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"The future is built from the past no matter how long or hard of a process that seems to be."

Observation of the past does not allow one to accurately predict the future. I recommend Karl Popper's classic, "The Poverty of Historicism", which expounds on the topic.
So only good if you are not too poor. Sounds perfect to me...
I've been doing it most days for the last six weeks, and I love it.
You're not stating a fact, you're stating an opinion as though it were a fact.

Don't be surprised when nobody's fooled.
Memeoirs co-founder here.

I think I understand where this is coming from because I too sometimes feel the same. However, I also believe it's possible to create value with technology that is not a major innovation.

That said, the value Memeoirs creates is the perpetuation of people's "digital letters". We don't want to live in a world where there is no tangible written communication and we believe we are not alone.

I would also like to point out that this was not VP money. Our investor is an Italian printing group who does not usually invest in other companies.
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Another data point to imagine the depth: USS Thresher imploded at a depth of 1,300–2,000 ft. The implosion took 0.1 seconds. That was a ship of ~3500 short tons of mass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_%28SSN-593%29
I don't think bitcoin is usable as a currency (because of the scarcity mainly) but if we had to judge every potential currency by whether institutionnal actors accept it we might never accept anythig as currency until the end of the world.

I would think of a currency as anything that has recognized value while being transferable.

Let's imagine starbucks prepaid point card get's accepted in some drugstore also, the. Some super markets, gas station, theaters, airports. It really explodes and you can start paying with them at millions of stores, and you are allowed to exchange them with other people via some procedure. The starbucks point system becomes a currency IMO. You'll never pay your taxes with it, but you can use them for exchange and commerce purpose.
But that same book also has a very succinct and useful definition of money - remember the scenario wherein thieves are stealing from you and you need a token to show to the thieves to prove you've already been stolen from that day ?

And then those tokens become valuable themselves ?

I thought that explanation was quite interesting but was unsure of its value in describing the real world. BUT THEN, I remember the description in Zinns _Peoples History of the United States_ wherein he describes exactly that scenario:

Columbus wanted gold out of Haiti. There was none. They told the natives to get it anyway, and gave them copper necklaces to indicate that they had fulfilled their gold tribute. "Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death."

So ... to whatever degree this picture of money is accurate, and it appears that it is more accurate than I thought after simply reading "Debt", and to whatever degree central banking is a continuation of that process ... I would have to look askance at central banking, yes ?

[1] http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Columbus_PeoplesHx.ht... (see paragraph that begins "But too many of the slaves died in captivity")
Aquatic mammals are fascinating. They are so clearly mammals, yet they've adapted the mammalian traits that we take for granted as land-based evolutions to living in the water. I'm reminded of the bomb sniffing dolphins right now.
The difference between a dictionary and a standard library is you can change entries in a new dictionary as much as you like and no-one will complain that their book no longer compiles :)

It would be nice if a programming language came along that designed all features right from the start, so no features ever needed to be deprecated or redesigned. Unfortunately I have yet to find a language that is all things to all people, even after several versions; designing a language perfectly from scratch might not even be possible.
I know, I was just building on your example of why it's difficult for shooters. And it's also difficult for many other games for similar reasons.

Being able to directly set your position in an MMO is not the only way to cheat. Some MMOs have rules against plugins and helper tools. Those are also cheats. You can hack the client and display more in the minimap, or show you exactly how much HP some monster has, run a bot to control your character, etc.

Doing everything on the server only prevents god-mode types of cheats. You can also cheat with extra information, computer assistance, etc.
Is there enough storage for the amount of data...
You got to love all these baby boomer aged investors giving advice on how to get rich. Most my age never got the chance to buy property ridiculously cheap, and are now having to rent it from the boomers.
There have been numerous discussions of this on HN a few weeks ago. Basically, nobody is exactly a champion of freedom here, but some are way more evil than others:

The current government is heavily influenced by Russia. It is utterly corrupt and is trying to help Russia exert further influence over Ukraine the land and the people. There is no question in my mind that it should be let go. Given Yanukovych's track record, he should never have been elected or allowed to become president and there is very clear evidence that he is abusing his power for personal gain.

Now, the protesters are really two different people: there is the politicians who are trying to gain power and then there are the common people who are simply fed up with the corruption. IMO, at least some of the political figures involved in the opposition might be only slightly less corrupt than the current government. I have no idea what they'd really be like if they came into power but I have never seen an honest politician in Ukraine.

