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Why USAToday added Bitcoin to their logo?
This is an honest question: Why does USA Today have the bitcoin logo in their logo today?

http://www.usatoday.com/
Why My Wife Won't Let Me Take the Birth Control Pill
I don't think I want my co-founders to learn how to code (unless they were to become experts). It could complicate design/product choices.
That's why I'm trying to minimize my google footprint.. Googprint (TM) :)
This isn't the birthday problem. OP is asking how many people to hit every possible birthday at least once. I thought Wikipedia might cover this on their birthday problem page, but they don't.
> The way it worked is you have one PC disk that will be destroyed

I think "sacrificed" is more appropriate here.
His question isn't related to the 'Birthday Problem'. Read the whole post...
Mozilla need to tone down the disingenuous marketing as it's going to bite the otherwise worthy asm.js in the long run.

The problem is that video fails to explicitly point out that the only version relying on asm.js is the browser version, which is the least interesting, while they're all excited about different devices those are all supported thanks to Unreal's cross platform support and has nothing to do with the asm.js version.
Oh man. News that focuses on actionable. Utopia !

I actually believe this renewed news spam (brought by ourselves through the internet) probably makes us all dumber as a whole, over time.
I recommend a book by C. John Sommerville, titled 'How the News Makes Us Dumb' from 1999.

One interesting paragraph on backcover:
'news began to make us dumber when we insisted on having it daily'.

As anyone who's tried to make or create (even just writing something about a topic) something would know, creating takes time. Now when something needs to be created daily or even hourly, you end up putting out junk.
Never let them fly business class

Part of the job is keeping the wrong people out. That's how to keep them out. Http://a.sarva.co explains why
The purpose of deposit insurance is to prevent runs on banks that make loans and don't have as much money in their vaults as the total of their customers' balances. Coinbase does not make loans. As far as I can tell, it's a service that stores your actual bitcoins for you. FDIC-style insurance isn't applicable.
"Google’s own secure proxy servers"

will that mean that people who track me opening their email with 1px images won't be able to track that? I hope this is the case...
"What's wrong with texting though?"

Cost
Or they could retrieve every image sent to a gmail address immediately, regardless of whether you viewed it or not.

That would essentially render open statistics meaningless and would let Google cripple another industry after the promotions tab and 'not provided.'

I really hope they don't because it's such valuable information when creating email copy...
Ask HN: How much should I ask for?
I am thinking of moving to the Bay Area (Sunnyvale and around). I'm currently making a base of $125K as a Principal Software Engineer in Boston. Does anyone know what the market rate for that position is in the Bay Area? Given the difference in cost of living and housing, I would hope it was much higher, but it does not seem so. Is it even worth moving to the Bay Area if that's the case given the higher taxes?
I'm surprised a little that this was the best idea to provide energy for the home. I would have thought evacuated solar collectors for hot water, solar photovoltaic for electricity with some deep cycle batteries, and wood fire for indoor thermal would be more reliable and efficient.

It looks like this is in southern Chile, though, maybe the solar incidence so far from the equator doesn't allow it? I wonder how reliable the source for the stream is.
So what is to be learned here? Well, make the core of your application VERY robust (with good design principles) and have the 'peripheral' modules designed as as 'balls of mud'.
That way you have a good foundation on top which with a front end that is weak which will leave you sweating just enough for management to think you're working hard, all the while the core functionality is never undermined ... !
This is a perfect example of the fallacy of equivocation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
Nice article. I particularly like the point about culture not changing... most startups definitely tend towards a more "corporate" feel as they grow which can suck the fun out of building cool stuff.
Probably because the price is already grossly inflated.
Link is dead for me. Who has a mirror?
> didn't he destroy the natural ecosystem of the stream, from the perspective of fish

In this case, maybe, but it doesn't show where they are getting the water from, upstream. The system typically looks like the following. You build a dam, have a grate (to stop sticks/fish/branches/etc) from entering your piping system. You then divert a small % of the flow into your piping which connects to the generator, then return the flow to the main stream.

It is in your best interest to stop objects (other than water) from entering the piping system, as it could clog up, or damage the turbine blades. So, you want to invest in the proper grating system upstream. I guess my point is, the by product of protecting your piping from clogs and damage to turbine blades, you are helping to preserve the natural ecosystem! A win-win.

|||| < stream
vvvv
+--------+
| man |
| made | < grate + pipe to divert % of flow
| dam +>>>-----------\
+--------+ \ < going downhill to increase pressure
||| +--\------+
||| | hydro | --> output power +
||| < main flow |generator| control infrastructure
||| +---------+
||| +
vvv+ <----------------+ < flow returns to main stream
vvvv
They'll probably retrieve and cache every image as soon as the email is received which would effectively render open statistics meaningless for GMail addresses.
It doesn't matter that the CEO agrees with you. Your post went against the circlejerk and got duly downvoted.
This code is bad and you should feel bad
Working for a less experienced team leader than me, I think this is basically an experience / competence thing. My team leader constantly suggests a quick hack to fix things, and is always talking about "firefighting", as does the article. I often resist, or refuse to do things the way he suggests, taking half a day longer to write a solution that I expect to work a month later.

