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This is why the start-up environment sucks in Europe. It seems so (relatively) easy to get $20 million in US as a start-up, while it seems almost impossible to get that kind of money in Europe from an investor, which is why there are so many "winner takes all" companies from US and not from other places.

This happens at a time when Bitstamp is several times bigger than Coinbase, also growing fast, and is covering both EU and US. Yet, because of this sort of funding (and probably more later), there will probably be yet again a US company dominating the scene.

In a post-Snowden relevations time, I'm not very eager to continue using US services, but the environment seems to be so harsh for non-US companies that want to be global companies, and they basically have to grow themselves into global companies only through bootstrapping (the vast majority of them, I'm sure there are a few exceptions).
When I lived in Kenya, I was stopped for speeding. In a battered old Peugeot 305 estate. Up a steep hill on a main route. At 8000 feet altitude where the already underpowered engine was suffering greatly from lack of air. The policeman was looking for a bribe, but got laughed at instead.
This is really amazing, but I'd throw in an oculus rift for a true out of body experience.
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Thanks Craig, posting about my personal issue here feels a bit like cheating, but it was nice of you to jump in. I can imagine support is already a priority, but consider this my nudge about it.
That actually sounds fairly interesting. Although feminist machine code would be impossible without feminist chips.

So she's targeting the wrong thing. She needs to move to analogue computers (or somesuch) before addressing the language, or all she will be doing is creating an essentially male abstraction of female thinking.
Just because you are not watching them, doesn't mean that they have to be glued to a screen. They could be exploring their environment or other things that engages their motor skills and other senses.

I wonder how many commenters here have children? A screen with moving images and sounds is absolutely hypnotic to a small child, and they will get stuck in front of it and sit staring for hours. When it is turned off, they will incessantly beg for it to be turned on, to the detriment of all other activities.
In getting started it does give the table names... which are all prefixed cd.tablename, it is an educational tool so one would expect one to read the getting started pages first.
Yes its too bad when I'm dead. I could done anything I could have done to prevent that but there will always be somebody who are irrational or have some sort mental illness or anybody who could eventually find a way to kill me if they really want to. This is happen in open or private society.
Having had a cursory look at 'feminist critiques of logic' and 'paraconsistent logic' I am reminded of this post-mordern article generator, complete with citations:

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
> I am currently exploring feminist critiques of logic

Can someone explain this to me?

Taken at face value that seems like a ridiculous statement, but I'm assuming there's a lot of context I don't know about. I tried googling for it, but only found stuff like this: http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/rfemlog.html which didn't clarify thigns at all.

Edit

The author clarifies themselves in a comment:

> What is a feminist logic is a question I’ve spent the past six months thinking about and researching. There are not a lot of women in philosophy, and there are definitely not a lot of feminist philosophers, so I don’t have a good answer for this question. There is great scholarship talking about weather a feminist logic can build off of formal logic or if it has to reject the laws of identity and create something entirely new. There are solid arguments for both camps, personally I’m swayed by the constructive theories that would build onto formal logic through a feminist lens. There exist logics that handle contradiction as part of the system, namely paraconsistent logic. I think this type of logic represents the feminist idea that something can be and not be without being a contradiction, that is a system where the following statement is not explosive: (p && ¬p) == 1.
This is not a joke.

Well, actually it is, but it's not intended to be. Some background reading:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/187505014/Representing-Reason-Femi...

"Many of the analyses reviewed earlier expose the
symbolic association be-tween rationality and masculinity. However, since human development is shaped by society and culture, those symbols have repercussions for real, concrete human beings. We are constituted as knowing agents by symbolic representations, social practices, cultural discourses, and our structural positioning. Consequently, the ideal of detachment and the separation of reason from emotion that the rationalist world view promotes have been instrumental in constructing gendered aspects of the social order, in particular the subjectivities of Western privileged white men."
I would not even need to lock my doors.
And when you step out of line, or just step on the wrong toes, and someone decides to make your life miserable for some trivial reason, you've given them a whole arsenal to use against you.

You consider yourself part of the 'in' group. I follow all the rules, why would anyone bother me? And that works fine until one day it doesn't. The day that happens you'll get no help from the other people that think the way you do.
I agree completely. I attempted a curve-free and black-on white terminal in my earlier Linux days, and the result was HORRIBLE! This is blatant racism and sexism against white men everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law
The US Americans also need to decide if they would monitor the world-wide Internet traffic and other communication channels full-scale.