The people can be faulted, once again IMO, only for having a lack of vision. They want Yanukovych gone, but they don't know what real democracy feels like so they are not going to get much done beyond that. I don't believe them to cause the violence, so much as react to it.

Edit: My friend's opinion is that Yanukovych simply cannot give up the power. For him it's quite literally a matter of life and death; as in, if he no longer has the protection afforded to him by being the president, he, his family, and anyone who was affiliated with him will be in danger of coming to physical harm.
The quote "I trust my team with this power, but can you?” resonates well with me and also why I similarly insist on removing restrictions and permissions on most tools etc. I trust my team. They are smart and reasonable people (whom are allowed to f-up sometimes).

There is an unrestricted handbrake in every car, that doesn't mean people pull it unless necessary.
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Their problem is that they want to tap the cables too.
I think the problem people seem to have is that it is standard, stereotypical advice. The entire premise is built upon the fact that you have a job that pays enough money to allow you to do the things he's suggesting -- people with untapped upward mobility.

If you're in a situation where you're working multiple jobs (or can't find any jobs) just to be able to "eat poorly", you won't have the time or money to network, invest in your future, travel, or save up.
This is safety-critical software, and the burden of proof rests on the manufacturer. One of the things that distinguishes an engineering culture from a tinkering one is that in the former, it is not acceptable to assume everything is OK just because we haven't noticed anything going wrong yet.
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Ah, of course. And of course to crb200 below as well.
Why are quaternions used often in programming but rarely in physics?
No, it's all internal, but that guy knows his stuff when it comes to SEO in general.
A good translation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" has the same issue. Verne shoehorns pretty much every interesting fact about the ocean into it.

Both books are among my favorites, pretty much because of their dedication to the "medium."
Isn't recursion—even if it's indirect—disallowed completely when doing embedded C programming for safety-critical devices?

UPDATE: Yup, #70 on the MISRA C rules: http://home.sogang.ac.kr/sites/gsinfotech/study/study021/Lis...
Is Mozilla really that hard up for cash where this is necessary?

Even though I'm not the biggest fan of Firefox, Mozilla has been one bright spot on the internet that has been continuously standing up for internet freedom as well as engaging in some interesting technical research projects that few companies engage in.

By adding ads, I'd worry about their emphasis being drawn elsewhere.
The goal is refraction not obsorbtion. A 100cm x 100cm lasor needs ~10,000 times the energy to penetrate 6 inch steel plate as a 1cm x 1cm beam.
One blog. Period.

The success of a blog is directly related to the quality of the content and the posting frequency. Best practice is to have a posting frequency of no less than once a week but more frequent is better.

If you can only manage the once a week scheduled, ensure that the posts occur on a predictable update schedule (such as every Monday morning). After your third post begin submitting the blog to every search engine crawler and RSS aggregator (RPC services) you can possibly find to raise search visibility.

Also make sure to have your blog generate sitemaps. Create webmaster services accounts with Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc... and be sure to add your site and the link to your XML sitemaps where relevant.

Lastly, once you have been active for a few months, carefully review your analytics and begin tuning your blog to respond to traffic (eg, is a certain kind of product getting better traction? Adjust your product line accordingly if reasonable).

I could go on, but this will kick you in the right direction.
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It will still be travelling sideways when it hits the target, and unless your target is a long, long way off it'll be travelling sideways with significant speed.

Railgun projectiles, like cannon shells, travel on a parabolic curve - not a half-circle.
I actually first saw this article on reddit, and someone posted the following

http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1y6xqr/hong_ko...

>Li Ka-shing is an impressive man, and he drops some good wisdom here. I certainly don't want to knock it. But here's how you become Li Ka-shing: show up in the middle of a war zone with a little cash, a lot of ambition and no scruples. Smuggle supplies for both sides, at a major premium, of course, and use your profits to slip your sticky fingers deep down into the underbelly of your city (that's where the buying lunch for more knowledgable people comes in). Then you use your newfound influence to quash the competition, and any dreams of a free market in your chosen territory. Buy up all the prime land, take over the port, and stand there at the door with a shit-eating grin on your face when the Chinese roll in with their tanks, because they're happy to make you even richer as long as you do what they say.

