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Apologies for the 'back' hijack. It could have something to do with the plnkr.co embeds? Otherwise the page is pretty simple.

The graphs aren't interactive in their current state (but there's nothing stopping them from being made interactive).
In Bulgaria the system was not working - probably in other communist economies - because the was a lot of free riding or maybe not.

Tales say[1] say that let alone the social aspects of communism, where 1 guy was needed they used to put 4. Say a guy needs to transport 2000 kg of potatoes. You needed 1 driver, 1 mechanic to check the car, 1 guy to mount/unmount the potatoes and 1 count them.

However, in Bulgaria communism felt apart after the USSR. So I am not sure what was and wasn't working. In order to deeply understand the dynamics of a complex social-economic system such as communism you need to stuck to hard-facts. Otherwise you risk to perpetuate myths like: "Communism doesn't work but Capitalsm does". Truth is that every system has it's positive and negative sides. If someone, a government or population, can cope with the bad aspects (say lack of optimization in communism and rules that apply for everyone in capitalism) you stand a chance of having something that works for the large part of the population.

What I personally dislike about communism is the lack of freedom, which is not inherently connected with capitalism in books, but in real life whenever applied, good luck getting out of there without a few thousand deaths.

[1] My family was running a business in Bulgaria from 1995 until know. I still own a company in BG.
The same reason you have to pay for public schools even if you do not have children.
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lead team of 3-5 analysts
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Work with gobs of anonymized credit/debit card transaction data, using Hadoop/Hive/Impala, Postgres, Pentaho, R, Tableau, etc.

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And which currency or asset does require nationality or color certifications??? Seriously, is this an argument?!

Many countries have currency restrictions. While you can hold foreign currency in paper format, you can't do most of the transactions as you'll need a bank account or a middle men (like Western Union).

Discrimination is also prevalent in banking. Just because you didn't have issues, it doesn't mean discrimination doesn't exist.

And these people are now saved by bitcoin?????

Bitcoin is too early, small and volatile to be usable today at a large scale. But that's not the point.

Are we talking about drug, army or other illegal transactions or are we talking about regular people? Because, when you have problems with a bank it usually boils down to you NOT having MONEY!!! And if you don't have MONEY I don't see how bitcoin is going to save you.

That's like saying if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.
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We're looking for someone to start and lead our iOS team as our first iOS engineer. We've put together a killer team across web, infrastructure, android, design, support, but iOS is still open. We would love someone strong enough to lead a team that should grow to 3-4 in the next 6-9 months.

Quizlet helps students practice what they're learning. Students absolutely adore us, just read the twitter search for Quizlet. Quizlet is a top 100 Website in the U.S. (20m uniques/mo), and during school our current iOS app is always in the top 2-3 for education. We are one of the few education companies succeeded in going directly to students, as opposed to selling through schools and districts. We have big plans for building learning tools that truly empower kids and make them enjoy the learning process.

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NK isn't Socialism
Obviously this is still in its very early stages, but I can see this becoming a very informative and practical course.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this. Do you intend on turning this into a book and perhaps publishing physical copies?
I imagine that this would make the modularization of cars more feasible, or even necessary. E.g. a long-distance travel power train module could provide enough juice for driving cross-country (e.g. on holidays), while the commuter power train module would be lighter and less costly to rent. The car could drive itself to a hotspot where such modules are interchanged on demand. This would of course only make sense if there still is something like car ownership - if cars are only rented from central entities, then this entity would just send out specialized vehicles instead.

However, I'm not quite sold that people will give up on car ownership. Yes, there's public utilities and public transport, which is not up for individual ownership. But a car in the sense that we have it now is something more personal than a train cabin - a car's body is very close to us and we touch it all the time; we leave personal belongings there; and there is something to the fact that this car is always in front of my house/appartment, especially in emergency situations. This last point could be amended with emergency cars which are available to each apartment block, with which driving is just more expensive. Imagine crying "Help! I need a car!" and an emergency unit comes right around the corner and takes you wherever you want.
The end of the article mentions this. The whitepaper is only one piece of bitcoin, there's also the software and peer-review. The article just makes a persuasive argument that Nick was the primary author of the whitepaper.
http://www.uniforum.org/publications/ufm/aug96/unix-nt.html
Is your sadface implying you are saddened by the lack of love you have for the code that creates products your customers love?
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What people like you don't understand is that this is one of the ways of combating poverty. You can't ask people to just eat, reproduce and die, living just above the poverty line. That is worse than poverty.
> If mining additional Bitcoins at present is not economically viable than Bitcoins are not (currently) a fiat currency.

