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A lot of people have absolutely no problem with proprietary software until it breaks. The problem is you never know when it will break, and what it'll take down with it.

I'm not saying 'go full Stallman'. I'm just saying think that when ever you hand over your data to a private company if they consider it as important as you consider it.
Very misleading. Contains no actual statements made by Bill Gates about Bitcoin. It certainly tries to grab your attention by suggesting otherwise.
You think that a random phone app is all that is stopping people trying to extend human life? Could you perhaps gain some goddamn perspective?
Eh. I worked at a reasonably holacratic/flat organization (a high-profile agile consultancy, actually), and when I say it was flat, I didn't know who my boss was, or who to give notice to when I quit. It was honestly very flat, and in no sense did this mean "secretly rich white guys ran the show." It did lead to a bit more cliqueyness than might otherwise have been desired.

I think that a holacracy, like most things dealing with human beings and their behavior, is dependent on the specific human beings in question with regard to whether or not it will succeed.

On a slightly meta level, it is interesting why the startup/development culture seems to flock to articles like this, saying "such-and-such thing can never work as a solution to people problems because it didn't work here" - we see this crop up on HN constantly, pro- and anti-, with things like working from home, pair programming, etc. Maybe it's too much to ask that we say "different things work for different groups of people"?
It's not that you can't have flat hierarchy, it's that you have to ensure that it's supported by transparency and process to then prevent it actually being a mask for another power structure.

That is the major failing with a lot of the companies doing this. The belief that everyone shares the same ideals and it will work itself out without requiring very strict constraints and process.

All that happens is that the inequalities are layered behind façades, becoming a lot harder to address and resolve than if a traditional power structure was used.
"Bitcoin requires thousands of times (or more) more computational power to do a single transaction than any centralized currency system I can think of."

Is that really the case? I'm quite sympathetic to the view that it might be, either presently or in the long run (an arms race where attackers and defenders are on the same footing can't get cheaper due to improved technology), but there are expenses in the current system that bitcoin avoids (and a lot that it doesn't, for sure). I've seen various analyses making various claims, and I'm really not sure what the answer is.
The way I understand it is that the problem is with the definition of velocity. If you want to measure speed, you have to measure distance, which eventually comes down to the magnitude of the vector between two points - subtract the X's, subtract the Y's, subtract the Z's. Problem is, at cosmic scales, expansion means that those two points aren't in the same reference frame, because more space has appeared between them. You can try to measure it, but by the time you do the axes themselves have stretched again. The two X's can't be subtracted directly anymore, because they're on different reference frames. You get a result of >>C only by assuming that the relevant bits of space are relatively well-behaved Euclidean R^3, but that's not the case.
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And probably as long as a company is small enough, people who work there can just accept a hidden structure just as well as they can accept an articulated one as long as it doesn't cause too many problems for them.
I have similar feelings. Geophysics is not like this.
Posted 20 minutes ago, and this post already shows up when you google "NQAGAHBMIAL". Impressive...
WORDSUM has a 70% correlation with real, designed by psychometricians IQ tests. Garbage it is not.

The correlation between adult IQ and WORDSUM = 0.71. The source for this number is a 1980 paper, The Enduring Effects of Education on Verbal Skills.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/wordsum-iq/#....
My father, who I consider to have been one of the "real" hippies, told me that he couldn't deal with hippie communes. He claimed that when the group becomes large enough and everyone should be considered equal, a jerk comes in to take advantage of the situation, starts managing, and fucks everything up.
I don't know about OCaml, but generally speaking, there is a foreign function calling interface. You'd typically use it for integrating with large standalone codebases you don't want to rewrite (say, CodeMirror) but typically not for frameworky things. If you're going to use the same UI framework there's not much point in switching languages.
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http://elm-lang.org/ for example. To display text in the browser you would use -

main = plainText "Hello, World!"

From the page: "Elm is a functional language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript".

So yes, technically this is working with the DOM. But you are not writing code that interacts with a "DOM binding" directly per se.
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I don't think it's served from another continent. It's an anycast address and I guess it's served from many replicas with global coverage.
Assuming it's real, I think it's up there with T ~ 3 K (cosmic microwave background itself, Nobel 1978) and Λ > 0 (accelerating universe, Nobel 2011).
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That's the strategy I use all the time but never won a single game (out of 10).
Did you even read what I wrote? I don't believe either. I don't claim to know anything about the plane. I can't even fathom a guess as to what happened to it.

>what makes you think that you can figure it out by yourself?

I don't think I can figure it out myself, nor did I ever claim to or make any attempt to figure it out myself.

