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My claim was not specifically that Bitcoin is experiencing a bubble, but really more that not many people would argue that Bitcoin is experiencing a bubble.

I did also say Bitcoin is experiencing a bubble, but for reasons you're suggesting, I won't defend that claim. It's a belief, and while somewhat justified, it's not necessarily true and not fully justified.
No. If what you said was true, then high-priced stocks (shares of Apple, or Berkshire Hathaway) would be very volatile.

In fact, it is the reverse: low-priced stocks (penny stocks) are the most volatile.
What a perfect week to launch the story in. Anyone can learn how to code once they put their mind to it.
Pretty god. I've been recommending David Weekly's short e-book on this matter for years... specifically as mandatory reading for engineers taking their first or second job.

Learn from our mistaaaaakes!

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Stock-Options-David-Weekl...
Well, in proportion. Tokyo has almost double the population of the world's second largest city, too.

The proportion of all interior space in Tokyo above the 20th story of buildings is infinitesimal.
You're right in an academic sense - they're completely comparable.

In reality, the difference is that we can guarantee 100% of systems to work without the hardware RNG. Every binary blob we remove removes support for hardware and 'breaks' the OS for a subset of the users.

No one* is going to fire up an OS and go "Hey, this OS doesn't use my hardware RNG! This OS is broken!"

They will, however, fire it up and go "Hey, this OS doesn't support my network adapter! This OS is broken!"

Security versus functionality. It's always a trade-off. The most secure system is the one that does nothing - everything past there is adding functionality at the expense of an increased attack surface.

* To within a margin of error.
So basically, Plato was correct. (Sort of.)
Where I live, Columbia MD, roads meander, have a hierarchical structure and there are A LOT of cul de sacs. It's a very walkable town, however, because it has walking paths that penetrate at least every other residential street, and provide direct walking routes to important sites, such as shopping plazas, schools and the mall.

It's not optimal, because commercial and residential area are zoned apart, so things aren't as close as they could be, but at least the routes between then are efficient.

I'm a 15 minute's walk from a grocery store, a mall, the elementary, middle and high schools that my house is districted to.
"Dave Engberg knows a lot about security. Before he took the CTO spot at Evernote, he designed and developed credential validation systems for the U.S. government. If anyone in Silicon Valley knows the value of secure access and keeping information safe, it’s him."

uhh.... doing IT work for U.S. government seems more like a reason to assume he's not good at his job. #HEALTHCARE.GOV

and are they really inferring that no one in silicon valley knows anything about secure access or keeping information safe? i'm done with the article. dumb.
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Thanks, I hadn't seen this
"This is a type B device" has more meaning than "Bitcoin is a bubble" because "type B device" is well-defined whereas "bubble" isn't. Of course, since the well-defined attributes of type B devices involves probability, the testability is also limited to probabilistic negative conclusions, i.e. we cannot conclude with 100% confidence that a light which remains lit is not a type B device.

This probabilistic nature is the key difference between your analogy and Bitcoin. For the analogy to be perfect, we would have to create a well-defined notion of what a "bubble" is that involves probability.
I certainly don't detest the "freedom to live where you want." It's a lack of freedom that I detest. In my city (and most others), it is highly impractical or impossible to go anywhere without a car. There is no freedom I'm choosing how to transport yourself; you drive or you don't go.

My car is kind of a form of taxation in that regard; you can't get around safely without it. There are few sidewalks or bike facilities, so citizens must own a car whether they want to (or can afford to) or not.

Isn't the freedom to choose how to get around as important to you as the freedom to choose where to live?
A very important part of a system that works well is making sure that the people with the worse character flaws don't get into power positions, and that the people in power get punished when they display those character flaws.

Or, in other words, stop blamming the system, and start making it work.
Unfortunately, this statement is only true if your entropy sources are uncorrelated. If your new entropy source is correlated in precisely the right way to cancel with a previous entropy source, you reduce entropy of the result.
Because time spent getting the PhD is time spent away from the field, and that's a negative factor that may or may not be balanced by the specialization of the PhD.

So, yes, all things being equal, I'd definitely want a new CS grad over the basketweaving expert who hasn't touched a computer in 4 years. I'd also take the dev with solid 5 years recent team lead experience over someone who thinks his 5 years on a private project in school merits a senior programmer position on a development platform he's completely ignorant of.

I'm not saying that's the guy in the article, I have no idea.
This isn't completely representative of the industry, because it's measuring academic behavior, not professional behavior. So the problem is occurring not in the "industry", but rather in high school and early college, when students are being directed toward majors. How do we address it there? How do we convince girls going into college and African-American students to pursue programming as a profession?

