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You have main options.

1. You work on a project which uses one of the existing technologies you already use. Maybe improve a library you make use of, or, opensource some code which you already have.

2. Learn a new language. This is quite a nice option as it means you can get out there resolving a few bug tickets which have been left open etc.

When push comes to shove dont over think it or you will never do anything.
This is probably related to SO and the later rise of HN in that area as well.
Most important question from above:

How many users per server are you able to do, and what are the specs of that server?
> "Small size" -- cry me a river. Yes, byte size is important but it's not more important than code reuse and all the benefits that come with it

I would disagree with this within reason. Code reuse affects YOU the developer. Byte size, however, affects your USERS. Things that impact your users are far more important than things that affect your development zen. Obviously the two are not entirely independent and a balance must be reached, but the user is the important person here, not the developer.
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A seam is a join in fabric. You guys mean to say "It seems" which is like "It appears that".

I don't mean to be a dick, just a friendly correction :)
Re: setting up environment, I love Anaconda for that reason. Wget the installer, run it, all done - you have a fully featured Python environment ready to go, including Numpy, Scipy, Scikit-learn and much more. Running IPython and the IPython Notebook is then trivial.

If you need anything else, you can use their own Conda package manager, or you can just use pip as usual.
what's CCP?
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They are big. For short they also own o.co which directs to overstock. They currently sponsor a multi purpose stadium named 0.com. the MLB, NFL, and MLS have a team that play there. side note: noticeable brands that sponser a American stadium: BofA, Gillette, Qualcomm,FedEx, AT&T, Mercedes-Benz.
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AFAIK the amount of hardware needed depends on the size of your corpus, so I would expect it to vary.
It is very unlikely since I left the country. Possibly some family heard from a kid or parent of kid, but they would would have mentioned it to me when I was still four before I left. Maybe my parents heard, but neither of my parents knew about this when I asked later. So they might have forgotten and if they had said anything it would have been when I was still young. Also I did meet that same kid when I was in 5th grade. But by that age I think one of us would have remembered it that we had talked about it when I was in fifth grade that time we met in our twenties when I brought it up. My hunch is that there can be some strong memories remembered from youth, some people may have more, some less, even none.
That's my thinking. Bitcoin is an outlier because "coin" is usually indivisible, where as "bitcoin" certainly is. You're never likely to see a price of more than one anyway, making the plural almost completely redundant.
Like gold, BTC has scarcity, but unlike gold, it has no intrinsic value. I do, however, value my Bitcoins.
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Is it racist to identify cultural differences and strengths and make decisions based off those?

For example: I'd much rather hire a Russian programmer than a Chinese programmer simply because I can communicate with the Russian better, we're from similar cultural backgrounds, and I understand where he is from.

Is that racist?

To pretend that differences don't appear in all types of people is ignorant in itself.
Ask HN: What's missing from existing technology media? (e.g Techcrunch)
> the driver wasn’t carrying an Uber passenger at the time of the accident.

> Liu’s death is a far more tragic example of Uber evading responsibility for what happens through its service.

Obviously this is a terrible accident, and likely to raise emotions, but I really don't understand the story here. A man accidentally hit and killed pedestrians. A man works for a company. Those two things do not appear to intersect act all. I understand that the work involves him driving a car, but he was not doing that job. It mentions negligence in "hiring", but they never say any thing wrong with the driver's record leading up to this accident.

My father has driven a commercial truck for over a decade and had a similar accident this past year while driving his own car on his own time. It was horrible and has been tough to deal with for all involved, but no one has ever been audacious enough to try to say that the company that he works for might be negligent. He has a great driving record, but he had an __accident__. That is all there is to the story unless you are involved personally.

This is a tragedy, and unless there are details not being discussed in the article, a terrible accident that two families alone will have to live with and we should but out of.
Ask HN:  How long have you waited for a MtGox withdraw?
I am passing the 2 month mark since I initiated a withdraw in USD from MtGox. Should I do something? I have not had this issue before and would like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I wonder if I am an outlier or the norm.
Your code samples are incredibly hard to read, you should use a different library to generate those. I don't know if it's just a Chrome thing, but they look like this to me:

http://imageshar.es/52cf03f8f629007c1400043e
In terms of exchange rate, Bitcoin will become less volatile, yes.

I suspect that kaonashi was referring to something else: there are macroeconomic problems associated with a gold standard, such as its tendency to push countries into recessionary spirals, which are also to be expected if Bitcoin (or a Bitcoin-standard) were used as the "normal" currency.

Note that this is not a problem as long as Bitcoin is only used as an intermediary during payment, where the majority use is $currency -> BTC -> $currency within a short time window, and where contracts are not denominated in BTC.

