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> I don't argue that cryptocurrencies can or should replace government currencies, but they clearly accomplish something valuable.

They might, but I wouldn't say it's "clear" just yet. The only clearly valuable thing Bitcoin accomplishes now is the facilitation of illegal trade online. Valuable – certainly, but a new technology whose crowning achievement so far is facilitating crime has a big PR problem. And that's not Bitcoin's only PR problem. Its association with wingnut (hacker-)libertarianism is another ball and chain, which gives Bitcoin the good old Glen Beck treatment.

I think Bitcoin adopters should market it as a terrific way to spend small amounts of cash online. Unfortunately, Bitcoin's volatility doesn't help to make this case, so that is probably the first thing that should be addressed. Bitcoin supporters should understand one thing: uncontrolled volatility, even when it's pointing up, perhaps especially when it's pointing up, isn't a good sign. Every currency is based on one thing – trust – and if Bitcoin is ever to become a currency, it should loudly declare that it's in the hands of responsible people; not criminals, speculators and wingnuts.
I take a different approach:

I check if it's available on Steam, or some other non-horrible online service. If it is, I buy it. Otherwise... well, you can probably guess.
Only if you're talking about a narrow caricature of her ideas, and ignoring the context she was writing from - socially-based totalitarianism. Her focus of strong individualism would have manifested quite differently if she had been writing during that period of hierarchical totalitarianism.

There are many people who use what she said to justify their being assholes, but the same applies to any philosophy when it's taken for strict prescriptions.
> And Win+L to lock. Locking the device from the GUI is a ridiculous process.

Start - username - Lock. But yes, Win+L is faster.
Only a developer would be writing CSS, though.
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> Games released via Steam have shown evidence that when a singleplayer game is unavailable as a torrent for free, then people will pay for it. The counterargument to this is that most people who torrent wouldn't pay for it anyway. But I assert that there is a third class of people: those who first check to see if it's available for free, and if not, pay for it.

What about the fourth classification of people who search for a way to buy something and who torrent it when it's not available?

Don't forget the weird restrictions placed on regional DVDs by the industry, and the laws that prevent me from converting my player to a multiregion device.
Hypothetically, if they could move/live wherever they wanted, what percentage of the people who live in SF/SV would choose to leave? Are we saying none or something trival like 5% or 10%?
That's funny. Did you miss the part of the article where I write that Windows is "technically terrible" and that its "UX is erratic"? If Microsoft pays people to say things like these, they're doing something wrong.

I have a thought, though: if your world view only works if everybody who says anything positive about Microsoft is a shill, then perhaps it's not the "Microsoft shills" who are the problem.
Do you really think non-developers are creating user stylesheets to begin with?

As the commit message notes, the current setup already requires putting a .css file in the right location inside the user-data-dir.
I suppose it's all relative, but it should be pretty easy to judge his code and how he operates a business--MtGox was by all measures poorly coded and that directly resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being damaged financially.

He may have a high IQ, but he is not fit to run a giant financial exchange. I'm not sure any single person is, this is why large financial organizations have tons of people with different areas of expertise (development, security, law, finance, risk, etc etc). He rode "internet freedom" all the way to being way over his head and took everyone else down with him.
what are the math pre-reqs?
So why do you trust Chrome in the first place?
> That might be because a lot of women prefer other fields

...and it might not be. Still completely irrelevant to this event or these speakers.
any developers here like hiphop? and money+equity?
Microsoft haters gotta hate I guess. If you even just skimmed the article, you'd realize this was quite balanced and critical that pointed out the good, bad, and ugly. But let's just resort to name calling instead of actual facts.
IBM's Q4 revenue was $27.7 billion. The consulting branch, Global Technology Services brought in $9.9B of that revenue. The software group, SWG, brought in $8.1B in revenue. (IBM is only making ~33M per year on Watson right now)

IBM is a bit more than a consulting company. They are in the midst of trying to reinvent themselves as more of a software company because the margins are so much greater than hardware.

IBM is screwing it's hardware employees, but the writing has been on the wall for a very long time. IBM employees got used to the idea that they could work at IBM for life, and retire with the company. They've either missed the signals or felt like layoffs couldn't happen to them. Many of the groups affected by the layoffs in IBM had a furlough last August. I don't know about you, but the moment a company says don't come to work for a week with reduced pay is the moment I start looking for a new job. (I do realize that many people at IBM stay loyal because they are on a pension program and they lose significant income if they voluntarily leave).
The game already exists, titled Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

E.g., A play in today's game:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7328214

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Using Baysian type on data is very damaging on society, for those with strong maths:

We'll move from causality( we noticed you are stocking up on baking powder, lets chat) to inference (according to our data there is 85% chance you are not compliant - w/o a cause).