This is all the more maddening to me because I think computing as a profession and as a community is far less hostile in terms of race and gender than most career paths. The meritocracy, while hardly the libertarian paradise its beneficiaries like to imagine it is, is still quite real. It's very easy to create a situation where you are truly measured by the quality of your work.

So rather than asking why the programming profession is hostile to women and minorities, you should be asking why society is hostile to women and minorities entering the profession in the first place.
What about profit-sharing instead of options/warrants/shares?

We've found that it dampens the 'build-to-flip' mentality and lets us all enjoy the fruits of our labor while we're building the company, not afterwards =).
Can someone comment on determining fair market value of a private company?

I exercised NSO stock options of a private company after being vested for a year. Everything I read indicates I need to declare the spread of current FMV with the value of the option grant date. How do I determine the current FMV if their is no market though?
The police go to Jack's house and educate him on not drinking and driving and give him a free taxi token.
So when in 1960s students revolted against the War in Vietnam, an average American knew all those things? I don't think so.

I'd rather draw parallel to Ancient Rome and its citizens. As long as there were "Games" in town and bread for free nobody cared. Once the Rome was on fire they woke up. For some time.

The situation is hopeless. The only solution is when US runs out of money. Goes bankrupt. Which is quite possible. Once USD isn't the world currency, the country defaults. And then there is no money for wars, no money for swat teams in every little town, no money for surveillance. Those things will still be there but on much lesser scale.

The US has currently the biggest debt of any empire in the history of the world. Impossible to repay. Once the world currency status moves from USD to Yuan, the Government will try to use all that military/police power to "maintain order", the thing is the policemen and soldiers won't have money, there will be no gas even for military, etc. Exactly like USSR when it collapsed -- bankrupted by all the wars and stupid policies.
Is it me or did the video not explain the app at all?
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You just know the anonymous part will never fly; our survellence overlords won't allow it.
You realize every PhD isn't the same? People with PhDs in systems are good at building shit. They might very well suck being data scientists. Similarly, someone with a Machine Learning PhD might suck at fault-tolerant middleware.

P.S. The anti-PhD meme on HN really needs to stop.
I have been thinking a lot about whether it would be possible to invest enough in someone that it got them off rock bottom.

I guess this is proof that it is possible.

It might be time to start asking the same question to some of the people around where I work.
Quite so. Furthermore, the preponderance of bicycle-riding and perhaps the best public transport network in the world makes Tokyo, in some ways, a role model for urban design. Outside of the big cities　in Japan though, you see the same infrastructure that characterises the US: strip malls and the like. Population density seems to be the major driver and, perhaps contentiously, willingness to subsume one's own freedoms to the common good is a secondary one.
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Finally.

^^ meant in the best way possible (thanks drchrono)

EDIT: it appears the form tooltips are also getting cut off: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2067384/Screenshots/e25ls_bz8d0j.png (viewing in Chrome on 11" MBA)
The flip side is that many Chinese guys won't often accept marrying a girl who is more qualified than them. It is not just the girl being picky.
Bear in mind that you're comparing mostly-decent road transport to generally-awful public transport.

Buses, for example, suck - they're always going to be a worse experience than a car (walking 10+ minutes to the stop at each end + waiting, to be stuck in exactly the same traffic).

Now if public transport had the same investment as private, it'd be a different kettle of fish. Take a look at http://carfree.com/intro_cfc.html and http://carfree.com/topology.html as an example of what might be possible with rail and sufficient political will. <5 minutes to a train stop, <30 minutes to anywhere else, <5 minutes to your final destination == max 40 minute trip in a city of 1M people.
You'll notice they prefer the term "interdicted" now. "Arrested" implies rights.
My argument is that there are two kind of situations:

* The model could encompass the behavior of the input in a smooth fashion if it's basic parameters are relaxed.

* The model would tend to start finding models that are wildly different from the main model at the edges (space and time) if its parameter are relaxed, even if the model would eventually find the real model with enough input and training.

one has to handle these two conditions differently, right?
As the parent post mentioned, the shape of the tool shapes the perceptions of the user. Giving militarily designed equipment to police forces might influence them to behave less like peace officers and more like military officers.
That's mostly just because Tokyo is so immense: Greater Tokyo is the world's largest city on most measures. However, the skyscrapers are concentrated in a couple of districts, and the vast majority of the city is indeed low-rise (under 10 stories or so even in the immediate city center, under 5 outside it).