However, an economy in which BTC is used as the major unit of account is liable to the same problems as we historically observed with the gold standard.
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Set out to remove the default items in the "ok glass" menu and had some success.
For me, Tcl does what Lua does, but much better. In fact given Tcl, it's hard to see why Lua was created.
I completely agree with your opinion regarding being your own customer. Besides being the first customer of the system, it is also important to continue being so. When I created my first Android app, Tabata Trainer, I did it because I wanted to time my Tabata workouts while learning how to code for Android. I didn't even think about publishing it. Fortunately, the fact that I was the only customer of my app automatically made me aware of the most important blockers and bugs that would prevent any other person from using the app as well. It was after that that I realized I could actually publish it, and was surprised to see the results afterwards. However, many times when I added a new feature and didn't use it for myself (because I wasn't doing tabatas anymore), some people would report back or rate negatively. So, if you keep on improving or product, keep using it, or it may go from hero to zero.
Overstock is pretty awesome. One of their big marketing angles is free shipping over $50. I've purchased large furniture, rugs, desks and other very heavy things from them and have always had free shipping. Often that "free shipping" meant "local delivery and bringing it into your house for free" which is pretty amazing.
I wonder how it would go if you went to the police, showing them a website which displays tens of thousands of customers' personal data, and tried to get the website owner busted for violating privacy legislation?
without ever worrying about if I misplaced a semi-colon or left out some weird punctuation

I've seen enough code like [(foo[-1:self._bar:2]%(a,b),) for foo in quux] to not really believe that.
That generic family of facial hair (shaved chin, sides grown below jawline) is called "side-whiskers". They were pretty popular in Victorian times.
I really don't appreciate the media's blood thirst - the slayer of this and the killer of that. Why can't we just have something that contributes in a non-zero-sum game?
nwh has a point though. Bitcoins aren't things. It's not just that they don't have physical form. For example, you can record the serial number from a dollar bill and find it again later. You can't do that with "a bitcoin" because there is no bitcoin-thing that can be tracked, even digitally speaking. Each address has a balance, and each transaction deals with amounts of bitcoin. There is no owning or transferring of identifiable "bitcoins".
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Despite popular perception that robotics companies require huge amounts of capital, public financial data shows that robotics companies are just like like software or biotech. That is, they are capital efficient and suitable for VC investment.
Just ordered a mini-helicopter on Overstock using Bitcoins. The checkout process was flawless. I used the Bitcoin client on my phone to send the amount by snapping a shot of the QR code on the website. Went right through, hit confirm, and the deal was done!

Couldn't have been an easier process and can't wait to get my helicopter.
This is mentioned in the article:

> Like so many others, he believes bitcoin can free the world from the control of big banks and big government. “It helps us fight the machine,” he says.

I cringed reading this, mostly because normal people don't feel quite comfortable with sentiment like "fighting the machine."
So... sort of like a bank?
Cost isn't the only factor. I'd be more than happy to pay 30 dollars more for not having to deal with PayPal antics. Stripe's API is a charm, fast and easy integration, and customer support is excellent. Not to mention documentation. PayPal OTOH, I've read too many horror stories about revoked accounts, disputed charges not to mention the pain of integrating the IPN. Lastly, there's the ugly paypal button. Not exactly professional looking, if you ask me.

Stripe is a blessinq!
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A major part of the work at hand:

> federal and state law

Your entire post is about:

> case law

Suffice to say, those in the biz tend to focus mostly on case law, probably because they know the basics of statutory and common law, case law is not codified, and (all) case law is not offered for free even on horribly designed, practically useless government websites.

But, at least for my purposes, state legislation and statutory codifications (and their regulatory counterparts) are also very important to have bulk access to. Even outdated materials are useful, as once I know a section is relevant (because I can run complicated queries against entire datasets), I can begin research using more arcane methods (such as government websites and printed materials.) My treks through the California Codes and the California Code of Regulations would not have been possible without bulk access (I had to do it myself of course, after the Legislative Counsel got forced by CFAC/FAC and MAPLight.org to release the DB), and there was little case law on the issues I was doing research on (that I knew or know of) to guide me.

Outdated material may not be so useful for practicing lawyers, but its extremely useful for the 99%.
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The limiting factor is concurrent video chatters. We only got into the four figure userbase, so we didn't have even enough to push a single AWS C3.large instance to its limits. Contact me privately for more info.
Congress shouldn't have that much influence over the SEC.

Hate to break this to you, but Congress created the SEC.