<One outcome: The populace will be demotivated to do anything, just to be safe.>

>

Stardust’s It Is Safe Law:

1> IIS1: To be unknown and invisible is to be safe.

2> IIS2: The Freedom Law:

We enjoy the freedom of the press,

the freedom of speech,
and the FREEDOM to use neither
in our Total Information Awareness
digital surveillence state.

3> IIS3: "Oops! I did we again!%$%^$!" Law:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=puppetmaster3

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I grew up on a beef farm in Idaho, a family business. I have some opinions about this.

1) I don't believe animal cruelty is okay.
2) If someone is abusing an animal, they should be prosecuted by the law
3) I find that many people have no idea the conditions or actions that are required to raise large animals. Some practices may seem cruel to the unknowing bystander, but are, in fact, practices to help maintain the health of the animals, the safety of the workers who manage them, and provide a product that we, the consumer, will enjoy.

As for this bill, I believe that it shows a serious flaw in the way we raise and produce food in the United States. The demand for low prices have resulted in an attempted mass production of animals.

This bill does make it appear that these farmers are guilty of something wrong, and they're trying to hide it. That may or may not be the case. I do know that if they are doing something wrong, there are legal avenues in place to investigate and prosecute the wrong doers.
If Ukraine is against nazis, Biliy & Yarosh should be in jail already not walking on the streets with empty(??? how did you check that?) machine gun. And we already see violence against jews http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premi... and communist party offices. Remember history, german nazis started with jews & communists.
There are, but the AVR parts for example have an amazing balanced of needed peripherals that still makes those parts attractive. It Atmel replaced their AVR cores with a cortex-m0 but kept all the peripherals in place and the pinouts and the part numbering scheme the same, they would have a huge boost in market share.
Yes, and inexplicable why they carried this behavior over to Windows Server 2012. It is not likely we will see touch interfaces in rackmount servers any time soon.

It is nearly impossible to hit the charms hot corner inside a windowed RDP session when the window is not full screen.
Take a look at Control Freak: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/control-freak/jgnc...

It's well-maintained and allows a user to inject custom CSS or JS on any URL, domain or all sites for their own tweaks and purposes. Maintaining these overrides just one click away offers a much better experience than hunting down this Custom.css buried within the filesystem.
Some people have ethics nuanced enough to differentiate between e.g. a violent sexual assault against a human being and the artificial insemination, with standard veterinary tools, of a "food" animal. Other people do not have such ethics. It's not hard to understand why the two groups might have a disagreement, but it is kind of obnoxious to see that disagreement on HN.
With your summing up of the quotation, I think you're again being too strict. If the standard doesn't define undefined behaviour, which it doesn't - well, what then? You claim this renders any program that invokes undefined behaviour meaningless; I claim (as I think the standard wording implies) that this simply means the standard doesn't define the results, which then necessarily depend on the implementation in question.

(It may be OK for anything to then happen, but as a simple question of quality - and common decency ;) - an implementation should strive to ensure that the result is not terribly surprising to anybody familiar with the system in question. And I'm not really sure that what gcc does in the face of undefined behaviour, conformant though it may be, passes that test.)
Maybe only developers would write CSS from scratch, but there are plenty of non-devs who are capable of finding CSS snippets (e.g. on userstyles.org) and adding it to some sort of user stylesheet. However, once they're lost once the process gets beyond "find your user stylesheet at this path" or "click to install with Stylish."
Math actually - it was a top 15 program
These luxury appartments are investment/speculation vehicles not actual places to live in.
My keyboard beeps, and because it has cherry mechanical switches, I've had the delete key stick. But what is most common is when I'm using a virtual machine and for what ever reason focus is switches momentarily to the VM and then back out again and the VM saw the key up event but the host OS only saw the key down. And I get a zillion characters. Or more likely everything things 'alt' is down or and arrow key. I have to manually go push the keys to re-sync the host OS to the state of the keyboard. That is really annoying!
> "...it's hard to classify their actions from a moral standpoint as something other than stealing."

It's not hard. A critical aspect of property theft is the deprivation of property experienced by the victim. IP "theft" lacks this aspect entirely. Using the term in this way makes you no better than the CEO of Turner Broadcasting who claims that not watching advertisements constitutes "stealing" of TV.

