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When my product manager needs to make a product decision, rather than thinking about it and coming up with a single creative idea, he rather goes directly to competitors' sites. Every time, without fail. I look at our product roadmap and it looks like a diff of our site vs competitor site. It drives me crazy. After reading this blog entry though, I understand. It truly is the nature of business.
I think you probably can work it out from context, though in this case either option works.
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Nothing was "stolen", the state of the blockchain was altered in a way you did not want to occur. Now everyone using bitcoin agrees that any transactions you issue are invalid because you don't have any funds on the address you'd like to pay from.

Convincing a judge there was an actual theft is going to be your first challenge; unless laws are updated the theft of bitcoins doesn't obviously fit into existing rules that were designed around physical goods or fiat currency.
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Square is tackling different type of merchants. It's not quite this that is keeping Square from an IPO; but they messed up in a few ways along with Chase (their merchant acquirer) releasing the same product undercutting the Square margin. Not to mention PayPal's ability to lower the price or the international market is almost gone for Square (others have copied Square).
In a lot of areas population change is a complicating factor. The elementary school I attended has since closed, along with 2 or 3 others in the district. High school graduating classes are also substantially smaller. That is a huge hit to the budget.

An area with a growing population would have problems too, having to find money to construct space that may or may not be needed in 10 years.
Where both Communism and Capitalism betray their fundamental nature as ideological is where they attempt to predict the future, or divine the behavior and/or motivations of their participants.

EDIT:
It is a rough world out there and you do need to find some way to compete

That survival depends on competition is a religious tenet, an ideological rationalization.
Reality shows are not scripted. They are simply carefully edited from many hours of footage to create the "story" that the producers are looking for. When necessary, the producers may intervene to create drama, but for the most part participants are selected for their ability to create drama out of thin air. (This is why reality show participants are so colorful and outlandish.)
So we're not going to leave Europa alone.

Wonder if this is going to end well.
Much as if your program is simple enough, you shouldn't need C?

FWIW, I think that CSS is no great language, and yes, writing LESS feels very much like writing macros rather than using a language, but the requirements of the designs I have to implement are generally complex enough that a preprocessor and CSS framework greatly simplify my work, leaving me more time to focus on intent (which I think is a reasonable goal) rather than details of implementation.

If it works well for you to refuse to learn a preprocessor, then that is a good thing, but the fact that one makes my life easier doesn't necessarily imply that the designs I am implementing are overly complex, as your statement seems to imply (though perhaps I am misreading so...)
The one good thing about cyberattacks
> He is certainly not living as someone with hundreds of millions in the bank.

Thats because he doesn't have hundreds of millions in the bank. He has it in a random internet conceived currency. I'd seriously like to see him (or anyone for that matter) try and realize $1MM in Bitcoin in actual USD.

Good luck with getting your 1000 payouts of $1000 at a time spread over the course of 2 weeks per payout.
This is standard political bull. Everyone is convinced the government wastes huge amounts of money, and therefore the solution to the problem is to cut this waste. Hence this "cut the fat" rhetoric goes over well.

However as soon as you actually identify a specific programme or department to be cut, you energize a constituency to oppose you. If you identify a couple of dozen things to cut you have a couple of dozen constituencies opposing you. Now they will hire consultants, do soundbites and pay for attack ads to try to take you down. So you don't do it.
Curious about that too. If I load an svg in the address bar with embedded script I can show alert(), but linked into html using <img> tag, alert does not run. Sandboxed? Otherwise I could execute JS just by loading in using svg via <img>.
Germany is both a big importer and a big exporter of dairy products. I guess this indicates that there isn't any substantial cost associated with cross border trading of these products?
It's not that hard. Moving a few numbers around in a bank's mainframe could be described the same way.
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It isn't prime by definition.

The definition is made for convenience sake based on what it implies. One being prime implies that other primes are evenly divisible by another prime but for some reason that doesn't stop them from being prime. So 1's primeness would have to be special relative to the primality of the other numbers.

Starting the primes at 2 makes all the definitions and implications simple, except for the one caveat that primes start at 2.

Either way you'll have to make a concession, we choose the one that only has to make it once.

The other way around you end up with things like: The square of a natural number is not prime (except 1). The product of two primes is not prime (unless one of them is 1). and so on...
It's absolutely not bizarre, hypocritical, paradoxical or even ironic.