> You want to set up a department store chain to compete with Li Ka-shing's? Well you're shit out of luck, because he owns the shopping mall where you set up, and for some reason, security won't let your delivery trucks in, and they happen to be fixing the sidewalk right in front of your door. Want to compete with his shipping business? Sorry, things are really backed up at Li's port, what with the sudden unscheduled maintenance on that crane near your berth.

> Sorry for the rant. A lot of people think that Hong Kong is some bastion of the free market. It's actually a really dirty oligopoly, run by Li and a handful of other people like him. It just happens that if you're another Asian billionaire, or a major bank, you can park your money there basically free of charge, with no questions asked. Just don't try to bootstrap your way from Chunking Mansion to the private jet-set. Not on his watch.

> Having said that, Li Ka-shing did start from next to nothing, and he did pull himself up by his bootstraps to become one of the richest men in Asia. He's certainly a highly capable guy, but he has made many very questionable decisions along the way. Being rich isn't everything. I'm just hoping I can work my way to a comfortable retirement, and at least be able to sleep at night when I look back over my choices in life.

I claim to have done no fact checking, but the user seemed at least someone in touch with HK politics, way more so than myself :)
Thanks for the recommendations. I've been pretty happy with the little bit of Commons that I've been touching. Haven't tried Guava out yet...on the list.
"Berkeley appears more pleasant than Oakland, though further away."

In the grand scheme of things, it's not that much farther. We're talking 2-3 short BART stops.

The bigger issue with Berkeley is real estate. Oakland was zoned industrially, it's got a lot of cheap space, and it can bear the load of big company HQs and apt/condo conversions. I'm not sure Berkeley can absorb scale as easily, at least as it's currently laid out.
> spear of effect

Don't you mean sphere of effect?
nate, don't even try. they've been bought and paid for by the creature of jekyll island. just look at how well they're doing. they say they are educated, have great intellect, are smart, bring the human race forward with whatever startup they're working for.

greed, illusion and disinformatuon has sucked their common sense. one can't win against zombies.

edit: 4 downvotes on this. point proven.
How do you lay your own fiber and actually get connectivity? I've always wanted to try and take complete control of my internet, but as I understand it, the most I could do is last mile.
The german newspaper Spiegel Online claims that the democracy mode waits for 5s to choose the most popular command.

(http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/twitch-plays-pokemon-ze... , in German)
I believe money becomes important when you need it to survive. When you have all the money you need to survive, it becomes irrelevant since it doesn't represent the problem. Most millionaires I've meet don't care about the money, they mostly care about the projects they're involved into. They know they have money, they know they will get more money. I want to have that feeling: to not worry about the money at all till the last day of my life and worry about the things I want to do. Most of us will do this while working: someone hires you to code, to paint, but isn't the same, imho.
That's not fair. What antibiotic and how much of it? Not all antibiotics are equal.

You are right, the prices in our system are out of control but your example does not sufficiently demonstrate the problem.
I find it fascinating that that the consensus among the responses in this thread seems to be somewhere between Li Ka-Shing being a hypocrite, that buying food for people richer than you is crazy, that his advice is useless, etc.

Sure, there are cultural incongruities. Americans don't understand buying lunch for your superiors, and the advice to beat yourself up if you fail to see progress is directly opposed to the "do your best" attitude that lives on this side of the Pacific, but the lessons are the same.

In the end, the moral is simple: wheeling and dealing. Being crafty. Placing yourself in a situation where opportunities find you, not vice versa. Focusing your personal development on becoming competent enough to act on your opportunities.

What bugs me is that this sort of hustling is necessary to thrive in any business, not just software. I suspect HN's criticism of this advice might be a sign of wantrepreneurship rather entrepreneurship.
I suspected this post was a bad idea.

I'd say this post doesn't make much sense. Pro-western ukrainains riot against Yanukovich, who they think took away their european dream and you try to blame the Russians.
A little bit?! I had an accident a few years ago which ended with me falling into water and getting hypothermia, although I was fortunate not to have any injuries apart from a few scrapes and bruises. I was taken by ambulance to hospital and spnt 12 hours in the ICU. I got a bill for >25k, though I was able to negotiate this down to $15 and had the resources to pay it.

That's about $2000 per hour. I was seen by 6 different doctors, none of whom bothered to read each others' notes. I was charged $1000 to get (painfully) fitted with a catheter when I would have been fine with a bedpan. The discharge nurse released me with someone else's paperwork and prescriptions. The only part of it that was good value was the CAT scan.

