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"Bruce Schneier likes to say this too, as if it makes sense."
I think you missed his point when he says this.
His point was, if you give people an easy way and a hard way, they'll choose the easy way. Bruce has made this clear.

So replace recruit with "coerce" if you like.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086353/Paul-Bradley...

Nothing you say changes this point - if you make it easy for 80 year olds to get through security, 80 year olds will be the ones with bombs. Whether by recruiting, coercion, or anything.

I'm really not sure why you would think otherwise, and your argument about recruiting rates, while possibly correct, is, well, irrelevant :)
Not just with startups, but with life in general.

It's good practice to not give out advice unless someone specifically ask for it.

The only time I break this rule is with my parents. Most people will not feel any gratitude if your advice turns out to be good.

They will, however, mentally blame you if it turns out to be bad advice, whether justified or not.
This is more about a crappy exchange that has been crappy for most of its existence than about Bitcoin itself. The sky is not falling. MtGox may fall after this, but IMO that would be a good thing.
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> No. More like "I'm going to catch you, hold you down whilst you struggle, and circumcise you". Please give me an answer to this one.

It's hard to have any social autonomy without some degree of bodily autonomy. If the line is between catch/hold down and merely exiling those who refuse, I would be fine with such a line. Without social autonomy nothing can get done, so there is a social imperative to individual autonomy subject to social obligations.

Now once one has not avoided a ritual context though, I don't know that I would draw the line at exiting a ritual. Otherwise you have problems with some aboriginal groups which, say, have someone pretending to be a legendary monster hold down young men and extract a tooth as part of a coming of age ceremony. Condemning something like that is in essence to take away aboriginal culture rights on the basis of white man's fiat which strikes me as very dangerous.
Yeah agreed. Let's not forget drones where deployed to Middle East first. I guess a lot of American people disagreed, but it wasn't enough. This time maybe?
They would have had argued to the Conseil d'État in order to get the sentence suspended while the European court decide on the matter. Its not enough to just send in an appeal to the European court, as sovereignty still matters.

This chain of events happened during the pirate bay trial, in which Swedish courts did not approve of suspending sentences while waiting for an European court decision. The suspects still sent in their request, but any decision the European could had made would be after the fact.
afaik, but cmiiw: even paypal does not yet well accepted in indonesian banks, and now bitcoin? ^^
Yes, that is exactly how I feel now. Fortunately i have only been here for 4 years. Freelancing scares me a bit, but maybe being scared is a good thing. Better than feeling like dying!
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> accepting the fine would have also involved making a public admission of guilt (...) and the company feels this would have "irreparably damaged" its reputation.

It probably would've. But if they don't want that loss of reputation, perhaps they should have followed the appropriate laws in the first place? Seems like this is kind of the point of a punishment.
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If you think the NSA is our biggest problem, you need to wake up and smell the roses. Literally hundreds of parties track various parts of your whole life, online and offline. 'Democracy' can't help us, it's uncontrollable, that's my point. It's emerging behavior, call it the social or political equivalent of Smith's invisible hand.

I'd happily settle for a situation where national intelligence agencies try to collect everything they can about everybody. But it's not just that, it's dozens of government agencies at various levels and with various levels of competence, plus hundreds of private actors who have some way of tracking something about you.

NSA shmaNSA - I'm much more concerned about the traffic cams in my city, installed by I-get-paid-by-the-hour consultants or barely competent public servants, who are supposed to follow all the so-called 'laws' and 'procedures' when it comes to storage time frames, access control etc.; let alone the fact that we're being watched 24/7 by itself. In 5 years time, HD cams will be so cheap that it becomes feasible for a private party to plaster a whole city with them (and many parties will do this). Slap on some facial recognition, boom we have untrackable private parties keeping logs of where every single person walks in all public spaces. And hey, storage space is cheap, let's keep all that data.

That is the real, practically relevant threat, not a government agency stepping out of its bounds. And the scary thing is that there is no realistic way to avoid that situation. Some legislation can keep it at bay for a decade maybe, but long term - we'll have to adapt to the fact that 'privacy' as it existed in the past is gone.
So then I suppose Google should have just given in to the Chinese government's demands for censorship, or the US government's demands for access to private data?
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Yet apple bans the bitcoin apps. Such travesty.
I played the game twice and deleted it. High score was 3. I guess I have more sensibility then a lot of my peers.
American billion or European billion? In this case I think the distinction is important (I guess it's the first case... the latter would be... big, very big, hugely, mindbogglingly big)
After you read Thirteen Days, you should probably read The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality by Sheldon Stern[1], former historian at the JFK Library.