I was replying specifically to "If a state was involved that would mean that boarding a plane is extremely dangerous from now on." I was saying if and that is a big if nation states were involved that boarding a plane would not be extremely dangerous from now on. Not any more dangerous that it currently is, as there has always been a history of nation state involvement in aircraft disaster, it just doesn't happen very often.

>and that the plane is fine and parked somewhere, perhaps it never took off

If this was a false flag operation, the plane and its passengers would almost certainly not be fine. They are generally designed to create death.
It's DNS propagation :)
I think it's a two way relationship, scientists love a chance to reach out to the media too, even if a bit more reserved, you even get that from their press releases. Publicity helps in getting funding in the life sciences, for better or worse, it's part of the system.
This is the type of moment every person should aspire to have with a parent or mentor at least once in their life.
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This is a surprisingly good offering from Microsoft. The quality of software here is much better than Office for Mac.

I am disappointed at the missing "Print" functionality as well as the broken "Email Page as PDF".
I don't know much about VNAV but couldn't have they configured a vertical ascent rate with no upper ceiling?
Oh God, "holacracy"? It's too late to change that, isn't it? It should be "holocracy"...
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How are C# and F# tied to Windows? They run quite nicely on Mono, although I'll admit that even with the significant, recent improvements Mono has made it's still not as fast (generally) as the .NET CLR on Windows.

Also -- F# is completely open-source, so there's no "Microsoft tax" to be paid. In fact, a large portion of the F# community runs exclusively on non-Windows platforms (e.g., OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Android).
For a brief moment, just a brief moment, I thought they are shutting them down.
It's called a circuit breaker. Just about every system, include the flight recorders, autopilot, and transponders can be independently turned off.
`There is more microsoft integration (obviously)`

I'll take Evernote any day.
We are talking not only about I/O. We are talking about async stuff in general. Lazy evaluation, combined with par/pseq functions and concurrency, is essentially asynchronous computation. You fire the computation, you take result later if you need it at all.
1. You could do the same thing with cash or gold in many domestic cases. Transferring a substantial amount of cash in/out of a BTC exchange is going to require AML paperwork and the blockchain/exchange has enough information for a regulator to back out where the money went. You might be able to trade locally for cash to avoid this, but for serious amounts of money that could get you robbed or arrested.

2. BTC can be devalued by the actions (or inaction) of other participants in the market and their value changes wildly compared to major currencies. Yes there will never be hyperinflation in BTC terms, but your BTC could easily end up worthless in other ways. Furthermore, I don't think this is a real risk for actual wealthy people. Their wealth is primarily concentrated in ownership interest in businesses, equipment, land, etc., not in currency.
> 1. Change Will Happen Much, Much Faster

Not a chance. Regulation is stifling innovation.
Yes, but all such questions can lead to un-PC conclusions, therefore you may want to keep quiet.
Agree it's not a better solution, it's just that there is little talk of it in general. Paywalled science plays a big role here, it basically makes it impossible to gather even paper titles for further analysis.
Yep. This has been driving me crazy.

Bad actors and unstable people are found in EVERY organization, no matter what the hierarchy or lack thereof.

A falling out at GitHub proves nothing! This is a datum, not a statistical study. How many traditionally run organizations have completely imploded and gone bankrupt, or been involved in HR lawsuits?

I find it completely asinine that people will use GitHub's problems to push their pet theories.
Why do you care about those people?

I suspect that in a few more years, you'll revoke their license to occupy your brain and control your path in life. That's true freedom.

Some people don't realize this until it's too late, and all they can do is look back and say, "for what?"

If your ego doesn't kill you, it will rob you of your best years, so be careful.
The Voice page was down shortly as well.
Theme is to hack local social problem. Space is Impact Hub. Last impact hub i organized there was creative-currency.org
This one should pretty awesome.
I don't think so; operational/management structure and ownership structure don't have to interact the way they did here. OTOH, without formal rules and control mechanism to assure that those rules are respected, the ownership structure is naturally going to impact the operational/management structure, which will make holarchy unlikely with any ownership structure (other than ownership through an identical fractal network of teams as the intended operational structure.)
But isn't that why the people behind the Holacracy concept have a whole structure (with pretty pictures!) that is supposed to replace the managerial layer?

http://holacracy.org/how-it-works

I have no idea if holacracy is bullshit or not (it does feel like a concept invented to sell training classes), but claiming it replaces managers with nothing is plainly false.
Interestingly, ^A moves to the start of line but ^E does nothing. Strange oversight.
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Felix is to C++ what F# is to C# http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/tut/tutorial.fdoc (I am not the author, just excited about this language) OCaML programmers will feel immediately at home.

