skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll looks like the Chinese govt will now have a huge motivation to thwart bitcoin's rise within its borders.
For me I think that is very close to the sweet-spot. Both for number of people I can put up with working in the same room with* and conveniently the size of a team which I find work best together.

* Exaggerated a little, I'd probably drive myself nuts in an office alone.
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I wrote a post awhile back, called "Groovy, the Python of Java"[1], which praised Groovy as a great language for Python/Ruby developers who are forced to work with the JVM and associated libraries.

In the post, I said, "Python is still my muse, but Groovy is my Winston Wolf."[2]

As for Scala and Clojure, these are wonderful JVM languages, but they force you into a new programming model. You go from Java's "object-orient all the things" to Scala/Clojure's "function-orient all the things". Groovy, like Python, strikes a balance by being dynamic and multi-paradigm. A true clean-up man.

Its only downside, IMO -- the JVM :)

[1] http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2011/04/09/groovy-the-python-of-j...

[2] Scene from Pulp Fiction introducing Winston Wolf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPsHKpti48
I reckon because pointer-based trees are very slow compared to array-based data structures; these are constant factors due to memory accesses so they have nothing to do with the average and worst case performance you mention. For databases b-trees are appropriate, but for most uses of associative data structures hash tables are just very hard to beat.
I feel strongly that 99% of the people who are responsible for making this decision have no idea who "Microsoft's Jim McCarthy" is, other than maybe Jenny McCarthy's husband.
It is not going to eclipse gold in terms of importance. It won't even come within an order of magnitude.
Yes, it means exactly that. As in, nerds who have lived in their own geek culture bubble all of their lives, aggressively and prejudicedly judging sports culture from the perspective of their own comfort bubble, without ever truly experiencing it with an open mind or truly trying to understand why people enjoy those things and behave that way. Jock-bullying. It's very common in nerd circles, if only as a reflexive against the injustices against nerds, both real and imagined.

It's comical/depressing because nerd crowds are generally very self-congratulatory on how open-minded, liberal and intelligent they are.

And then this kind of reflexive antagonist behavior against jocks bubbles up, and we're forced to realize that no, just because geeks paint themselves as these smart and open-minded people does not mean it is true.

Sometimes, they're no better than bullies, insulting ways of life that they've never tried, simply because it is different or because they are expected by their group to dislike those things.
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Keeping programmers in cubicles or in open office space prevents them from drawing parallels between themselves an other sorts of professionals that command similar or greater salaries.

As long as corporate programmers think of themselves as socially below doctors, lawyers, professors (who tend to get paid less!), accountants, etc, then management can continue to treat them poorly ("Everyone should be working late into the evening this month, but don't worry, free pizza!" ...I doubt those sort of tricks would work well in other professions.)
About as easy as scoring a kilo of weed.
Adding Dada Mail right now!

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I'm interested in it's psychologically limited factors related to price "per" bitcoin... or, in other terms, bitcoin's "exchange rate".

Owning 1 bitcoin, no matter what it's worth, psychologically makes you feel poor. It's an arbitrary habit and, really, meaningless but to the average person they can't stand trading $1000 for 1-2 bitcoins. When people look in their bank accounts, they want to see thousands... millions! Not 1 or 2. Right? I think people would more likely buy 10,000 of something they perceive as a currency instead of 1.0000 -- even if through a change of "terms" they were worth the exact same in USD. Am I selling the general public short in this assumption?

(Probably not pertinent note: I sold today and no longer hold any BTC.)
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When is this curved tab experiment going to end already. I hated it in every peace of software that ever used it, and it always forces me to find ways to get rid of it.

Why not just stick with native tab implementation?
Call me obtuse, but I still don't get it. Specifically, how is it any different than me using my own antenna? Does it just boil down to an OTA vs Cable war, and the networks/NFL/etc would rather everyone pay for cable instead of installing their own antenna?
Can be explained as "no news is bad news", e.g. high profile thefts got BTC a spike in publicity.

