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Let's go philosophical here, since you chose to take it that direction. What makes it YOUR money? You earned it, yes? But what gives it value? An agreement with other people, yes? What do we name that agreement with other people? Can there be further stipulations? A price, if you will, for having the convenience of an agreed-upon currency, of a set of courts to seek redress if that agreed-upon currency isn't given to you for the work you've put in? Is it okay with you if that agreement tries to get more wealth into the overall system? How do you know if a solution will succeed at doing that unless you try it?

That's a lot of questions, and few answers, of course. But I think considering these ideas through this lens may be useful. The concept of “my” money, “my” property, etc, is something we've agreed on. There's nothing that says there can't be more facets to that agreement. That is what we organize for. And ideas like this, and like welfare, etc, are ideas that are meant to raise well-being. People who do well tend to create, as well. And creation breeds wealth. So while the specific mechanism whereby we encourage this creation and well-being is something that's absolutely up for debate, it's your money only insofar as you're not trading it for a service. In this case, the service is, greater wealth for all.

Will it work? I don't know for sure. But experimentation seems like a pretty good way forward, rather than simply sitting on our hands in a world where we believe we can increase well-being, out of fear that maybe our money might be misused along the way. If VCs thought this way, a lot of companies wouldn't exist today.
I believe this post is a satire of HN, or the obviousness of party/networking advice...? Very funny, if so.
Yeah, before it was actually saying something about "coding in HTML".
Well, plenty of money has gone into the JVM fast to start. Sure, it's fast to run once warm, making it great for servers, but verifying bytecode and running it is still slow. I've seen benchmarks showing that compiling JS is faster than loading equivalent JVM bytecode.

Additionally, the JVM security model has a much larger surface area than JS, allowing for all kinds of things JS doesn't, which, I'm going to guess is why security has been worse.
OK, but there's been an upvoted post on HN for each $100 increment. It's a bit silly.
Bitcoin has a total dollar value of ~$11bn, Twitter has a market cap of ~$20bn. Where would you rather put your speculative money?
> But it's better to pick the one that could potentially lead to JS being phased out.

This is never going to happen. JavaScript is far too entrenched.
True - multi-master in CouchDB means that you can have two CouchDB instances (or, indeed, anything which speaks the CouchDB replication protocol - see http://www.replication.io/) which can be synced and, in the event of a network partition, both instances can be written to. One of those masters could be CouchDB and one could be PouchDB in a browser or TouchDB on a mobile phone. Neither instance requires any coordination from the other.

Clustered CouchDB (BigCouch - on it's way to being integrated into CouchDB vNext) relies on the same MVCC semantics - it's just using Erlang rather than HTTP to transfer documents between clusters and attempts to keep the nodes in sync continuously.

Conflict resolution is tricky but CouchDB plays it safe and keeps all conflicting revisions of each document around until you resolve them to ensure no data is lost. It's pretty easy to find and fetch any conflicted documents so they can be resolved in an application-specific way.
I think your reaching a little, taking things outta context and spinning what he says to reinforce what you want to believe.

The bottom of the ladder is takin outta context, I am pretty sure he is referring to his position in the ping pong standings and joking about the ping pong table.

Salary is poor may also be considered "fair" based on his comment:

It is true that I am paid below market value, but not so significantly as folks on the internet assume.

Stick with any company from right outta college until 5 years in and your probably below market value unless they give you amazing raises each year.
How much money does this company make? Does their corporate structure require them to file balance sheets? I mean if you're doing something like this to support the site you love, I can understand (still not agree, but understand). But if it's just to make some owner/investors rich...
So Nintendo was losing money why exactly? Because Japan was not printing money as fast as US? Maybe the problem is in printing money at all?

Do you see a symmetry of products vs. money? Both are assets that some people need and some other want to give. If one is in deflation, then another is in inflation to another. Why don't you buy MacBook 2 years from now, when it'll cost the same, but will be more awesome? Because you have non-infinite "time preference": you want certain things today vs. tomorrow.

Why people want to hold money? Because it gives them ability to spend it anytime on anything - it's most liquid, most desirable commodity. This is big value in having something in your wallet - freedom to make decisions in face of future uncertainty. If you can freely choose between money which loses in value and money which doesn't, which one every person would put their savings in? Then, everyone spends according to his own time preference - amount of desire to enjoy stuff today vs. tomorrow.

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/43378777734/on-circulation-of-...

