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Vim gets threading support via LISP before Emacs does - good for you guys.

(I'm a LISP + EMACS user who desperately needs threads in EMACS)
Yep, since the spike.
This dip looks like a dump and pump.
That is the essence of the contrasting experiences: we study in very different fields with job markets that are nothing alike. It is definitely much harder to get a job as an applied math PhD.
Bitcoins worth $7.5 million in a lost hard-drive
Astute observation - on my last trip to Tanzania, the humanized mice were using the condoms distributed by local NGOs to carry and store water from the village well. The best course of action is to put tiny holes in the condoms to discourage their use as water-carrying vessels.
I hope those 11k aren't all your savings. I have coins, am bullish long term, but buying bitcoin is speculation, and bitcoin can fall back to $0.01, even if I don't think it's likely.
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Amazing, if verified.

Truly, we know nothing.
That is a problem. AFAIK it is possible to generate unspendable Bitcoin addresses without any private key in a way that could be revealed later (e.g. with a PRNG or deterministic wallet), but it's also possible that Satoshi generated normal key pairs and deleted them which would leave him with no way to prove that they were deleted.
> but it won't be alone for long

It isn't alone now[1].

> and once the improved versions begin showing up

They already have[1].

[1] http://coinmarketcap.com/
More importantly, new hardware has proper memory protection, so instead of cool tricks you just get segfaults...
The idea is that miners continue to mine to collect the miner fees. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ
Of course it could. Except there aren't any industrial uses for BitCoin yet :-) Understand that Aaron has a vested interest here (the whole FastCash thing) and so any chance he gets to complain about BitCoin, he does.

Nothing he says in the article is false, except that it is also not "correct." True anything can be used as a marker for value, from notched sticks in Egyptian times, to rocks on an island, to BitCoin. As long as a community exists which agree on their relative value, the marker continues to work as a marker. And the more difficult it is to counterfeit, the better marker it is. So far BitCoin meets that criteria and so it is not 'fools gold.'

He also missed the part where someone cracks your 256 bit key to your wallet and steals all your BitCoin. There is an interesting cryptography problem/question which looks at the cost of mining new BitCoins in comparison to the cost of attempting to guess BitCoin wallet keys.
For sure you'd expect the creators of cryptocurrencies to have certain opinions in common, such as disliking the flaws of fiat currencies.

I'm thinking more in terms of expressing multiple opinions that come together to give a fingerprint.

To use a computer analogy, if I told you I run Firefox I haven't told you much, but if (in a single post or across many) I tell people I run Firefox, OS X 10.7, flashblock, and I refuse to run the Java plugin? Taken together that's a fingerprint that could really narrow down a list of suspects (even if it didn't uniquely identify a single individual).

A set of political opinions could serve the same purpose, if they're distinctive enough.
Google Search Festivus Pole Easter Egg Arrives Early
Why would insurance become prohibitively high? Insurance is priced at the mean probability of getting into an accident * mean cost of restitution from an accident + insurance risk premium. I can't see self driving cars measurably affecting any of these numbers upwards significantly. Especially not by the factor of 10 it would require to make insurance prohibitively expensive.
No, I just pointed out the jingoism evident from this line:

> You can't ask people to just eat, reproduce and die, living just above the poverty line. That is worse than poverty.

What do those line mean? Who asked people to just eat, reproduce and die? How is something worse or better than poverty I do not know.

> it would get criticized as unnecessary. That leaves out only giving money to people directly.

No where in the parent comment or on this complete conversation it has been said that expenditure on Mangalyaan is unnecessary or wasteful. In fact it is the opposite that I said on the parent comment. Where did you read this?
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My most recent project was contracting for a social network for tutoring, www.bookandtable.com (currently the site is a marketing page, the web app is launching this week). I also recently wrote a web app that allowed New Yorkers to endorse candidates in the mayoral primary based on their location. It was an interactive map built on top of the Google maps API with a light Rails backend and a few hundred lines of Coffeescript. It hit the top of r/nyc.

