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Low-n probabilities become harder to assess, so if human-controlled vehicles are really rare, risks might be hard to assess.

How human drivers interact with otherwise automated traffic flows might similarly increase risks. Much as largely horse-drawn or bicycle traffic is generally pretty safe, but mixed-mode traffic with cars, trucks, busses, etc., tends to produce (often fatal) accidents.
This argument gets repeated again and again, but it doesn't have roots in reality. The market value of gold is far, far in excess of what the demand from industrial, scientific, fashion and jewelry use cases dictate. In fact, these uses exist despite the fact the gold is very expensive. (Perhaps with the exception of the latter two, which are popular because of gold's high market value. But they do not themselves cause it).

If gold and other precious metals did not have their historical use as a currency and the trust of markets (and its suitability as a currency, I suppose), they would be worth at least an order of magnitude less than they are today. And it would be mined a lot less of them.
>My theory is, everyone's expecting it to crash. //

That's how a crash happens isn't it? It's not driven by any wider economic reality beyond the conviction of "investors". If the investors can be convinced that it's crashing then it crashes. That certainly appears to be how manipulative exploitation of short positions occurs.
Except there aren't any industrial uses for BitCoin yet

I like the notion that the intrinsic value of bitcoins are as entries in a global distributed ledger (or even more fundamentally, timestamps in a distributed timestamp server)

A Satoshi is the small unit you can account for in that ledger, so there are actually 2,100,000,000,000,000 of them, making the intrinsic value way less than the extrinsic value, but that's true of gold as well.
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Which is a truly disparaging fact, while a human life may not be priceless, putting a value on it draws a very interesting ethical line in the sand. I agree with you, but I would say the life of any human should be worth a hell of a lot and the idea of taking one should be met with the utmost seriousness and avoided at all costs.

The last thing this planet needs is more death and killing.
Good thing I got out of there, though honestly from recent hires I've see, the same shit happens in EU as well.
I've been wondering - having never used a web framework except for some RoR - what people miss in the idiomatic Clojure way of doing web (composing libraries like Ring, Compojure, Enlive etc). Care to share?
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you just defined 'currency'. basically, your issue with bitcoin is that it can't be exchanged for goods and services.

this is quite the chicken and egg problem. but basically when people 'believe' it's a currency, they will accept it as one - thereby justifying that belief since it will be true due to all the other people accepting it.

dollars are only a worldwide currency because people and institutions think it's one - and if it were to stop being treated as currency it would stop being accepted as one. totally tautological - but there's currency for you.
sadly, no, most cities don't have their own tox/drug chemistry lab. there are entire states with just 1 lab.

i'm not familiar with massachusetts, but i wouldn't be surprised if most of the relevant testing for the state was going through there.
That he's "interfering" is entirely Apple's version of what's happening. All we know is that he's tried to schedule meetings with Tim Cook, etc, which is entirely appropriate in an internal investigation and can certainly be done without "interfering" with the rest of the business.
It seems that most comments posts are either pro bit-coin or anti bit-coin, but both sides seems to make wrong arguments based on a flawed thinking of mining.

A fixed amount of bit coins are mined (on average) per unit time. Thus, how much work it takes to mine a coin depends solely on the number of miners. Econ 101 theory tells us that the aggregate costs of the miners will equal their aggregate rewards. So, the total cost of mining (hardware, electricity, people's time who work on it) will equal the reward.

That's all that's happening with mining. No for either side to complicate it and make it seem like more is there.
Actually it does. One of those unique properties of gold is that it is incredibly non-reactive, which means it doesn't visible age, discolor, or tarnish. The value of that for jewelry should be self-evident. It's excellent ductility and malleability are valuable properties as well.
I disagree. I can't quantify it, but taking a few impressive-sounding (and -being) courses makes you look good in employers' eyes. It shows you to be a self-driven learner who tangles with hard stuff. At least somewhat. But you're right in that it's soft; a hint, rather than a certification.
My experience is exactly the opposite. I've been running DD-WRT since the very first version (right when BrainSlayer forked Sveasoft Alchemy), and it's an incredible piece of software. Absolutely flawless.

Yes, it is true that the wiki has conflicting information, but it's not that hard to find a version that works well with your set up. And most routers are really hard to brick (and worst case scenario most models have JTAG in the PCB, so you can un-brick your router even from the worst mistakes).

Once you have a stable config, you'll enjoy several years of rock-solid performance - at least until you need to upgrade your router again. Rinse and repeat.