By your logic, every libertarian who disagrees with taxes (or the level of taxation) should break the law and face the consequences (of a miserable, tortuous life in prison).

It's one thing to have a political view, and argue for it. Democracies (and republics) wouldn't have a chance of working if citizens didn't take this much upon themselves.

At the same time, you also have one life to live. Some people want to be politicians or activists, others may want to be engineers, scientists or artists.

The latter don't want to spend their entire being on an idealistic crusade, but they still deserve the right to a political opinion like everyone else.
Yeah. But is this a conversation about "if you want to participate in system X, follow rules Y" or specifically anti-government sentiment?

As the Wired article talks about the cost of coming into compliance, I think it is reasonable for the parent poster to ignore the source of the rules. Unless you wanted to make a point about the source of rules impacting compliance costs or voice your other reason for such a government/private distinction. But now that I've already started arguing with myself I'm not going to go any further.
I wonder if they will bundle a license for the Atom editor along with the program.
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Indeed, the first thing that came into my mind when reading this was "You wouldn't have this problem if the only valid type in a conditional was boolean."
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I hear you. I too love paper. I too am astounded by the versatility, simplicity and beauty of it. It will not be replaced for my personal notebooks. And yes, something to replace pen and paper would have to be astounding.

But I still have problems with pen and paper.

I like the ability to add to notes and change them. Professors sometimes meander about in lectures, and I sometimes want to reorganize the ideas they present.

You cannot search efficiently with paper. I have terrible hand writing on paper. Papers wrinkle and drive me crazy. I write slower than I type - and it's assumed (by professors) that people are typing so they teach at that speed (ppt doesn't help). Paper cannot be as easily shared as documents.
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Too bad they don't allow crowdfunding.
Kiiiinda misleading title. I too am a fan of bulletproof coffee, but don't see it as an alternative to soy lent which is a food replacement.

This would have been more interesting had you added nutrients and protein to your version of bp coffee.
I don't really understand how this is an 'alternative' to soylent.
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I really admire that... props to your success and track record, thanks for chiming in. If I was an investor, sounds like you would make a good bet and someone to keep an eye on.

Starting out, the best way to learn entrepreneurship IMO is to just do it and build it organically like you did.
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The Newsweek article is probably incorrect
HN may be user-driven, but it's heavily moderated, privately run and those operating it have a long established policy of banning and deleting content (or sometimes entire sources, e.g all of Gawker Media) at will for any reason they see fit. Same applies to discussion and the 'ghosting' of specific users with poor reputations. There's no guidelines for what's 'allowed' and 'disallowed' (at least none they've committed to) so bans are completely arbitrary and usually carried out with no official explanation or notification. This is actually standard operating procedure for any moderated discussion board and HN's particularly aggressive stance has contributed to it's success - higher quality content, higher quality discussion. Slashdot operated under similar rules and enjoyed success for at least a full decade despite the same complaints of 'censorship' coming up constantly. Slashdot eventually fell apart for unrelated reasons (shrinking/aging audience, failed attempts at modernization) but it's still a proven model with plenty of precedence. If you're concerned that you're being intentionally kept from reading about something, get your technology-related news from multiple sources. There's plenty of sites with looser guidelines to choose from.

One thing that annoys me about HN though is that I read it primarily through Feedly, and content often gets pushed to HN's feed prior to deletion, so I end up with a lot of annoying dead links to HN in Feedly.
At the risk of sounding flippant: Have you considered Bitcoin as a primary payment method? Situations like yours are the main reason I want to see altcoins succeed.
I think it is more like use the right tool for job.
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, etc.
I love TDD, but that's classic No True Scotsman.
"The company found some free surface 2's and are forcing everyone to use them. This is sign that Apple is losing dominance in the bring your own device market"

Okay, sure, makes sense.
> Satoshi is acting vague for personal gain.

Exactly this.

Everyone here assumes that there are only negative consequences of being identified (or misidentified) as Satoshi. That may even be true, but Icarus didn't know the Sun (fame in this case) would burn him.
Well, the Republicans did their homework: railing against spending in the abstract is very popular, railing against specific sending is not. So they do as much as they can of the former, none of the latter.