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SEEKING WORK. Frontend sass,less,css, js
Backend php, wordpress, laravel

looking for a long-term client. will do a small project for free if promised real work.
Really cool, I'm sure there are projects where this would be very helpful (although I don't see either of Angular or D3 replacing each other any time soon).

The ng-attr-x thing is a neat hack but it's a bit unwieldy. How about adding a d3-svg directive that turns itself into an svg element once Angular is done loading. You can hide it with CSS so it doesn't flash up random garbage on the screen and within it you can use regular SVG attributes.
You make it sound like cryptographers were stumped by the problem of digital cash. In fact, the cryptography research community had basically solved that problem; the only difference between Bitcoin and the academic constructions is that Bitcoin does not have any central bank. There were almost no cryptographers trying to find a way to remove the central bank from digital cash systems when Satoshi came along. Nobody should be surprised by that, as there is still no rigorous definition of digital cash that does not invoke a central bank or authority of some kind. Had Satoshi presented such a definition, he would have unquestionably "shown up" cryptography researchers.

At best, all you can say is that Satoshi demonstrated that cryptographers were solving the wrong problem with digital cash. That, however, was not news in 2008. Cryptographers had thought that credit card payments were too insecure to make sense on the Internet; the failure of DigiCash and related efforts in the 90s proved otherwise.
I have the AirStation N600 Buffalo router.

It's kind of annyoing that it comes with DD-WRT preinstalled, but it's half-assed and is not configured for easy modification.

I have not taken the plunge yet, because I do not want to deal with jtag cables if it bricks, and the whole "install our binary, and then do not even breathe in the direction of the router for 10 minutes" part does not inspire much confidence...
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I know an entire nation made mostly of people who've been learning English since birth and they still fail at basic reading comprehension.
It is indeed all my savings. But I was saving it anyway, so I won't be out in a doghouse if it vanishes. I guess I'm dumb, but at this stage in my life I'd rather have 9.89BTC than $11k.

My theory is, everyone's expecting it to crash. So therefore it's more likely to do the opposite. Not much of a theory, but it seems to have been historically true.
Kevin Rose, Digg founder and VC, just made a post about Bitcoin's fall on /r/bitcoin:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rutkt/bitcoin_is_f...
Wrote a website similar to that: http://canileave.com
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Senior Mobile Engineer

At Sprig, we're bringing delight back to your dinners. We feature a daily rotating menu of three seasonal, sustainable, healthy, and delicious meals designed and crafted by executive chef Nate Keller. With a few taps, our Sprig servers will brave rain and fog to whisk your order over faster than you can say dinner on demand.

To that end, we’re looking for a senior engineer to help us build an amazing experience for Sprig customers. You’ll be the first engineering hire outside of the co-founders, so this is a great opportunity to help define our engineering culture and product focus. We're well-funded and just launched in SF.

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- Our customer-facing mobile apps (aka our "front of the house")

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Primary discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1567064

Of course, that's very old, so comments are closed there. If you have anything to add, you'll have to do it here.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056759

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5109066

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025487

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=942903

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=603878

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85599

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The newest version has keyboard shortcuts (on Windows anyways)!
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Looking for a junior Python/Django developer position. Have experience with python, Django, jquery, unix, rest api and others.

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Why is pointing a laser pointer at a plane a big deal?
There's a far stronger floor though on the price for Google shares, given that they're a very profitable company with good future prospects. The share price doesn't have to drop too much before it starts looking like a bargain to the many deep-pocketed stock market investors out there. With Bitcoin the value is so speculative at the moment that I think, if anything, a sell-off that large would trigger a self-sustaining run on Bitcoin.
It can blind the pilots.
Satoshi Nakamoto: single-handedly turning HN into a tabloid magazine for the cryptographic paparazzi. Except that no one gets paid, so that makes it okay, right?
I'm really really confused.

A cool blogger can tell a woman to "eat my dick" and get a positive story in Huffington Post. The only issue raised on HN is his tweeting of her conversation, not his sexual harassment.