There are no cost controls in American healthcare and it's wildly inefficient (not basing this solely on the experience above).
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I guess smoke/mist, active surface cooling and ablative armour.
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I think it's simpler than that. Russia doesn't really operate using these types of interventions. It's a lot easier to just call the Ukrainian president and say "do as I say or I will destroy you". But you are right about Ukraine trying to open more relationships up with the EU and Russia not liking that. This is exactly how this whole thing started.
In general, the more DRY the code, the more mind-space for review / testing.

It's something that would be considered firmware today, written in assembler.

Trying to be DRY in assembly is a really great way of introducing subtle bugs.
Nope, it seems to be a hoax.
"The moment they move from surveilling to censoring, from watching to interfering, the average citizen will come down on them with righteous fury"

And nothing of consequence will happen. ..You don't build tools so as to never use them.
People are really upset about the switch to a vote based input system.

I can sort of understand why. Progress now feels inevitable rather than miraculous. There was places and menus where it is quite possible to dismiss all your pokemon permanently, or use up all the currency in the game and not be able to earn more. So the tension was quite high! Can we really risk going into a building that would let us get rid of all the pokemon?
There are both pros and cons. HK healthcare system is quite affordable but has long lines. They optimize for the cheapest effective medication rather than the best healthcare you can offer.
If by Russia, you mean Putin, then Putin is basically sponsoring Yanukovich. From my knowledge Russia and Ukraine had a special multi dollar transaction, after which the Ukraine has decided not to pursue EU membership.
The course is not planned for 2014 yet. If it was for purely marketing reasons, they would have at least given some indication on a new upcoming session.
But for whom are they problems? People who are trying to get by in life or rich people looking to get richer?

Regular people invest when investing makes sense, when the creation of a thing like a restaurant or a farm or what have you has significant value in and of itself. NOT because they value money, and the value of their money will decrease if they don't invest

Having the power to control inflation to force people to invest is tantamount to setting their mattresses on fire to get them out of bed in the morning so they'll go to work. People will get out of bed--and invest--when it's right for them, and they don't need people like you to goad them into it.
Silicon Valley has already moved north. PG has mentioned that at the beginning of YC, they saw startups based in SF as a warning sign, now, they have an office in the city. It started out in Palo Alto, now SF is pretty clearly a part of it. It wasn't always.
I agree with you. yeah, there are some new APIs in nio Files that you weren't aware of. But now you have to know go to Files for the "Good API" instead of the old "File" API. Bow to the Gods of backwards compatibility!

The JDBC API is still beyond horrible (is there a decent 3rd party SQL API?). Checked Exceptions still survive. String still lacks many basic features.... and sadly as others have pointed out to get usable APIs you need Apache Commons.

I agree, Oracle needs to do some house cleaning. Some times it's ok to break things. Don't do it too often, but once every 10 years seems ok to me!
I had whale "bacon" sashimi in Japan a few years ago, and it was better than I expected.
UO was horribly broken in 1997. There was a program "UO Extreme" which let you fast walk, because the server didn't check. You could dye items glitched out colors, because the server didn't check that you chose a valid color from the dialog. You could reveal hidden people, because the server just tagged them with a "hidden" flag, instead of not sending their location at all.
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I thought that was the main use of the $100 bill. Supposedly 2/3 of the $100 bills circulate outside the US [1], presumably for money laundering type activities.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one_hundred-dolla...
Red and green exist for sure (red for "Not really a badge", green for a-dashes if I remember correctly).
It's my understanding that if you discover an unclaimed island it is then automatically claimed by the country of origin of the discoverer.
While one might argue that the comment about Fox appears intended as ad hominem, the link to Wikipedia is clearly an argument from authority.
I guess half of that is amortized R&D costs, and then some more cost padding so that various people in the military supply chain can have their cut.
People who wouldn't be debtors if the game weren't rigged to destroy their savings.
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This makes sense. Russia seeks to continue and expand control over at least some ex-USSR countries of which Ukraine is the second largest (Russia being the largest). Putin wants to further Russia's trade with the EU because it's profitable, but he does not want Ukraine, Belarus, etc. to do the same independently. From his point of view it's best if Russia trades with the EU, while Ukraine trades with Russia. That way Moscow controls exactly what Ukraine can and cannot get/do.
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Isn't there ways to do lightweight concurrent programming with python still? I don't see why they chose scala over python.
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