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Flawed argument by the poster...

>> "Pages filled with words about processing family drama, formulating goals, plans for life changes, romantic details, lists of regrets, contemplations, etc"

C'mon, those are her super super private secrets? Thats ridiculous. 'romantic details' may be a little bit...

Thats why she says "So if someone is going through my private things, for example, and gets upset about what they find, then that’s their problem, not mine!”"

But things people like to keep really secret (and not coyly secret) and worry about others finding out, are those that would upset themselves (and not the readers) if they get discovered. These would be things that one is ashamed of, that one is afraid of being discovered, that if known to others will result in loss of respect/love/admiration/consolation etc that they are currently receiving from others. Or those if discovered by the wrong person can leave one vulnerable to exploitation/blackmail etc. Any other type of secrets are just silly and overblown.
Thanks, that's reassuring! When I imagined putting my hands over the keys, I couldn't figure out how my wrists would miss the "lonely rectangles," but perhaps I'm visualizing it wrong.
No thanks, I quite enjoy what I am getting in exchange for my privacy from Google, Apple, Facebook, et al.
Seriously? How are you going to be arrested unless you go yelling in public that you are homosexual?
Report: Microsoft considering giving away mobile versions of Windows
So true, graduating this year and our classes have no more than 20 students. Last year one of my fourth year courses had 4 students for the exam. Get tons of one on one time although we pay on average more than other universities in Canada
The "same rules apply to rich and poor" approach isn't complex to codify: it's the simplest. Just don't grant special privileges to people based on their net-worth.

Nor is a competence test complex: I already outlined a possible regime. Just reuse any college degree in a related field, or any existing related professional certification (CPA/Series7/Bar). More generally, simply saying that "whatever test applies to the rich, will also apply to the poor" will tend to work itself out. Regulators will figure out some protective test that the rich can tolerate, and that's good enough for the poor as well.

People are wealthier and more educated than ever before. More information about others' experiences is available at little cost. More people have incremental experience with similar instruments (such as public companies).

But most importantly, anyone who's stayed 'middle-class' has already resisted thousands of kinds of legal scams, some promoted by the government (like lotteries and home-ownership-at-all-costs) that could easily relieve them of all their money. "Massive culling of the fortunes of the middle class at once and causing social unrest" is a paranoid, fancifully unrealistic scenario. Some people would dabble in private-investing like they have with many other financially risky activities, and over time they'd either receive positive reinforcement for sustainable actions, or negative reinforcement for recklessness. Investing in the same sorts of deals as millionaires is not an unprecedented and magically addictive activity that the poor can't resist.
Would love to, but that's not easy to do in Java when you want to use the rest of the JCE as normal.
Anecdotal, but as a non-smoker, I don't find any withdrawal or cravings symptoms at all when I stop consuming nicotine. It's milder than stopping caffeine.
I wonder if you can predict HN comments about Bitcoin depending on time of day. Sometimes it seems like they're entirely "can't you see it's all tulips", other times, "all fiat is obsolete."
Bad investments don't go up 50x in a year. I think you need to adjust your definition of bad investment.
The Interest-Divergence Dilemma Between the Tech Companies and the NSA
Thank you, fsf.

Hard to ignore the irony when Google, Facebook and even freakin' Linked In (ugh) are calling to increase protections for peoples' privacy. I don't know what the answer to all of this is - I like free products as much as the next guy - but it seems like a messed up situation. If the NSA were stopped from collecting our data, that would only prevent one party from doing so. Even if you don't use Facebook or gmail these companies still track you so it's pretty hard to actually keep your privacy unless you hardly use the internet (and from public computers) and don't have a cellphone. I don't think it should be that hard.
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It's not about what's best for the customers, it's about the rights of the company to that list, and their choice to make it public or private. Privacy is a right, not a privilege, and requires no justification.
Thanks for sharing. It's interesting when people walk through their though process.
The problem is you can not make the judgement, that making everyone's location public is ok, for everyone. People have different preferences towards their privacy. We should respect other's choice.
What's actually causing the pain could be any number of things, which is why I was shouting about going to see a doctor ;)
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It's certainly more risky when you are buying hardware only to mine - although I guess that is bounded by the fact that even if FPGA or ASIC miners were to make it unprofitable, the GPUs are still valuable and you can sell them.
Me too. But I'd rather have poor cell phone coverage than personally fund AT&T or Verizon.
I really doubt it. The FDA is heavily influenced by whatever administration is in power and administrations are heavily influenced by lobbyists.