Looking around for a new job at the moment, it seems hard to convince people that I am worth double what a junior developer will cost. Half of the interviews seem to have the programming language trivia questions. Even if they did ask me more high level design questions, its not the way I work. When I have to design a database, I don't do it in 20mminutes. I usually come up with two or three alternative designs, with pros and cons. I probably look unproductive staring into space, but I take a day or two for big decisions, and mull over the possible scenarios and which design is better. My code is better than it was a few year back.
Which also ignores that point that not all candy is bad for you, and even candy that's not necessarily good for you in quantity might be perfectly fine in moderation.

Chocolate, for example, decreases the risk of stroke, is good for your skin, improves vision, stimulates brain activity, etc. How much of and how often you eat it affects whether it's still beneficial compared to its negative effects, which include high cholesterol, diabetes, weight gain, etc.

Someone eating candy isn't necessarily doing something bad, despite the stigma. Equally, they are not doing something necessarily good.
Just because a build is stable (which is what 0.10.23 stable means) doesn't mean the APIs are stable (which is what 1.0.0 generally means).

For example, the streams API hasn't been deemed stable. The specific build is stable, but it's possible that the interface may radically change in the near future.

http://semver.org/
That's not primarily a customer support issue. It's an issue with them deliberately concealing exactly what will happen when you choose to take an action on their website, and in some cases blatantly lying about what will happen.
I admire the audacity to build something like this on your own, my perfectionism (and laziness) would probably get in my way.
Twitter Provides Clues for API Partnership Success
Pytypedecl - type declarations for Python and optional runtime checker
And since images are now no longer proxied, that's the end to this "email DRM" sillyness. Good riddance.
This article is long, rambling and stupid. Of course your friend got nothing from your diary, they weren't trying to take advantage of you.
Ok great, I think I understand that...but a full blog post would definitely clear it up (also I've finally figured out you're obviously at Shutterstock so can just ask direct questions).

Who decides what each team is going to be working on? Do tasks come down from the C-level guys, are you self-directed on what you want to work on, etc.?
If you click it, it takes you to this story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/10/bitcoin...
I am still wary of visiting the US again without my brother.

Thanks for a good laugh.
Very good point. But I still think the bitcoin ecosystem is missing a foolproof way to securely store bitcoins in the way that US dollars have a bank.

Paper wallets can get lost or stolen, A lot of online wallets get hacked, and DIY encryption doesn't seem like a great way to go either, especially for grandma.

I'd happily pay a fee to coinbase in exchange for some kind of insurance against them being hacked.
That feels a bit like the "I have nothing to hide argument." Should we just accept that probably spammers no longer send address verifying emails, and tacitly approve this change helping them out if they do? Ultimately, the default should be to let people decide for themselves to opt in to something like this. Forcing this with some pretty big head scratching holes in the benefits seems rather evil.
It will if the images are cached.
Not really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fot3m7kyLn4

Also. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling
VC also bet big on pets.com for that matter.....
Sad. After a long flight one has to go through this. I have gone through my share. I forgot to declare an apple given by Singapore airline. I kept apple in my bag in rush while getting out of aircraft, and was so sleepy to realise I need to declare it. I was held there for sometime. I was fined USD 200. The most expensive fruit of my life. I didn't even get to keep it with me.

Some of people on airport were like robots, they didn't have any reaction (on their faces) for my plea.
I am not familiar with that part of the world but you might want to give more information before others can try and give you some pointers. Salary is not just about market rate even though it is a benchmark to start. What do you do exactly ? What is your experience so far ? What kind of companies have you worked for ?
Just a thought: would it be a good idea or a really bad idea to pay employees per bug fix/enhancement? (and allowing employee to choose which task to accept; perhaps even a bidding system (a very inflexible one; maybe "the more employees interested in a task the lower the price"; not an actual bid-amount system))
Sure looks like it. I wonder how analytics companies feel about this. It's important to know how many people are opening your emails.
Kotlin works well for Android development. The annotations have gotten better recently, too, so you can interact with Android classes without too many null checks.
I think it was a great example for a possibly not as great point. I think both you and tokenadult would prefer to read a paper on using bitcoin in vending machines http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.t... rather than something more sensationalist like http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/robocoin/ ( with titles along the lines of Bitcoin ATMs: Valhalla Incarnate or the Looming Death of Civilization?)