That the people who listen to their media outlets parrot the talking points shows how effective the strategy is.
Actually I think it's quite common for people to mistake mere introspection with actual self-awareness. It is much harder to see your true self than to see a self you have constructed to see as your self.
This, right here.

Doing close air support you want A-10 pilots or Marines.
Sorry for your losses. The silver lining is next time, you and others will probably be much more critical of an institution before trusting them with your valuables (even virtual ones). You'll be more apt to demand more transparency and evidence of solvency. That's the piece missing in the feedback loop for so many other parts of the financial system.
Guns producing more recoil than an aircraft's powertrain is nothing new.

Yes, but AFAIK, the A-10 is the only plane that was designed by starting with a BFG, then building a plane around it.
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Most assmetric warfare in current theatres is not fought against tanks of the caliber of the modern western main battle tanks. Until these types of conflicts are unlikely, I don't see why you would prefer an f-35 in CAS vs a comination of A10s and (if really a problem) drones or F16s.
In what sense is Bulletproof Coffee remotely an alternative to soylent? I'm not even going to touch the major problems with Dave Asprey's claims, especially regarding mycotoxins.

But this seems like an extremely bait-y headline. There's no new content here - just a restating of Asprey's claims, plus the word "soylent".
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Personally I can relate to Kent Beck's approach to testing rather than "test everything":

"I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence (I suspect this level of confidence is high compared to industry standards, but that could just be hubris). If I don't typically make a kind of mistake (like setting the wrong variables in a constructor), I don't test for it. I do tend to make sense of test errors, so I'm extra careful when I have logic with complicated conditionals. When coding on a team, I modify my strategy to carefully test code that we, collectively, tend to get wrong."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153234/how-deep-are-your-...
Looks really cool, but how does this differ from Dashing?
"ferm" is also a nice readable wrapper for iptables.
No, you don't need pages to describe your moment of clarity. In fact, the author did it in four short sentences.

>He wasn’t paying attention. He missed the elevator.

>I bet you that’s exactly what happens in my code. If the remote end hangs up while I’m waiting for my authentication tokens, my app won’t notice, error out, and leak the socket.

You should be able to capture that thought in a few words. That will let you get back in the moment when you need to while also allowing you to fully engage with the people talking to you at the party.
I did that below ("why do charities accept bitcoin")
RT Anchor: I can't be part of network 'that whitewashes' Putin's actions
Listen, I'm not saying your systems don't work. I'm just saying they are still far from perfect. And still so close to their predecessors.

People writing textbooks these day understand the people will read them on computers and iPads. But they don't change anything. We read ebooks, but they are EXACTLY the same. Sure, they work. But why don't they work better.

Like I said, why don't they incorporate videos? Customized problem sets based on what I don't understand?
The man who "invented" this can be found here:
http://www.bulletproofexec.com/

If this doesn't convince you I don't know what will:
Can you really lose 100 pounds without using exercise, upgrade your IQ by more than 12 points, and stay healthy by sleeping less than 5 hours? It took more than 15 years and $300,000 to learn how to reach the Bulletproof® state of high performance. And it’s all here on the blog for you.

Notice he thinks he's got a registered trademark on the word Bulletproof.

Do we really need more crapily to none researched dietary fads on HN?
I think you'll struggle to find a solid suggestion since disposable income isn't something people directly budget for; it's what's left over after you've ensured everything else is budgeted for.

The thing is, what is your disposable income for? Going out to the movies every weekend? If you enjoy movies that much, why not roll it out of 'disposable income' and into your regular monthly budget?

Or did you have a more refined definition of disposable income?
For a moment I thought it was the first $50,000 in fees not transaction volume. Still pretty cool and will probably get me to try them out.
I've read into Dave's stuff a bit, and it sounds like mostly bs to me, but I have heard good things about bulletproof coffee, though it's all been anecdotal.

Do you really feel better drinking it, or is it just a nice way to get quick, easy calories in the morning without any insulin spike from carbs?
It's just basic separation of concerns. I've seen too many development organizations brought to their knees by the fact that they don't have any layering between their logic and the libraries/frameworks they use. It's a very real problem.
That last paragraph is spectacularly spot on - that's why I started knoxpayments.com - connecting people directly into their banks. No fees on micro, $0.18 on everything else - flat.

