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I don't think it's better: I work with heavy media files and it worries me when Apple makes OSX a bit more stupid every release. But I have faith that as developers we'll make it work (maybe the industry moves to Linux, who knows). But I also LOVE the idea that my mobile phone or some tiny gadget I wear around my neck is the key to my data, and I can rock up to any monitor or use any display, glasses, microprojector whatever. I just see the changes coming, where iOS and OSX are merging slowly. It's too early to say what this is going to mean for pro developers/users.
I only recently started using C# (Mono) about a year ago due to Unity, and I have to say that I've been pleasantly surprised. I think it is a much better functional programming language than JavaScript (thanks to the combination of types, a saner lambda syntax, and generators) and ObjC (obviously, and the GC makes ARC seem absurd), the two languages I would say I'm an "expert" in and would have previously considered my "favorites". I couldn't believe that I was actually looking into how I could host a C# server for our backend (I ended up settling on node just because heroku is so easy to get up and running).

For some context, I use SubEthaEdit, and thus have no auto-complete or fancy IDE features, so my opinion is purely language based. With all three of these languages, my "style" more or less ends up turning them into the language I want to program in anyways (no subclassing, shying away from mutability, etc.). All in all this fits my long held belief that the worst programming language is whichever one you are currently using.
I don't think it's that straightforward, a few feet of difference in source position amounts to a phase shift of significant percentage of a wavelength at audio frequencies. You can't just flip phase and sum. It was also my understanding that laser microphones require very precise alignment, and getting one lined up normal to a convex, moving windshield is at least a tiny bit more than "trivial"
The latest picture is pretty bright for just dust...

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/...
Wow so 259684 BTC at $939 (current buy price as I post this) is 243185236.74 = $243,185,236.74 :o
> It could do a lot of harm to future generations.

Or it could do them a lot of good.

> If we pay for this through debt, we're slapping a bill on our children.

That's obviously not the correct way to implement it.

> I also don't like this idea because it increases personal dependence on the state.

It does the opposite, by replacing paternalistic and beaurocratic social security programmes.

> If the goal is to make people independent and self-confident, how does this help (on the whole, excluding edge cases)?

By enabling them to do things like working on art or science or startups without having to worry about starving or homelessness.

> I also think this will enable some peoples' destructive habits

Ah yes, the poor must not be given money lest they spend it on booze. Otherwise they wouldn't be poor. Just world fallacy, anyone?
I would love it if sites like Reddit took this a step further and used stylometry obfuscation techniques in addition to removing the name on the account. We desperately need tools to help make content as anonymous as possible after the fact, but still retain the essence of that content so that conversations that are a public good can still be maintained for posterity.
the polymers in question work not on a cell activity principle

That's not a necessary condition of evolutionary adaptation. Though I'll freely admit to being outside my bounds of expertise here.

Others have mentioned the lack of bacteria which have adapted to bleach (I haven't confirmed this myself through literature). My general sense is that there's a potential space in which possible solutions exist, and some solution are on the edges of that space, making them harder to reach and/or harder for multiple adaptations to simultaneously exist. There are extremophiles which survive in what would generally be considered extremely hostile environments (ice, high elevations, undersea steam vents, highly acidic geothermal pools, abiotic environments, etc.). Few of these thrive in more generally hospitable environments, presumably because the adaptations which allow them to survive the extreme environments also pose a comparative disadvantage to life forms which don't need to carry the evolutionary baggage / armor / support systems required to survive such environments.

Carl Zimmer wrote a few months ago about a simulation of evolution in which there wasn't a penalty for complexity, his musing on that aspect of the simulation are interesting:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/02/meet-the-...

In this experiment there was no cost to extra complexity–something that may not be true in the real world. The human brain makes huge demands of energy–twenty times more the same weight of muscle would. There’s lots of evidence that efficiency has a strong influence on the anatomy of our brains. Perhaps we might have more complex brains if we did. And if the animats had to pay a cost for extra complexity, they would evolve only the bare minimum. That’s an experiment I’d like to see.
If they want to travel more, they can work to get the extra income required to do so above/beyond the basic income.

Which would act as an incentive for them to work.
The hugest takeaways from the thread to me were that the administrators of Mt. Gox were way over their head, and that the posters on the Mt. Gox forum were about par for the course in terms of tech-skewed internet forums.
post is from 2011 though
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An interesting idea is that it might enable companies to compete much more through a pleasant working environment rather than wages.
Here's a 5 min video of AIXI playing Pacman (the description provides details): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQTWidQQ8U

Look for YT videos with Marcus Hutter, they're excellent. He explains very good, very systematic. Great stuff.
I was around when this happened. If I recall correctly, Mt. Gox ended up rolling back all the trades by doing a "restore" to a certain date before the sell off happened.

toasty didn't get to keep any except for the 600 some he withdrew.