If so, the US will have less influence, less mindshare, less business.

The US will have the fate of an empire few need and which is not sufficiently funded: morally and financially.
A couple of years ago jwz did something similar, getting the original Mosaic browser to talk to the modern internet: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...

Here as well, a proxy was used to get around the Host Header problem.
I think this type of logic represents the feminist idea that something can be and not be without being a contradiction, that is a system where the following statement is not explosive: (p && ¬p) == 1.

Ohh, I understand this! It's like in quantum theory or chaos theory, you know, which is why homeopathy works.
If this isn't a joke, then Grace Hopper is spinning in her grave.
The article actually sounds a bit sexist. I honestly doubt that any woman who would want to learn to program would be stopped by the style of the existing programming languages.
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That must have been quite some time ago because Europe has had open borders for years.

I've had road trips across Europe and not had my passport requested even once; let having it stamped and having myself and property searched.
Yeah not truly open society like you said but I imagine with the advancement of technology where information can be gathered easily by anyone, it will be close enough.
True. I'd also moot a programming language for left-handed people. What the heck, a programming language for left-handed people who had a difficult childhood. Or a goth period during their teenager years. Or who are Scottish nationalists.

Maybe it's me, maybe it's PCness gone full circle, but to encourage division doesn't seem the way forwards to me.
The data simply doesn't support your claims.

> First, money has to be spent somewhere

Financial instruments such as derivatives and hedge funds do very little to put money back into the real economy. If they did, then you would not see wealth becoming concentrated in a historically unprecedented way among the upper 0.1%. For your first claim to be true, you'd have to show that this is not occurring, when of course it is.

> Second, wages for "the lower castes" won't fall or be left behind as much as people imagine.

Since the mid 1970s, in inflation-adjusted terms -- and despite enormous productivity growth -- mean incomes have stagnated and median incomes have fallen. (And note that inflation-adjustment doesn't compensate for the cost of housing or education; if those were included in the calculation then "The lower castes" would already be worse off than at any time since the Depression.) For your second claim to be true, you'd have to show that this has not happened, when of course it has.

Note that the decoupling of productivity and wages coincides with the advent of microcomputers and industrial robotics, and job losses have been greatest in the industries which those innovations affected. So the story of technology-driven wage stagnation and unemployment is not some speculative story about the future: it's the story of the developed world's economic development over the last 40 years.
I'm a dvorak user and I agree with others that while it is useful, it's not sufficient alone for a good typing experience. Typing x, z, f is still more awkward than it needs to be, enter/backspace etc is difficult, and ctrl is in a really awful position on standard keyboards. (I'm sure every emacs user will agree.)

The difference is more like using an off-road bicycle to travel on flat roads. It's just the wrong tool for the job. The standard keyboard layout was designed how it is for a specific purpose: to allow physical parts to move on old typewriters. The placement of keys serves little purpose to the typist.

In our collective madness though, we have adapted ourselves to typewriter layouts, rather than adapting the layout to fit our hands when the requirement for moving physical parts disappeared.

The higher price of ergo keyboards is mainly a consequence of a much smaller market. Standard keyboards are only so cheap because they're mass produced, and have had countless iterations to simplify the production process over the years.

I'm in desperate need of a better ergo keyboard and I find projects like this one fascinating. I tried designing one myself a while back, but I don't have the skills to make it happen.
And also note that it is 3:30 am in San Francisco. Go to bed coinbase-craig!
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This will be the third YC billion dollar company and 1 Bitcoin will be worth $50,000. Wait 1 year.
Interesting. If it's true Bitcoin will be replaced by another algorithm, then Bitcoin does not make much sense to hold. It would then be true that Bitcoin is a tool to facilitate real currency transactions.
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what exactly would you like in GBP, the prices on top?
Only in very weak formulations - things like language increasing the latency (not in the computer science sense) of specific concepts, or changing the likelihoods with which certain features of an event can be recalled.
> It was shot down rather quickly.

The referendum has not happened yet. You're probably confusing it with the referendum on limiting CEO pay.
I share your sentiment, but trying to analyze objectively the entire scenario from different angles I find acceptable for the subject being searched to pay the bill if he is found guilty (which is hiding illegal stuff in his body). I don't agree with the shaky grounds used by the law enforcement to bring up the body search though.
The Economist had a similar article recently:

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21590763-...
Would one? Do you read your manuals perchance?

