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> I'd say it depends on what the newbie's end goal is.

Some newbies have specific goals, some don't. When I was a newbie, my goal was to learn some programming. I started off with C++, which I don't think is very suitable for newcomers.
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I can understand why in some circumstances the JVM is not the most appropriate choice, but to me, the sentence "Its only downside... the JVM", sounds like "The car's only downside... it's a Ferarri". I've worked with so many runtimes in my career but have yet to see one fit to kiss the JVM's feet. It's far from being the simplest, but in terms of sheer power (runtime instrumentation, runtime linking, performance monitoring, hardware/OS support and more) nothing else comes even remotely close.
I'm almost ready to crow about Parallela as well. Waiting on my kit and the future is bleak.
That's a fantastic quote and I'll update the post with that. The only corner case that I don't think it covers is type that has been digitally converted from an analog form to its digital equivalent. Lots of favorite typefaces fall into this category: Futura, Helvetica, Rockwell, etc.
My take was that he left the workforce to spend more time with his family, and that was the explanation for his two year resume gap that ultimately snowballed into homelessness. I don't know what the lesson is, but it is either:

1) Find work-life balance so you don't feel the need to take an extended sabbatical to spend time with your family.

2) Even if you really want to take time off to spend time with your family, being continuously earner is more important. Even $500k in savings disappears quickly if the job market turns.
But it's kind of like going back to using doubloons as the actual currency, as opposed to certificates. I don't think in practice you could get anywhere like the reserve ratios typical now.
The thought of suicide does not usually arise "rationally", but usually due to anxiety created by the context/environment/society. There is no rational argument that ends with "Therefore, die" just like there ain't any that says "Therefore, live". Rationally, living on and "fixing things" seems like a better way to alleviate the suffering, suicide is a very crude and dumb measure, eliminating any possibility of suffering and "non-suffering".

If it was a purely random or logical decision how can you explain the differences in suicide rates among different groups (e.g. males)?

> you have to understand wanting to kill yourself

I 'm willing to bet that everyone has had that thought at least once in their life.
So Australis means "more Chrome like"? Why?
Doesn't matter, the supply chain is in China.
What are the terms of the Flash EULA that you might violate while spinning up a VM to read something? You're not planning to copy it, publish it, etc, and since you're destroying the VM later you don't care about stability/etc -- outside of the reading event, you are not doing any actions with the product.

I'm genuinely curious. I can understand an argument from principle like RMS might use, but I am unsure what the difference is between agreeing on a VM and agreeing not-on-a-VM.

I'm really trying to see an edge case where doing it on a VM that you destroy later is in any way worse (or even different) than doing it on a laptop that you buy, use, and then later incinerate.
> Additionally, most people believe lethal force is justified in cases of defense.

Defense against risk of death or grievous bodily harm. Which is not at all what's being discussed here, even if we agree to slant the scenario completely from the POV of DPR. But yet you still manage to find that murder might be acceptable here.

Remember that the pure libertarian utopia is supposed to make things better by permitting individual liberty against the oppression of the state. It's not supposed to make things worse (i.e. to easily permit murder-for-convenience), nor to keep things the same (as otherwise why change at all).
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So, it's like a digital form of Beanie Babies?
Do you think that possibility translates into enthusiasm in the Senate?
FWIW, if you are seriously into arbitraging, you won't keep transferring funds between both exchanges to finish the cycle of buying-selling. What you will actually do is having half of your funds on both sites and execute both operations on both sites at the same time to have them match.
That wouldn't surprise me too much about some of them. The only ones that I'd really read are the ones that are actually releasing the data they got on it all, which is still a fair bit of them. That said, there is still a large amount of speculation going on there.
This is trivial. Not sure anyone needs to debate it. Latin american debt crisis. Peso crisis. Asian currency crisis. Russian currency crisis. Nasdaq bubble. Telecom bubble. Housing bubble. And current "QEx" bubble accross all asset classes from farmland, to Gold, to Art to Bitcoins, to London Real Estate ... {etc WTF?}. Markets need regulation, rules, and governing oversight. Without those, they are crap. Without those and mypoic distortion they are even worse. The problem is that there is money to be made from advising the government to "intervene" and its a good business model. 1/3 of the us economy is spent by politically motivated non-market entities. But the real damage is done by corrupted financial markets, another large proportion of the GDP. Just look where the money is going. As the suburbs of Washington overtake New York as the highest income counties in the US. There shouldn't be a question at all: A nexus of crony capitalism has emerged in the past 12-15 years.
The commissions earned by Silk Road were just shy of $80 million over more than two years. Where did you get $800 million from?
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This is a good time to start the rumor that when Bitcoin reaches $1000 the NSA will explain why they wrote it.
How are exchange fees optional?
> The details on the first "hit" weren't known before, were they?

