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Thank you for the gratuitous profanity :)

1. You're dead wrong if you think employers are always getting more out of the employee. It's a mutually beneficial relationship and a free, highly competitive market in SF. If poorly treated, candidates bail and current team members do too.

2. We aren't talking about profits at all. This confuses and conflates eventual profits with employee salaries.

3. Nothing that I said indicates that we treat them like they came out of school. If you have a better alternative, I am all ears.

4. We don't want to do it quickly and cheaply. We want to do it as best as possible under our constraints. We're a small startup.

Good luck to you as well and thanks for flipping the bird. So mature!
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Tell that to the folks at the Library of Congress! http://www.businessinsider.com/library-of-congress-is-archiv...
Sorry I got the formatting screwed up (if that's indeed what you are referring to). Will try to fix.

I wasn't trying to get you to work with me but thanks anyways!
Well this one had a nice story on it:

http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html
Just the right age to be a child of 4chan. This is obviously trolling.
Might be the german govt. They've been advocating open source and linux for a while now. Maybe trying out buttcoins.
That's pretty short sighted. There are tons and tons of opensource software out there thriving, and without any type of backer. Some do it for fun, some to learn, some for pride, and some to give back. But I guess you think that DMs should have banner ads, and grep should return "No results found. Did you mean ....". It's ok to want to make money, and I wish you success in your endeavor, but insulting those with other motivations is tactless.
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Fair enough, and sorry for my snarky response. I know you weren't trying to get to work with me, but I felt the need to let you know that you needed to present your message properly. The audience here are programmers, often very good programmers, people who take pride in organizing their thoughts and their programs with optimum logic and efficiently. Your message looked as if it might be interesting, but it was ruined by the formatting (yes, that was the problem).
Really? I had no idea.

I was using the example as an extreme. It's curious to me that in most debates, you'll find no shortage of contrarians.

More to the point: Ramp access and automatic doors are viable, proven improvements to accessibility. Levers? No so much.

I suppose I ought to re-iterate why I find the notion that a lever-operated door to be "more accessible" than a door knob suspect, particularly if you consider people with carpal tunnel, other wrist injuries, or osteoarthritis in their digits (particularly thumbs). In these populations, wrist movements of any kind may be painful or impossible. To that end, I would believe that simple handle-operated doors that require push/pull only access ought to be far more accessible.

But again, automatic doors are something of a comparative panacea regardless of the disability. If you can approach the door or push a button, you can gain access to the structure.

So what was your point again?
"But we hear from every complainer, "the only possible way I could loose is cheating, I'm so entitled to this, I DESERVE TO WIN THE HACKATHON, WHERE IS MY TROPHY???? I ALWAYS get a trophy!!!". Sore losers? Check."

I don't think I ever said that (hint: I know I never said that, or felt that). In fact, I mention that I didn't think our team would win. I don't know why you're getting so angsty about this, like you personally know the judges, saw the process and think Salesforce is a mom and pop shop with the best intentions.

There are a couple teams that I've seen, and I would have been HAPPY to lose to them. Just simply being out classed is awesome, you get to see just how much better you can get.
I've always loved the debugging tools in solaris (smartos or whatever now).
Can we stop the negativity toward the forensic expert here? He's doing his job. Trying to find out fake pictures. If you disagree, just give a counter point. Stop the Ad-hominem.

Here are my counter-arguments:

1. Blood gets very dry: Not necessarily. Blood requires a sufficient level of platelets to get dry quickly. This can be the case, and it's not a rare condition. (I have it and my nose bleed frequently).

2. Blood color: Same argument. Depend on the constituents of the blood; and whether it's oxygenated or not.

3. Look at her right eye-brow. It looks like she was hit there and blood was bleeding from that place all over her right face. It can be the source of fresh, red blood.
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Serious question—are "hackathons" starting to be known as "hacks"? Have heard it a couple of times now.
Chess champions come and go, but why would Magnus becoming the champion affect the game any differently than his predecessors?
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I've only transferred / had transferred internationally sums around 50-100k, that was just a nominal fee.

http://www.stgeorge.com.au/online-services/business-banking/...

Telegraphic Transfer (TT) Request $20.00 per transaction or item

Pretty sure that would be fine up to ~$1 million. Anecdotally I know TT happen for sums in the range of $10-$100 million (there was a case where ~$150 million was stolen by a rogue TT in Australia to overseas bank accounts).
That actually looks pretty promising, but seems like it will have major balance issues.