FWIW, I'm using Asus RT-N16 with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (03/17/12) kingkong, and also used WRT-350N, WRT-54G/GL. All services I use are rock-solid: VPN, QoS, DynDNS, MAC filtering, USB storage, printer support, etc. Of course, YMMV.
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That comment probably needs some fleshing out.
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I assume nothing will happen to the prosecutors she worked with.
Intrusive datastructures were the thing I missed most from C, but boost::intrusive satisfies my desires when it's absolutely necessary.

In general, I'm anti-boost, but I think it's a personal bias and we use the hell out of it at work to great effect. The one thing I'll give boost::intrusive over sys/queue.h is that the type system helps you a lot more to catch issues and the common case is a bit simpler (a struct that exists in a single linked list and a single hash table, for example).

I've been burned many times by something like the following

struct foo {
TAILQ_ENTRY(foo) lru_entry;
TAILQ_ENTRY(foo) hash_entry;
};
...
void some_magic_func(struct foo *f) {
TAILQ_REMOVE(static_tailq, f, hash_entry); // oops, should be lru_entry!
}

Boost intrusive templatizes on the member as well (IIRC) and eliminates this whole class of problem.
None vs null has nothing to do with imperative/declarative programming.
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Can we be up in arms about..you know...both?
The extreme magnitude of the impact of her crime. Injuring 34,000 victims. "Breaking" the justice system. Abuse of the extraordinary power society placed in her.
Spot on. It's outrageous that one person was able to cause this much damage, but the sentencing in this case very strongly indicates that there is a perverse system of incentives which allows things like this to happen. As long as someone profits, economically or otherwise, on people being sent to jail, there is an incentive structure which perverts justice. It's shocking to be that there isn't more focus on this problem.
I can't disagree with any of that.
> If people hide their money under mattresses, all that means is that they aren't competing to buy the available goods.

That is called "deflation." They tried it in Japan, it didn't work.

> If the government weren't trying to re-inflate the asset bubble with cheap money, ventures that make more sense would be flourishing instead.

Inflation and cheap money/asset bubbles are completely orthogonal. If anything, inflation should increase interest rates, not lower them.

> Resources are not infinite. When someone accepts a piece of paper and just holds on to it instead of immediately consuming what he could buy, the resources are available for other things.

Resources are also for the most part either perishable or they depreciate. At the very least, resources must be expended (warehousing) while unused resources are stored for later use. Ideally, resources are used closed to when they are produced. Otherwise, value is lost in some manner.

> And when there are more people deferring their consumption, its cheaper to borrow money/resources and cheaper to grow new industries.

Why grow your industry when the consumers have deferred their consumption? Once more people have deferred consumption, the economy and industry will shrink, not grow.

> Countries don't become rich and powerful by consuming everything as soon as they get it. They do it by growing their industries.

They do it by doing both. I live in a country with high industrial output (aimed at export) but little consumption in comparison (people save too much + high income disparity), its a trap that the Chinese government is desperately trying to get out of. If Chinese don't consume, the gov has little choice but to buy treasuries (as upposed to investing in more unused infrastructure/ghost cities/industrial output), and they are losing money on those t-bills.
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Perhaps Satoshi Nakamoto should have written in faux-Engrish in order to really confuse people.

I can see choosing an affected writing style becoming an integral part of creating an anonymous persona.
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Yes, because everybody knows that, unlike a RDBMS such as MySQL, NoSQL databases like MongoDB can handle any volume of requests on whatever hardware you have available and without any fine-tuning of configuration.
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You use it to draw/paint? Can you please share something you've done? I'd very curious in seeing anything you've painted with it.
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It's not as if it's particularly difficult to tamper with traffic flow now, as it stands. Take down a stop sign, mess with traffic light signalling (popular in movies about terrorist madmen), just plain go up to a car and hijack it.

The crackdown on people doing this, however, is enormous. It makes it very unprofitable to do any of these things.
From my understanding other frameworks like Ember rely heavily on jQuery, unfortunately i havent really worked with them so i dont know what that means for plugins. We can not reuse angular directives in Ember/Backbone/Meteor so it doesnt make sense to spend the effort to reimplment bigger plugins/libraries imo.

It would actually be the other way round, you build your app in angular and for some specific view related code you use a proven and stable jQuery plugin, which imo still makes sense.