It was known from the day that DPR was arrested that there were two "hits" that had been arranged, including many of the details (not all the details described here, but including that a Baltimore-area LE was the undercover agent for one of them).
"Bugs Ahoy" is a Bugzilla search page that lets you filter Firefox bugs that have mentor contact info by programming language and feature area:

http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/
I agree and I'd say we know not; currencies need to be able to expand to match demand in growing markets, the idea that a fixed supply currency can work as a medium of exchange to represent wealth that is not fixed in supply simply doesn't make sense. A boom in wealth would cause severe depreciation and recession as the currency adjusted to the new amount of wealth it represents; that's just logically a terrible medium of exchange.
Use low volume
Banks can't print money, so as far as the day-to-day operations of the bank is concerned, the only practical difference between bank notes and doubloons is notes are much easier to process & store!
I agree, but the ironic thing is that most countries with good welfare systems end up being less entrepreneurial and more "salaryman."
Trade inside the spread.
Wow, that wasn't the most cynical thing I've ever heard at all.
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I don't think he means everyone who lives in Russia is racist. Just the ones of ethnic Russian descent.

^sarcasm
Considering the PATRIOT Act is what established the "know your customer" due-diligence rules for financial institutions (i.e. why your bank wants to see ID when you open an account), there's nothing ominous about the name of that bill coming up.
There is a possibility that the real interest rate that would force the market to full employment is negative, and therefore speculative bubbles and/or high inflation are the only ways we can currently achieve full employment. Paul Krugman has written a lot on this subject:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/secular-stagnati...
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The best way to call attention to an inactive bug is to email the dev-platform mailing list:

https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
> being a single-source-of-income family is risky

Meh. If you're the type that isn't going to save, you're not going to save whether you have 1 income or two.
> If simple, basic police methods sufficed here

What's interesting is that the article itself noted the difficulty that the LE investigators perceived when running this case.

Normally they get a specific suspect or possible set of suspects in mind and then get specific warrants to find the evidence needed.

In this case the "proof" was right in front of them on the Silk Road front page but they had no suspects (or alternately, an infinite set). So even in this case "simple basic police methods" are insufficient to be mechanically applied; it was a probabilistic investigation, at best, in this case.

With a few less slip-ups by Silk Road users we may very well not be discussing these arrests at all, except perhaps for the Silk Road admin who accepted delivery. But that alone needn't have fingered DPR, he helped tighten the noose himself with his later actions.
Yep, that's the only way to do it with zero risk. But since btcchina.com is consistently higher than the other top exchanges you'll eventually have to move CNY out of there and bitcoin in. Moving bitcoin there is trivial (which shows how great bitcoin is) but moving CNY out and converting it to USD for the other exchanges is trickier (need a Chinese bank account for example) so I would expect the lag in price to continue.
Sort of. Banks under fractional reserve are limited by a "reserve requirement" [1]. This limits the amount a bank can loan at any time. For example, the reserve requirement imposed on banks in the US today is at most 10% of the bank's liabilities [2].

Bitcoin would impose a 100% reserve requirement that is unheard of (as far as I can tell) in modern banking. I don't believe we can accurately predict the effects of this requirement. I also believe we can't state with any certainty that, given this requirement, a bitcoin banking system would behave at all alike to our current fractional reserve banking system.

Frankly, this appears to be another area where bitcoin doesn't seem suited to handle the economic needs of the modern world.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement
2. http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
Loving the passive aggressive half-arsed argumentative tone of this discussion. I can't see many people here smiling at strangers. Or friends... Or anyone.

Your German friend wants to see some miserable Russians? - go to the most expensive places in Western Europe - and those are the rich Russians. The others are just miserable by habit and because being non-miserable was bad style during the Soviet years. And yes, that probably applies to most of the Slavic nations (boo, generalisation, boo)...
Indeed. I think a possible scenario is that governments will legalize Bitcoin as long as you tie your address to your government-issued ID, and you're not on a blacklist. Basically you'll have a Bitcoin license.

This gives them an off-switch for The Terrorists. And, side effect, a way to blockade groups they don't like.

A registry may happen because businesses have an incentive to have creditworthy customers. Sometimes you want to prove you have collateral, that you have cash flow, that you've paid people in the past. Bitcoin does that nicely.
Don't forget there are uses for a mostly anonymous currency to the governmetn too.
"What’s the logic to putting in such a tracking system? It lets dispatchers know where officers are in real time rather than having them wait for a response via radio. Unsurprisingly, some cops don’t like the new change."

I'm baffled that this doesn't exist already. This article feels like it's 20 years old.
While I share your (healthy) skepticism about scientific reporting, a good researcher would've attempted to structure their experiment to control for this very effect.