To me the trick is preserve some kind of backward compatibility with chess while finding a way to increase the strategic content. Ironically stuff like increasing the board size like in 3D chess variants, can actually reduce the strategic content by reducing the role of long-term factors like pawn structure.

EDIT: I can see some combination of the game's features -- particularly the king "touchdown" -- sort of working against the strategic content. IE people just playing gimmick openings to sneak their king across.
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Nope. Third-world here. I don't think it'll take a couple weeks in the US.
If I knew the answer to that I wouldn't be posting on HN :)

Seriously, though, you need to predict the behaviour of others - will they think that it is going up?
It is fairly easy to create a long running server in a GC'd language that will continually consume more memory. Some don't like to call it a memory leak, which is why I put it the way I did, but the effect is the same.

At the end of the day, the more that you think this is impossible the more likely your programs will experience it. So please don't think that your program is immune to this because you use Javascript.
Have you ever seen India's medal tally in Olympics - your logic will fade once your find India near the end of the tally with 2 medals one silver and one bronze.

Vishwanathan Anand was not the rule but an exception.
I think the future is in this TYPE of currency, but I think the premise that bitcoin is using to "generate" through mining is the wrong approach.

I've had in the back of my mind an idea for a long time that will take alot of ingenuity to implement, but I'm fairly confident it will be the kind of electronic currency that will sustain itself well after bitcoin.

The concept is based on the idea that there is no centralized or distributed mechanism for determining who has "mined" the currency. Each individual just creates an account, and over the lifetime of that account sustains itself based on comparisons with others whom they've transacted with. The algorithm would need to adapt to attempts to defraud it, but think about this.

If I am transacting with someone who has been spending the currency like a mad man, their currency can be seen as less valuable to the overall population (since they may be a statistical outlier in usage of the currency). When someone has spent too little, this can also be a negative, since new and unestablished accounts mean the person may be less trustworthy, etc.

I think the key to this may be in the ability to tie an account to a person's real identity somehow.

The concept around it really puts everyone on even footing when the currency first hits the market. None of this madness. Sure you can probably make money for a while with Bitcoin, but I'm not willing to bet too much on the long-term sustainability of it, just because it will be like most currencies in the past. Some will start with alot, and some will be left out to dry with none. It's simply not as appealing as a self-regulating currency.
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I would like to see people banding together to get refunds. It appears that the competition was a sham.

The prize was a lot of money as well. That should set some alarms off when you enter a 3 day competition.
> Web Browsers really make poor client application runtimes for all but the most basic of things.

Little did he know that we'd have Microsoft to thank for the innovation (XMLHttpRequest) that would eventually bring the era of desktop software to a close.
Sorry, didn't mean to put down the skills of young people! I'm 28 and I work on lots of security related systems, and although I understand most all of it, I wouldn't attempt to build a Bitcoin exchange without someone with years and years of hardened workplace experience. That's all I meant ;)
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This has been bullshit for nearly 12 years, now: http://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/an-underwater...

Get this crap off the front page, please.
When I read “Kraken.js” for a second I thought it’s a JS client for Asana’s Kraken project: https://github.com/Asana/kraken

Are we running out of names for open source projects?
I also found this part amusing:

> Somewhere around this point, people began spewing mindless drivel about how browsers would somehow magically replace operating systems eventually, and how in the future all applications would be "web based". This, of course, got Microsoft's attention.

Maybe we haven't gotten there completely yet, but holy cow. WebGL, more web-based applications than you can shake a stick at, and OS emulation in-browser. I think it's close. :)

One person's future is another person's mindless drivel, I guess.

Edit: Oh gosh, it's still being updated.

http://toastytech.com/evil/rants.html
True.

I may be wrong here - but is the private key only required to send the money? So, if the user kept the key and it wasn't recorded on the server...or if they use some type of password hash for encrypting it, then there wouldn't be hundreds or thousands of wallets stolen at once. The user would enter their password when they want to transfer funds, the hash is calculated, private key decrypted, transaction made, and the private key is never recorded anywhere.

But, this would require the user to NEVER forget their password, or else they lose their money.
Re: wiping, isn't it possible that she wiped it herself initially (as author suggest she would, consciously or not) and then eventually left it alone and it streamed down past where she had wiped?
Related questions, what are the open problems with prime numbers? Not that I'd ever solve them, but I was having fun using machine learning algorithms try to predict the next prime number in a sequence and it was kind of interesting.
I was going to say, it would make more sense if they got the data digitally by knowing pre-registered flight plans and plotting that in 3D. Alternatively, they could point a camera at the sky and look for "plane-like" objects. Either would be cheaper than ADS-B hardware. Then I learned you could actually scan radio signals with software... http://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/ Mind blown. :)
FTFA:

> The agency also said it would try to decrypt or bypass codes that keep communications secret by influencing “the global commercial encryption market through commercial relationships,” ...