He actually had to go through a lot of trouble to prove he wasn't the hacker originally responsible for the Mt. Gox hack.
Another question to ask is if such a government backed system is deflationary like Bitcoin, of if they would engineer it so that can still perform quantitative easing.
Actually, it probably will.

It'll also cure you though.

Effective antibacterials / antimicrobials / antitumor treatments have differential effects. Preferably harsher on what you're trying to get rid of than on you. Though the description of chemotherapy as "killing you slightly less effectively than it kills the cancer" has a lot of truth to it.
"Hover.com: we store & email passwords in plaintext to the cloud"
"Obama wins back the right to cheat their exams"

I laughed so hard!
Bought the book. His story on Priceonomics was very moving.
It's not that easy.. an amount that huge would definitely affect the market severely.
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Space Shuttles ignited the liquid-fueled engines several seconds before liftoff, and I believe there were several launch aborts after ignition:

http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/abort.html

I don't recall that happening with the Saturn V or other early rockets, apart from the accident Crito mentioned.
From a simple F=m*a standpoint maybe, but I'm thinking that the hose would probably put a spin on the ball so it would likely curve outwards?

A ball with no spin on it would travel straight outwards because there would be no force acting on it to make it curve in any other direction.

I think a ball with spin on it would curve outwards because the ball would rotate the air around itself, which would provide the force needed to accelerate it outwards.
Good question. Start by looking here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

These are benchmarks of Bitcoin mining hardware. GPU's outperform CPU's by a large margin, then FPGA's outperformed GPU's and now ASICs (programs on a chip) absolutely kill everything else. Look at Xtreme Miner's "The Lion" specifically. It's only going to (alegedly) be available in Jan/Feb time, but the benchmarks they're claiming are scary.

Also there are some very very large ASIC data center deployments being worked on in China with some fairly innovative stuff like teflon shelves to avoid rack/rails and innovative cooling systems all designed to provide higher ROI per watt and capital invested. China really seems to be leading the field in mining.

Also keep in mind that as coins dry up they will be replaced by you collecting transaction fees. So it's not all about getting coins.

If I were to start mining today, and I believed Feathercoin and other smaller variants have promise (which I do) I would buy a dedicated ASIC box that can do SCrypt hashing (keep in mind you'll need more memory than dedicated ASICs for BTC) and give that a shot. With Bitcoin you're up against some very serious players at this point and the fact that ASIC boxes have a bigger advantage with Bitcoin than they do with Litecoin or Feathercoin makes it less attractive.
Fairly early miner here, I turned off my GPU miners months ago. It's really not worth it unless you have ASICs, but even then it comes down the electricity cost and the increase in difficulty now that ASICs are available.

I would only advise you to buy an ASIC if you live an area with extraordinarily cheap power. In the US this means probably somewhere between $0.05 and $0.10 per kWh.

Even then, its impossible to know how much the difficulty will increase.
It's not constant-time. It's not even computable, even in theory, even with infinite resources.
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> Lets pick one as a community and stick with it.

And when our assumptions turn out to be wrong, should we continue working on it even though we know it can never work? The problem is every new term is forged with assumptions because the very idea of what intelligence is the subject of ongoing debate. (I don't even like the one presented here, even though it's pretty good as far as these things go.)

I sympathize though, the nomenclature is polluted with the corpses of would-be giants and makes it hard to talk about what we can all easily recognize as the same broad-strokes effort.
My intuitive, fuzzy pattern-matching immediately matched the concept of dropping a pen on the moon to the actual videos of astronauts dropping similar things on the moon, which makes it fairly easy for even the most science-ignorant person to figure out.
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Yes I agree. The lack of data makes it seem shady - that's really what I was trying to get across. But I use it and love it too. Love the range of currencies, the interface is very responsive, trades execute quickly and when I make a deposit I can trade within minutes after it's confirmed. Besides the Bulgaria jurisdiction and lack of data on who owns it, it's absolutely awesome.
Was this title changed to [2011] only once it hit the front-page?

I was on the forum reading the post with no date context, I thought it was "yesterday", up until I refreshed the home.

Is this a common approach to get historical stuff on the home? Post an extraordinary title and let it rise to then rename it to the fact that it is historical?
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Interesting. I remember that Meego went back and forth between WebKit and Gecko, but that was a long time ago, I would also be interested to hear how things ended up that way.
I saw David speak at OHS, and this project was more about building something cool and differently than trying to be open source and part of the Free/Libre movement.
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That is a huge list that makes C# look amazingly better than java. Was this sarcastic?
I haven't seen a candy bar phone in ages

I still use a candy bar Samsung with a slide-out keyboard.
As much as I've avoided Facebook for so long, I've come to the realisation that if you want to use the internet, old-school "full" privacy is dead and gone.