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> My use case is different. I want to put data into S3, but want it only accessible on my instances in the VPC, none of which I want to have access to the outside world.

Which you can still do, by using bucket policies/permissions in S3 (specifically EC2 IAM roles in this scenario).

I think we're arguing different use cases though. If your content is only used or getting served from one machine, EBS volumes. If you need to have it served to the world, available to multiple instances, etc, S3.
Completely misleading title. This is at best a "breakfast hack" of sorts. It definitely is a cool concept and introduces interesting ideas, but it surely is not a food replacement or alternative to soylent.
Crack is the supersonic crack of the round, then explosion of the round when it hits the ground and the "brrrr" is the sound of the propellent gases leaving the barrel of the gun.
It would be good if you can elaborate your point and back it up otherwise just saying this doesn't inspire much confidence.
I hope you enjoyed the irony of invoking the FDIC to justify why people "own" money that they've deposited in checking accounts as much as I enjoyed reading it. Banks used to shut down all the mfing time without making their depositors whole. The reason that's more or less stopped (in the US) is not because of some moral awakening that somehow missed the social security administration. It's because we regulate banks better.

PS: congress is just as capable of shutting down the FDIC as the SSA
Nothing was "stolen", a number in your bank account was just deducted in a way you did not want to occur.
This would set unnecessary bandwidth limit if supplier could support larger number of consecutive connections
You can be proud of your ethics, but ethics and pride are definitely not the same thing, at least not to most people.
That will definitely be an option at some point. I just don't want to turn away any potential customers because they don't have bitcoin.
Is there any reason that the definition of "prime" hasn't been changed to "a natural number only divisible by 1 and itself and is non-invertible"?
I think this needs illustration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYmn_xYB78

My father worked on A-10s in the Air Guard, I thought was very familiar with them... but it wasn't really until I saw that video that I realized how terrifying they are in the appropriate situation. While the above video is a friendly-fire close call, you're probably not going to find video like that from the other side of the line.
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Bulletproof coffee is a great breakfast (and snack) for anybody on a high fat diet like keto or Atkins. This is because while on these diets, your body has put itself in a state where it can more easily convert fat to energy. However, people on a regular high carb diet will not be able to make the most of all that fat and will just be hungry and tired after an hour.

Don't get me wrong, I think most people need more good fat in their diet. But if you're on a "regular" diet, the fat needs to be a supplement, not a replacement.
Thank you for your valuable insight.
Damn fools!
If people are distracting you, maybe you should, you know, have an actual conversation with them about it. Not everyone views headphones as the universal sign for being busy. Some people (myself included) just like listening to music while we work.
I agree with you there. If that was all they included, it would offer the reader a meaningful context of his life without compromising his privacy and possibly safety.
"I want to make sure you and I are here to see those first tube worms and lobsters on Europa."

If he wasn't joking, he is in for a disappointment and I am depressed with the quality of people who are deciding these budgets. But if its that or more weapons expenses, take the money and run NASA!
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Seemed funny to me.
It's not a perfect 1:1 replacement as you can't just drink Bulletproof Coffee to get all your nutrients. But, start your day with a cup of it to boost nutrition, focus, and satiety. Follow with a normal lunch and dinner.
Also, an Israeli F-15 flew back to base after having one entire wing sheared off in a mid-air collision.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9884/did-an-f-15...

An F-8 Crusader Navy jet could take off with its wings still folded, then come around and land again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F-8_Crusader#Operational...

(Search for "wings folded". I like the part about the pilot complaining that the controls felt "heavy.")
Every startup in the US at the moment which is a shame, same rules as last time
The rounds are supersonic, so the first sound you hear is the sound of the rounds hitting the target, then you hear the sound of the gun firing arriving at the much slower speed of sound.
Maybe… Still hate the secrecy around those.

Well, if someone could publish best practice as to how not get hacked, that would be great: it seems VCs and advocates are unhappy to see those scaring the seven billion people still to be convinced this is worth their attention. No points in having regulations, voluntary or state-enforced, if you have no idea what to check.
Looks like NASA may be dragged into it kicking and screaming. It may be time to change some people at the top. There's no point having this kind of a mission if leadership doesn't believe in it.