It is a mature yet actively developed whole program optimized, strongly typed, polymorphic, ML like language that can interact effortlessly with C and C++ and has coroutines and threads baked in, although use of threads is somewhat discouraged. It has type-classes as well as modules. Functions written in it may be exported as a CPython module. This might be useful if one wants to gradually transition from a Python based src tree.

It uses a mix of lazy and eager evaluation for performance and compiles down to C++. Execution speed is comparable to hand written C++, mostly better. Its grammar is programmable in the sense that it is loaded as a library. So in the same way that languages may acquire libraries, Felix may acquire domain specific syntax.

It is also mostly a one man effort but with a feverish pace of development so it comes with its associated advantages and disadvantages.

Tooling info is here http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/ref/tools.fdoc

The author likes to call it a scripting language but it really is a full-fledged statically compiled language with a single push button build-and-execute command. http://felix-lang.org/ The "fastest" claim is a bit playful and tongue in cheek, but it is indeed remarkably fast.
Not many cell towers in the middle of the ocean.
Interesting that they succeeded in detecting gravity waves where LIGO failed?
Wow. Do they have any idea why librarians refuse to keep records of who check out what book? This is a billion times worse.
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Majority of my bugreports are related to C/C++ and to some extent OCaml, and mostly command-line programs. Hence a text-based entry for the bugreport is more convenient.
I think even MS is better than this at supporting old Office binary formats. Only PowerPoint has completely removed the support for pre-97 formats. With Word/Excel you can generally unblock support for older formats even if by default they will not open.﻿
> On what basis, what sort of research or experience, do you conclude with certainty that 'really flat' (do you mean egalitarian, democratic, non-hieararchical, non-authoritarian in general?) organizations are only possible for 'societies' (do you mean 'species'?) 'like ants'?

I mean "societies", as if you look into how their colonies work it is very much a collective society.

But the thing that underpins its operation is the fact that it is structured on flat classes. Workers do work. Soldiers defend the colony. Queens lay eggs, and it is understood that in the normal scheme of business that workers will never be queens and queens will not be on the front lines fighting the nearby Nation of Termitistan. But except for the queen the soldiers and workers are all almost completely interchangeable within their class.

Humans, needless to say, are not completely interchangeable. Maximizing the overall contribution from each individual for a collective goal requires different org. structures, especially given the high need for communications and information exchange.

Many groups try to solve this by designing the org. structure first and then finding the "right people" to fill the right positions in that org. structure. That style has seen successes and failures.

Others try to start with the "right people" and then evolve the right org. structure. But this reacts more to the needs of the group than to the abilities of the people, and doesn't scale to boot.

Then you have groups like Valve that try to enforce a flat org. structure and you end up instead evolving informal org. structures as before (since being flat implies being interchangeable). Is that really better? Is it more equal when you end up being in the wrong clique at the Valve cafeteria?
No one will seriously argue against the superior build quality of Apple devices. Siri has way to go but Maps is almost there so soon there will be no point in giving your data to Google.
> I rather sacrifice my 20's to live it up in my 30's.

A quick bit of unsolicited advice on this life plan: Plan for tomorrow, but live for today.

The reasoning behind the hard-earned advice: How do you know you'll make it to your 30's? I've had too many friends die unexpectedly to take it in faith that I'll hit any particular age.

Relatedly, I know far too many people in their 60's who spent their entire lives working their butts off so they could eventually retire who now find themselves unable to stop working. The cost of repairing that 35 year old home is now more than their morgage ever was, their pension fund was plundered by execs, and their nest egg didn't grow at the same rate as inflation.

They're back working now, and wondering (typically bitterly) if all that extra work was worth it, or if it would have been better spent enjoying the time they were in.
With correlation and causation unknown, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading this article.
I don't understand why everyone is so excited about this.
Any company with more than about 10 employees is going to have some BS drama like this going on.

Did people think github was different because it has a cat/octopus thing for a logo?
> The finding is direct proof of the theory of inflation, the idea that the universe expanded extremely quickly in the first fraction of a second after it was born.

Small nitpick, but wouldn't the use of the words "evidence for" instead of "proof of" have been better? Not that I am in any way trying to take anything away from the discovery. Just from a science perspective, the word "proof" has always bugged me.
At the moment you can't even drag and drop a url from the browser.