I don't have ScienceDirect access so I can't check the research or methodology, but from reading the abstract & the tables I can see it appears the reporter's conclusion came directly from the experiment, so it's far less likely that this is a reporter mistaking correlation for causation.
I find it odd people are so eager for a project like this when the implementation people are raging against is demo'd. Now, right now is the time those who hate it most should use it 24/7 to provide objective feedback to the developers while there's still time to change it.

When this hits stable, that's the time to decide on ticking the classic option or not.

Like the w8 beta, day 1 people where finding registry tweaks to undo various changes. Dooming the product that care so much to test an advanced copy of to never work for them by ruining all the usage metrics with crazy registry hacks barely a percent of users will do.
I'd also add http://web-design-weekly.com and (my newsletter) http://jobety.com to the list.

Web design weekly definitely provides quality web design related content. I've also talked to the curator and he's a very nice guy which doesn't change the quality of the content, but does let you know your supporting a decent person.

My newsletter Jobety provides web design and dev related jobs once a week. I sort through a lot of different job boards and pick out what I consider to be the best ones.
There's a way to convey that information without the condescending tone.
On the flip side, plenty of people suffer heart attacks, alcoholism, cancer, etc. due to overworking and poor work/life balance. The safe bet is always moderation. Work hard, not too much, live comfortably but below your means.
That's not an excuse. He should understand political econnomy. Its perfectly 'rational'. Using rationality as a proxy for morality is a 20th century affectation. Its fake science, in other words. "My analysis rational, so if you disagree you must be irrational". But, politics are rational. And avoiding or dismissing political logic is not rational. Economics is mereley a subset of political ratinoality in this regards. And Stiglitz is a big boy. We don't need to treat him with kid gloves.
>> There was a debate about whether light was a wave or a particle -- evidence supported both views.

> Not before the 20th century,

Yes before the 20th century. I refer you to the debate between Newton and Huygens as well as Hooke, his contemporaries with respect to these ideas.

http://www.studyphysics.ca/newnotes/20/unit04_light/chp1719_...

Such debates persisted from then until the shaping of quantum theory.
I've collected few rounded square (squircles :)) codes using cairo (through luajit):

http://cairographics.org/cookbook/roundedrectangles/

http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-98-fall/Final/q1....

and two more here (but I forgot to put the links where I got the code from, and I don't recall being my original code):

https://github.com/malkia/ufo/blob/master/samples/cairo/ui.l...

gfx:round_rect_a()
gfx:round_rect_b()
gfx:round_rect_c()
gfx:round_rect_d()
Interesting read - http://hbs1963.com/
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You WERE in Russia when the Kursk submarine sank.
To be fair, the subsidies exist (if only theoretically) to ensure that America can feed itself in a large scale war. In WWII, the Allies had a lot of success with cutting off Germany's external trade, which significantly reduces their ability to make war. America wants to make sure that if that happens to them, there won't be a famine.

Vegetables aren't a priority in that situation, because they can be easily grown in backyard gardens. On the other hand, row crops tend to be carbohydrate-heavy (perfect for a famine), cheap to produce, and they benefit significantly from economies of scale.
In what way does BTC impose a 100% reserve requirement? Unless I'm missing something here, there is nothing stopping a bank from loaning every BTC it takes in deposit, (i.e. 0% reserve requirement) aside from possible federal regulation.
If anything, bitcoin is a law enforcement dream. I don't understand why anarchists seem to love it, given the information it will ultimately put in the hands of the government. It's practically the definition of a trojan horse.
It's cynical to say that people change? This is one of the most fundamental aspects of being human. If you prefer to live in a cocoon don't expect HN comments to comply with your worldview.
I am talking about people who immigrated as adults. The way he talks about his experience in Russia cues that he belongs to that group. His post may be too harsh, but it is certainly not in the same league with truly ignorant knee-jerk comments about gulag.
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The longer you postpone judgement day, the worse it gets for you. You need to be reconciled.

God says...
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I understand the sentiment of the father.. I think it is appropriate for Google to remove it..
Row crops also store & transport much better than most vegetables.
It's not just the russians who would notice that. Americans are friendly and smiling, and that's great, but smiles are not always true, and a lot of it is culturally mandated. It's a great thing though , i 'd rather have a fake smile than frigid grumpiness.
Would I put up someone down on their luck? Yes. In an instant. No questions asked. Whether they were a friend or just an acquaintance.
Then find a local shelter and befriend someone. Do your bit!
Here is a link to the project https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis.

The only thing about using separate processes is that you increase memory usage, since every tab has overhead, and tabs can't share resources (chrome tends to go process per domain).
> For most companies, its either Microsoft or Java stack. There isn't too much in between.