Here's also a thought experiment on deflationary spiral:
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/66215430631/deflationary-spira...
My thoughts exactly. You see this all over the place; people talk about their job requiring passion and sacrifice as if it's a good thing. If your job requires you to do the work of two people and keep a laptop by your bed it's because your boss doesn't value your time and wont bother to hire the second person needed to do the job correctly. You aren't helping your coworkers by meeting ridiculous expectations, you're perpetuating exploitation.
This ignores the part where you're not sure if that same pizza will cost 0.01 BTC tomorrow or 0.04 BTC or 10 BTC tomorrow.

If I think that my 0.02 BTC could get me two pizzas tomorrow, why would I trade that amount for one pizza today?
Nothing seems to contradict what anyone has said about this job:

* "It is true that I am paid below market value"

* "If I had had to apply for the job with the presently listed requirements, I might not have gotten the offer."

* "Depending on the project load, I might spend 8 hours at the office and call it good, or I might stay til 10-midnight consistently for a couple weeks."

Just because the person who currently does the job feels this is a great thing and all the people applying for the job feel it's a great thing doesn't make it great.

I guess I'm old and tired of my peers devaluing their own skills and time.
Similarly, "jolla" is the pronunciation for the Korean word for "erect penis".
Given that this is posted on his current employers' public forum, I take the "bottom of the ladder" and "not a benefit" juxtaposition as a "ha ha only serious" kind of joke.

There's no way that wasn't intended to have a double meaning.
Agreed although I would push them further to communicate the value proposition for me as a potential customer. Why do I care? Why do I need a Jolla smart phone? What makes it so different? Skip the features and tell me how it's going to change my life and the way I do things for the better.
Because you gave it to them. Don't give them money if you don't want them to have it.

Since you voted for a government that distributes welfare from your taxes, the most efficient, effective and humane method of distributing that welfare is to hand out cash with no strings attached. Any additional administration is simply a waste of money, with worse outcomes.
Cool!

Tiny complaint: Its default option is "Don't remove any sites". Kind of misses the point imho...

Other complaint: If country is set to e.g. Switzerland, you see only .de and .ch domains in the results! Is there no "worldwide" setting?
Um... what?

Limited resource physical commodities vs. a few bytes on your filesystem? This is a ridiculous comparison.

But what people mean when they say you could fork libcoin or something like that is not that Bitcoin isn't scarce. It's more along the lines of "We are in no way beholden to this psychotic black market pyramid scheme currency. We can just start anew with a better dispersement/capping scheme."
>> which in turn should drive the price down, no?

Up surely, as the hoarding scarcity makes buying harder and creates demand?

Either way, yes, it destroys the utility as a currency. Which is probably a good thing, I don't like BTC as a currency.
AFAIK, the only language that's officially supported by Dalvik is Java, and code in other languages tends to run into limitations in the bytecode-to-Dalvik translator.
It is bad for a national currency, but that is not what I was talking about. I was talking about a reserve currency, like gold represents in our world economy (which is also deflationary).

When a country wants to buy oil for its economy, the oil price is set in the worlds reserve currency, USD. So the fluctuations between the USD and some given country, or the inflation of the USD will either hurt or help that country (but is always good for the US as the demand is high for that currency, keeping the demand strong). This is why countries/companies buy oil with gold sometimes, this is why countries hold gold to hedge inflation in a foreign currency they must rely on.

National currency (eg. USD) => Inflation bad.

Supranational currency (eg. gold) => Deflation good.
Yes. Maybe for someone who has a professional teaching background too (he could find new students). Should also be a great alternative for people who cant achieve/spend a few months in a foreign country.
If you don't know a good, hard-working person who is unemployed or drastically under-employed, there is something seriously wrong with you.

You need to do something to get yourself out from the fantasy bubble that you live in. Do some travelling or take an effort to meet the disadvantaged in your neighborhood.

Probably the easiest way to meet some of these people is to meet some single Mom's. Some of them meet the stereotype, sure, but many of them are in that scenario through no fault of their own.
Apparently it wasn't just a poor attempt at humor--that job is ridiculous.
The 1990s stock bubble was much crazier than today
If you believe you are fully in control of providing for yourself financially, you are either in a tiny little minority, or hopelessly naive.
Ember.js, the ugly parts.
Something external changed, and suddenly there's a problem with me? I need to look at myself, because someone else raised a bar?