> The agency plans to fight back against the rise of encryption through relationships with companies that develop encryption tools and through espionage operations.

Does that sound like "backdoor Symantec PGP WDE, Microsoft Bitlocker, etc." to anyone else?
Good example might be a server process which never releases memory, so the longer it runs the more memory it "consumes". That is, the maximum memory required to handle any previous request.

This might be a well known solved problem, but I have heard it mentioned before.
Keep in mind there has already been precedent for faking photos and videos in the Syria conflict, as well as other conflicts around the world.

It's very much in the interest of militants, and other actors (cough Saudis) to topple the Assad regime, and of course the only way to do that is to get the West involved...

In Iraq you have Sunni-Shia conflict, and that's pretty much what's going on in Syria right now too (with the same actors funding the conflict behind the scenes...).
Not if several parties swap each other's transaction histories using an anonymous mixer on Tor.
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This may sound "negative" but I would appreciate if you can think about this : by "proud", you merely mean "lucky". You can only be proud of things that you achieve personally. Unless you trained him or helped him somehow) you have absolutely no part in Magnus Carlsen's success.

Probably without realizing it, your ego is merely interested in these false associations (Magnus > Anand => Norway > India, and parents-who-gave-birth-to-me-think-they belongs-to Norway => I belongs-to Norway) because it can grab a free ride to better self-esteem without any personal effort. I believe there are false notions of separateness and identity involved here.

Nationalism is also spiritually detrimental because it prevents you from realizing that you are not who you think you are. How can you even ask the question, "Who am I?" if you are so comfortable with who you think you are?

Sorry for the lecture. I hope there is something useful here for you despite raining on your parade!
Not really my project, but racket, specifically DrRacket has a handful of easter eggs for various holidays and the birthdays of core developers.
And excuse me fake photo can push a war too. Look at the whole Iraq war. Any hard evidences have been disproved after the war. If you think a photo can't kill more people, think about cyberbullying. A single comment can trigger a death. Fake media has a larger effect. And you know the word "propaganda".
Hawaii did in the 70s when I lived there. Don't know what the current situation is.
I'm not going to defend the Concorde business model, but the ban on cross country flights due to noise made it impossible. I mentioned this in irony to a colleague recently as a maintenance guy blasted leaves outside with a leaf blower.

I still think Concorde could have been made to work in the end if it had been improved over time.
I'm always amused by how people tie their pride to things they have absolutely no control over. In case of sports, it's even worse. Most sport outcomes aren't repeatable. When "your" team/person wins it is very likely due to random mistakes others made or you were fortunate to avoid this time. They may very well loose if the game was repeated again. Would your pride wash away then? Even if sport events were repeatable, why you should take pride when you had almost no contribution to their success (may be except buying a ticket or offering your eyeballs for TV ads)? In US, its even worse, considering teams are not even "national", they are actually owned by random zillionairs. I was almost floored to see people spending spending significant portions of lives and money in to cheer leading what is essentially absolute random team where members are pretty much from anywhere, sometimes even opponent teams! Why anyone should be spending their precious Sundays and take monumental amount of pride when some random zillionair's team wins because of what are essentially random non-repeatable events? Sometimes I think sport fans are people who skipped any or all education on probability and statistics.

PS: Before you all get on my case let me tell you I do get the fact that sports does have display of skills value (same as skills of artist) that is worth paying for. I also get that professional sports is hard and money hungry adventure and without fans it won't exist. What I don't get is why is it a matter of pride?
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(this is the point where I hope hope HOPE everyone in this thread is joking)
I personally feel this is another BTC holder trying to raise the value of his investment by attracting more attention to Bitcoin and crypto currencies.
If this is a joke, it's a pretty serious one https://twitter.com/CyborgUSA/status/403664555944865792
Hey, thanks for your availability. This is my situation: I bought a few bitcoins on Coinbase (US account), made some money, sold them. Is that profit taxable?
Just a note for those that don't feel like "good guys" funding wars and spying and perhaps don't believe the systems of "democracy" give them much choice.

Tax collectors have a very difficult time keeping up with such advances; in the case of BTC the small timers won't receive more than random scrutiny and the big timers have many tools to protect themselves.

Given the difficulties inherent in taking everyone's money worldwide tax collectors rely on proven tactics such as example making of the famous and releasing inflated information about their abilities. The accountancy and legal professions are understandably partners in this effort.