Up until this month, nobody but geeks knew what BTC was. Now I'm hearing philosophy & art majors talking about it.
There is no benefit, it's just a technical possibility.

The other possibility is that the eventual client app on your smartphone just works in femtoBTC and handles the UI however people choose {BTC, satoshis, femtoBTC, USD, CNY, whatever}.
i see it!
It's interesting to watch Jeremy Allaire repeatedly say that only well-funded companies should be trusted to hold consumers' bitcoins.

Companies like, well, his.
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I'm unclear on why everyone seems to think that Bitcoin reduces governmental power. It makes all transactions public -- no more cash deals, hard-to-subpoena international wire transfers, etc. It makes the job of law enforcement much easier.
Why would you want to face the sun? Wouldn't that blind you? I'd think it'd be better to sit with your back to the tree facing away from the sun.
Given the current value of 1 BTC, $5 is a pretty small referral bonus.
I can empathize, but I would probably ask Google to remove it before going to the news.
My comments:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20131118.hsgacstatemen...

Jerry Brito's testimony was quite good.
BTC to BTC transactions don't affect the exchange rate.

The exchange rate between BTC and USD is only affected by trades between the two currencies. Now the relative illiquidity of some of the major exchanges ( mtgox especially ) and the fact that it's relatively difficult to find counterparties definitely contributes to the volatility.
"You don't think it was Al Gore, do you?" - quip from the senator running the hearings on the subject of Satoshi's real identity.
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This looks very positive indeed.
"Convenient denominations" is not the problem of deflationary currencies, it's a red herring.

The problem with deflationary currencies is that there is a huge behavioral difference between currency having 1% annual deflation and 1% annual inflation - it greatly slows the money velocity, as people are not motivated to spend it or invest it in means of production, so there's less of demand for goods/services causing less income for everyone and even more less demand in a reinforcing feedback loop.

It is widely considered that a low rate of inflation brings a very significant positive impact on prosperity compared to a deflationary environment or a very high-inflation one.

If bitcoin is growing in value, and is expected to grow in value in the mid-future, then that is a disincentive to spend it -> then that means a disincentive to sell stuff or provide services for bitcoins (because buyers don't want to use it) -> then that means that it has lower liquidity and usability. In the extreme, 'everybody saves bitcoin, nobody buys pizzas with bitcoin' turns into 'the only way to get rid of bitcoin is to find someone else who wants to hold it for no good reason, but wants to pay you a lot'. A healthy currency, on the other hand, gets used to buy pizzas and services primarily, and gains value because of it's utility in buying stuff.
I read it as younger, more foolish people believe if they're the best quisling they can be, if they can just throw away their life for the cause better than the next guy is throwing away his life, then the cause will obviously reciprocate and take care of him later, when he needs it. So throw away the kids sports games, work 80 hours, at least the company will take care of me later when I need help. The real world usually does not work like that, and the only really certain outcome of being the best slave you can be, is missing out on being a parent. And/or husband.

As a supposedly honors college grad and well read and all that he surely has heard of the greek concept of moderation in all things etc. May have not made it into the essay for whatever reason.

If he talked back to his boss and "cut back" to 70 hours, he probably would still be in the biz, or maybe he would have been downsized for not being a team player. Who knows. But one certain result would have been being a parent or husband for ten more hours/week.
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I love how HN etiquette rules make people more creative when trying to insult each other.
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"There is a lot of friction in hiring; the candidates who help reduce that friction will benefit from it."

Translation: "Hiring people takes my time. People who save me time will make my job easier, so I'm more likely to hire them." I think I have your hiring process more or less figured out, though I'd never want to work there.
You can easily peel away the layers all the way down to direct SQL, completely bypassing GORM and Hibernate, when necessary.
Yeah, that part doesn't make sense to me either. Buuut, I'm not in the father's position, so I'll try to reserve some judgement.
What perpetuates the myth that Bitcoins are anonymous and the stuff of super-spies? Cash is anonymous and reduces the power of law enforcement, not a currency that comes with a public audit trail.
Must be Bob.
You should ask a tax professional or your own tax lawyer for advice. But my own plan is to treat it as being equivalent to holding a foreign currency which, in the US is (more-or-less) taxed like capital gains that is always considered short-term regardless of how long you held it.