He argues convincingly that Thirteen Days perpetuated a number of (largely RFK-serving) myths about the crisis that are readily disprovable by listening to the tapes JFK made of ExComm meetings. These were only available to the public within the last decade or so.

TL;DR: RFK was far more hawkish and pro-air strikes/invasion than he later portrayed himself. There was no brilliant gambit to "accept" Khrushchev's earlier offer in place of his later one: The trade of the Jupiter missiles in Turkey was viewed as an acceptable way out by JFK essentially as soon as it was proposed. President Kennedy actually comes off rather well, without over-committing to military engagement early in the crisis and by managing the post-blockade diplomatic dance while avoiding avenues of potential escalation.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Cuban-Missile-Crisis-American-Memory/d...
Too true. I remember some of the razor thin VAIO's from many years before the Air was every a prototype. And that from a company that was a leading maker of floppy disks no less.
I mean any kind of payment is traceable (except at HSBC), so nothing to focus on about 'electronic'. If you want privacy, you need laws to prevent data collection and use, and you need that law to come from an alternative power from governments. Hard problem.
Probably the reason for that was the level of secrecy the government tried to maintain over the whole thing. It's likely the agent didn't even know the case was happening until he was told to show up in court. He didn't need to know the woman was contesting so no one bothered to tell him nor ask him about it.
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"setting their money on fire"

Usually they're setting someone else's money on fire...
I hope it doesn't take a century, really.
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Don't worry, (US) corporations will be able to sue (EU) states soon when they don't like their laws [1] . Line of argumentation: "Europe has an unreasonably high standard [in it's protective laws], and not one based on science" [2]

[1] http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-eu-us-trade-talks/liti...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcoue-mlQxw&t=58
Just wait for WebRTC to take hold. If the vendor didn't need to stream all that video through their nodes, they'd happily let consumers take the bandwidth hit.
I also hope their technical competency beats their writing competency.
I get that. I just don't see how it's relevant in a thread about Russia's laws. There's progress to be made and progress to be celebrated all over the world.
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I don't know enough about Java/garbage collection but I'm going to challenge your assertion that Java is behind poor UI response.
As someone that owns both an Android and iOS phone I think Apple has nicer form factor than the various Android options but Android has superior software. Here's my quick thoughts. iOS has caught up in a lot of the features it was missing early on (multi-tasking) but it still lacks widgets. It may not be for everyone, but I use two widgets on my desktop daily and Apple's answer to it in the notification center is bleh. I originally liked Apple's Passbook but Google's Wallet and Now surpass it in features and in some ways usability. By this I mean Google automatically creates cards for my packages from UPS without any effort for me at all. It also keeps track of my boarding passes, tickets, etc with no effort. Apple's solution requires (generally) that I open an e-mail attachment or something. Last but not least are the Google Apps, most notably Maps but it does include the others. iOS is made better by Google software and most iOS users I know use one or more Google apps. In a full Google platform though the integration is superior. Let's say I'm sitting at my desktop and search for a restaurant. The next time I open Google Now it'll have a card with that restaurant and allow me to navigate there in a single touch.
> When corporations trump nation-states, we're all screwed.

These days, I'm rather afraid that we've already reached that point - at least in the western world, most governments seem to have just become the corporations, infiltrated to the point of indistinguishability. I hope there's a way back, but I'm not particularly optimistic about it.
Main quote from the article:

> "Members don’t give advice; they speak from priorexperience, letting you draw your own conclusions on how to best proceed.”

I can totally relate from when I was teaching programming or explaining math related stuff to other people. Telling what to do is like giving the solution right away: they will solve the problem but without making the mental connection for it to be able to reproduce the reasoning.

As a wannabe teacher, I just try to make sure people I teach encounter bugs, or make wrong computation, or biased proofs. He forgot a semi-colon? Good, let the compiler throw an error at him so that he actually gets negative feedback; if he does not understand what the compiler says, I'll help him get it and, when he fixes the typo and get the source to compiler, he'll get the positive feedback for himself.

There is a common bias when teaching. You don't expect to be waiting, so you try to drive people's thinking in the right direction. But good teachers make sure you don't give up in front of an error. Great teachers make you want to get errors.