I've had a profile on FB for a long time now, but never ever used it. I've had the javascript blocked around in my general web browsing, never installed the phone app, etc. All I've ever received is the occasional email saying that someone has tagged me in a status/photo. These annoyed me a little, as I wanted to avoid FB as much as possible, whilst still being sociable with my friends.

I came to a sad epiphany a few months ago however. I realised that even if I weren't aware of all the photos/tags being posted of me, I'd still be tagged by my friends regardless. Even if I completely cancelled my account, the photos are still going up because I still meet with my friends and have an active social life. This is when I realised what I needed to do.

It is the exact same situation as when someone makes a small jest at your expense at a party. If it's a friend, you know they're just messing around and taking the piss, you laugh it off, not offended. If it's not a friend however, you might get a little offended by it. "Were they insulting me? Trying to embarrass me? Should I laugh it off as a joke?" It's potentially annoying, just as a violation to your privacy is. Inevitably, you have only a few choices: Laugh, insult them back? (guess it depends on your culture/how rude it was!) Some people might even just punch the guy...

You can't punch Facebook. (I wish)

It isn't gonna go away just because you're upset.

So the question here is: Why do we laugh these little embarrassments off? The little invasions of our private self that we find annoying?

Because it's a way of owning the situation. You can't be offended/embarassed by something you laugh off and apparently don't care about. "Yeah, my Karaoke is terrible, but I love it!", "Yeah, I do have a habit of giggling in a funny way, hahahaha!".
It's exactly the same when you look at highly confident people, they never seem embarrassed by anything at all. They just smile and carry on.

Well I made a decision a couple of months ago to take the exact same approach to Facebook, so I'm on it properly now. I can't punch FB in the face, but I can take ownership of my own public persona. My friends/aquaintances are going to be posting about me regardless, might as well take control of the situation and make sure I know everything is good.

PS: And hey, there are still plenty of good uses of FB anyway, might as well enjoy the perks too.

PPS: I'm aware that it's a shitty situation. I almost feel like I've got Stockholm syndrome and have just given in. But FB isn't going anywhere soon.
If you're still talking about electrical heaters here, there's literally no where for the energy used to go other than into heat for the room.

If you have two 1000w heaters, one made from a potato and ten clothes hangers and the other made from the highest quality materials known to man, they will still both heat a room the same amount.

Granted, one might have a better fan or more airflow and might therefore provide a more even heat distribution in the room, but they will both be providing the same amount of heat to the interior of the room. That's just how energy balances work. If 1000w is flowing from the plug into the heater and it's not being stored anywhere in the heater itself there's nowhere for it to go but into heat for the room.
That's the most worrying thing about BTC for me, too much of it is run by people in over their head, and now it's mega serious money.
And they're fine. They've just installed them in my area in East London.

The only disadvantage I've spotted is that, with the old Sodium vapour lamps, it was easier to spot when a car was coming around a bend since the headlight colour was significantly different to the ambient streetlighting. I'll adapt.
More importantly the post is about an exchange failure that was rolled back.
Curtain lining.
> why would mining hardware companies sell machines that can literally print money

Why would anyone ever sell any means of production? Why sell solar panels, or farm tractors, or metal lathes?
Is it really impossible to pack the instrument in a case that can withstand airline cargo handling? If I'm a musician who has to travel as part of my job, I'd think that such a case would be a "cost of doing business" and certainly tax-deductible.
I think that's only on trunk roads isn;t it? The local authority has the responsibility in towns.
I was really expecting the former when I clicked the link. Pity, that would have made a better, more directed post IMO
I've been thinking about this too. It appeals to me to start off with something like Scheme, then learn asm and C to understand how machines work (at least conceptually). That way the basis of proper functions and computing is in your mind, and you're not overcome with the hardware details first. OTOH, I look at my own path, starting on BASIC, C, ASP and then onto assembly and functional - and I wonder if it would have been easy for me to start off where I currently am. As an "expert" now, is my viewpoint so warped that I mistakenly think that old-me would have immediately picked up ML and functional concepts?
Berkeley's CS department starts with Scheme.
3 days after the launch, there have been 8500 users, mostly chinese users. Some reported that they joined twitter the first time. They are hoping more users join from overseas to help the speed.
What about the speed of home connections?
I don't think they would really care unless you (or many others) started disrupting the network or abusing their services. Unlike Cable TV companies, network operators don't generally have a revenue stream that must be protected by locking down what you can do with the baseband. Whatever traffic filtering they do to keep Skype etc. out is done in the network.
While this is true, I (in Canada) can still go to pandora.com and I just get a message saying that the service isn't available in my region.
I have had my share of Linux, windows, and OS X. Currently I use OS X for the majority of my daily tasks but I am not dogmatic about it. I like all of them and think they are all good in their own ways. Right now the scale tips a bit to OS X but it could go any way.

