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Everything that knows the concept of an "early adopter", has "elements that are definitely Ponzi".

That doesn't make it a Ponzi scheme.
I was just pointing out a flaw in his reasoning. I didn't argue that it exists (and from what I gather from other comments, it doesn't). But if it did, it could be offset by any number of things, some of which might not be shared to the same extent with other cities.

Or it might be that the baseline background radiation is so small that 2x that baseline is still statistically insignificant compared to other factors.
To highlight one thing:

"Fifteen or fourteen or even ten years ago, I might have railed against the inherent unfairness of a cruel and uncaring universe of technology driven by fashion, where technical superiority is less important than buzz, but I've tried these approaches over my career."

The universe, from the perspective of a Perl programmer, is certainly cruel and uncaring. I just don't think it's driven by fashion near to the extent this statement implies (or the pithy TLDRs up top imply, for that matter). The biggest wounds to Perl were probably self-inflicted, but the languages that grew to replace Perl did so by and large because they were doing a better job of solving problems some people had than Perl was, not because the people who were using them wanted to be fadish. There certainly are people who chase programming fads, but they're trailing, not leading, indicators of a language growing.
You said:

> I would like to use "page-down" instead.

So just use page-down. What's the problem? Why isn't it convenient?
Vertex 3 with the latest firmware seems relatively stable.
My parents are both in their early 60's and they both still work as NATURAL/adabas developers.
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As more companies are building on bitcoin and more merchants begin accepting bitcoin, the network effects increases. The network effects are what makes bitcoins valuable.
My apologies. I wandered down the Wikipedia k-hole on this one and failed to realize it. The page on the pilot was deleted and merged into a section on the article of the event; the Talk page is here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Ben_Charles_P...
I'm glad that you are starting to let that go. It can be paralyzing and then all you will do is resent yourself more because of all the time spent dwelling, making your situation and gauge worst. Let it go, you are great. Do great now.
His remarks are uneducated, not the person himself. I don't know him as a person well enough to judge that.
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Practical applications of Bitcoin (as a network) are popping up all the time, but it's true that they are still in their infancy. That doesn't mean the value isn't there.

If value were judged purely on current implementation or common practice, then most of the startups mentioned on this site would never have the chance to become anything worthwhile. We invest in great ideas that hold promise because sooner or later, those ideas will take flight and become part of our lives. Bitcoin is no different.
if, like me, you can't get the stream live (?), afterwards the ACLU will post it here: https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/coming-soon-virt...
Has anyone beaten this yet?
All of them are wrong. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373804

EDIT: They are uneducated, in that any cursory research into the concept and history of Bitcoin would make it blatantly obvious that his remarks are wrong. There are two possibilities here; either he is being willfully ignorant, or he simply hasn't done his homework well enough. Given his reputation, I'm betting on the latter. The "uneducated" bit simply derives from him literally not having educated himself on the matter.
The people you really want to work with/for already already know the value of experienced/senior developers.
My father's in his 60s. Formerly a Pascal/VBA programmer, he's found it very tough going over the last decade. 20 years ago, he was working for the London Stock Exchange but now scrapes by making (actually very impressive) complex Excel macros for local small businesses.

It makes me really sad. I've tried retraining him in web development, and he actually picks it up really quickly, but I doubt there'd be any work for him out there given his age.
Ask HN: Is there a firm that creates simple games?
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Ok we will clarify this, thanks for the feedback.
Quite a lot of fun.

One minor nit: if the board is full, but you can make a move that will free up a space, you can make that move and the new tile will appear in the newly opened space, but then the game immediately ends afterward. EDIT: OK, apparently this only happens if there are actually no more moves; as long as moves remain the game continues.

Also, hitting "space" reset the entire game; I'd expected it to either do nothing or add a tile without moving.
Is this the first year that they are doing this?
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Yeah, Arch does this and it breaks so many things (any PKGBUILD which involves python will have some hack or another to fix things).
Could be, especially when you combine that with its immense emotional power.
>Myth : The highest paid are in the 30-40 age bracket.

I'm not saying people are not paid money I'm saying older people will expect higher salaries based on their experience compared to younger people despite the direct value they can contribute to a company. Value = money.

>...but they already know so much more that learning is less important. They know it already!

Yes, they know so much... of things no one uses anymore, of outdated practices, and not what is making money right now. Technology changes fast and what is useful to know now won't be in 15 years.

>Myth : http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-o/research/2009/04/educatio.....

Great, so why are older people discriminating against other older people?
I looks like the new block appears randomly. If the new block appeared even if you didn't move anything it would be easy, but they don't and that can ruin your strategy.