This is why it's a voluntary guideline.
Interesting. I would say free market enterprise is the only thing that will eventually allow disruption in this market. I work for a company doing just that now, and it's very easy to see that customers are ready for a change. The market is ripe for disruption.
Just because privacy is worthless to you does not means it's not of value to me. Throw away your privacy but please don't contribute to the meme that privacy is disposable.

Lots of people have secrets that are harmless but can destroy them if they end up in the wrong hands, e.g. homosexuality within a conservative community.
I wouldn't call ePost a mail scanner. It's a service that attempts to collate electronic bills in one place but won't collate payment options and more often than not just redirects you to the service's own website. It requires the support of the company and my opinion is, after briefly testing out the service and having it screw up all sorts of billing info for my accounts, that it's worse than useless.
I'm tempted to make a joke about how your education must not have been worth it because you didn't learn how to spell.

I'm also temped to make a generic joke about the value of that liberal arts degree after college and how it's related to the kind of teaching you got.
I see obstacle #1 as raising awareness. While everyone hates their cable bill, it's not obvious that there are viable alternatives to the current structure of the industry. It also doesn't help that the current structure benefits most major TV media outlets (i.e. Viacom, Comcast/NBC, Fox and ABC/Disney).

I use this subreddit as an outlet to vent/post relevant articles: http://www.reddit.com/r/bandwidth/

There are also useful lessons to be learned from history; particularly, MCI's fight against Bell System monopoly. There's a good documentary about the breakup called Long Distance Warrior[1].

[1] http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2011/09/21/long-distance-warr...
Ok, send me your source.
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Stroustrup interview: 'We need better balance between theory and practice'
Do you mine on linux with cgminer? I'm having terrible reliability issues. I have to restart cgminer every hour or else it crashes. Even with this measure, it crashed yesterday night and I sadly lost mining time :)
That is a very awesome tool, I am really wondering why I have not seen it before.
So if things aren't being changed for the masses, how will "everything change"?

I mean, isn't this the economic equivalent of "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does it make a sound?" couched in technological lace?
Really nice explanation of Promises. Nice job!
I'm curious about the on boarding process for a new hire—green or experienced. When you go flat, whose responsibility is it to show the new person what to do and how to do it?
The article touches on some valid points. I voted for the condo development, and was disappointed when it didn't pass. The lack of housing options in the city is a bad thing. We need more housing of any type.

Also, I can't understand why so many out-of-town tech workers keep casting aspersions on the homeless here. That's like punching a baby. No one thinks you're cool for doing it and there's immediate blowback.
This is bullshit naievete.

Move the clock back 40 years on the romance section. Imagine it references homosexuality, and ask yourself if the author's theme of "what's the big deal" is appropriate.

OP is under the mistaken belief that everyone else shares their morals and mores. They have plenty of time to be rudely defenstrated.

This is the danger of confusing exhibitionism with free-spiritedness.

It is a first-principle error to devalue privacy. OP should be ashamed of themselves. They need to read up on humanity's very short history of tolerance for true individualism. OP should read up on Alan Turing for fuck's sake.

Fuck this fool.
Uh, so you think this varies significantly from person to person? I don't know about you, but I think

> The determinant of a matrix is the product of its eigenvalues, and calculating it allows you to check if the matrix is invertible or not.

is a heck of a lot better than

> The determinant of a matrix is "a special way" to combine the entries of a matrix that serves to check if a matrix is invertible or not.

to pretty much any person.
Well the answer to 1 is that you owe tax on the increase of value from 10c to $2 (your option price and the current value of the stock when your bought it at 10c a share - if you have 10k shares you might pay $1k to exercise the options and find yourself owing roughly 1/3 of 10k*$1.90 or ~$6k in tax on your paper gain.

The usual reason you are doing this is because you expect the stock to appreciate further say to $10 and you want to lock in the long term capital gains tax (25%) rather than your marginal rate (30somethingish %) when you sell it.

Now when the company goes under your stock goes to 0 you can claim back the loss ($20k) in a subsequent year's tax return, but only as an offset against some other investment income - something that might not be happening if you don;t have a job (though if you can't use this loss it might be a great time to tap your 401k/IRA and get that money out essentially tax free if you can)
I have a Kinesis, and the trouble I found with these were that they are raised too far above the table surface which causes neck strain for me. I have had better luck with the Truly Ergonomic but this looks even better!
When an organized group of people uses force to take your belongings, leveraging tactics of fear for political ends, isn't that firmly within the definition of terrorism?