You also might want to look into Articles 1 and 8 of the Constitution, BTW.
You seriously think the IRS is going to go after you for an order on Overstock?
Well, for various values of working, the system appears to be working!
I used the Bitcoin client on my phone, after the transaction went through I clicked "Confirm transaction" and it has already accepted it. I'm guessing with smaller transactions they just assume it went through, otherwise they don't ship it within the hour you get the order, so they have some protection against doublespends.
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Hesitate before drawing broad conclusions - they discovered oil in their back yard, are now rich. Not a reflection on their great foresight or thriftiness.
I offer no actual reply, only a thought experiment, keeping in mind that the USD is another floating currency that fluctuates in value:

...

"
Is there a tax guide that would explain the consequences of me using some of the US Dollars I traded for in 2013 to buy an item on overstock this month?

As I understand it I would have to record the value I paid for the US Dollars in 2013, calculate the value it appreciated between when I bought it and the amount I am using to buy the item. And then report this as capital gains on my 2014 tax return?

This sucks, this makes using US Dollars a lot more work than just paying with a credit card. Plus, it might mean having to hire an accountant instead of just using turbo tax?
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I just had a look and the submissions were very similar to the front page on HN. Are you exaggerating or do you think the quality has gone down here as well?
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print word, count
sounds oppressive but surely not meant this way - the author's mother tongue is probably german and in german "wahnsinnig gut" is a common idiom. It is just bad translation.
I keep wondering when software methodology will keep up with just how bad modern software really is. Software is always terrible - until it gets refined over time.

By this I mean bringing concepts such as testing directly into programming languages. It isn't enough to say what a program should do, we need to say what programs should not do as well. Some languages have tried (Eiffel?) but failed. Some approaches have worked but have put the effort in the wrong place (e.g. JVM enforcing bounds checking) or by making it too powerful in the wrong ways (e.g. aspect oriented.)

Go takes a step in the right direction by introducing unit testing directly into the tooling. But that's not remotely enough.

Agile doesn't solve the problem either, because it focuses on the idea of a releasable product every few weeks. Living the reality of agile, I gotta say, it falls on its face a lot. Sure, you can make some microscopic change to your product, but then QA has to do a full regression every 2 weeks.

Surely software engineering can do better than this.
Is anyone familiar with emigrating to these countries, especially if you have a tech skillset? Good idea, bad idea, horrid idea?

EDIT:

Let me refine that query--emigrating as an English-speaking American software engineer and tech, without dependents.
GMail puts Apple App Developer Activation Confirmation in Spam Folder
I ordered my Apple iOS Developer registration last night and immediately received confirmation for my receipt and order. But there was no sign of the confirmation. I went to bed and checked again hoping to see the confirmation email. No dice. I then made a wild guess as to where it could be an went to my Spam folder. Low and behold--there is was, sitting in there since 4 am.

Come on, Gmail.
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Wow. Reddit is that young? It feels as if it has been around forever.

I'm not so sure about the image overload thing. Maybe that is just a symptom of another problem. IMO, the standard settings of the main page should be "fixed". It would be nice if you saw posts from a dozen or so _random_ subreddits as a standard setting, instead of the current colorful goo mixed from the big catchall subreddits.
Coinbase is the PayPal of Bitcoin.

For Aaron: Aside from the 53 money transmission agent licenses both are required to hold, but only PayPal actually has.
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One of the problems of dogfooding is knowing when to stop. Because you could just get used to some of the quirks or find workarounds.
given Tcl, it's hard to see why Lua was created

Because:

From 1977 until 1992, Brazil had a policy of strong trade barriers (called a market reserve) for computer hardware and software. In that atmosphere, Tecgraf's clients could not afford, either politically or financially, to buy customized software from abroad. Those reasons led Tecgraf to implement the basic tools it needed from scratch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#His...
smashing tons of crap together isn't necessarily "highly proficient". In some cases it makes things harder to read and/or harder to maintain and many times certainly harder to edit.
Still a lot if you take the paperwork seriously. 10 hours falls into the 20% above and beyond category. It's a big investment in the importance of culture.
The blogpost explains why they didn't use an off-the-shelf framework. (Spoiler: "We wanted control.")