Incidentally, most urban planners figure that Tokyo should be more dense instead of forcing people to endure multi-hour commutes, but strict sunlight laws make it very difficult to build tall buildings outside a few designated areas.
I would imagine if you are "pre-exercising" it's very early-stage, and the shares are probably going to be ~0.0001 cents each.
I guess they are trying to take control of all Bitcoin/digital currency payments by patenting a payment system, and making it as broad as possible.
This is not true. It matters who your company directors are. It does not matter how much of a stake some random angel investor ended up with, or how much the VP of Product Marketing got. I have founded a company where I didn't know what the cap table was (obviously, I could have) and I assure you I had all the influence I wanted on it's direction.

The cap table is, to this whole conversation, a MacGuffin.
Yeah, Opera was really innovative for a while before it became another Chromium clone.
Hey. It was the "Ada" one-word comment that made me do it : )
Anyway, thank you for being a good sport, code_duck. HN readers are an incredibly good group of people. It's a luxury, having HN. As good as a Christmas stocking each and every day.
This could really turn into a messy war versus the crippled but strangely compelling ChromeOS, which once croutoned becomes radically more useful. Something that doesn't have those restrictions out of the box is going to have a clear advantage.

The problem from a dev point of view is just what security model for apps are they going to go with? I haven't seen any discussion about the exact details for how they plan on managing the app packaging, separation and permissions fun that exists on mobile today.
> Most people (and voters) don't even know how many Senators their state has

It's sad/funny because this is the same answer for every state.
What if you're too lazy to exercise your share?
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> It is especially appealing as a non-linux opensource project with a BSD (non GPL) license that is fairly well maintained. The Non-GPL license means that a company can use FreeBSD in a closed-source project.

How much of a one way street does this turn out to be for FreeBSD? I've always worried about BSD projects being left hung out to dry because companies have less of an obligation to contribute to the parent project compared to something like Linux, but I'd be interested to see how it works out in practice.

I do remember reading some depressing things about contributions to OpenSSH (a quick google search returns "OpenSSH has no wealthy sponsors, nor a business model. In fact, no Commercial Unix or Linux vendor has ever given our project a cent."), but perhaps FreeBSD is different in that aspect.
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Simply as an 'ownership stake' in a company. It was easy to see how the value of the stock was tied to the fate of the company, but the comparison to currency made the risks of e.g. dilution (as compared to inflation in a currency) much more obvious.
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Patents? No thanks, especially not from some greedy bank.
Should the personal who wrote:

One was: their skin color looks fecal. The other was: their bone structure doesn’t look human. And they’re just off-reference enough to be much more creepy than if they looked less like people, like bad CGI or shambling undead in a B movie. When I paid close enough attention, these were the three basic data under the revulsion; my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies.

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What's interesting is that your description would also be appropriate for a computer model, or simulation.
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And it is possible to see "why" all these things have been happening once you understand that the country has been getting poorer and poorer for some time and more and more in debt. In other words, the USA in an Empire in decline. Each and every aspect of life in the US is a little bit worse every year. This has been a process since I believe 1973 when US went out of the gold standard. Rich nations, creditor nations, want a gold standard. Because they want their debt to be repaid in gold, not paper. Once the economy started going down and be more and more dependent on debt and cheap credit -- that's precisely when all the other things started going down.

The solution is bankruptcy, to be able to start over from scratch.
having been through this a bunch of times my simple rule is:

- if you can afford, and think it's a good bet it buy the stock when it is granted to lock in the capital gains and avoid income tax

- otherwise go the exercise and sell route and pay tax at your marginal rate

anything in between IMHO is quite possibly a mistake .... don't forget all those people in the .com crash who'd been granted options at 10c, exercised at 2$ and found themselves at the end of the year without a job and a huge tax bill (and remember, without a job) on increases in value of shares that were now worthless - there are traps here
I'm not sure however, how can they patent it now, if it was created in the past, i.e. way before the time of filing?
What is strange about the Chinese situation is that top women are not chosen _despite an oversupply of men_. You can't make the same argument about there being an oversupply of positions for PhDs. The article itself says there are "limited academic positions," and who would expect a company to hire a PhD when an MBA would suffice? What PhD would feel satisfied with a job an MBA could handle?
It's still possible, technically, that humans are very high level simulations computed by a Turing machine.
To me, one of the major takeaways from Foucault is his renouncement of the "repression hypothesis". In a nutshell, he proposes to understand power not as a binary relation between oppressors and the oppressed, but as a much more molecular system that spans all sectors of society, and whose modus operandi is not primarily repression, but rather motivation (making someone speak, articulate desires, etc).

I know that's satisfying to some people. But it seems like not the useful insight given a state the clearly has asymetrically greater power than the populace?