I don't know the facts here so I'm not implying anything in this specific case, but I like to remember that the terminology we use drastically shapes our thinking.
Sorry for the confusion. This is to quickly assess the viability of potential business ideas.
We came up with a bunch of biz ideas then looked at which ones seemed compelling enough for people to both follow the Twitter account + give their email to potentially be converted into a paying customer in the future (if we decide to pursue the business).
The point of the methodology is to not spend your time building an app/store/etc that no one is actually going to use. Instead you can quickly set up a Twitter account and a landing page and strategically get your one line biz summary (Twitter bio) in front of a highly targeted audience of potential customers to see how they react.
Thank you Visakan. You got it, and others didn't.

A major challenge in communication is to not be misunderstood. I must not have been clear enough. I never said anywhere that everything should be public. Only that I decided my code and ideas didn't need to be secret.

I think maybe commenters here are reacting more to other commenters, instead of the actual article, now.
I would actually find him less malevolent if he said he would post pictures of his mother or sister. The fact that he won't shows that he only does it to inflict misery on others to make him feel better, not any sort of "porn should be free" pseudo-GNU bullshit that some of the other revenge porn operators like to rant about.
Why is this even news. PayPal has been doing this for years.
Watsi could work also. Good call!
No, because government.

The problem of political authority: http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/1.htm
Yeah, it makes more sense than "Excel" to me.
Are things getting worse every day?
Apparently the New Zealand government is a bitch of the NSA.
Numerology doesn't exclude calculations.

"Root" makes it sound like the purpose of building the very nice step well is to prove a mathemathical point. I'd venture to say its primary purpose had something to do with water.

Patterns and repetition is what I see beyond that, which are fairly prevalent in art and architecture exactly because you can get to them by simple experimentation.
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Pure HN gold.
In case anyone is interested, I just put the project on github:
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It was originally in svn on google code since I wrote the code 3 years ago :)
Seeing lots of comparisons to ExtJS, in many ways it is similar, but it is also a lot like Dojo and even Backbone.

Would hope in time we see a proper comparision like in http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/27/journey-throug...

Where SAPUI5 excels is in providing an easy and consistent way to interact with SAP based backends. Anyone who has tried to do this with other frameworks will appreciate the complexity, SAP themselves have used and are using SAPUI5 for developing many application across the globe. It has been used in anger and been proven to be very extensible and scalable, the kind of things you look for as a Enterprise Developer.
Does anyone have HN archive? Back then most nerds thought the latest and greatest forever-bubble was New Century Financial.
No, because here, it's the good guys doing it (wink).
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After Kim Dotcom's house's FBI intrusion, it was already pretty clear.
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>>>Definitely a Hindutva site.

And, your point is?

That site also has collections about works of legit ancient Indian mathematicians, Vedas etc. So, you are going to disregard them because they're Hindus?

If somebody mentions about these things, then they're said to be peddling this so called Hindu propaganda. Now, THAT'S a real propaganda.
Look up "Dead Peasant Insurance".
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If I may say this as politely as I can...

These look like dating profiles :)
"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
Such an amazing answer and no way I could ever word it so eloquently and thoroughly.
Generally speaking, containers have worse resource separation. Last time I looked, a system with containers shared pagecache.

Sharing pagecache means that one user thrashing the disk can make the system unusable for everyone, well, to the extent that no system without pagecache is usable.

Xen and KVM mitigate this by giving you your own ram and thus your own pagecache.

Personally? I think this makes a way bigger difference than any cgroup limiting of iops. Pagecache is not free ram, and should not be treated as such.

I think containers are one of those tradeoffs; they are more efficient when it comes to hardware, but they are less efficient when it comes to sysadmin time tracking down users who are using more resources than they ought.

On the other hand, some find managing multiple containers easier than managing multiple complete virtual servers.
That's a big question I have on these types of technological regression.

It seems like technoliterate civilizations are eventually replaced by fundamentalism then animism, perhaps?
You do realize your same logic applies to looking at a roulette wheel?

You can see that it hit a black number 20 times in and feel remorse for not letting 10 dollars ride all of the way up to 10 million for that run. -25 happiness.