I may be wrong.
Ask HN: What should every software engineer know?
I've just started working on a side project that teaches users to build software. The pain point I'm attempting to build a solution for is the programming isn't the same thing as developing software and that there is a huge gap between the two.

With that said, I'd like to compile a comprehensible list of things that ever good engineer should know. Here is what I have so far:

+ The ability to read code is possibly more important that the ability to write code.

+ Version control is a requirement, not an option.

+ Same goes for testing.

+ Writing good documentation is important.

+ Open source projects are a great way to learn and build a resume.

These are obviously very basic, but I want to extend the list. What is something you think every engineer should know?
The chairman asked the panel about the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the creator or creators of Bitcoin. When one of the panelists was going to respond, the chair cut him off and said "you don't think it was Al Gore, do you?" The panelist said "well, he hasn't denied it!"

I've never seen decent humor in a Senate hearing haha
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His slant seems pretty obvious... Even if he ends up being wrong the logic is self evident. Communist China is a totalitarian state, Communist China crushed another virtual currency that caught on a couple years back, therefore if the raise from ~$100 a bitcoin to ~$600 is due to chinese involvement you probably should assume its gonna go back to ~$100 as soon as the communist government flexes its muscles.
Yes it is.

http://postimg.org/image/snthdrf77/
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So is ticketmaster.ca
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6590041
All I know is that if we rely on the free market to figure all of this out

The government creates bubble after bubble causing enormous amounts of economic dislocation in the housing market, college loans, healthcare, and on and on... and your conclusion is that somehow the free market is the problem or at very least not the solution?

contributing their unique gifts to the betterment of humanity

No system throughout history has ever contributed more to the "betterment of humanity" than the free market.

As with so many things, Friedman said it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
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Your example with african college and skinheads do not show a sense of community, it just shows widespread racism among russians. Because if a group skinheads attacked black or gay the whole subway would still help skinheads to beat that single person, or at best not interfere.
> they have nothing to lose

the trading fees ?
I agree, and frankly I think it's a bit disgusting for people here to monday-morning-quarterback this man and his motives and decisions.

If it was easy to avoid the situation, he would have.
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If a system works well, how does having a voice add anything? If a system is broken, how does having a voice matter?

In the United States, "Voice" is just rhetoric used to make people accept the status quo.
Don't think it's regulated that much yet.
You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of ... err... bitcoin?
</snark>

Anyway, in all seriousness, Bryan's speech still holds true today. Currency's role is to facilitate the exchange of goods and services. The value created by doing something today decreases over time, such that a thousand years from now, it is a mere blip in history. A deflationary currency runs counter to this -- some nerds who decided to buy some video cards in 2013 end up with a measurable percent of global wealth in 2020? That bag of weed someone sold in 2011 is worth a house in 2020?
The real question is: can then even do anything about a decentralized currency?
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It doesn't reduce police powers, but in the long term if it pans out it'll reduce the power of fiat currency. That's what people talk about when they say it reduces the power of the government.
As far as I'm aware, CryptoLocker demands $300 or 2 bitcoins in the first 3 days. The average person isn't going to try to get bitcoins to pay, and right now no one would even want to, 2 bitcoins are far more expensive than the $300 option.
Supposedly after the first three days your only option are bitcoins, but the price jumps to 10.

Symantec estimates that 3% of people that are infected choose to pay [0]. So what fraction of that pay in bitcoins?

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/oct/19/cryptolocker-at...
I'm not sure where I ever argued for "pure democracy". I've got a ragged copy of the Federalist Papers sitting on my bookshelf and I re-read #10 a few times a year.

What I'm worried about is the anti-American, anti-democratic bullshit that is starting to pour out of Silicon Valley.