I find it odd that the "Unix stack" isn't considered a horse in this race.
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You are aware that the other definition of billion is even larger right?
1. Bay Area is ex$$pensive.

2. 8 kids. Eight.

3. Taxes - his take home salary was probably not 975,000 or even 475,000.

4. Living within means and saving well meant something different back then. Even if he had the foresight to realize the bubble would burst, which most educated people did, no one realized how bad it would get.
There's some truly nutty stuff going on with subsidies. One example is cotton subsidies. Right now we're subsidizing cotton by direct payments and crop insurance. In 2004, the WTO ruled these subsidies to be unfair in a dispute brought by Brazil. To reconcile the dispute, the US started paying Brazil about $150 million per year, instead of ending the subsidies. So now we're paying twice for cotton subsidies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil%E2%80%93United_States_co...
Resident of a town near Boston here: I'm fully in favor of a _Halting State_-style mandatory lifecam on every on-duty police officer.

It won't solve police abuses, but it will do more to help than anything else I can think of that doesn't involve the much harder problem of changing police culture.
That's an assertion I've heard, mostly from goldbugs who have a vested interest in gold remaining high and going higher. But, I haven't heard any useful evidence to support the thesis.
A useful survival strategy is to focus primarily on what you can control. I occasionally struggle to implement my own advice, however.
I'm actually on the other end of a very similar story with my mom.

My mom will turn 50 in just a few months and she is now homeless (lives with family for the movement), has no job, can not land another job, and has absolutely no money or savings.

She was a nurse and my step-dad was a software developer who made very good money, especially for the area. Both of them combined made over 200k a year. They were terrible with money and very rarely saved.

It started when my mom lost her nursing license and could no long hold her career, at all, anywhere. Not a big deal, step-dad made a lot of money. Then my step-dad decided to leave my mom. He was still going to help her until she bounced back, so not that huge of a problem. Until he got laid off... After months, he finally landed a new job at a startup, and it will be a while until he bounces back.

Now my mom is completely on her own. She has no money whatsoever. She has no home, and is living with one of her brothers. She took a year+ off work, and doesn't have a medical license to get a high paying nursing job.

Who wants to hire a 50 year old who hasn't worked in almost 2 years, and mysteriously isn't a nurse anymore? I feel for her, but a lot of bad financial, and personal decisions lead her to where she is now.
I'm pretty sure curses-based form "GUIs" delivered over terminal connections (now, terminal emulators) have survived the last ten years, and will survive the next. That's what you'll see carrying on, just as it has since the 1980s, at airports and banks.
We'd see them spend it and ask what they've spent it on.
He isn't dismissing political logic, merely pointing out that it isn't the best logic to go by. That its not serving the interests of the country as a whole to have the political system so aligned towards the interests of so few.

It's interesting to see how these things pan out though, In India, discontinuing a program to provide assistance to the poor gets you voted out of office. I guess the number of poor people in the US are not large enough for that to happen? There is a large middle-class though, and it would help if they showed more interest in the lives of the downtrodden....especially when there are more than enough resources to go around
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My grandmother used to say that there are 2 vacant thrones in heaven, waiting for the couple that never did regret to have gotten married.
> Is a service interruption in YouTube (or any service) really that noteworthy?

To answer, we need to discuss the context in which such comments appear. What other comments would be displaced by comments about the state of YouTube? How about comments about comments about the state of YouTube -- comments like yours? Or how about comments about comments about comments about the state of YouTube -- comments like mine?

> ... everyone else is unaffected by such an outage so we don't gain much by knowing about it.

You might have thought of that before posting.
It would seem that Breakout-type games present an especially simple case for collision detection. The ball always continues in a straight line, and all the blocks are stationary. I would think that in these conditions, the game could really compute exactly when and where the next collision would happen. The paddle it'd slightly harder, but its motion is still constrained to an axis, so you could compute the ball's collision time with that axis and then decide what to do based on where the paddle is at that time.

Edit: To put it more simply, as soon as the ball leaves the paddle, isn't it immediately possible to exactly compute its complete path up to the next contact with the paddle "axis"? Do any Breakout games do this?
Were there any huddled masses in cities in 1776?
Well, now you can spend cash on the Internet. Is Silk Road a big deal or not? Also, if Zerocoin is added, then it can be fully anon.
More than 1 percent of Google play apps are aggressive copycats
Google's 2009 internal research indicates this isn't true:

http://adwords.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/conversion-rates-dont...

"...on average, there is very little variation in conversion rates by position for the same ad. For example, for pages where 11 ads are shown the conversion rate varies by less than 5% across positions. In other words, an ad that had a 1.0% conversion rate in the best position, would have about a 0.95% conversion rate in the worst position, on average."