Whether Bitcoin can be mined or not has absolutely nothing to do with whether it's a fiat currency or not, so your logic does not follow. Fiat doesn't mean "can easily manipulate". Any currency that isn't backed by (value derived from) a hard asset is a fiat currency. Burning electricity to create bitcoin's is not "backed by", that electricity is gone, used up, wasted. Other crypto currencies like peercoin or primecoin address bitcoins wasted energy, but they are all fiat currencies. Their value derives from confidence, not assets.
It's odd that you can fly them around the city and bump into buildings freely, but when the money aspect is implemented it somehow changes everything. A sandwich or other small food delivery service seems innocent enough.
People still chasing this guy? Bitcoin has much bigger problems than the identity of its inventor(s).
Think of d3 as a framework and a standard library. This post is about replacing the framework. However, d3 still has a load of ready made controls such as the axes. These don't exist for this new approach yet, at least not natively.

But I have released code (see the bottom of the post or just https://github.com/resin-io/triangular.js ) that allows Angular/SVG graphs to add axes. Just didn't want to go deeper into documenting that too as I've gone past 2000 words already.

Hopefully in the future this will be done in pure angular, as these directives use more or less the old approach of encapsulating d3 in a directive. But at least they are re-usable.
You mean like in Somalia and unlike that in the US?
This actually bolsters my point. Google blurs out faces because a) its product is to show streets, not faces and b) because Google realizes not blurring out faces will make the public hostile to them.

The key to this is technology. Obviously, good technology is what allows Google to map images to places and to do so at a scale that captures most of the industrialized world. This makes many people uncomfortable as it gives the impression that Google is all-seeing all the time, when the reality is that such images are so time-delayed as to have no surveillance benefit. Yet, there's no need for Google to fight this since their product is images of the street, not of random passersby.

The less-obvious facet of technology here is that Google has the tech to blur faces en masse. If Google had to blur images out by hand, do you think they'd do so without specific requests first?

Similarly, if there was a technology that existed that insta-blurred everyone's faces in a random photo via a master database of opt-ins and advanced facial recognition, it's feasible that photographers would be required to use it , in some nations. But as that tech is a long ways off (it's not the tech that's hard, it's that database), the U.S. courts have found it better to let people take photos unhindered rather than chill free speech by leaving open the possibility that you could be sued for taking photos of public activity.

To go back to the original topic...you're right, I am being fatalistic. But I'm also being realistic and I'm also considering the greater framework of laws here. So I throw the question back to you: what is your proposed solution to the problem other than hoping that everyone obeys on the honor system? In my opinion, there is no legislation that could be passed that would not infringe on free speech at large.
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AllTrails is hiring! We're building Yelp for the outdoors - the best way to discover and share hiking trails and outdoor activities around you. We're helping people rediscover the outdoors and having lots of fun in the process. Camping and snowboarding benefits, anyone?

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Our company was AngelPad incubated, is funded by 500Startups and consists of a strong team from Google / Microsoft / Facebook with previous startup experience. We also have the author of an O'Reilly Android book, and a core committer to Homebrew on the team. We're looking for exceptional full stack Rails and mobile developers (Android and iOS) and designers.

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Gold isn't a currency, it's a commodity.
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Our web application is at the heart of our busy and successful e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases, but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and deployed on Amazon Web Services; we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, at the moment we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Our developers are generalizing specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles.

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Eating is good. I love eating. I eat all the time, because I'm a human. There are even studies that show that eating is good for your health. It can even keep you alive.

But did you know that even though eating is good for you, it's also bad for you? If you eat constantly, you can become obese. You are at risk for heart disease and diabetes.

Therefore you should not eat.

Did I do it right? I like this style of blog writing.
Unfortunately, this entire concept is flawed by its very first point:

1.01. Accept full responsibility for their own work.

To be a fair principle, this requires a series of other things to happen, ultimately depending on something we don't know how to do yet.

Firstly, in exchange for accepting that responsibility, software engineers need the same right as any real engineer to veto the deployment of a project for which they responsible until, in their professional opinion, the work has been done to a satisfactory standard.

In order to protect engineers who do exercise their professional judgement in that way, possibly against the immediate interests of their employer/client, it must be impossible to replace them with someone else who doesn't have the same right or to just fire them and carry on without anyone else taking their place. This requires a mechanism for recognising sufficiently capable people who are qualified to take on such jobs, akin to other chartered professions.

In order to establish a recognition programme of practical value, this requires that some impartial body exist that can evaluate individuals to determine whether they are sufficiently capable to merit recognition. This evaluation must necessarily be based on objective criteria to guarantee the impartiality.

And in order to do that, we need to have objective criteria to identify "good" software developers and appropriate professional practices in the first place, which we don't. And that's why software development isn't ready to be a real engineering profession yet.
Did you read the article? He is saying that Satoshi was someone with experience as a researcher, someone who had authored many articles in the past. The Bitcoin whitepaper and Bitcoin itself suggest nothing of the sort; they suggest that Bitcoin was the work of someone with limited research experience.
It's legacy.

