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Thanks. Now we can address what you've said because clearly you are wrong, even from your own articles. This doesn't make it sound like train transportation is ludicrous.

"The busiest high-speed lines in the world are capable of making money, Bel said, including those between Paris and Lyon, where about 25 million people ride the French TGV trains each year, and the Japanese Shinkansen trains between Tokyo and Osaka, which draw about 130 million riders a year."

As for Spain, they've spent $60 billion dollars since 1980. That's less than one high-speed rail train in California and they've got almost 2000 miles of track.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVE

We should dig up some other sources. They site that you provided doesn't seem like it's a great source. It doesn't say how much money is actually lost. Simply that it's not profitable.
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There seems to be a lot of excitement about self-driven cars, but somehow, except for a handful of local lines, there has been no real automation on the operation of trains, even if they are much easier to make completely autonomous. How are self-driven cars not going to face the same fate as self-driven trains?
Huh, I always assumed that was just more security hysteria, but it looks like you are right.

http://www.laserpointersafety.com/page52/laser-hazard_diagra...
Or even inject some known negatives and see if they turn out positive. Seems pretty simple.
The idea of legislation concerning civilian 'drone' use concerns me for one reason: if there was such legislation, where would the line be drawn between a 'drone' and a recreational RC aircraft? Could this effectively outlaw an entire hobby?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_%28computer_graphics%29 for an explanation of what Mesa is: an open source implementation of OpenGL and several other 3-d computer graphics APIs.
I started a project on GitHub to do it: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode
By your definition of a "mistake", the biggest mistake you probably made in your life was not buying all the Medifast Inc stock you could get your hands on in 1999. It went up 16,210% in ten years.

But wait, it gets worse. Even just going back a year, if you had bought and sold the right stocks at the right times, you'd be the richest person on earth by far, even if you only started with a few bucks.

But don't worry, you could do the same thing over the next year. You've learned from your "mistakes," right?

In all seriousness, your financial advice is pretty bad and akin to recommending gambling strategies for Roulette. If you both realize you are gambling and are cheering each other on for fun, that's one thing, but I get the sense that you really don't understand that you are in fact gambling.

I have never seen a clearer speculative bubble (as seen from within the midst of the bubble and not hindsight) in my lifetime than this one. You just don't invest for the medium or long term on a speculative bubble. Bitcoins do have some intrinsic value, but as the author of the article we're all commenting on noted, the price of Tulips still hasn't recovered to its 1637 peak.
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Once Bitcoin starts moving with fundamentals. I don't think it will happen soon, or at all though.
I'm an american currently teaching Undergrad level CS in pyongyang.

Most of the students here know that they want to work at one of the two government research labs: Korean Computing Center, or Pyongyang Information Center. One of the Seniors told me he thinks he has an 80% chance of getting a job where he has access to the internet and an email address for communication.

Many of the anecdotes in the article fit with what I've seen here. I've been told that the going rate to get in to the top high school in pyongyang is about $5000US. One of the government liaisons working at the university studied Malaysian in college, and got told that there were too many Malaysian speakers when he graduated and was assigned to our university instead.

I think the main takeaway is that everything here is based on connections and who you know.
The biggest problem with Bitcoin is the lack of liquidity, and this is why we're always going to see massive price fluctuations with this currency. And, until the liquidity problem is fixed, no way in hell is this going to ever be close to the reserve currency. Who wants to own an asset which prices may fall precipitously if you decide to sell all of your holdings at once?
I'm not implying pre-soviet era Eastern Europe had a western style. That would not have been possible, not locked between the west and a hard place. Looks like Ukraine is still there.

Geopolitically and historically this (I'm Romanian) has been one shitty place with a lot of influences: Tsarist Russia, Soviet Union, Ottoman Empire, the Huns, the Mongols, the Romans etc. You could not have developed a western style state in this environment.

I'm not implying western Europe had it easier, but just different and it benefited them by the looks of things.

However, from history lessons, at least in my own country things were starting to pick up and it's my belief the situation would've been much better without WWII and especially without the communists.
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I got one of these with the idea of installing OpenWRT. No problems at all.

Telnet into DD-WRT, then wget followed by mtd.