Furthermore you are being hyberbolic, jQ wasnt even released in 2005. In reality, when i have a client project with tight deadlines to finish and i need drag and drop functionality (as an example), i have little motivation to rewrite that just to avoid a jquery plugin that does the same thing and is much more mature.
How about serving the sentences she was responsible for? Even if she served 1 day for every sentence that was a result of her intentional tampering of the evidence, she would be serving life.
Why is it reasonable to sell a portion of their holdings? What does that actually achieve for the holder?
I believe that is implied by the conjunction 'and'.
I have faith that this will get better. We need standard libraries of proofs just as much as we need standard libraries of code. I know Coq has made progress on this, but it's still early days.

I do agree with you that there are times when 'full' type checking is inappropriate. Typing is a spectrum, and it's a bit of an art to decide how detailed of guarantees to give for your API.
Isn't the efficient-market hypothesis dispute the effectiveness of both fundamental analysis and technical analysis?
In C, you can use a bit of macro trickery to get the same safety, e.g: by defining a 0-sized array of the some type alongside the intrusive node. Then, macros that do the "cast down" from the intrusive node to the container element can also do a type-comparison (using some trickery) between the anchor's array and the container type.

I've seen it implemented, but everyone uses the typical non-type-safe one anyway :)

I don't think I've ever had such bugs in a lot of code though, since I tend to wrap the "containerof" call with a little function like: foo_of_lru_entry and foo_of_hash_entry. A bit of boilerplate for each data structure, but worth it.
I just looked at transaction costs on 2 exchanges and they were both at 0.2% for < $1000. One offered reductions for higher value transactions, the other was fixed.

Kraken and BTC-E resp.
I'll echo all of this (minus scalaz, we don't use that).

I'll give an example of the power of Scala's type system. When I first convinced one of our founders to give Scala a try, he used it to write the first pass of our analytics service. He'd never written Scala before but once it compiled, it ran correctly on the first try, that's the power of its type system.
I got 2. Not bad considering all the posts and my relative inexperience.
May you expand on the type of systems you are building with Scala? I have previous work experience in a multinational bank that ran Java or C# on everything.
Well if you knew stock movements like the poster suggested, you could achieve huge returns by playing with options. Like the options on Nokia that went from a few pennies to a dollar or so when MS announced the purchase. Options jump around by a huge lot each week. So it seems that starting from $100, if you knew were things were going each week, you'd make a ton of money. (There's a limit as you get more money - it's uh, hard, to double a billion dollars on a limited set of options in a week, versus only $100.)
>It is also informed by sex, but that is only one influence.

Right, so it's not fair to say that gender != sex when gender is the grammatical expression of a sex within an environment's constraints.

>You are confusing grammatical gender with gender identity.

The grammar is the expression of masculine and feminine, which vary based on constraints, but still stick to the sexual binary. Going beyond that is special snowflake territory where people invent their own thing to be unique while expecting to be taken seriously. Complaining that people don't use your preferred pronoun is a perfect case for first world problems.

My original comment you replied to "There are human genders other than male and female? Scientific or imaginary?"

All else other than male (primary masculine) and female (primary feminine) are imaginary, and not based on biological reality. Those things do not merit being taken seriously no more than any religion or superstition. Male and female based sexes will always be re-expressed in very similar ways, as they have all over the world in varying civilizations, while others will never be the same. I'ts the same as religions or ideologies. It is complete fabrication of the mind. If people want to invent new identities fine, but white washing away him and her so that all of the other newly minted pronouns don't feel left out is ridiculous.

>Hi, I'm Caramelkh. I'm demisexual, polyromantic, fat positive genderqueer (neutrois, femme presenting), sexual assault survivor (7 times), native American, Muslim neuroatypical with OCD, cotard delusion, trimethylaminuria, social phobias, depression, post traumatic stress, anxiety issues and I can't walk very far. On my blog I will NOT tolerate any form of oppressive bullshit language and I will not hesitate to call you out on it. My preferred pronouns are ze/zy/zo/zum. After reading my about me section above, you still know nothing about me other than that the long list of labels means I get to have experienced nearly every type of kyriarchy oppression and so I can call people out on anything and say it triggers and offends me. If people get bored, I invent new oppressions. I'm triggered by the color teal.

Or better yet the new thing of people insisting to be called only by the pronoun brony.
Anything that moves us towards the professionalization of Software Engineering as a bad thing, and against the public good.

Nothing has served the interests of privacy, openness and security more than the fact that anyone can become a programmer, without any certification or required education. We are a bottom up industry where big projects can be built and maintained by the efforts of engineers, without the approval of any corporation or professional body.

Ethics are not always something that are valuable to formalize and teach.