Algrith, it was not exactly business-related, but I think it connects someway.

tl;dr: teaching is about catalyzing the process of encountering errors, not avoiding them
This is a confusing article. He's giving advice about the best way to stop giving advice?
But what drivers do you model? Consumer behavior and preferences, or just abstract business metrics? I.e.: do you put into your model what is typically an indicator on a dashboard - TLV, retention rate, etc, or do you derive a model of your customers from past data and build scenarios of changes in customer behavior?
This is a FAT market. Company I used to work for used a top of the line German VC vendor. €1000/hr was the rate to use those boxes. This is a steal for the enterprise market.
I don't think this guy was being an asshole for offering advice when people sought him out as an expert. Perhaps he is being more tactful with his new approach, but he definitely wasn't being an asshole imo.
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>Why would you sell something you could make profit on if you kept it for yourself?

This question has been answered an immeasurable amount of times.

Several groups organized ASIC production projects. Avalon, BFL, and a couple others I can't remember. None of these initial groups had the capital to finance the NRE (Non-Recurring Engineering) for the ASIC, nor were traditional venture capital sources willing to do so. The ASIC production process has a relatively a high NRE, but low incremental cost. So, Bitcoin folk organized and participated in pre-sales to finance the NRE for these ventures. They had to sell the things or they would never have been able to afford to produce the initial units.

Additionally, even if some group would've had the capital to spin their own ASIC, it would have been a bad bargain for them to monopolize ASIC mining when competing against FPGA miners. Their capacity would have been limited to some fraction of the much smaller total network capacity in the FPGA era. Also, a single party swamping the network would've earned enmity from all of the other miners and Bitcoin users who could possibly have forced them out of the network, rendering their investment useless.
Too bad the kind of people who give polygraphs to root out and fire the gay people in their company don't give a shit about the science (or lack thereof) of polygraph tests.
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These handheld devices will someday become so close to us that it will be difficult to tell where the device ends and where the human begins. Someday large segments of the population are going to gladly submit some control of their mind to 3rd parties who know which programs and products are good for you, and which you are unauthorized to use.

I'll decide what I want to run and what not to run on MY computer, thanks. I guess it comes down to whether you want to be a pet in a safe walled garden with a pre-programmed experience, or a free agent out there with terrors to freeze your soul and delights to satiate your every desire.
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Like I said, 1 billion €, so a "European billion". Yes it is a lot of money. But even more so is the amount of money that Google earned in France and managed not to declare to the fisc (the French tax administration).
You have to distinguish between "Electron Travel" and "Signal Propagation".

Take a 10 ft plastic pipe of the same diameter as ping-pong balls.

Fill this pipe from start to end sequentially and fully with ping-pong balls.

Now stick your finger in one end.

While you only moved the ping-pong balls a few inches, almost immediately a ping-pong ball will come out the other end... The "signal" "traveled" at a much faster speed than the actual ping-pongs.
>many companies do have it

The people who REALLY need it don't get it though, those working low income jobs who can't afford to save up for maternity leave.
> genital mutilation. It's all disgraceful behaviour, ... If your culture is a culture of repression then no, I do not have to respect it.

Right there, you violated a human right, freedom of religion. Would Orthodox Jews, for example, agree that circumcision is "repression", "disgraceful behaviour" and "fear of change", "dressed up" like a tradition?

Which is even more worrying, you are trying to enforce these views not only in your own country, but in countries foreign for you.

A while ago there was news about a couple in Germany who had sex on a parking lot near a supermarket, and who were arrested for that. Was that "repression", "fear of change", or "discrimination"?
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> Accumulated errors, such as the deduction that Internet cookies were a kind of baked good, led NELL to deduce from the phrases "I deleted my Internet cookies" and "I deleted my files" that "computer files" also belonged in the baked goods category.

That is hilarious!

By the way, there is another intersting never ending lerner which is based on random images from the internet: http://www.neil-kb.com/
The estimates for civilian deaths in Iraq are above 100k...

That's just the best estimate for those killed in and around main areas of conflict. With all the ethnic cleansing, and general privation from the destroyed infrastructure of the Iraq nation, the total death toll is estimated to be 1 million or more.

War is more horrible than most people (who haven't directly experienced it) can imagine. We the voting public should not take any decision to go to war lightly. As we have in the past.
It's important to note that it's the Java language, but not the Java bytecode or Java Virtual Machine that are used in Android. It could easily have been really any language that Google wished to provide a compiler for towards their custom bytecode/VM. It was somewhat arbitrarily the Java language but was a good business choice IMHO due to the prevalence of Java developers in the market.