I have programmed in all three environments professionally and I know many different programming languages at least well enough to build a basic GUI.

I say that to preface what I am about to say... Java is not the worst language I have used but it's up there. I was a professional c# programmer back when it was in its 1.1 days and now I have revisited it for another professional project and it has improved to the point where I wish it was native on the Mac and on Linux without mono. It's what c++ should have been.

Edit... I have used java quite a bit and it's a terrible language.
It's amazing that, even with a long history of high quality releases and an incredible dedication to QA, some pedantic hipster can come along and, without flinching, issue a behold-while-I-educate-thee piece on what SQLite is "doing wrong".

The kind of experienced required to develop something like SQLite and then test it to this degree can probably be counted in decades.

Who the f*ck are you? Some JavaScript developer on the ugly end of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
No disagreement with RMS actually, but just out of curiosity:

Back when land-line telephone subscription was more popular, did folks used to complain about the phone company putting their name and address (by default) in a large directly shared with the entire public?

I know you could pay a fee to be unlisted, but didn't it strike anyone as a gigantic privacy issue in general?
All of which is ironic as it so clearly demonstrates the need for a system like Bitcoin!
So if he kept it, he now got about (1000/(3000/259684))x profit!
This is just so nice.
Unless you are in the business of chip design/manufacturing, it is too late to get into Bitcoin mining. However, due to a rapid price increase in Litecoin, it's actually pretty profitable to mine them with an ATI GPU at the moment. On the order of $10-20/day per high end ATI GPU. However, this is only likely to last a couple days until the difficulty catches up to the price. If you have free electricity, you'll probably still be able to make a few dollars per day long term with litecoin, but not if you have to pay for it.
> It would cost you significantly more in electricity than you would make in bitcoin.

This is outdated advice from the GPU mining days. ASIC miners use very little electricity compared the BTC that they generate.
Tides are purely about relative differences in gravity between positions, though, not about differences in pull between two bodies. You can still be at a point where the Earth's gravity is greater than the Moon's while on the surface of the Moon without anything floating away and while comfortably outside the Roche limit. In fact, such a situation must necessarily exist outside the Roche limit for any body.
Thanks. I tried to reproduce this in Chrome and Firefox but it works for me. I'm not using anything sneaky or that modifies browser history so not sure why you're seeing this. Which browser are you using?
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In Australia, https://www.coinjar.com/ works.

If you ask for non-US based services, it's probably worth specifying where you are. BTC exchange services are very jurisdiction-specific at the moment.
It's too late unless you are AMD or Intel.
I would dispute the validity of calling that state of mind "knowing that the moon has gravity". I would instead call it "memorized a couple of correlated keywords".
Same with C# http://www.adafruit.com/products/336

To be honest though anything non-x86/ARM is pretty esoteric these days, and realistically if you're going embedded C is a far better bet than anything else. (except maybe forth)
This is a pretty important note. Especially on the east coast, C# is by far the easiest language to jumpstart a career in for young devs, and is a very safe bet for veterans as well. Java jobs are practically non-existent in many mid size east coast cities. I am now 100% node.js and python, but I probably would not have made it in the door if it was not for C# when I was starting out. The job market heavily favors devs, and the tooling makes it possible for self taught people to gloss over the fundamentals until they have enough time to go back and learn them. Also, if you think Stackoverflow is useful as a dynamic language dev, you would not believe how much more useful it is as a C# dev. I have no idea why, but SO seems to heavily favor C# over everything else. This is not to say that other languages get no love over there, but John Skeet alone has probably answered more obscure C# questions than all the other languages combined. I am only being half hyperbolic here.
If your servers have GPUs then it might be worth it, but otherwise you'll pay more in extra electricity than you'll get out in Bitcoin.
I believe most of those Flashes are Ad or Youtube link.
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Originally "seeded by Google Ideas, it was built by developers at University of Washington and Brave New Software.". See:
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It's probably not worth your time. They might generate a penny or two worth per day. This assumes you're not paying for electricity. If you are paying for it, you will just lose money.
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So you created the http://what-would-i-say.com/ for all of Hacker News? Kudos.