "lion's share" is rapidly shrinking, I think. If you're remotely related to a Mormon or someone with an affinity for ancestry.com, your birth and marriage(s) are probably databased and internetted. And soon enough, your death.
No more so than flying coach. It actually looks more like flying business class on BA.
I wonder if the better approach (for a company like this one) would be to hire 4-5 good programmers, and 4-5 bad programmers, and let candidates write the tests; assign the candidates that most successfully identify the on-staff good coders from the bad ones the highest score?

It sounds about as silly as this scoring does in the first place anyway...
When Apple parted ways with Steve in the 80s, they did so because they changed the direction of the company and disagreed with his leadership vision. This time, it's the complete opposite and he will be remembered forever at the company in a positive light. This isn't an appropriate comparison since the situations of Steve leaving were completely different.
Or you could just open a window.
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It's the wild west, except not a single person ever died from it. It's a communications network. I'm all for treating it as the wild-west, self regulating thing it is.

Applying this logic, mail is the old Wild West.
A segment about the Hyperloop was actually on the NBC nightly news. I think Musk is becoming a household name.
"Open source" plans in PDF format. "But we published it on github, that makes it open source, right?"

RMS is rolling over in his -- oh wait, he's still alive.

How about a ReST or LaTeX document that generates this PDF?
Because we realize at the end of the day that we spent 8-10 hours a day to get more people to click ads, buy virtual farms, help big financial conglomerates make more money, etc.

And we have little to no control over your circumstances. Starting a startup and getting funding relies on getting the approval of investors. Getting a dream career depends on persuading a few gatekeepers, etc.
I've been pushing for browser vendors to partially mitigate this by scheduling garbage collections during vsync (since the game's requestAnimationFrame code isn't running at that period in time). Unfortunately at present I'm not aware of anyone doing it.

For reference, at 60hz you have roughly 16.6ms to produce a frame and then do whatever you like before it's time to present it. So if the actual game code runs in a few milliseconds (not unreasonable for low to mid tier 3d games, even in the browser), you can do some incremental GC for 5-10ms and not be at risk of missing vsync. It's even better if you do the actual wait-for-vsync in a dedicated thread while you GC; then you won't ever miss vsync, and the vast majority of GC pauses are entirely hidden from the user.
If this system will evolve, how switches will work between different routes? Will it be only from station to station?
I don't see the benefit to anyone else to having someone be educated. And if you don't use social services there is no benefit to you (not saying we shouldn't have any, but it's wrong to say they directly benefit you.)

Yes you can go far enough and find "indirect" benefits to anyone for anything, but you have to stretch it quite a bit.
I'm not sure how those first two paragraphs made you any less wrong.
Not that I know of. If you're in the Bay Area (contact info on piece), drop me a line and we can grab coffee.
> Unpopular opinion of the day: bitcoin is real money, and the government will regulate it and control it as such.

Which government?
Étoilé svn is actually rather active. I suspect the reason the site has languished so badly is that the focus largely shifted away from the desktop environment and towards producing a development platform with tighter involvement in GNUstep's own development.
But this comparison is wrong and meaningless. Certainly no one would build a high-speed, dense train network across, say, Nevada.

But building one across the coastal part of California? Or across the NE United States? Why yes, that does make sense, and why yes, it is warranted by the densities in those areas. The fact that the U.S. also owns Alaska doesn't really matter. No one is arguing Alaska needs a high-speed rail network.

Build fast trains connecting all the red areas:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Californi...

Repeat for suitable other areas across the U.S.
Correct. In profiles I typically observe incremental GC running in 1-5ms increments, which makes it easier for it to fit in between frames without causing visible stutter.
I'm not sure that's an accurate representation of how things work in the tax world. You don't pay a tax when you pay a bill, but it's likely the recipient of your money includes it as income on their tax return. Same goes for any seller - whether or not a sales tax is involved. If you were to transfer a large amount of money from your bank account to a friend's, your friend would likely have to count that money as income on their tax return (as a gift).