There are different types of learner, some learn by poking stuff with a stick rather than meticulously reading everything.

I have no idea about postgre as I know SQL Server & MySQL, I was actually having a quick go to see if my knowledge easily translated.

But schemas are a YAGNI 99% of the time feature in those.
Can't you override GeoIP detection manually (and persistently using cookies)?

While this is annoying, I don't think engineers are necessarily idiots. To the first approximation, nobody knows what Accept-Language is. I think it is more likely that Accept-Language is wrong because one installed the English version of operating systems or browsers, but wants the local version of websites, but does not know how to configure Accept-Language, than that Accept-Language is right because one moved to foreign countries and configured Accept-Language to one's preference. Do you have the evidence it is otherwise?
LAX has it, I've been through on the London to Auckland route, both ways.

Both times they didn't have enough staff to man the separate customs desk, and ran us through a general customs hall.
What's next, feminist mathematics?
Weird. The article implies that clicking the top-right Menu button on the Swipe site starts some kind of animation:

"Whoa. What! Okay, but it looks nice right? Well yes but you have to wait for the slick animation to finish; it’s a couple of seconds".

For me, it's an absolutely instant pop-up in the center of the screen. No sign of any transition or other animation, it's just there when I click.

Tested on Firefox 25.0.1 on Windows 7. Ah, the volatility of the interwebs. :)
This is incidentally a textbook example of how the regulation of free markets is supposed to work.
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I would know other people weakness too.
The book covered that in quite some detail, but I can't remember the specifics. Certainly, there are links between colour perception and language.

As I recall (I could be wrong), the author's conclusion is that the ability of someone to think something or understand a concept isn't limited by language.

The author of this paper seems to suggest that the means by which we express computer programs have some link to human behaviour (causation in either/both directions).

Human behvaiour does, of course, have a massive influence of language. And I think a lot of the natural-language-redefinition and re-framing of concepts by interest groups to achieve their aims have certainly had an effect on society.

But I don't think Sapir Whorf is pertinent here. Unless people are learning about the world by reading computer programs.

Also, we've had half a century to express programs in all kinds of forms (LISP vs Java vs Prolog spring to mind). I'm not dismissing the potential effect that the gender imbalance has had, or the possibility of future achievements in computer science. I suppose I'll wait and see, firstly if this is a serious and credible paper, and secondly if anything comes out of it. But I don't think it will.
>Most tumblr blogs involved porn

This is blatantly false. It was estimated that about 10% did. Porn was never the biggest draw of Tumblr.
She's talking about paraconsistent logics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraconsistent_logic

Feel better now?
The Stanford database class should be sill open for self study. It contains video lectures, and lots of database query exercises. For the exercises, you can write the query code in the web browser.

https://class2go.stanford.edu/db/Winter2013/preview/

I have taken some MOOCs in past years, including Andrew Ng's Machine Learning, and Martin Odersky's Functional Programming Principles in Scala, and 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.

Everything works, the lectures are packed with information and give sufficient material for one to complete the exercises, there are no rough edges, and there is a large-ish amount of exercises that give good coverage of the lectured material.
Yeah but 32x the original data size...
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In layman's words, a tenet of one part of feminism is that our language is shaped in such a way that it oppresses women and sets men as the ruling part of society. Sort of like the idea in Orwell's 1984 that we modify language to not have the ability to express dissent.

This is presumably a suggestion that the same principles be applied to programming languages. I read it as satire of the feminist idea that language is inherently oppressive. Are you sure it's not a joke?
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Indeed. Here's what I get on latest Chrome for Mac https://db.tt/Vu9lbEhE
I've often thought about the bribery that occurs in Peru (and, presumably, many other countries) when a policeman stops your car for some minor infraction, to accept a bribe in exchange for letting you go without a ticket.

The usual thinking is that this is bribery and that it is corrosive on the morals of society.

But, the way I see it, this system is actually a better system for price discovery than the legal route. In other words, it's a better and more efficient system for finding out what the price of a minor infraction should be.

If you think about it, the official penalty for an infraction is set by a small committee of people claiming to represent the people by being voted into power or through some other democratic method.

But, the quality of information available to this small committee is much lower than the aggregate information the market has in its totality. The price signals that dictate the amount of a bribe are therefore best emitted by the market itself. Some groups in the market will want the price to be higher, others will want it to be lower. If general society drives well, without infractions, the policeman will be forced by market forces to charge a higher bribe to the few that drive badly, which means that the price will reflect accurately how people view the act of driving badly. Similarly, if a lot of people drive badly, the bribe will be lower, again reflecting the fact that society doesn't see bad driving as something that should be heavily penalised.