And I like your example of a use of bitcoin apart from speculation. The sensationalist articles love bitcoin because it is new, but also because a few people have become rich and poor from speculating on it and its future is uncertain, which leaves lots of room in the stories for "raising concerns".

But as tokenadult pointed out, we can avoid those articles and the sources that tend to deliver them.
You obviously want both to be productive, work hard (effort) and be clever (efficiency). A simple model would be:

productivity = effort * efficiency

On the other hand though, there's probably some unclear connection between laziness and cleverness. My hypotheses:

1) Some people hate mundane work and crave intellectual stimulation. This has both positive and negative effects on productivity.

2) Clever people can afford to be lazy in school and they simply stay lazy.
That's no joke. I was trying like crazy to get in on one of the deals over "Cyber Week", and the deals that would pop up would literally be sold out within 2 minutes of appearing. I read a few threads in FatWallet and Slickdeals in which people said things to the effect of "Damn Litecoin miners! Some of us want to play games with these!"

Shortly thereafter I came to the realization that, if this many people are jumping into the Litecoin pool, mining Litecoins is going to get a lot harder very quickly, so I stopped bothering to look.
There are (in the software world) far more instances of bosses who hire you to build a brick wall without the money to do so and put you on net 60 hoping they'll somehow come up with the money by the end.

The more likely scenario in software is you get to day 45 with 90% of the wall built and the client asks you to hand over your key to the job site and stops taking your calls.

There's where most of the "half built walls" in my industry come.
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Knock: Practical and Secure Stealthy Servers
Yes, this article is the most relevant to sysadmins.
30 percent overnight, no. Fractional reserve banking means that they only have assets worth around 10% of the actual money they put into circulation.
This exact thing just happened to me during my end-of year performance review last week. I got very low marks for "accountability" because during the Remembrance Day long weekend I was out of the country. A system was upgraded and went badly, and 5ish tech people came in for the entire weekend (6am to 3am days Sunday and Monday) in an attempt to fix it. They couldn't figure it out, and it was up to me to diagnose and fix it Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday when I worked long hours.

Because I wasn't seen to be busting my gut on Sunday/Monday with the others, my managers say I wasn't pulling my weight and therefore scored me very low.

If getting high scores means working Sunday/Monday on a long weekend, I don't want high scores.
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I guess the compromise is giving the user the option to choose: (i) I would like to be tracked, (ii) I don't want to be tracked. I genuinly dislike people who send me personal/work emails with tracking mechanisms...
Google's Whitehouse petition reaches required 100k
A few years ago, I worked about a small consulting firm that did the same thing. It was exactly as you described it. I would get in trouble for not writing enough, then I'd get in trouble for writing too much. Could never win. Eventually found out people were not only bitching about me, so I setup a daily search for my own name to keep on top of it. Started discovering key work information within their status reports that they weren't sharing with me, too. A year and a half there was 18 months too long.
>It's not some backwards little-Stalin state.

What do "backwards little-Stalin state[s]" have to do with it? Is it just habit to think of the ex-Eastern Bloc when you think of totalitarian surveillance, or do you think of the US and the UK as backwards little-Stalin states?
I agree, I think it will, at least somewhat, impact snapchat because the products are similar.

I'm sure that was the aim here, to create a product that took inspiration from snapchat. Given that it's one of the most popular apps out there with an insane amount of users, and we know that facebook already tried to buy it. I'm sure they didn't want to copy it outright, but if they can integrate some of it's features into their existing products, they may be able to steal some users.
This is highly interesting, considering RJ Mical works at Google now.
I wonder how that works - pre-emptively fetch content that appears in a large number of emails sent to a large number of customers?
One might just want to assume that node.js never wants to build a stable API. They are constantly breaking backwards compatibility and committing to "stable" at this point seems unrealistic. If they'd ever release a stable version they'd suddenly have to backport fixes and care about keeping an API intact for something other than a few months. Like they will not be able to do that thing anymore where they dismiss all those who built upon 0.6 and don't get security updates unless they rewrite big portions of their code base and find new libraries to replace all those they use that have gone dark.

Have they at least committed to some kind of date range for a stable API?

It's kind of silly to worry about because all the various node.js libraries that so many people depend upon are either weekend fads that get abandoned, or moving at the same speeds and likewise breaking compatibility.
I wonder how feasible it is to represent yourself in this kind of case where you could walk into court with self gathered prior art. Is it only lawyer fees that you're paying or are their costs paid directly to the court also?
Startup Wisdom: Knowing What You Don't Know
I should give a separate presentation about this.