The way the US tax code is set up, any income is taxable unless there's an exception for it.
That's a real shame, data science will hopefully cut through the theoretical BS that are the results of so many social science thesis'.
Sony's rumored 'Lens G' turns any phone into a point-and-shoot camera
Bored people don't shoot guns at trains today. Why would they start?
Pure functions handle state without any issues (quite elegantly, actually). They simply can't have mutable state that is globally observable. For instance, you could have a struct, and every time you 'mutate' the struct, you actually clone it and simply set the relevant field to the new value when you're instantiating the new struct.

Functional programming languages have mechanisms that make this process pure, simple, and efficient and you get the benefits of never mutating an existing value (which is important when several different functions may hold a reference to it, among other reasons).

See also: The Haskell state monad or lenses. Theses are pure mechanisms that Haskell provides to update state without mutating any data.

Edit: In the event that you do need shared mutable state, the Haskell STM (Shared Transactional Memory) monad is your answer.
And add in the number of times you're tagged - often against your will - in others' photos. . .
It's definitely known, although I think most nodes drop transactions with weird stuff in them to prevent bloating the block chain with child porn.
FWIW, C++11 has massively improved the verbosity problem in C++, by introducing much more powerful metaprogramming features that make it possible to build more concise tools. As an example, I talk a bit in the article about how I've implemented parser combinators. They're not quite as concise as Haskell's, but they're a whole lot better than what you could do in C++03.

The down side is that taking full advantage of metaprogramming in C++11 requires learning a very large and complicated language. But once you've done that, it's really not so bad.
Summary after reading all the comments:

To actually see the message click the link "Show scripts & coinbase"

This is a non-standard transaction. This type of transaction burns bitcoins(bitcoins don't go anywhere.)

This transaction was first mined by the pool called Eligius. The Eligius pool allows non standard transactions if the transation is relayed to it directly.

The message is also not signed(PGP) correctly by Satoshi(Bitcoin creator).
Cool concept, but a 500 mile bridge? Elevated transportation routes are expensive [1,2,3]. The utopian dreams tend to give way to an ugly reality [4,5].

The $1 billion budget for land and rights of way also seems wildly optimistic for razing a path through multiple heavily populated metropolitan areas with astronomical real estate prices. And let's not underestimate the tenacity and ingenuity of a determined opposition [6,7].

[1] The 3.2 mile, mostly elevated [1a] BART/OAK connector with dinky little cable cars will cost $361mm for the capital construction alone[1b].

[1a] http://bart.gov/docs/oac/OAC%20Project%20Alignment%20Map%20S...

[1b] (slide 36) http://bart.gov/docs/oac/Microsoft%20PowerPoint%20-%20OAC%20...

[2] http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20080528_197905505cost...

[3] http://www-pam.usc.edu/volume2/v2i1a3s2.html

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DkZ...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_Freeway

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolts#California

[7] http://dc.streetsblog.org/2012/06/25/indianas-big-dig-raises... (this one is hilarious)
I was trying to figure out where I'd seen this before.

http://www.thecomicking.net/2012/06/25/the-core/

The (terrible) movie "The Core" has a vehicle -- the Virgil.
I have somewhere read, that large cities are usually the size one can travel in under an hour. So this could have quite interesting effects in effectively joining LA and SF.
Theory question:

If I gift my friend $X, and then he gifts it right back to me, and we proceed to do this back and forth ad infinitum, is it the case that the IRS would eventually bleed that money to $0?
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Honestly, this paper should be made as a mandatory reading in schools. Honoring modern science and economics.
But keyboards and mice are still just as useful and likely to remain so in the forseeable future, I think for much the same reason that pen and paper are still around in the digital age. Ergonomically, they just work and they're pretty intuitive, especially when you've got a large screen to deal with.

Even in a future in which spoken commands become commonplace, using a keyboard and mouse has an advantage. After all, I don't necessarily want everyone to hear every word I speak into a textbox.