I got to a 512 block in a corner and then got blocked by a new block in the same corner.

I think the strategy is very simple. Pick a corner and mash keys that move into that corner. For example for bottom-right corner, just mash right and bottom. When you can't move anything anymore, move into the direction that keep your highest block in a corner and then continue to mash and hope that a new block doesn't appear anywhere close your highest block.
I have gotten a 512 block in 2 minutes twice( score over 6000 ). It would only take time to reach more, and maybe actually look at the board instead of mashing; but that is problematic since the new block appears to be random.

1024 could be reached in under an hour and 2048 in a day, i think.

It would be better if you got the position of the new block. That way the game would be solvable in some normal time.
What is your reference for the average path length within a real social network? Six degrees of seperation?
That is not really the reason. The reason is mainly BLAS, that implements some of the most commonly used linear algebra operations (matrix multiplication, matrix solvers, singular value decompositions etc). This is implemented in optimized versions for almost every CPU available. BLAS is written in FORTRAN, but it is not true that it has not been reimplemented. In fact CPU vendors frequently reimplement it tailor made for their CPU.

On the other hand, the API is not something that is subject to change. A lot of software expect this to be stable, like Matlab, R, Octave, Numpy, and a lot of others.
> Please submit your application by March 21. We'll notify you by March 31 if you've been accepted.

That's it? There's no interview or coding test? I'm all for a quick process, but I've never seen a tech company accept interns like this. Or does accepted mean you've been accepted for an interview at a YC company?
Dogecoin is inflationary. You can use that if you wish.
If you believe the latter statement, then you also aren't alarmed by radiation in Japan, right?
Hi vyrotek (Ciao!), maybe this fear has something to do with the fact that we operate on a field where there is no obvious "right way", but is always full of tradeoffs, so deciding between many degrees of good and bad is non trivial.
You can get the private key for the bitcoin address we created for you by calculating the sha256 of the passphrase you wrote down. We're working on improving this process and in the mean time we'll clarify further. Thanks!
correction Tanner et al. (link 1) was published in 98
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I remember that too... do you remember the name?

EDIT: Found it here: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/20/this-startup-tells-you-whe...

It's http://www.datanyze.com/
What kind of traffic are you getting? What is the source of traffic?

I was contemplating something like but thought themeforest may be a better channel to sell.

How do you market the site?
For perspective, the budget of the NIH, which funds a huge percentage of all the biomedical research in the US is about 31B. This is research that subsidizes and lays a foundation for many of the medical advances we have today. For additional perspective, this 31B in public money is about equivalent to all the private R&D spending done on medical research.

So the thought that someone would spend 19B on a messaging platform, which is an already solved problem, is sad. 19B probably isn't "cure cancer" kind of money, but you'd be able to solve some pretty real problems with it.
> "at times like this i wish the supporters of bitcoin hadn't wedded themselves so thoroughly to libertarian ideology."

"Bitcoin supporters" are not a homogenous group.
maybe this is part of the test?

/jk
> To start solving the debt problem, the central banks should start targetting 4-5% inflation for a decade or so,

Wouldn't that just cause lenders to increase their interest rates?

> Deflationary regimes favor hoarding, make it impossible to invest,

Most sound investments yield returns way above inflation, and they would also yield returns way above deflation

> and ultimately benefit only the wealthy

Unlike the current system?
This is one of those games that I do best on my first try when I have no idea what I'm doing, and then do worse and worse the more I think I have a strategy.

Fun though!
One thing not talked about is potentially superior EU education relative to US. Who would make a better impact for you?
Yeah, I feel pretty ashamed of the HN community today, and I'm going to take the day off from it today. There were like 10 submissions and none of them were upvoted too much.
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A really big factor is that people get upset when the number describing their wages goes down.

Businesses are also disinclined to lower their prices (this isn't a rule, sure businesses lower prices, it's a description of long term aggregate behavior).

Both of those things are things that must happen for an economy to function with a deflationary currency.
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I do anything from front-end design, styles and scripts to back-end programming and server management and I've always just said "developer".

Folks within my field get a sense of what I'm about from that or ask further questions about the specifics, and those who aren't and maybe aren't familiar with the term don't stick a label on me that may be too specific.

It's been very interesting to me, having done mostly web work for nearly 13 years, to see the labels change. Whether it's "front-end ninja" or "full-stack developer" it's usually very general. Everyone seems to want a label but no one wants to commit to something specific.