To come back the original article, how the heck does "everything is power" illuminate a situation of Campus Security are using a fricken armored personnel carrier when their job is stopping underaged kids from drinking???
But is the market actually bad for PhD scientists in America?

Dismissing the personal anecdotes of Chand John, the numbers posted show that half of PhD engineers have a job on graduation day, i.e., before most of them even start looking generally, and that was true for other sciences up until the big recession.

That looks like a pretty healthy market to me. If there's still high unemployment after 9 month, that might mean something, but I'm not seeing any hardship in the numbers provided.
Does this seem exploitative to other people? Although it is exciting that his app launched, the fact that this entrepreneur is being called "The Homeless Coder" seems wrong to me.
Expected value is not $millions. Expected value is a few hundred $k (usually, if you are realistic about the potential of the business and your tiny share as an employee) MULTIPLIED by the relatively small chance of hitting that exit, say 1%. In short, a few thousand dollars, which is approximately what you get by multiplying out the strike price.

IMHO it takes risk into account in a very sobering way.
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That money didn't "vanish". You paid someone for those coins, and that person put their money into a bank.
Here's the thing. I don't even disagree that the U.S. has badly handled the situation with the Guantanamo detainees. It's valid to detain prisoners during a war, but they should be repatriated after hostilities cease. You have to acknowledge that the U.S. is in a rough spot, because 30% of detainees returned to Afghanistan started fighting again against the U.S., and for many of the detainees, the home countries didn't want them back. And the U.S. states were totally unwilling to even host trials for the detainees on their soil, particularly Virginia where many of those trials would have been held. But there were probably better ways to handle the detainees.

However, this has nothing to do with the comparison between the U.S. and Stalinist Russia. The latter detained Russian citizens because of their political opposition to the regime. Those are political prisoners. Or, for other examples, people like Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for political opposition to the South African government.

There is an enormous difference between a country's internal political institutions and its shortcomings in the conduct of war on foreign soil with respect to foreigners. You can't just pretend these are the same thing. This is a distinction that American law takes very seriously: John Walker Lindh was recognized as an American, despite being captured with Afghan fighters in Afghanistan, was never held in Guantanamo, and was given a criminal trial in the U.S.

Trials and due process are protections that Americans are entitled to when they are accused of crimes. Foreigners suspected of making war against the U.S. and captured on foreign soil are simply not entitled to these things. It's not a "crime" to wage war against the U.S., it's not something that falls within the jurisdiction of criminal courts. It's something that falls within the sovereign right of a nation to defend itself against foreign attackers. The rules and standards of conduct are totally different.
Tabcasting also has godawful performance for me on Linux (running on a chromebook pixel no less). I assume the problem is they are doing software encoding of your tab instead of hardware, but I haven't investigated this.
One would think more young PhDs would start companies. I think the challenge comes down to funding.

I was speaking to a friend who is a VC about this. She suggested that a VC would have a hard time funding a group of unproven PhDs. She suggested a career path where one works for Google, Yahoo, and ships a few products and then get the street creds desired by VC. That isn't unreasonable.

What is a bit discouraging is being put into the same camp as a fresh graduate (out of undergrad). A lot of interviews seem to test for CS 101 or the CS algorithms course. Every PhD I've spoken too is frustrated by this. The game to play is spend a month with the Cormen book while cursing yourself for doing a PhD :-D
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I am not entirely sure either, what they mean by hologram. The problem is, that holographic principle ( or similar) can mean different things depending on the context. But in string theories, it is sometimes the case that lower dimensional theories can encode the same information as the full string theory. Just as illustration, if the endpoints of your strings are stuck on a two dimensional plane, but the strings can vibrate in three dimensions, then you can potentially describe the system as a theory of the endpoints in two dimensions ( and the vibration mode of the string would potentially be encoded as the type of particle), or you can describe how the strings move through three dimensions.

As for recommended reading, I liked Brian Green's The Elegant Universe.
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Which, to me, makes this extremely suspect.
If I had to generalize about the military and the police, I'd have a lot more fear for police. The veterans I've known by and large hate the government, which is ironic. But cops have zero compunction against violently attacking the people.
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Often times, PhDs do a PhD because they are deeply interested in a very specific topic. (like, really really specific)

As such, unless your startup tries to solve a problem in a PhD-level domain, it's unlikely that they'd be excited to work for you.

If you want to build the next Kinect, you might find plenty of fresh PhDs who totally rock computer vision research. But if you're building a fairly generic business/consumer app, it's going to be harder.
So it's always better to own the stock ASAP (with risk of forfeiture) and get the 83(b) set up? Are most startups willing to arrange this for early employees?