But a guy refuses a pull request that changes "him" to "them" and there is huge uproar?

Can someone please explain feminism to me? How do I get from "feminism is by definition the belief that women are people" to this?
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The author is forgetting that the process of mining is not just to receive the block reward, but to support the entire bitcoin network. If there were no miners, no new transactions would get verified and bitcoin would not be secure. So it's wrong, and probably disingenuous for him to state that mining is a waste of electricity.
I wish i would know more about algorithmic trading.
On all these markets a lot of bots are fighting right now on various strategies.

And the price jumps are insane right now going from 850-930$
Agreed... You really cannot beat TP-Link for the money, and the vast majority (but not all!) of their routers are OpenWrt supported.

I buy literally thousands of them for work (we re-purpose them as network measurement devices, running OpenWrt), and the models we use are as follows:

* TL-WR741ND - 100M ports (can saturate the WAN link).

* TL-WDR3600 - 1G ports (LAN-WAN can hit around 500Mbps with careful tuning, but I don't know how that changes when NAT is enabled)

* TL-WDR4900 - 1G ports (LAN-WAN can hit around 900Mbps, and that's even without using the NAT co-processor, which OpenWrt doesn't support)

Ones I would avoid - WR1043ND (very popular, but old now - it was the precursor to the WDR3600), WDR3500 (100Mbps ports - yuck), WDR4300 (very little difference to the WDR3600, but more expensive)

The TL-WDR4900 really is blindingly quick, largely because it has a PPC CPU inside rather than the MIPS CPU, but it's also double the price of the 3600.

Unless you need the horsepower, the TL-WDR3600 really is the way forward.

I would avoid the 802.11ac models at the moment; they're more expensive, and there's no 802.11ac driver for OpenWrt yet, so you'd be wasting your money.
The market is so volatile at the moment, especially with speculative momentum traders, that it's hard to say what would happen. There's no real way to value Bitcoin on fundamentals, so there's nothing much to keep the market stable around a particular valuation.
No, the ITN isn't the only way to travel, and it's not what MOM is using. It's just doing a Hohmann transfer, which is just about the most basic orbital maneuver possible. The ITN is the clever, sneaky way to travel between planets with a shoestring fuel budget by bouncing around chaotically. It can be better, but it does tend to take a whole lot longer.

Note that even a standard Hohmann doesn't need to spend any fuel until arrival (aside from minor course corrections). But with the ITN, it's potentially cheaper to achieve certain chaotic trajectories than it is to change the orbit enough for a Hohmann.
Oh, but that was a brown person somewhere far away. Everybody knows those aren't real people.
First showcase of Neo900 open phone project
There's a tremendous difference between physical fitness and running your body into the ground through long days of extraordinarily difficult labor.
Indies and Edu-Games: A Perfect Couple Too Shy to Approach One Another
I just see a guy following policy, and then reverting the patch when that policy was broken.

Also, I don't know if it's very smart calling somebody a jerk whom you've never met, or had any significant dealings with.

It's very easy to do it from the comfort of your couch at home, but I suspect it'd be a different story if they were right in front of you.

In fact, it's basically bullying.

This is the sort of thing you get from reading tabloids or gossip mags - "OMG, Kim Kardashian is like, such a <xyz>, because I read that, like, <xyz> said <xyz> to <xyz>. She is like, a total <xyz>! I mean, if I were her, I'd <xyz>".

Seriously, I would have thought that HN as a community is better than that.
I actually think the decentralized nature of bitcoin is what gives it all it's value. The fact that no bank can control it, inherently holds value. Currency manipulation is a really big problem right now, and knowing that you can buy a currency that won't be artificially controlled by it's issuer is an asset in itself.