That they can generalize their homebrew abstractions into a new framework only shows that they didn't use an off-the-shelf framework.
Perhaps if you are a political enemy of $political_party_in_power.
It's interesting that /r/politics got a huge bump (looks to me to be about 75% increase in size) around the 2008 U.S. presidential election, but had no noticeable difference in 2012.
The idea that somehow it is reasonable to have any expectation that two random people who manage to have unprotected sex are able to be responsible parents is absurd. There are going to be troubled households, and it is up to the rest of us to take up responsibility.
I didn't look into it further. A lot of counter suing going on.
It depends on your point of view. Too big for what? Big can come in different manners. # of people to watch when 1 or 2 can cause trouble. Size of assets. # of distinct businesses. Size of risk position. Size of counterparty risk.
The best and most complete thread on this topic is over @ Reddit written by a tax attorney:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1uccfz/i_am_a_tax_a...
Screw long polling. Use websockets.
Taking the average of every place in the country with a population under 10,000 does not strike me as being even close to "as biased... as you can get" toward my point. You're still discussing the mean, while the original claim was about the median. If crime is indeed highly clumpy, as I've proposed, then it's probably highly clumpy in communities of under 10,000 people too. The mean could therefore easily be high while the median remains low.

For more on my reasoning, see my reply elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7024053

And yes, a lot of it is handwaving and speculation. The data I'd need just doesn't appear to exist, since you'd have to take it down to the neighborhood level. That said, I think it's superior to discuss without data, while admitting that the data isn't there, than tho discuss with data that doesn't actually say what it's claimed to say.

Regarding healthcare, your first link does not mention inferior outcomes at all. It does not state, but heavily implies, that our outcomes are not significantly better or worse. I briefly searched around that site for other articles but couldn't find anything that discusses the health care system in isolation from the confounding factors. And there is no way I'm going to believe that obesity is not a significant factor here without something to back it up, given that obesity in the US is a factor in about 1/5th of all deaths.
BTC the currency may have no intrinsic value, but the bitcoin network has tremendous value as a means for frictionless transactions across borders.
Their foresight is in saving it instead of spending it immediately. (Also in having a fund that spreads out the wealth generated by natural resources instead of letting a few people get all the money!)
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Don't know when set comprehensions and resource handlers were introduced so that might not run everywhere

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with open(words_file, 'r') as f:
return {word for line in f for word in line.split()}
"Bitcoins are only accepted on the domestic (US) version of Overstock.com. Currently they will not be accepted for any orders shipped internationally."

https://help.overstock.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5794
There are tons of sites that do this:

http://www.appbattleground.com/2013/11/11/buy-app-source-cod...
"It may also have made some Norwegians reluctant to work. "One in five people of working age receives some kind of social insurance instead of working," Doerum said, despite an official unemployment rate of 3.3 percent."

20% unemployment rate or 3.3%? Can't figure that one out.
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Here's a potential scenario as some food for thought:

Apparently, the process was so simple for you because both you (the buyer) and Overstock (the seller) operate via Coinbase. Clearly, the process would have been less smooth if you had had to use your own wallet.

Now suppose that for this reason, Coinbase (as a placeholder for any service like it) manages to establish itself as the go-to payment provider via BTC.

Then, one day, they decide that since they always have to convert back to USD for the merchant, maybe it would be interesting to allow their customers to just keep a USD balance with them. It reduces their exchange rate risk, and they could pass some of the savings on to you, making this a tempting offer.

Suddenly, BTC is not in the loop any more, though in the end all parties would still be better off (lower fees than in the current credit card system).

Such scenarios are why I'm doubtful that BTC will "take over the world" in the sense that many proponents think. I doubt it will become a predominant means of payment in any industrial nation, and there won't be a Bitcoin-standard (analogous to a gold standard) either.

Let me explicitly clarify: That does not mean that I believe BTC's value will necessarily drop to zero within the next 100 years. It might, but it might not.
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I have a friend in his 40s with razor sharp accurate childhood memory. I always assumed it was because he never got into drinking, even in undergrad.
Did anyone else find the writing style in this article overly repetitive and awkward?

Somewhat related, I notice a trend where journalists seem to treat Moore's Law as if it were a law in our judicial system, rather than simply an observation that has been clearly stated by someone knowledgeable and prominent in the field and has held true for some time.

Sentences such as "Since that time, his[Moore's] Law has been modified", makes me wonder if the author is envisioning some legislative body voting on a resolution to change the rate at which new transistors shall be added to the next generation of CPUs, or something silly like that.
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Could be interesting that they can tie physical shipping addresses to specific wallets.
Thanks for the friendly correction!

I am no native speaker and every friendly correction is helpful, of course!

Trouble with spelling correction: It does not understand context and thus lets you run into wrong wording ....
The other big boost to images taking over was the popularity of imgur. Other picture hosting sites were so poor that I think it actually reduced the amount of picture content prior to 2009.
Will be interesting to see what happens in 2016, with Obama having reached his two-term limit. Plus, I also think Obama was focusing on more "mainstream" channels like FB, Twitter, etc.
Except there are many statutes that give the dollar special tax treatment.