I think I'll stick with the somewhat mediocre Notes.app that are included with OS X for the moment. If we take away all the gloss, and the fact that you can't have multiple Notebooks, and sharing, and .. and .. then we are left with basically the same. :)
Another objection is the max password length of sixteen, that may be long enough but...
I read it as someone close to the maximum representative of hierarchy (the President of the whole US) having an incentive to discredit less hierarchical systems.
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Wait, you don't seriously think that Russia disappeared a Malaysian airliner (and hundreds of international citizens) to distract the world (?) from Crimea. That's just fucking absurd.
Jeri Ellsworth's accounts of working within Valve and the issues with the structure there were pretty widely published after her firing. She mentions a fair few more problems then just unsexy bugs being ignored it's worth a listen.
Nitpick: It's not Google's, it's an open standard (OATH): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238

There's also HOTP.
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Regardless of the details, that things escalated to the extent they did can almost entirely be attributed to it being nobody's job to resolve this earlier. Engineers get paid for shipping code. Executives ensure that the company is moving in the right direction, and often the concerns of one engineer are rounding error. People need to be able to say: "If things happen, I will go to this person, whose long-term success at this company is entirely determined by the success of this particular half-dozen of us."
This is beautiful. I feel like it describes past, present, and future me and gives me hope and some nice guidelines.
I disagree that Google filled with the best and brightest engineers in the industry. Google just turns into a "hype" engine that makes you think so.
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Would that be the same market that thought they could accurately predict the risk of securitized mortgage instruments?

The same market that produces for more failing companies that successful ones?

The Market, is not some omnipotent, omniscient force. Much like the forces of natural selection, you actually don't have to be "the best" to survive, just "good enough", and most of the time organizations and organizations survive despite themselves rather than because of themselves.

Or said most succinctly, I think you may have bit too much faith in both the accuracy of market forces and our ability to correctly qualify and quantify such forces.
That is another unpleasant lesson: credentials don't make the man.

Your master's degree in management appears to be much less valuable than experience.
I agree but, by US standards, it's generous.

We are not a first world country anymore.
Who owns 1HTM4TYSXF5yZKLpco6MTUUNfSBCiiwGsU?
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> Myself for instance, I don't consider facilitating tax evasion and impossibility to regulate by democratically elected governments a point in favour of bitcoin.

That makes Bitcoin immoral from your perspective, without saying anything about the feasibility.

You even restrict the morality argument yourself by saying it is good that a democratically elected government should have the ability to control financial transactions, which I completely disagree with, but even you will admit that there are a lot of unethical governments out there that hurt their population by controlling financial transactions and inflating the money supply.
Google Talk, Hangout and XMPP services are down
I'm able to get forwarded calls but not make calls from the service.
True, but not necessarily decisive. If you're the pilot, or someone else with a way past that new-and-improved post-9/11 cockpit door, you can likely make it work for you. Or if you have some way of getting an automatic weapon or some other useful tool on board (far from easy of course!) you can still hold off large numbers of desperate, but unarmed, passengers.
This is NOT true of all proprietary software. It's just that with apple either you keep upgrading to the latest and greatest all the time or you will have problems.

Apple has its pros and cons, and one of those is that you have to keep upgrading regularly.

Most proprietary software will offer upgrade paths from older versions.
German here: In the referenced golem article is only said that intel locks out android based smartphones from their own company network for security reasons, if they don't have anti virus scanners installed.
there are expenses in the current system that bitcoin avoids

Which expenses would that be that are genuinely avoided while maintaining feature parity, rather than merely avoiding the feature that is bought by those expenses in the traditional system?

For example: Of course not having to worry about chargebacks and related fraud makes Bitcoin potentially cheaper than the existing credit card system. On the other hand, fraud protection is a useful feature, and adding it on top of Bitcoin removes any cost advantage that Bitcoin might have started out with.

This example provides a template that, as far as I can see, applies to every so-called cost saving aspect of Bitcoin (except possibly the fact that Bitcoin might make the whole banking system more competitive; that would undoubtedly be a good thing).
Help its stangely addictive. ( Well done.)

I really hope there are no subliminal messages embedded in the .gifs.
Very true, that I will not. I might test Judy though I suspect it won't be fast enough to qualify.
That's not all they're proposing, but also to be able to decrypt everything, from both users and companies:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/375286,attorney-generals-new-w...

It's almost like Australia was watching UK, and all of the sudden they realized UK is getting too far ahead of them in becoming a totalitarian state, and they can't let UK win the race! If it wasn't so sad and terrifying, it would almost be fun to watch which of the two becomes a police state the fastest.

Unfortunately, potentially millions of lives will be affected by increasingly more draconian laws in these countries, whether they realize it or not (like with censorship, when it becomes hard to know what you're missing out on, because you don't know what's been censored).
You can't use the Bitcoin protocol in any meaningful way without using the Bitcoin currency.

Alternative crypto-currencies are less secure because they have less dedicated mining power and less developer support.