Having the currency centrally controlled again isn't special and it doesn't deviate enough from a credit card transaction for anyone to use it.
Let's take the intent of patents at face value, ignoring the perverse incentives and broken review process that may jeopardize their utility even in the private sector. Patents claim to benefit the public by providing incentive to (a) invest in research that may be easily "scooped" by competitors and (b) disseminate information about inventions so that others can benefit. I do not find either compelling in the case of universities. The vast majority of research at universities occurs regardless of possible royalties because it is externally-funded and researchers compete for grant funding and prestige. Publishing a significant result first garners citations and prestige (and likely helps fund future proposals), directly benefitting both the researcher and their institution. Similarly, researchers publish important innovations because publications are literally the currency of academia.
Unfortunately this can be said of a lot of tech work. I left my IT consulting job about 5 months ago to do a start-up.

I could never get used to how mentally exhausted I often felt after 12 hr days, yet at the end of the week could point to nothing of value that I produced.

The current work is draining but at least I am doing it to myself:)

If my start up fails, I might get a food truck and start selling portable lunches, maybe I'll enjoy that...lol
Fully agreed. OpenWrt's community is truly great, and the web interface (LuCI) used in the firmware has come on leaps and bounds in the past couple of years.

Also, if you ever need to roll your own firmware, prepare for a big uphill struggle with DD-WRT, but it's a (relative) breeze with OpenWrt.
Unable to buy some Bitcoins from a third world country
I agree it's acting more as gold now, but there's no doubt it's intended to be a currency and as a currency it's inherently a fiat currency. However gold is a hard asset that has actual real world uses outside its monetary value; it's a fantastic metal.

Its limited supply doesn't give it value because it's but one of many crypto currencies[1] and its value is derived only from being the first mover and thus network effects and confidence. That money could easily abandon Bitcoin and flee into another crypto currency any time general confidence in it fails; for example if say LTC or PPC show more stability over time because of their differences from BTC and BTC fails to stabalize over time due to its deflationary nature.

[1] http://coinmarketcap.com/
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One of our top level goals is to build a uniquely fun and growth oriented company culture. This is a journey, not a rat race. Knowledge sharing in any capacity is highly valued here -- are you interested in prediction markets or PGP encryption? Do you enjoy teaching posture techniques or purely functional data structures to others? We pair program, design together, and generally create a learn-and-teach environment here.

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So it's not really the ideology that is the problem, but the implementation of the ideology. We've seen this before. "Communism hasn't really been tried before".

It's pretty sickening the number of people on HN that continue to defend the ideologies of these murderous regimes.

And yes, in a way this guy is defending the N. Korean regime.
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I love DD WRT.

As for router models, development seems to be slow these days - I can only recommend the older Linksys routers, the Belkin F7D4301 and the many TPLinks (WR7-10xx series in particular)...

But any model that has a stable DD WRT release should be good - most important thing is the processor and Flash/RAM size in my opinion...

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
Sure it can be, and was in the past; but we don't live in those times. Gold today is a commodity.
Not only that, but the WDR3600 has a significantly faster CPU, more memory and more flash than the WR1043ND. It's about 2 years newer too. Definitely worth a few extra dollars.
I wholeheartedly concur. It was the same here in Romania.

Interesting anecdotes:

- my parents (who studied EE) worked in a "research institute". Most of the research was taking electronics from the west apart and figuring out how they worked so that they can be manufactured in the "eastern block"

- my first computer was a HC80 computer which was a ZX Spectrum clone

- many big "western" companies were here trough local partnerships (Citroen -> Oltcit, Renault -> Dacia) just like IBM and Coca-Cola worked with the Nazis. Money trumps ideology always :-)
"No one questions the value of gold"

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-buffet-thinks-investing...
"There's no technical reason that a central planner can't do the same."

As another commenter indicated, this is not necessarily both possible and efficient to do with any known model of a computer. Also, to the extent that market economies provide consumer and elite wants and preferences as inputs, they are morally superior to command economies that provide only the elites' wants and preferences as inputs.
Mice can inherit the fear of a smell
This is such old news by now. Given the extreme price fluctuations, it is more useful if we can stop quoting "worth $X USD", and instead just stick with the actual number of bitcoin.