The console approach makes it clear what's happening.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/buffalo/wzr-600dhp
We have exactly the same room in our Physisc Department, in Poznan, Poland. We call it "noecho room".
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This is an interesting perspective. I always loved the "Joke" RFCs from the earlier days of the IETF. It's sad to see the organization get away from that ethos.

What are your thoughts on the W3C? It seems like they spent the early 2000s going down the path you describe with XHTML, but with HTML5, they've rediscovered "rough consensus and working code," albeit driven entirely by the big browser vendors.
Small corrections: QSSI took over from HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as "general contractor" (as it's being put lately) and integrator, CGI is still as far as I know in the same position. And next quarter or so they'll be moving the site from Terramark to HP.

The latter could be related to MarkLogic; I don't know about Terramark, but I hope HP isn't in this business except to provide at minimum full hardware solutions, not just a co-lo's power, cooling, connectivity and so on. I.e. better able to provide today's "big iron". Even if the current database instance has been beefed up by 12 dedicated servers, I've seen complaints the storage system is not up to snuff, and I know that's an HP focus (in fact, I'm doing a monthly full backup of my home systems to an HP LTO-4 tape drive right now...).

Or maybe Terramark isn't in a position to provide a backup site, something neglected to date....

My Google Fu isn't up to finding the technical firewall issue, do you have a pointer handy? It did find mention of the Administration freaking out when insurer giant United Healthcare bought QSSI before the election....

Your former CEO has the usual good things to say by anyone with a clue; I just hope the meme doesn't build up that MarkLogic was at fault. Especially since it was forced on reluctant contractors, that's enough to get a lot of the learned one thing and not about to learn another types to bad mouth it, apparently from a position of technical authority. Then again, how many of these technical people are in reporters' Rolodexes?

"I do think that MarkLogic's ability to be agile - programming (EasyApp), infrastructure (speed of transition) and performance - have a great deal to do with the speed of the team being able to deal with the software bugs above MarkLogic and the weak infrastructure around us."

Hmmm, I'll be looking for evidence of that in the serious postmortems that'll be coming out over the next decade or so, assuming it continues to be a nightmare if the backend connections to insurers fail to deliver quality data, as various of these articles are suggesting. Not to mention the previously mentioned not even working on the software to pay them, a very complicated thing....

Good luck.
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Shall we call this Seiji's Law?
" If you’ve been watching BTC price for a while you’ll recognize this as just another profit taking crash after a big runup."

aka correction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_trend#Secondary_market_t...

I wouldn't touch BTC yet in any form or shape, but I really wish for people diving into this from an investment point to learn fundamentals of technical analysis, fundamental analysis (not all that applicable for BTC) and especially risk management. Folks, don't get burned please. You don't have to.
Seriously how does this nonsense get this high on HN while perfectly good articles from Hackaday get penalised into oblivion?
I've used DD-WRT before and it bothers me that their releases are seemingly far and few between. Even my commercial router with its original firmware got more updates than DD-WRT. Just some food for thought.
This kind of case is fascinating.

The woman wasn't evil. But her actions really are.

It's very easy, too easy, to say that she is evil because what she did was so bad. But that's lazy, and it misses the interesting stuff. How do people get caught up in performing such horrendous acts?

There's a bunch of cognitive stuff going on, and some subtle manipulation. I suspect that something similar is how we end up with app stores full of "free" games that are full of micro-payments and ads. (Instead of the Doom model of a few free levels and a paid for full version).
I like how hovering over "kudos", in an attempt to understand what it is, automatically performs an action I didn't want to perform. And there is no undo.

Great UI there, guys. I like how you focus on aesthetic novelty instead of functionality, but I guess that explains why you're hiding the UI all over the site until you hover over crap [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation
> With the drug industry imploding, chemists (real chemists) are struggling to find work, so they could even call it a jobs program if need be.

there is a big difference between working as a chemist, and working as a forensic chemist. getting drug into trials and treated like shit by both sides in the case isn't any fun, and it's hard to find people who'll actually stick with it.
They sell a lot more than just the WRT54 and are terrified that the $250 market (or whatever) will collapse if people start buying low end models and reflashing to gain features.

Its a market segmentation game. They'd gladly pay $5 extra for less memory, if neutering the low end device saves the sale of a high end $200 model.