I think your point is bullshit. It's not like people are capable of making money when the mill shuts down. There is literally no money left in the town then.
I worked IT for JPL's Cleanroom Group a few years ago. Biological contaminants are only one factor. 95-99% of the cleanrooms they have are not much cleaner than something like a typical elementary classroom with a well kept air filtration system (not great). These are Class 100K rooms [1]. Less than 100K particles of 0.1 um size or bigger per m^3 of air (dust, hair, skin, anything really). Offenders of contaminating the rooms some brought in unapproved or contaminated materials, like non-cleanroom notepads or gaseous/non-cleanroom markers/pens, cardboard. The reason why the rooms were not operated cleaner is because of their size. Some were large like 40m by 40m by 40m (the main Spacecraft Assembly Facility where the Herschel instrument saw final assembly), others housed special capabilities like the 25-foot Space Simulator [2], shakers and bakers (rotation/vibration test pedestals, and space vacuum hot/cold chambers), or isolation pads (pedestals mounted on ultra heavy 40'x40'x40' blocks of concrete to reduce vibration for optics instrument testing). It was also common practice to certify a room at one level, and operate it like it was the next higher level with minimal cost and maximal benefit. Things like additional air exchanges, daily or twice daily cleanings (instead of weekly), extra HEPA filters, stricter ESD operations, stricter temperature and humidity control (ESD & Planetary Protection reasons). This was often more than sufficient to appease the Principal Investigators, Instrument Designers, and Planetary Protection.

Many rooms were Class 10K capable. A few were Class 1K or Class 100 capable. But those were very small rooms, sometimes even 10'x10'x10' tents setup in a one level less capable room. Only two rooms operated were even capable of operating at Class 100, IIRC, and only did so when necessary. There were apart of chip fabrication building.

To answer your question, Herschel has its base requirements similar to anything we send off into space, and then it had it optics instruments requirements. Projects have been ruined when instruments do not work or do not work as well as designed because of dust, ESD, or a hair particle. It's really hard/expensive to wipe your lens with a microfiber cloth in space; JPL once did a study to determine the cost/feasibility. It dwarfed the original project.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanroom#ISO_14644-1_cleanroom...

[2] http://www.universetoday.com/97249/jpls-torture-chamber-for-...
Let's see, we have a job posting that promises you that your job will have founder level responsibilities that will destroy your social life, for an interns pay.

And now we get a forum post from the poor sucker who confirms that the reality of this job is as brutal and exploitative as promised. But that's totally cool because he never felt taken advantage of because of the smooth atmosphere , the cool tech and the friendly colleagues. Looks like the Penny Arcade guys took a page from the game industries playbook.
In any society, there will be the haves and the have-nots. The transition of wealth between those two groups will always happen, whether by roving gangs of marauders (like in Somalia), or by the government. I personally prefer that the wealth transition occur through government due to the ancillary benefits of things like roads and police, but that is just me.
Yes, they note that they use bitpay on the website:

> Our new Bitcoin integration is available through BitPay and can be used alongside other payment services, like Shopify Payments and PayPal.

But they don't mention whether there are any service fees added by Shopify
All systems end up having waste. Would you deny the millions it would help because maybe 50,000 people use their extra money on drugs, $2000 hand bags, and $500 designer belts?
>> Hoarding is fine, because the un-hoarded coins increase in value to compensate.

As do hoarded coins, neatly transferring wealth from the productive economy to people who just sit on their coins.

Count me out.
Patching and fixing a 25 year old DOS game
the job he describes is at LEAST $125k/year + benefits + location and schedule flexibility i.e. work from home if you want, and you can leave to pick up the kids at 2pm. as long as the work gets done. possibly stock or options - depends on the company, but quite honestly i don't even view that as 'real' compensation for 90% of all cases.

i can't even begin to know what the fuck a 'volunteer' Enforcer is, especially for a profitable company. quite frankly it sounds like the typical 20 foot pile of horse shit that only the games industry could come up with. and i've seen some really mind-bendingly exploitative behavior after being based here in LA for a decade.

anything significantly less than the above salary + benefits, and you are being ripped. off. by. people. who. know. better.

i know this because i have several senior devops guys on my staff who fit that description and have been with us for over 3 years. this is also what I used to make as a senior engineer before i started up my company as an owner/executive.

people should be FAR AND AWAY your most expensive resource. with a few notable types of exceptions, if you pay your people less than your hosting provider or your rent or marketing, you're doing something very, very wrong, and it will catch up to you in some way or another. see: penny arcade job post.
Did you actually read the post?

The ladder is about the ping pong league they run, and he's joking that it's not a benefit because he's not winning. He decided he preferred to get a lower salary for a job he enjoyed more. He said he can wear four hats because "The reality is that one highly motivated, highly skilled person can handle all of this. You do not need to be constantly working IT, or constantly managing servers or writing code. There’s a lot there, yes. This is a job that will keep one person fairly busy. Two people might find themselves spending a lot of time on /r/aww."

So either you're really reading a lot between the lines to see what you want to see, or you didn't read it.
Geo coordinates are acquired from user via the iOS location permission. It is persisted in an ElasticSearch index for the "Nearby" leaderboard.
Can we get Boise added to the list of cities?
To begin with, we're talking about tax money here. It's not your money any more. It was your money. Then you gave it to the government.