Call it "sampling" or "counterfeiting" if you want, but "theft" is misapplication of a term with an otherwise well-established definition.
how does that blind adherence prevent someone from being an out-of-the-box thinker of any sort?

It doesn't, at least not necessarily. That is to say, they may (and often probably do) correlate, but as we all know, correlation != causation.

What you're seeing here is just another flavor of blind adherence — namely to the dogma of atheism which dictates that people of faith are by definition delusional.
Yeah, sometimes that is true but off topic of the linked documentation which outlines in detail how to derail discussions, much like your point. You are peripherally correct but off topic and easily refutable, so many points! Well done sir.
Meetings with Cook could be terrifying. He exuded a Zenlike calm and didn't waste words. "Talk about your numbers. Put your spreadsheet up,"

Okay, why in the world are we, supposed 21st century intellectuals, supposed to be looking at a leader who asks for quantification and hard data as somehow unusual and harsh? If I assume that the writer knows his audience well, implications of this for how WSJ readers generally think is, frankly, breathtaking.

We don't live in the world wishfully imagined by the Romantic Era! We live in a world ruled by mathematically-based laws best understood from first principles. The "Rule of Cool" is not going to suspend the laws of physics and economics for you just because you greatly impress a bunch of bipedal primates on a particular planet. < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3sBlRgzTI >

This is especially true for startups! However many of us fail to comprehend this because we forget that human beings are not omniscient. Just because we don't yet understand how market forces are going to respond to an entirely new product category or an entirely new class of transaction or entirely new kind of company doesn't mean that the laws of nature and economics have been suspended for the rule of cool. It just means our squishy little chemical-bag brains haven't processed the new situation enough to codify it and share the information through our culture. Not fully understanding something Does Not Justify Woo! (And disturbingly, you don't have to search very hard in the startup scene to find some programmer-branded or startup-branded woo!)

Ignore this at your peril. The Rule of Cool won't protect you any more than respecting pilot seniority kept Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from crashing. (Korean American here, and yes, the example makes me get angry and cringe.)
Why not Telegram? It's interface is really nice.
That's awesome. Can you tell us anything about how close they have come and how they've avoided SAS's competitive litigation? :)
IBM had a large layoff in india. IBM's india problems have been quite interesting. See: http://qz.com/173601/ibms-india-problem/
Why are you making this argument up? Which governments in the world care about Justin Bieber's latest album release dates, distribution and pricing strategy, etc.? There is NO evidence that governments make studios establish a release date, distribution strategy, pricing strategy, etc. This is a barrier created entirely and solely by the music record industry.

Wow!, Simply wow! You've tried to make an argument on an issue you have no data for, and now you need to make up stories to justify your believes. Wow!
This should be seen as an argument for choosing your venue, not an argument for refusing to debate.

Scientists (anyone) that demands some policy be made or changed have no leg to stand on if they refuse to debate opponents.

Science can take place in peer reviewed articles and in the halls of academia, but policy and laws are discussed in public streets and enacted by popular vote and publicly elected officials.
Namecoin DOES scale, you can have lite clients, and note that dotDNS and OkTurtles are not official Namecoin projects.

The developer doesn't really understand what he is talking about when it comes to the blockchain and he misrepresents his work as being fundamentally different than what a CA offers. He honestly thinks everyone will setup their own DNSChain on top of a Namecoin install.
> start sourcing them from clients who pay professional wages for professional work

Besides throwing a dart and cold-calling where it lands, what other "how" is there to this?
I agree it's cultural.

Theory:

Women have more options now. They're choosing them.

Men have the same options now as they did then. They're choosing from a much more limited selection pool.
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Oh good. I finally found a feminist who'll admit that their rivals are nicer to egalitarians than feminists are.
I would assume that github knows how to create a private github repository and therefore they wouldn't mind you cloning / forking it.
Exactly. Whistleblowing is a meta statement about a law. A law by definition can't address whisteblowing no more than a law can bring the idea of a governement of laws to life. They both flow from the same place, the human conscience.﻿
Hey Hum team, I've been waiting for months. Any Exact launch date to announce to the audience?
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No, the principle is that you can have overreaching privacy protections or convenient geolocation features, but not both.

(That said, a3_nm's post indicates that this case had more to do with Google's collection of private data over WiFi than the photographs themselves. It's hypocritical for governments in the age of Snowden to criticize a private company for doing that, but at least it's understandable.)
I have messaged with on IRC with at least 4 people from sibling comments in this very thread, and learned most about technologies I'm using (and much more) exactly there - in IRC.