You are making the same mistake gamblers and amateur stock pickers make all of the time. It's really sad and it destroys lives and relationships depending on how many people you also convince this is a good deal.
Many other HN users have raised this point about similar articles, but it bears repeating:

We can't put too much emphasis on completion rates as a metric for evaluating online courses. After all, the cost of entry (in terms of time and energy as well as money) is usually significantly lower than that of registering for an in-person college course.

For as long as this is the case, online courses will have a significantly lower completion rate. I'm not saying they don't have other serious problems — only that completion rates shouldn't be at the forefront of our criticism.
Why not write a script to get called by cron to check up on things?
A list of all kinds of keyboards: http://asanisembiring.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/

I think the SenseBoard Keyboard is the best amongst these.
I love the double standards on display at HN. In this whole thread, not a single mention of the opportunity cost of smart people wasting resources on things not productive to society or how it is an unfair market because someone is taking advantage of the other participants by being more sophisticated than them.

What would the discussion be like if the headline was "Briefly profitable HFT FX trading through better code"?
Picking a number on a roulette wheel pays 35x in about 1 minute.

If your number happens to come up was it a good investment?
> I'd venture to say its primary purpose had something to do with water.

Got it. I volunteer to move out of this discussion because you could have as well said that primary purpose of stairs had something to do with going up or down?

Most architecture around the world from Eiffel tower to Pyramids to Angkorvat has something to do with proving a point. Usually the point is that 'we have achieved this engineering marvel, we have the capability to build this'.

By your logic people possibly got to Eiffel tower or Golden gate by simple pattern and repetition, even experimentation, devoid of any math. That's just plain stupid.
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Jesus was homeless.

I asked God if He likes to haunt courthouses or hospitals more? "prisons"

God doesn't pay attention to young men.

God likes soap operas best on TV.

God says...
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Because children.

Because terror.

Because politics.

I'm glad I've already been to NZ.
So? Corporations aren't pitching their stock as a currency. A currency isn't something that's meant to be hoarded by a few people. That causes deflation and deflationary currencies are poisonous to the economies because they discourage spending.

How many people do you think are spending their coins vs how many are holding them hoping they will be worth more?
Makes for a questionable source, which is important for any serious study.

Propaganda: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
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Can we tranche all the cryptocurrencies, including bitcoins, repackage the tranches into pools, then sell them to insurance companies as AAA-rated bonds?
Being a student is a essentially a full-time job which one is compensated a negative amount. A reasonable alternative opens up the possibility to get compensated in a positive amount. In terms of just programming, you get might get a job for 60k conservatively and suddenly the difference becomes 120k... every year... for at least 4 years. Teaching oneself the theoretical foundations online is still harder than with a professor but the former was never intended to be a direct alternative so the comparison seems as meaningless as it is obvious. Considering someone with 4 years industry experience almost certainly fares far better on an engineering team than most undergraduate CS majors with a summer internship, the economics of the "in-person experience" just doesn't add up. As someone who left school, the reason I only dabble in online education rather than take it as seriously as a student might is because I have more important shit to do.
If you jointly owns IP - that's fine.
But if you're only an employee albeit a proud owner of large chunk of options, it's possible that real founders are just testing the market at your expense.
I'm not sure which is worse: that he expressed an unacceptable, impermissible opinion, or that he spoke his mind apparently without first considering whether to do so would result in crowdsourced rightthink pushback -- though, from the sound of his apology, he seems to have learned his lesson on that score, at least; he'll think twice next time before uttering such commentary, which is of course exactly as it should be.
Yea but Germany isn't Silicon Valley. So no one cares. Amazon Lockers on the other hand are hyper innovative, because well... er... it's been done stateside. So it must be good. (Even though having lock boxes for each sender is completely inefficient. Do you really want to drive to your Amazon Locker, then your eBay Locker, then your Google Locker... you get the idea?)
I really appreciate the performance boost. We have a quite complicated sheet before and adding 20 more rows at a time is annoying. Yes I know there are ways to add 20+ but the default low limit shows how slow it is. With this new system, Google is confident enough to allow user to add 1000 rows at a time (default value). Scrolling seems to be very smooth too. Overall a great upgrade!
Kiwistan strikes again. He should be grateful they didn't send a team of armed police to raid his house.

/edit:

Historically, white New Zealanders thought of New Zealand as "Better Britain". This basically meant doing anything [1] and everything [2] to please the "Mother Country". Now that the USA is the dominant superpower, this means things like raiding Kim Dotcom's mansion or providing land for a spy base. [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign
[2] http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/the-new-zealanders/page-8
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waihopai_Station
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