We should resist professionalization not just because it is driven by rent seekers who want to make their cut from accreditation and mandatory courses, but because it attacks the very roots of the hacker tradition.
Maybe a little irationally, the idea of programming an os in c++ strikes me as very opaque. I think the vipri[1] approach of layering dsls, or the smalltalk idea of a relatively simple vm to seem more understandable than an os that embeds a c++ runtime...

As a side note, when looking up [1] I also ran across [2].

[1] http://piumarta.com/software/cola/
[2] http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/1.helloworld.ht...
That is hilarious. And I also hope your joking.
Thank you guys for the clarification.
> Even using a licence more restrictive than GPL seems to me unethical and against public interest, but would exclude the majority of employment prospects.

No, it would not.

You may believe it would because the vast majority of the software we use is widely distributed (OS, Web browser, Office suite, games…). On the other hand, the vast majority of produced software is actually custom software. (As you may have noticed, the two occurrences of "vast majority" doesn't refer to the same quantity.)

Custom software doesn't need to be proprietary to sustain their income.
Here's the original post, in case the 4chan thread gets deleted:

A few months ago I posted here looking for help with a SD card I found while renovating a school. It was hidden in a wall outlet, and had several files with names on them, and obviously was a bunch of encrypted containers.

Well, I managed to brute force one of them and inside was more containers, but a month ago I managed to open another and this time there was videos and pictures, stuff that made me go to the cops right away.

So I turned over everything to them and told them all I knew, and that's when the bullshit began. Right from the start the police thought I had something to do with it. They took every device in my home that could store data, my phone, my laptops and computers, my PS3, even all my USB drives and camera. They questioned my family and went to my job and harassed everyone that I had any contact with,

Right now I still haven't gotten any of my property back, and my friends and family think I am a creep. I am writing this to give a warning to everyone that works with IT if they end up in a situation like me. Don't go to the authorities, don't try and do the right thing, don't say a fucking thing just destroy what you found and move on. Trying to be a good person is just going to fuck your life over
Here's an archive link, as that thread will presumably 404 pretty quickly: http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S38432928
>unless automatic vehicles offer some similar pedestrian signaling capability, there will be issues.

Working on it.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/427743/how-do-you-know-...
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nope, two different Android devices involved
I'd say that imprisoning innocent people was already the worst case scenario.
I sold at $30 two and a half years ago.

I regret it.
I bet cities with congested infrastructure (read: not in the US) will be the first to go 100% autonomous just to optimize infrastructure utilization. Other cities (read: in the US) will then be forced to follow to remain economically competitive (b/c cheaper/better utilized infrastructure = lower taxes + higher economic output).

You'll probably still be able to drive in the country side though.
My thoughts exactly. I got a followup question, who is the blog posts author? Posting such statements anonymously is just low.
A better twitter than Twitter, a better facebook than Facebook? In technology, it's not always the better technology that wins. Bitcoin is more than good enough.
Well, it wouldn't necessarily preclude tampering with the evidence. The article seemed to indicate that it wasn't just reports that were falsified. For instance, in the marijuana weight issue mentioned in the article, she could have slipped in some extra to put it over the weight limit before sending it off to another lab. Maybe cross checking would help, but systemic changes would probably be better.
The police are not your friends. Sorry this guy had to learn that in a hard way. (Though apparently they have not yet shot his dog [1], so I guess he's gotten off easy so far.)

[1] http://www.theagitator.com/?s=puppycide
Considering that Svbtle has been around for like a year and a half now and it's not a particularly annoying UI scheme (rather one with more of a novelty element to it), can we get past debating about the Kudos button? I mean, it's not relevant to the article at all and it's not fair to the author, who had nothing to do with the feature.

That said, so people can catch up:

Here's some backstory on Svbtle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742314

Here's Dustin Curtis responding to criticism over it: http://dcurt.is/unkudo
Doesn't sound real to me.

He brute forced two encrypted containers? Who does that for an SD card you find?

And hidden in a wall outlet? Really? Someone just walks around carrying a screwdriver for opening wall outlets, and hopes not to get shocked? There are far easier places to hide things.

And cops questioning family and job contacts for this?

Sorry, but I don't believe a word of it.
BeOS was primarily written in C++, although the kernel was dominantly C. For actual parts that require user interaction, C++ and the object model makes a whole lot of sense, although there are probably more mature languages out that would be better candidates now.
>Note that sam's point about merchants immediately converting BTC back to USD serves to increase the money velocity (perhaps by >10x).

If this changed, it could at least get closer to the velocity of usd.
The story seems suspect to me. He brute-forced encrypted containers?