So, in this particular sector at least, you could argue that the bribe system is actually more just and representative of the will of the people than any arbitrary penalty system decided by its legal representatives.
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Absolutely excellent, kudos!

I only wish Aaron Swartz had lived to see it.
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Because in this particular case, the producers (game developers) are actually pretty much OK with people using their "content" in Youtube videos, and indeed, probably benefit from it.

Unfortunately the Youtube system is structured mainly to handle the opposite case, where the producers are insane jealous spawns of evil who will scream shrilly at the top of their lungs at even the merest hint of faint resemblance (if you look with your eyes blurred while drunk) between a video and their "content."

So basically Youtube's automatic system is being over-eager in tagging a bunch of stuff as potential copyright violations, when it's probably OK to not do so for much of it....

As somebody else said, there's likely a technical solution to this by improving the ability to whitelist content from consenting producers.
Now this looks good. :)
Original (German): http://derstandard.at/1385170729837/EU-Gutachter-Datenspeich...
They're storing all the metadata, and for better or worse they are storing each string field as an "object" whereas they could have used a fixed-width field. The former of course is something like a reference count and a pointer to a string elsewhere; the latter would have some overhead when strings are of varying lengths. If memory usage were really a concern, decent savings could be realized by changing (most of?) the 13 float64 columns to float32, and some of the object (string) columns to fixed-width. For example, "lang" is two characters always, and usernames (which are stored in several fields) would be more efficiently stored as char[15]. Easy to try, just not the default behavior; I bet you could cut the total size by a third (too bad they didn't).
An English version of the same piece of news:

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/enisa-recommends-tighter-se...
If I decline to consent to a search, I know that I'd immediately be flagged as trouble by the border staff: That's part of their job.

I don't think searches are effective, and if I was searched regularly or particularly intrusively, I would start getting upset, but as being searched doesn't sound that traumatic to me (though I've not had more than a pat down and a bag check), for now I'd much rather comply, make my flight, and not be on their database as a troublemaker.

If you have a problem with the way border control operates, I think it's a much better idea to try to deal with it while you're not standing in the middle of it.
I'm not 100% certain, to be honest. The best satire tends to be like that, I guess :)
Excellent. For sparse storage, do you use Scipy Sparse, or you have your own custom built solution?

I know continuum was working on a version of memmapped numpy (blaze, iirc) arrays which looked really interesting.
People make choices and when the choice turns out wrong you could always claim they did not do their research well. Maybe so, maybe these guys can be blamed for that too.

That is of not much consequence. The important part is that they evaluate their choice and are ready to move onto a better platform. Without destroying the business.

If you check out the blog, you can see they did it for jQuery as well. Good for them. You could also argue they should have made other decisions from the start. But hey, they learned and it works for them.

What is more, they tell the world about it and try to prevent others from making the wrong choices. Even providing pointers to resources that were useful for them.

What I trying to say, they deserve a bit more credit than an off hand remark like: "our square peg didn't fit into App Engine's round hole".
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> Can't you override GeoIP detection manually

No - as I said the pages I'm talking about provide no method to change the language.

> To the first approximation, nobody knows what Accept-Language is.

By nobody, you mean end users? No, of course they don't, but they know if their device displays english or thai menus/buttons/etc to them.

So you're suggesting that this is not a case of idiot developers but instead that the Accept-Language header is not reliable, because there are whole countries of non-english speakers using devices that are mistakenly set to English, and they never worked out how to change the language to their local language, so they just randomly hit buttons/menu items they don't understand?
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Hi, i think its a mix of narrow minded developer / developer who does not know which source to trust (IP or Browser) / developer who uses the wrong CMS. These three factors influence each other.

Beside that, setting up a multilingual page prepares several questions for a developer like Toplevel Domain vs. Subdomain vs. Path vs. nothing to enable diffrent languages. Therefor all those SEO Questions and Text encoding questions come into the game. And at the end: Does my CMS support my well thought solution?

Developers are lazy and they usally take the easiest way ... even many of Googles own pages are not SEO optimized!

Greets!

Chris
I honestly doubt that any woman who would want to learn to program would be stopped by the style of the existing programming languages.

Where does the article claim that? Why would you assume that's even the point, when the author explains exactly what the intention is?
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