Please do. Also, any change of releasing this?
tl;dr Ignorance is bliss. :)
Looking at the preference, it isn't auto loading images in 'suspicious' messages (the help text more or less says this).

So trusted messages are now leaking read receipts.
The real story is that you found a market with huge demands which didn't have much competition (not many design schools) that you could fulfill.

Everything else is irrelevant except for "keep going".
Does this mean that every image will be saved onto Google's proxy server at the time that Google receives it, or at the time that the user opens it?

I don't want to lose the ability to track email opens to gmail users through Mandrill/SendGrid/whatever...
Great article.

I saw no reason to keep reading after "You bet. But it's an expensive trade. And even if you're right, you won't walk away with much, if anything."

I wish more articles would be more upfront so I wouldn't have to waste time reading them.
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This could also be the result of some office politics, perhaps they knew you were a productive developer and that's exactly why they didn't hire you.
What makes you think that many web developers don't already know C/C++?

Many developers choose the web because there is their audience, their business, their future.
And we know that people don't like to install stuffs, they want to consume a product LIVE.
$70,000 is a nice haul, but over six months it averages to a little more than $10,000 a month which at least in the bay area pays for about 1.5 developers. I hope their growth curve is still more vertical than flat.
No, it's not that they are guaranteed to disappear. It's that there is no expectation for them to last. It is an ephemeral image that doesn't need to be saved or managed or taken with the gravitas that living in your camera roll or being posted for the rest of time has.
It should be significantly higher. I would think around $200k and possibly more depending on if you have highly specific relevant experience.
It loads, but I can't interact with anything here (Safari 7.0).
I agree they could do it, but people upthread are suggesting that Google doesn't do that, and only loads the image when you open the message.
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How Ted Koppel and ABC TV tried to steal my life work
This is my 1st blog post as tech co-founder. English isn't my best asset, so apologies before hand. I would love to know your feedback.
Also, the landing page site http://kipinhall.com is done in wordpress without any optimizations. our users never hit that.
>I have to say that Jennifer Widom's database class is the most streamlined, most well thought, and most smooth of all the MOOCs I have seen.

I absolutely agree and I recommend this course every time someone mentions SQL. The lectures combined with the videos are the best learning tool for people interested in SQL.

I also recommend Introduction to Networks from Stanford which is also freely accessible with registration[1] and also very high quality similar to the DB course level.

[1]http://f12.class2go.stanford.edu/networking/Fall2012
I've always been bad at looking busy. Alright, I admit I'm lazy, but that doesn't mean I suck as a programmer. In my first job, I'd automated pretty much all of my work. Where others would do stuff by hand, I researched how to write a script to do it for me. At some point, I had a collection of scrips and macros that generated most of my code straight out of the functional design.

So whenever the boss popped in, he saw me leaning back looking at my scripts doing all my work for me. I was usually the first one to be finished with a new task. I reduced compile time from many hours down to 30 minutes (which all the other programmers were extremely happy with). But all my non-programming boss saw was me leaning back or goofing around, rather than typing really hard (which is what programming is supposed to look like, right?).
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WordPress 3.8 arrives with redesigned dashboard, vector-based icons
Pertinent recent project: pie, "Emacs written in Erlang", "Text is stored as a tree of binaries ... Buffers are small servers"

https://github.com/5HT/pie
They will sue them for preventing merchants from putting watermarks on their images? I find that hard to believe.
Isn't there technically a requirement that patentable ideas must be "non obvious" increments on prior art? This is a concept that is obviously subjective but seems to be completely ignored by the patent issuers.
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I saw something similar to this, using the power of a nearby stream, but in this case it was to generate heat. Apparently it used the difference in temperature between two parts of the river and magnifed this somehow to generate hot water. It was called a vortex valve or something like that (but I can only see this relating to gas in my google searches), I never have been able to find it again, anyone know what it was?
The market is a system for solving problems. However, not all problems are obvious to market participants. The problem might cause harm on a longer timeframe than their typical focus (for example: environmental destruction). Or the problem might cause harm to people who participate less fully in the market (for example: the problems of poverty).

One of the roles of government is to pose these problems to the market, for the market to solve.

For example, we, as a society, don't want old people to die starving in the street. So we have posed this problem to the market in the forms of Medicare and Social Security taxes. The market needs to find a way to pay those taxes while meeting consumer demand, and it largely has.

We don't want to drink polluted water, so we have posed this problem to the market in form of limits on pollutants that can be released. The market has to find a way to meet consumer demand while staying within these limits, and it largely has.

So, we need to be clear about what problem we are asking the market to solve if we create a guaranteed government-supplied income for everyone. Is the problem a basic standard of living for everyone? Or is the problem full employment for everyone? I agree with Fred that those two things are not equivalent.
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