This community is exceptionally intelligent but also quite risk averse so non-complicit folk should try not to take scary anecdotes over the reality of the advantages bitcoin holders with regard to taxes.
photo six: is she wearing braces? If so... is that common over there? I spent the better part of my 2011 paycheck to get Invisalign in my mouth and find that a little odd if that's the case. Maybe Morris' book has officially corrupted me!
Thankfully mobile OS will save us from such future.
So are you arguing that this won't be abused? That seems extreme. There is a large probability that government databases will eventually be hacked, that the people using them will do a look-up for personal reasons, that police will use it excessively on some case, or use it to enforce bad laws, etc.

You can say the benefit of it makes it worth it, but I don't see how you can believe these things won't happen at all.
I'm tempted to conclude this is something that happens so rarely you may as well count the times it happens as a rounding error.

Everyone's tempted to conclude things like that, but there's a subtle fallacy happening when we do. Generally speaking, we notice government programs of all stripes when they get in our way. When they don't get in our way, we don't. It's very easy for someone paying attention to the news to be able to rattle off incidents where the FDA and FEMA and the SEC screwed up, because the screw-ups are in the news. But when they do their job correctly we never hear about it. Basically, the dataset we carry around in our heads about How Well Government Works is substantially biased toward instances of failure.

The only way to really measure how useful a regulation is or isn't is to determine what it is the regulation is supposed to address and examine a substantial set of "before and after" data points; trotting out vivid but essentially anecdotal examples of WHEN REGULATORS GO BAD makes for great editorializing, but it doesn't actually tell us very much.
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Certainly SoCla is tired of everything being a "ninja" by now?
Yeah, I get it. He ran a drug ring. A mail order drug ring on the internet, with real world consequences. I get that.

What I'm saying is this: There was no murder-for-hire skull duggery, until the sting provoked him into it. There were no murderous provocations without federal law enforcement in the picture, conflating the whole scenario with their invented personas that didn't exist.

That's the reality of what happened here.

They explicitly state that they taunted and coerced him, with fictitious sock puppetry. I'm not inventing that. That really happened.

So we're being asked (as internet jurors) to convict this guy on what he might have done if placed in a similar situation by real people. We're asked to throw him in jail because maybe he would have done something like this, eventually.

Except I'm not convinced of that. I'm not convinced that he belived he was dealing with more than one person on the internet. He may have suspected that this was all an elaborate con game, architected by a single entity, and if he did suspect that, he'd have been right. Except that the single entity in this case was the FBI.

And bitcoin? $500,000 in bitcoin? First of all, that's a drop in the bucket compared to the bitcoin wallet he allegedly had at his command. But really, any exchange rate you'd like to apply here is as turbulent, and volatile, and imaginary as whatever we pretend bitcoin is worth in general. It's a virtual currency people are still grappling with. The concept of bitcoin wealth is as absurd as internet fame. Yeah it seems to have real world effects, but how long will it last, and do we take it at face value? If he went from nothing to multi-millionairre IN BITCOIN ONLY, almost over night, is that real money? Did he try to give real money to a real internet hitman?

The federal government acknowleges bitcoin's existence, but even they don't acknowlege it as a true currency. So when you boil it down, it's more like he committed some hypothetical crime for $500,000 in semi-precious baseball cards, or bottle caps or pogs. Bitcoin is regarded as a collector's item at the moment, and little more. You could say he did it for $500,000 in ham sandwiches, and you wouldn't be far off the mark. Maybe it's 7,500 KG of ham sandwiches? Are they fresh ham sandwiches, stored in a refrigerator? Maybe they're moldy ham sandwiches, but what if they're THE VERY HAM SANDWICHES THAT CHOKED MAMA CASS TO DEATH???

Maybe it's still quid pro quo, no matter how you look at it, but when you bandy about dollar amounts, don't pretend like that's an objective value.
I don't hold that much BTC (<100 BTC). Honestly think the best uses are in the third world where "bad" money is more prevalent.
flying has made no progress since the 60's. planes still crawl along and it takes me 6 hours to get to the East Coast. I'll be wow'd when they make some progress beyond allowing me to listen to my music during take off.

The price of a cross-country fare, adjusted for inflation, is a small fraction of what it used to be.

The planes themselves are massively more fuel-efficient, reliable and safe.

You have on-board live television and internet on many flights.

These are all significant gains. Meanwhile, passengers voted with their wallets on supersonic airliners; the time saved (4-4.5 hours on a transatlantic Concorde flight) were not seen as worth the significantly higher fares.