You may wish to look into who owns Linksys.
The investigation is expanding. Another lab worker is now being investigated and I read something about some of the prosecutors behavior be questioned. It seems as though this is the beginning not the end.
Discussion of the previous events: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6488407
That argument doesn't make much sense to me.

If first-world currencies were being drastically manipulated in ways that cost currency-holders lots of wealth, then I'd expect to see currencies decline relative to things that are directly valuable, like commodities. But that's clearly not the case:

http://www.economist.com/news/economic-and-financial-indicat...

The price of gold is down, too:

http://www.bullionvault.com/gold-price-chart.do

Further, I think a government can pretty easily influence the price of bitcoin: the bitcoin market is still relatively small, so somebody with billions of dollars to spend should be able to heavily manipulate the price.

But even you were right about it being proof against government manipulation, I think it would still only be better for people seeking stability if the volatility of bitcoin were lower than government-backed currencies. But bitcoin is insanely volatile compared to first-world currencies.
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No. Lack of liquidity makes it more prone to crashing and the friction between the Bitcoin world and the real financial system makes it slow for people to add liquidity (for example, exchanges cannot receive wire transfers on the weekend).
I'd be interested to see what some meditating monks could do.

(Thanks for the quote. I'm in the UK and the page is, frustratingly, blocked to us.)
After all hard evidence dick stroking you cite pg?! He writes in exactly the same style as the Salon author!

Empirical and statistical evidence is a delightful way to make a point, but what you "hard discipline" fetishists don't realize is that there are non-empirical "goods" that run our lives.

Narratives, thoughts, feelings, intuitions, broad non-empirical world views. There's a huge world of stuff out there to which statistics just don't apply, and they are all forms of knowledge. In the most basic way it's called rationalism, and it doesn't require any statistics or empirical evidence to make a point. In a more developed way it can be called post-modern knowledge concepts.

Basically, people who constantly talk about being "hard" are just dry humping modernity, something that smart people over 100 years ago realized was a collection of myths. The hard sciences sit on a foundation of warm gooey mud.
Out of interest what size is your "big data"?
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I think reading this might be a good start.
With whom? Labour?
Anyone can roll a Facebook competitor, or a search engine, etc. Market adoption is important.
Yet another failure to understand the purpose of mining. The energy is NOT being wasted. In fact, the energy spent mining is the exact thing that makes the Bitcoin network function. The energy is being converted into trust. The more energy that is spent on mining, the more difficult it will be for a well-capitalized entity to perform an attack on the network.

Aaron Greenspan, repeat after me: Mining energy is not wasted. Mining energy is not wasted. Mining energy is not wasted.

Now, it is an open question as to whether the cost of running the Bitcoin network is worthwhile. However, for the moment, it clearly is. The fact that some miners can turn even a small profit on the Bitcoins they're rewarded with demonstrates that the utility they provide has positive market value.

Of course at some point it may be that it costs substantially more to mine new Bitcoins than they are worth on the market. If this happens soon, Bitcoin will likely fail. If it happens later, it's possible that transaction fees could prop up the network, but that's purely speculative.

Another thing to consider when assessing the energy efficiency of the Bitcoin network is how it compares to the efficiency of existing currencies. Cash has a physical component and must be manufactured. Electronic fiat is backed by huge, complex, and expensive networks. Visa's datacenters are not free. Keep in mind that credit card transactions typically have a transaction cost of 3%, which in some way represents the cost of operating the Visa network. 3% is kind of a staggeringly huge number, and off the cuff I expect that's actually quite a bit higher than the total Bitcoin network cost to volume ratio...
One problem with a "customized distribution" is it probably gets far fewer security updates, much slower, of FreeBSD, than just using straight up main line "real" freebsd.

This kind of logic is why I use plain old Debian as the OS with roughly the same hardware architecture as your design.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. It's refreshing to hear the voice of reason.
You're right, there are other ways it can end.

Of course I really don't know what's going to happen but my best guess with what I know is that it'll fade into obscurity within a year.

Probably my #1 reason for BTC failing is that it's not fiat. All popular currencies are fiat for good reasons.