IRC is awesome.
Android emulators are largely junk, even the Intel ones, and they're double-junk for game development to actually take advantage of the platform's features--I need a gesture-capable touch interface to test gesture-capable touch stuff, you know?

I would like a bigger tablet, but I run all my Retina Macs at max resolution so 1920x1080 at 10" isn't really a big deal for me, you know? The biggest complaint I have is the idiotic DPI controls on Windows. They're stupid, and Photoshop is extra-bad at them.
Jolla at one point claimed to have €200m in capital. This is probably some Nokia and some Finland government money. Crunchbase does not list VC investors, or any investors for that matter.
Though, if the goal is to have a really cheap, programmable chip that doesn't consume a lot of power, then the MSP430 is probably a better bet. 16MHz MCU with admittedly very little memory of its own for about $0.35/ea for a thousand.
Maybe you haven't been around cattle very much, but it's actually quite rare for them to receive any veterinary care in a "consensual" fashion. They are different from you and I in a number of salient ways.

Do you have a problem with human infants receiving painful vaccinations for which they likewise cannot possibly consent?
I have a Nexus 7 and a Nexus 10, too. :-P I just don't carry them around all the time. If I keep the Surface Pro, I think that'll take their place - it's not great for reading but I do most of that on my rMBP anyway.
> The only clearly valuable thing Bitcoin accomplishes now is the facilitation of illegal trade online.

How do you figure? Being able to send money across the world for next to nothing (compare to credit card fees, not to mention the higher prices of Western Union or hawala) has immense value. Charitable organizations have already raised large sums using crypto-coins.

You are correct about volatility. It makes more sense right now to treat as a highly fungible asset than a currency; it will be interesting to see if it can self-stabilize without any central organization.
Called it (kinda) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7065897

"...this idea seems like a solid game plan for Blackberry? They could rename their company "Black" ala P-Diddy v just Diddy. :)" Got the name right, wrong company. Nobody is perfect.
Could it be a confusion of definition? Some would define stealing as, "You have no right to be enjoying my work unless you have paid me what I ask. It's your right to choose not to pay me and look for a different product."
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Old school yes, but the hobbyist market it only a drop in the bucket. Around 1,000,000 Ardunios have been sold total. Atmel doesn't give numbers, but the 8-bit MCU market is around 6.7 billion units per year, AVR is a large share of that.
… this is just social engineering. I'm missing something, why is this news? ;-)
Has GP post changed? I don't find that statement within it.
College, the Great Unleveler
VCs in New York (Gently) Tell MBAs Their Degrees Are Useless
Is there a site analogous to the Rails Tutorial e-book, but for Haskell?
Why do you compare the whole state with on city? You could easily find 2000 sf house in California for $160,000.
Meteor is for both ends at the same time. Most of your code on front end and back end is shared, including database queries, in a safe way.
I rather like the way the WSJ's stock price annotations add a shade of meaning to this quote:

> "Without the arrival of a new charismatic leader, it will move from being a great company to being a good company," George Colony, the CEO of technology research firm Forrester Research, [FORR -0.08%] wrote in a blog. "Like Sony, [6758.TO +1.31%] Polaroid, Apple circa 1985, and Disney, [DIS +0.41%] Apple will coast and then decelerate."

So, the guy who runs the company whose price is falling says that Apple is heading for trouble, just like those other companies whose prices are rising.
Dog falls in love with peppa pig
This entire frame is insane. The USA and EU certainly have their own interests in Ukraine, but by the sounds of it you think the protests were part of a US/EU strategy to engineer an artificial coup.

And your critiques are incoherent. First you claim that the protests are the works of ultra-nationalist neo-nazis, then you move to saying that all the developments of the past couple months are the work of the EU, USA, and Russia? It makes no sense. The neo-nazis you link to above are relatively fringe groups with little influence (though a propensity to violence), but they despise the EU and USA as much as they do Russia. There may be a path to reconcile these seemingly very contradictory stances, but it's very, very narrow and you don't seem to to realize they need to be reconciled.
Quantify Everything: A Dream of a Feminist Data Future
The minimum salary for a police officer is 88k. You can look right on the website.

That's for an entry level cop. The average is around the same as the average tech worker, 140k. Some cops pull in 300k+. They are doing just fine
Why I Use Emacs
Really I think all civilians victims in the last 100 years beg to differ. We might not have had another massive world war in the last 69 years but there's been plenty of bloodletting and human savagery. Nothing to show that under the right circumstances humans don't fall back to basic tribal violence.
That quote was never in the post. biehl is just referencing this: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piracy-its-a-crime