[If it makes you feel better to say that the government forced you to do that, fine. If you want to talk about monopolies of violence, fine. But there's no way you can reasonably consider it your money once it's left your bank account, any more than money you paid to Amazon is still your money.]

So, if the government is going to give money to people who are in need, would you prefer it to be spent according to a top-down command economy, Soviet-style, or according to a market economy with maximum information at the edges?
For comparison, Nokia's N9 / Meego Harmattan (Jolla Sailfish's predecessor) site from 2011: http://swipe.nokia.com/design/

Nokia made a clearer case for the OS. Jolla's video shows a bunch of rapid-fire tasks that are too hard to follow, and doesn't really showcase the simplicity of the swipe system like Nokia did. There's not enough that's surfaced here to show why you'd choose Jolla over Apple or Google.
Absolutely nothing he has said in this post has contradicted anything said about this position. He flat out states he is underpaid and has no work/life balance.

The fact that he's ok with that is the problem!
Litecoin reaches nearly $30
My thesis is simple.

The value of any currency to someoneis how much real stuff they need that they can exchange it for.

Any cryptocurrency that is effectively limited in volume and viable to be used will grow. Because of the growing number users of the currency, some are developers who will make it easier for sellers to accept it.

What bitcoin had going for it is that it DIDNT have mass adoption - it had a long way to go. Now the same is true of peercoin and litecoin - they are where bitcoin was a year ago. There's no reason they can't go to 1000 also.

In short there are a few factors determining the price of a currency:

Short term fads:

1. being newly listed on an exchange as exchangeable for the local currency of the country

2. news stories about the currency

Long term fundamentals:

3. The increase in acceptance by merchants and metcalfe's law (I think n log n is more realistic than n^2 though)

4. Limit on new currency being produced.

In this respect I feel litecoin beats peercoin in #4 and peercoin beats litecoin in #3, it has a longer way to go but it is more sustainable and is further behind so it has a longer way to grow from now.
Can't make a Yahoo account without a cell phone #
Similar websites to Hacker News?
Hey guys,
I really think this website is great, currently it's my nr. 1 source for online news. It's exactly my style geeky/techy + codes included. Not to mention the great economical + benchmarks seen here in the past year, nothing for me even got close to this website.

Are there are any more sites similar to hacker news, where users submit stories and crowd gathers?

Cheers!
Nice catch. If more people look at Polanyi`s economic ideas then it will shape the debate in a positive way so that we can discuss the ideas without getting into that left versus right battle. Truth is that there is a lot more to economic and political theory than the blandness of socialism versus capitalism and it is high time that we step forward out of the past centuries of conflict and get to work crafting a Star Trek social order.
And what happens when it decreases the number of people who choose to get an education to seek greater opportunities?

It might free up the courses for those who are passionate about the subject matter instead.
When does this mobile technology gonna saturate?
You're arguing with mathematics here.
That's by design because buyers can make an offer on something that is not already available and when a listing for that item appears, the offer will be visible for the buyer.

But I'm taking notes on all the stuff people don't like. I want to show it in someway that doesn't discourage buyers to make offers for not available items.
Many languages fit into 8 bits, but English is particularly simple in its alphabet. Even many of the European languages that can fit in 8 bits have things like accented characters that complicates things somewhat.

Of course this isn't to say English is simple overall. Just that it's complexities lie elsewhere, and it's simplicities lie in an area that made it particularly simple for early computer systems to process.
I'm still amazed at how bad Google search is for certain purposes (not that there's anything better), and it's largely due to content farms. I've installed Google's Personal Blocklist chrome extension which allows me to filter out specific domains (ask.com, ehow.com, answers.yahoo.com, wikihow.com, etc) and that does help some. It's interesting to me that google search used to have preferences allowing you to block domains but they removed it.

I actually find myself narrowing my searches by sites I know will have reliable information, like this one, reddit, certain forums based on the search topic, etc. I think there would be some real value in creating a search engine that was very selective about the sites it crawls. Honestly, crawling the comments from the best user-participation sites on the web (reddit, HN, SO, quora, etc.) would probably make for a very useful search engine.
> Lessons you "learn" from fiction tend to be unreliable.

That's true from lessons learned from fact, too, as they are more often than not drawn from non-representative, skewed samples of facts, which are each individually true in isolation, but nevertheless support faulty lessons.

Good lessons -- drawn originally from systematic, careful study of fact -- OTOH, are often illustrated with carefully constructed fiction from which more people learn them from than do directly from the facts.