BTC sort of reminds me of the gold standard being finite and initially "mined". Maybe it's fate is similar. People who don't trust state backed currencies will find use but it will ultimately remain on the fringe for everyday trade.
For someone supposedly concerned about human life, you seem awfully eager to end one.
I'm curious how people plan on paying Capitol gains taxes on profits or reporting losses.
Am I correct when I say you can view it as distributed banking, where the miners are the distributed bank, and the mined btc are the fee you get for supporting the system - being the bank?
Hmm not sure, but well, wouldn't a simple question of "where did your degree in chemistry come from" while the person in question is under OAuth?

EDIT: Oath. I've been working too much recently.
Uptime is consistently surpassing 90%!

Well, I guess it's progress. :)
Also, nothing for the prosecutors that "hired" her?
> MarkLogic is an XML document store like Oracle is a CSV file store.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to say that was a negative – just different in ways which many developers don't expect. With similar systems (e.g. zodb, MongoDV) I've seen developers use ORM-like patterns where they store properties in separate records or do reports by walking millions of records and then complain about performance rather than using it wrong.

As for memory, that was awhile back so it might have been an old version or poor usage. I just heard about trying to max out server RAM as a key requirement.
Which difficulties? When you sell on coinbase they ACH you your dollars within 2 business days. The problems you're talking about only affect a single exchange (MtGox) out of many.
If you use VoIP you probably want QOS.
Certain people have certain authority to talk about certain things.

I set policy around open source and open source licensing. I can speak officially to open source issues for Google (though at least here, i'm not unless I specifically say I am)

This does not mean it's a cohesive whole however.

In particular, a small team Of 3-4 people in the middle of a random non-android product area is not going to have the android team breathing down their neck asking them to "not break down numbers" or whatever the parent thinks happened here.
True. Alf Garnet is another example of very uncomfortable viewing.
You mean like stocks, bonds, or any other commodity in existence? Yeah, the value is fairly unstable currently, largely because the current valuation is being driven almost entirely by speculation, however that is set to change. There's already a lot of interest being shown by various retailers in accepting bitcoin as a form of payment. Currently as an actual currency you can use to buy stuff (as opposed to a commodity being traded) it's fairly rare, but as it becomes increasingly common you should see the price fluctuations start to damp down as more and more real world goods starting having their values tied to the value of the currency.

I'm definitely shocked by the rapid climb in price we've seen recently. It's unclear if this is a short term bubble driven by rampant speculation and renewed media interest, or if this represents the new "normal" and with the new interest the currency was effectively massively under-valued before now. It's even possible that if there's significant interest shown by some major players (say if for instance amazon and facebook signed on to allow payments/money transfers via bitcoin) we might see yet another massive upward valuation of the currency.
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Absolutely! Is there a research or report on what percentage of poor have quit villages and moved to sub-urban areas lately?

Last when I was working near a village in central India near Uttar Pradesh/Madhya Pradesh border the estimate was a little under 4% (which is huge given the absolute numbers). I kind of believe that over 90% bulk might still be within the rural consideration, but I could be wrong. The electorate interest and its outcome seems to indicate that bulk of rural India is still where it was.

About 15 years ago, rural migration from the state of Orissa and Uttar Pradesh was pegged at less than 1%. So it is not out of context to consider here that the average speed of travel within the country and connectivity by rail and road has improved by factor of 4 in the last 15 years.

This is the rural progress and implementation of ordinary technology, that we easily miss out on, that has brought about rural migration that we're talking about here. It has sparked ambition in the poor which now aspires for a better life in the suburban cachement of Indian cities.

Leads to concluding that it is the gap between the rich and poor that leads to criticism and praise of space programs like Mangalyan. The '100 million India' who have the gift of being in the elite 100 million should take a note of this gap. And not be perturbed by criticism of technical feats like the Mangalyan.

The benefit of ISRO space program (though it has strategic pitfalls too) would surely reach the balance 900 million poor eventually, but that is in future. Immediate priority should be (and thankfully is) rural tech because that keeps the gap between rich and poor in control, and prevents volatility and conflict by keeping the sense of belongingness among the desperate poor.

That's what I think, but I may be removed from reality given that I am off coast now.
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I'd come and visit first and see what area might suit you best. The Bay Area is very different throughout. Go back home and formulate a plan to actually move.

I moved from very upstate NY to the Bay Area in 2007 and that alone was a huge adjustment for me.

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