I think there is plenty of room within the existing framework to deal with the issues that we're facing. It may take a lot of work and may have to involve some serious restructuring of things like the House of Representative and the Senate, but I feel like it is worth it. What IS important is that we decide to do it together, with a plurality of voices, and not by building some sort of fucking space ship to hide away in like where everyone in SV seems to be heading.

The people who set up this system of government were true supporters of the Enlightenment. They were willing to compromise and willing to admit that "freedom ain't free", to put it in a common parlance. They had love in their hearts and the proof is that they were willing to listen and willing to compromise.

I don't see a lot of that these days. I see a lot of hate, misunderstanding, and self-absorbtion.
The term ‘album’ comes from the pre-LP practice of selling or storing related records in a bound set of sleeves, analogous to a photo album (which was also once a physical object, OK?).
It's nothing new. You want banks to have considerable reserve capital, and if you are a company whose function is to "hold BTC" you are a bank.
At some point in time it will reach an equilibrium price and it will only deflate as quickly as its economy is growing.

Also note that gold-backed currencies have a much longer track record historically than fiat currencies. The US economy grew significantly under the gold standard and prices were much more than today.
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I'm not feeling very jaded today, but I think you might be underestimating people's intelligence.

If they want to get into Bitcoin, I think they'd read up on it being entirely virtual (minus the optional paper wallets) pretty quickly.
I'm from Prague and I was always baffled by this. How does the smiling thing work? In what situations do you smile? For example, if you're walking on street, do you eye-contact people going in the opposite direction and smile at them?
So somehow before 1930s people trusted one another better? I believe it seriously lacks evidence. What about people in Western Europe who don't smile all that much really?

Is this some knee-jerk reaction or something? Russia-gulag and all? For a foreigner it is permissible, not so much for a Russian. I think we need to overgrow this if nice things are to be had.
What if our theoretical person is responsible? Everyone is going to view any event like this with some sort of "self-absorbed" (I disagree with your definition of self absorbed here, but lets continue) response because they had some part in it (by your definition). The difference between a Depressed person and a non depressed person's response is the self deprecating thoughts. "Self Absorbed" has nothing to do with it.
It appears when you use the 45 degree angle option but not the top down satellite option.
The NFL doesn't really matter here. They are getting their rebroadcast fees from the networks no matter who is watching.

The networks are the ones making extra revenue by forcing the cable companies to pay them to carry shows on their systems. The historical reasons for this are complex but I would refer you to a nice NPR podcast that explains it better:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/09/27/226891181/episode-...

So back to the problem at hand: Aereo has found a way to skip around those carriage fees that the networks demand. The courts have backed them up. So the real problem is that the cable companies are now asking "why should we pay if Aereo is not?"

It's not a cable-vs-OTA war, it's the networks-vs-everyone-else.
And it's down already for about 10 minutes at least.
Hope you are living better times now.
If you look into China's real estate market they've invested billions to build cities...empty cities. They continue to build because citizens' investment options are limited, so real estate is one of the few "attractive" options. So they end up with ghost cities full of unoccupied office buildings, condos, malls, etc. Crazy, right?

And now they have bitcoin to put their money into. That's a large part of what's driving the boom. And you know what? It'll keep going. If they're willing to invest billions in ghost cities they're willing to drive bitcoin above $10,000.

I'm not bold enough to claim that bitcoin is a bad investment, but to me it seems closer to gambling than investment. As long as it's money you're not afraid to lose, go for it. But for me there are too many uncertainties and I'm not willing to invest the time. There are so many other opportunities.

Edit: Here's some info on the ghost cities
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/09/24/what-invest...
who's Bob? why would he do such a thing?
I was really surprised it was this discussed with this positive attitude, and with jokes and Einstein quotes. Interesting to watch coming from EU.
Sure, but law enforcement isn't concerned with monetary policy and deficit spending.
It's down here overseas too :)
Someone typed "YouTube" into YouTube and it broke the internet. Then tried to merge their accounts.
Agreed, and thanks for sharing that addon -- I have been using chrome honestly ONLY because it looks just SLIGHTLY better.

Australis looks like it's going to solve all of my problems