It's like the similar argument about digital books replacing print books. Even though printed material technically (depending on if your definition of 'printed' includes cuneiform) has been around since Babylon. Its being old is no reason necessarily to replace a peripheral, so long as its function is still adequate.
People do commute on the Tokaido shinkansen, but that is not the majority of its ridership. The numbers I've seen give about 10% of Tokaido shinkansen ridership as being due to commuter passes (and anybody who doesn't use a pass for that would be completely insane), measured by "trips"; if measuring by "passenger-km", of course, the proportion due to commuters is much much lower, about 2%, because commuters tend to travel much shorter distances.

The bulk of the riders are business people going back and forth for meetings etc, and ordinary people going on holidays and the like. The most insane peak periods are around national holidays, especially long ones like golden-week where the trains are often running at significantly over 100% capacity (I've stood the entire way between Tokyo and Osaka, crammed up against others in the car vestibule...).

You're right that the shinkansen prices are significantly higher, but if anything that demonstrates how great the demand would be for a really cheap service (as Musk seems to be claiming, however dubious that claim may be), and thus how limiting the low projected capacity would be...
From the pictures it looks like able-bodied passengers don't sit upright, so a person in a wheelchair wouldn't fit. Perhaps they could be helped into a seat and then helped out, though.

Serious question BTW, I'm not sure what exactly ADA mandates.
Yeah, for that matter, why can't I fly like a bird and shit rainbows once I buy fiber? Google's clearly being malicious here with that slogan.
That reminds me of this (from HN a while back):

http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos

An html/png hybrid (among other hacks)
http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/whitepapers/heldhosta... is a good place to start.
I don't pretend to know it's a good idea, and there's undoubtedly poor ways to implement it, but I think it's worth exploring.

Adjacency of comments to code helps, but not everything can be adjacent to everything else, and when necessarily disparate code necessarily interacts it merits a comment that cannot be local to both.

Putting multiple eyes on the code is great, but 1) isn't prevented by what I propose, 2) isn't going to be perfect (and can perhaps be done more effectively with fewer things to have to check), and 3) sometimes isn't possible (if someone is working alone, for instance).

As John Carmack recently put it, on a large project "[e]verything that is syntactically legal that the compiler will accept will eventually wind up in your codebase."
I'm not a great speaker, still a work in process, but definitely improved. I know podiums are "bad" but I admit that I sometimes use them as "revervoirs of stength". I never get behind them, but I lean against them sometimes when listening to a question. And if walking back and forth in front of one, I sometimes lightly place my hand on it, convincing myself that that touch will keep me literally falling on my face. And I talk with my hands naturally, so I'm fine with the hand gestures. But I still hold a paper clip and press on it while listening to questions to help me concentrate. I don't process verbal info as well/quickly as I process written info, so I've convinced myself that playing with that paper clip relaxes me to the point that I can concentrate on what's being said/asked.
I'm tempted not to go for wordpress, as that happens to be about 50% of the work that I do at the moment and I'm looking to learn something new. I was thinking of something in either ruby, python or node. I'm unsure which one to choose (Though Ruby seems to be the flavour of the month it seems like node and python will have more varied applications if I want to expand my career).
The first time Jobs left, he was pushed out, and had not left any kind of planning mechanism in place. (Plus, he had a lot less experience.)

But before Jobs left us for good, he spent a great deal of time and effort attempting to turn Apple into something that could continue without him.

The situations could hardly be more different.
The 5000th doesn't help the person who paid for the first one. That would be the State of California in this case. Unless Mr. Musk would be willing to sign a contract for expected-10th-implementation-cost and not a dollar more?
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18854.long

and the talk about it:

http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_moral...
Was interested to see how many posts were going to discuss the possibility of ban following Thailand. Not One.

Is this not a real and probably outcome?
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Nice to see the collaboration here.
> By contrast, the lack of density in CA would mean that aside from LA - SF (and a bit of traffic to and from Sacramento), you wouldn't likely have that sort of potential passenger-base.

Actually, since California has a large total population, and its mostly concentrated in a few major urban areas, what that means is you have a natural constituency for high speed rail with few stops, spending more time at speed.

LA (and San Diego) to SF (and Sacramento) is a lot.
France might be interested.