A plumber wouldn't usually say, "I'm a plumber and do mostly joint fittings, but I also specialize in X, Y and Z" -- they just tell folks they're a plumber.

Stick with something simple and give the details when asked.
For those that aren't aware, there is a growing class of lead-generation startups which scrape websites and determine what services you're using.

My guess is that the company that contacted you is using one of these (Stripe requires your public key in the head of your site and linking to their JS). BuiltWith is one such service: http://builtwith.com ... NerdyData & Datanyze also: http://nerdydata.com, http://www.datanyze.com

Subscribers use these tools to find people who are trying out competing services (they are not cheap, BTW). Often, if a site only recently added JS code–for example, say, KissMetrics–you can assume they are still in the trial period. That gives you a window of time to try and sell them on your competing product. Or, if you sell a special WordPress plugin, you can use these services to find WordPress sites.

Stripe doesn't have a trial period per se, but its pretty easy to switch between the modern payment providers and if it was only recently installed, its safe to assume you don't have a lot of customers yet.
You're right, everything is an object in Python. However, what I'm referring to is more on the application design side that you see in the enterprise Java community, rather than the implementation of the core types or builtins.
If any parents are out there, please don't do this. Your children are independent adults and they have their own values and goals. They are not an investment opportunity or a vessel for your own unfulfilled aspirations. If you make your kids feel that you're disappointed in them you're just going to make them miserable and resentful and you'll have a lousy relationship as adults. Please value your children's happiness and well-being over prestige and money.
Sure, but how would you feel about 30 years experience? Because at that point, somebody who started just out of college has another 10 years to go before retirement.
Thanks for digging that up. Interesting to see their rationale. Seems like they could extend the test to not warn if it's just switch(var) only, but it might have to happen at a different eval level for that to work.

> I can't imagine why you would ever choose to switch on a bool

In my case, it's for opcode execution. They consist of various bit fields that control the behavior, some are only 1-bit wide, some are 2-bits to 5-bits wide. The implementation is a series of switch statements, one after the other, that have cases for all possible values. So by using switch() in all cases, the code looks consistent.

So this is kind of what I dislike about style choice warnings. It's easy to presume there's no valid use case, until you actually find one later on. I get that people can make mistakes, but when I know for certain that I haven't made a mistake, I don't like having to change my code anyway.

Could I force the boolean values to unsigned types even though they're only 1-bit? Yes. Could I just do if/else anyway here? Yes. But I don't want to. I'm happy with my code, and received no warnings at all when I wrote it with GCC several years ago. It's only a "problem" now that I need Clang to target OS X.

> Also, my clang and g++ with "-Wall -Wextra" does not warn on an empty while statement

Hmm, good to hear. If I get to my dev PC before the post is buried, I'll post the output I was getting.
Or someone within Stripe, with access to the user-sign up list, is an affiliate with BlueSnap and is trying to make some extra money on the side.

An evil thought, and I'm fairly sure it isn't the case, but totally possible.
> It's supposed to be a currency, but no one's actually using it for currency. They're just gambling on it, hoping to take advantage of other people's mistakes to make their own money. It's a zero-sum game, and it's destructive. People are just playing around with the electronic version of Monopoly money.

Source for that? I regularly pay for things with BTC, and part of my salary is paid out in BTC.

Or are you perhaps mistaking a particular subset of Bitcoin "users" (speculators) for "the entire Bitcoin ecosystem"?
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Imagine instead that each ring is joined by a set of springs, which can be compressed down to zero and extended to the difference in the grid snapping between the 2 rings. As the rings snap to different grids the springs extend and contract to fill the gaps. Now place some vertices on these springs and you have a terrain mesh, where the majority of vertices are snapped to locations depending on the LOD, except those joining the rings, which such that the transitions between the layers are seamless
I've started playing threes a week ago. Both threes and 2048 are fun to play. Except that I think in threes the challenge starts earlier in the game and every step counts and you can easily get into a deadlock.
Can't wait to see the source code and analytics. Maybe you want to add on the page the highest score :)
| It's false that bitcoin isn't a means of payment. People DO use it as payment.

But places that accept bitcoin aren't holding on to it. They transfer immediately to local currency (because their suppliers can't be paid in bitcoin). So currently* bitcoin is more a means of money transfer than it is a currency in itself.

* This might eventually change if suppliers are willing to accept bitcoin too.
I'm 60+. I've been coding my whole career and I'm still coding. Never hit a plateau in pay, but nonetheless, I've found the best way to ratchet up is to change jobs which has been sad, but true - I've left some pretty decent jobs because somebody else was willing to pay more. This has been true in every decade of my career.