Secondly, there's nothing stopping you from writing your apps in C/C++ to get whatever sort of response you need.
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I think the feeling is that the "appropriate" laws were not, in fact, appropriate.
I've been using Brackets to prototype things for al out a year and love it. I design in code much more often than in Photoshop or InDesign or whatever, and Brackets is super useful for that.

I tried to get Sublime Text to do the same thing, live updating, and even found a plugin that mostly does the trick. But it required a lot of setup each time I used it, and still wasn't as good as Brackets.

Brackets has issues, it's slower than a "text editor" ought to be, and the general editing tools aren't nearly as developed as Sublime, but for rapidly producing visuals and designing in real-time, it's stellar.
I remember a class back in tech school. The teacher sent us off for a break, mangled the insides of our work computers, and had us fix them. I think I got a loose video card. Someone else had to reassemble the whole thing.

We learned a lot from experience and observation. This was the same class where we had to plan a new server room together even though the course was aimed at desktop support. And the same teacher who had us break our Fedora installs just to see if we could fix them. That was where I got comfortable with Linux.
> Are you just as bitter that you missed Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, Priceline, Intuitive Surgical or CNR?

Great point and one that is easy to lose sight of. I think bitcoin stings a little extra because many people on HN thought at the back of their mind that it might be big, but never acted. Whereas, at the time many of these stocks were cheap, most people weren't even considering buying them.
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Even so, this issue has nothing to do with a corp suiting a state. Any one can sue a state if its under some larger (eg. federal) umbrella.

Google are suing France because they conform to EU Law rather than French law, and would like European courts to resolve the issue.
Yes.

I don't agree with either of those things, but there is a point at which globalisation comes into conflict with sovereign nations.

The status of a company is one that is granted to it by a sovereign country, and sovereign countries establish through their legal and government systems how companies can act within their borders.

Once you're there... yes, Google should comply to any legal request. And in fact, they do... as requests for data issued under legal order are in fact complied with.

Companies are not above the law (and laws tend to exist at country level or through treaty across many countries). And if the law of a country says pay, then Google need to pay unless another law can trump it and says not to pay.

There's no two ways about it, companies must comply with the laws of whatever land they operate in.
>It's good practice to not give out advice unless someone specifically ask for it.

Most times people just want to chat or vent. As engineers and hackers we tend to want to "fix" things, to come up with solutions. Most of the time people don't want unsolicited solutions or to be told what to do, they just want someone to listen.
Okay, I'm listening.
It's forbidden to walk on the street with 10 grands. It should be forbidden to put more than X records of data in a database without a third-party certification for every order of magnitude your database size is.

And that power has to raise aside from the governments agencies. I know it might affect startups too, but the people who have gathered data until now haven't stuck to enough ethics. The danger that data collection represents is proportional to the square of the size of the db, or of the compatible systems the data can be bound to.

Right, it's gonna be the theme of the decade.
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Sure, it's almost the definition of tax (it should be less than the amount earned.) I hope they pay, it's not like we are floating in money in Europe currently.
No. They should stop trading in such countries if they don't like the laws.
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ELIZA was actually an AI platform, which made it possible to write all kinds of AI bots. The "doctor" program was a tiny example program, like a hello-world for the platform which was capable of much more. Here's a description of how ELIZA worked: https://csee.umbc.edu/courses/331/papers/eliza.html
His whole post is one long advice :D
Since I am looking for more external advice I would like to know how startups or companies usually recompense the advise?
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I'd steer clear of /r/bitcoin. It's been declining in quality consistently over the several months. bitcointalk or /r/bitcoinserious or even /r/bitcoinbeginners should give you better advice
Just a small question:

__m128i c = _mm_set1_epi16(2) __attribute__((aligned(16)));

Don't gcc/clang take care of aligning that type automatically? Isn't the attribute thus redundant?
I didn't seem to find any imperatives even saying that you should follow the same method. So, in essence, he is doing exactly what the article says: telling his experience (about telling experiences instead of giving advice), and letting the readers figure it out if they will take any action based on that by themselves.
What does the computer get out of it though. If I were to mine BTC, I get BTC out of it, even if it cost me more in electricity to do so.

If I run this what do I get out of it? I see what you get out of it. You get to use my computing power to help you make "safe" money.
Nice work.

I can imagine it would be appreciated that the page jumps to top when you turned a page, don't you think?
I'd strongly recommend putting some description of what this actually is. I feel like I should know within the first minute or so of being on a site what exactly the site does, and I can't tell that by your website.