The FAA has a distinction between commercial and recreational flying. When the laws were written, commercial meant that you were carrying passengers in a full-sized aircraft. And it makes sense to have more rigid rules in place for passenger aircraft.

Times have changed and using commercial vs recreational doesn't make sense anymore. The FAA is trying to apply existing laws to new technology. So, we're left with the case that it's perfectly legal to put a camera on a toy RC aircraft and take pictures for fun. But if you sell those pictures now you've crossed into commercial territory and your flight was no longer legal.

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The good news is that the FAA is working on new rules. They're just miserably slow about it.
He really should have used an incognito browser window for his Google "how to quit..." autocomplete example (facebook, smoking, vim, drinking), as it's apparently biased from his own browsing habits.

Going incognito in Chrome, the list is quite different (smoking, a job, your job, smoking weed): http://i.imgur.com/wsH60zm.png

Which makes me curious: does everyone else see the same list in Chrome incognito, or is Google doing some tracking by IP / browser fingerprint?

(Someone should build GoogleCounselor.com, an automated service to tell you what your bad habits are.)
> A commodity is only worth what someone will pay for it. It would be impossible to offload 1M BTC at the market mid (currently $962) so it seems ridiculous to value Satoshi's bitcoin wallet at $1B.

Conversely, it seems unlikely that e.g. Google's shares would be worth the current market cap if they were all sold at the same time. But we still accept the current share price as a basis of e.g. Page and Brin's net worth, so we should also accept Satoshi's wallet's current value (even if it fluctuates more than typical stock prices).
I didn't differentiate between them, because - really - do you think the miners take a close look at the protocol the software they are using actually implements? Much less so the end users.

I see the software engineers of the Bitcoin clients as a largely underestimated force in the network dynamics. Even one subtly placed bug could bring down the whole currency in the long run.
Agreed. I was typing on a phone, so I don't always catch typos.
Very interesting. A friend and I tried creating our own OS back in 2002 using interrupts to write the boot program. I wish I had this tutorial back then.
Ouch. As in, per this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/us/politics/tension-and-wo... the contractors weren't familiar with its paradigm. They got started so late (not until February in earnest from what we've heard), it sounds like they just didn't have the time to learn it ... in a project (micro-)managed by political and bureaucratic types in the government.

Not learning it well enough would likely go along with not provisioning the necessary resources.

Usual lesson of "don't try to do too many new things if you're on a tight time and/or money budget".

Unfortunately, given that this is almost entirely a political exercise, I don't see how you're going to avoid getting some scapegoating.
The Church had almost nothing to do with the catacombs in Paris (I don't know about the others, but IIRC in Rome it's also more complicated since they were created at a time where the Church had almost no political power and not very much wealth... but I could be mistaken for Rome). The Parisian "catacombs" were created in preexisting tunnels. And actually weren't catacombs at all, because people never wanted to be buried there, it's not a necropolis. The catacombs were created because the monarchy in France was pissed with the old Innocent Cemetery which was in the very center of Paris, just north of the City Island and was spreading diseases, wasting real estate and serving as a harbor to criminals etc. Also the graveyard was literally overflowing (yep, literally, basement walls in houses nearby had started to crumble under the pressure of the accumulated bones). So by a royal edict of 1785 the bones in the Innocent Cemetery where moved to an underground ossuary, that became known as the Catacombs of Paris. The Church only did the praying and rituals allowing for the transfer of the dead.

But the tunnels where actually the old Parisian quarries.. And people dug those for centuries, at times of war and peace, with rules or without. It was everything but based on a large, stable and wealthy institution. Damn, even during the Revolution people still worked in those tunnels. And miners who worked in the 16th and 17th century were pretty much free workers who lived by selling building material that they mined underground.
It cannot be proven that Prenda was responsible for the torrent in the first place (an IP address is not enough for proof of identity) but it's pretty much settled at this point that Prenda paid for the production of the pornography, had no intention of ever releasing the pornography for consumption, and posted the original torrent so that they could go after "infringers."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/08/21/quite-ama...
Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is, he (or she or they) must have been at least aware of Nick Szabo. I wonder if there's any coincidence to the initials: SN and NS? Of course, even if SN != NS it could be a tip of the hat or an intentional red herring.
It is not my experience that there is a strong connection between whether or not a PhD student is "brilliant" and his staying in or leaving academia.

The most important factors for your future academic career are intelligence, mentoring, good project choice, good self-management and always some luck with outcome. Fail in two of these and you don't have much of a chance to get your academic carrer back on track.

IMO failing at least two of these factors are usually the reasons for people to leave academia that are subsumed under "lack of success". There are also many students that are successfull and leave for the money or because they are female and want to have childern before 35.

Then again, I've never been at a "top tier" university, so maybe things work different in Stanford.