There's been a constant push towards management that I've always resisted. People I've known who have gone into management generally didn't really want to be programming - it was just the means to kick start their careers. The same is true for any STEM field that isn't academic. If you want to go into management, do it, but if you don't and you're being pushed into it, talk to your boss. Any decent boss wants to keep good developers and will be happy to accomodate your desire to keep coding - they probably think they're doing you a favor by pushing you toward management.

I don't recommend becoming a specialist in any programming paradigm because you don't know what is coming next. Be a generalist, but keep learning everything you can. So far I've coded professionally in COBOL, Basic, Fortran, C, Ada, C++, APL, Java, Python, PERL, C#, Clojure and various assembly languages each one of which would have been tempting to become a specialist in. Somebody else pointed out that relearning the same thing over and over in new contexts gets old and that can be true, but I don't see how it can be avoided as long as there doesn't exist the "one true language". That said, I've got a neighbor about my age who still makes a great living as a COBOL programmer on legacy systems.

Now for the important part if you want to keep programming and you aren't an academic. If you want to make a living being a programmer, you can count on a decent living, but if you want to do well and have reasonable job security you've got to learn about and become an expert in something else - ideally something you're actually coding. Maybe it's banking, or process control, or contact management - it doesn't matter as long as it's something. As a developer, you are coding stuff that's important to somebody or they wouldn't be paying you to do it. Learn what you're coding beyond the level that you need just to get your work done. You almost for certain have access to resources since you need them to do your job, and if you don't figure out how to get them. Never stop learning.
Back in the day Netvibes was my page of choice for all my co-workers. You could put Google Calendar agenda on the page. No one had an excuse for missing the times of meetings.

Was a good tool for it's day. Now I laugh at the site of a "Home Page"
I'd be more interested if you made your case with LTO-5 tape; the latest and greatest generally comes at a price premium.

I switched from USB 2 external hard drives to LTO-4 (see my other comment in this thread for one reason for that generation, which BTW per the LTO spec can be read by an LTO-6 drive) because I wanted multiple copies of my data in a less physically fragile form than hard drives (something I'm willing to routinely schlep to a safe deposit box). And I'm an old timer, bought my first DECtape in 1978 (sic), because it was neat, and then it became handy when I learned the -rf flags to the rm command ^_^. I'm very used to tapes, how they work and don't, what you can and can't do with them. And while I was flirting with hard disk backup almost had a catastrophic loss (http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/) only redeemed by luck and offsite storage to rsync.net in Denver.

I didn't buy a high end, super fast tape drive, rather an internal HP 1760 EH919 drive, Newegg will sell you one at 2,130, but with some bargain hunting you can get for $1,400 easily (we managed $1,200), and Fujifilm and HP tapes (wouldn't trust any others, except maybe IBM but those are expensive) from them are going for $39 to $42 quantity one, you can of course get better pricing if you buy packs or 20 (or more) and/or go bargain hunting, e.g. 35.45 for the first Amazon Merchant I found with a rating >= 96% for a 20 pack of HP tapes. That's for 800GB uncompressed storage per tape.

Per my other comment I also had to buy a 15K SAS drive, that was $250 back then (late summer of 2011).

And I should note one of the biggest use cases for LTO drives is fast backups for businesses. With of course plenty of $$$ backing hardware to keep LTO-5 or LTO-6 drives happy.
Ship it as a mobile app, seriously!
You can also just always click the "link" and reply directly to a reply there.
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> The kind of person that would use -Werror, in reality would go perfectly fine without.

Eliminating warnings can often be a hassle for no short-term benefit, and there's a decent number of people who agree that zero warnings is useful but don't actually get around to sticking to that if the compiler doesn't force them to.

The bigger benefit is when working with people that will just ignore warnings completely if you let them.
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OMG, this is fabulous.
Just to complete the fun circle, in "Contact", Sagan used the footage of Hitler welcoming the world to the Olympics (something he would have been asked to do because of his position in Germany at the time...).
> The problem with cryptocurrencies is the impossibility to control the monetary mass.

Not really. It is designed so that no individual can control the rate of inflations, however if it is in the vast majority[1] of miner's interests it can be changed.

[1] If a small majority of miners changed inflation it would cause a massive chain fork
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Can you tell us his name, please?
I don't believe anything in particular, that was just one of many potential explanations.

That said, I'm not alarmed by the radiation in Japan, I'm more alarmed about the situation of the Fukushima plant and the problems they face with potential leakage into the groundwater (among other things).