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So we don't get two threads on the same subject, I made a reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7461830

> That does not seem like an unreasonable position.

I don't think their stance is unreasonable, I just think there is a more constructive alternative.
What was the solution proposed in your class?

Of the top of my head, I can only think of keeping time values in units of clock-ticks (equivalent to the Linux "jiffy") and only converting to/from milliseconds when turning programmer or user input into internal values.
I rely a lot of searching the history and bookmarks from the address bar while the search box heads directly to the search engine and suggests instant results. I also like the privacy I get for not feeding everything I type into Google.
> In all fairness, many EU leaders are scared shitless of Turkey. It is not so much that they have something against Islam (well, at least most of them)

If they aren't, many of their voters are, and the question of the demographic weight of Turkey is a real one, considering how awkward the political aspect of the EU already is. Not to mention that I can't imagine many politicians fighting to share a border with Syria at the moment.
Thought experiment: imagine a law that severely limited the power and abilities of straight white men, white men, or even just men. Imagine that law severely impacted your ability to participate in some major institution or process. Maybe you couldn't start a business. Maybe you couldn't pee standing up. Hell, pick anything. Imagine there were people who felt so threatened by your starting a business or pissing standing up, even if neither affected them. Imagine if another group of people criticized the businesses you started, held you to a different standard, said that some omnipotent being claimed that you had no business doing whatever this rule claimed you couldn't. Your inability to do this thing vastly and adversely limits participation in broader society.

Would you argue with every idiot who presented an objection? If you didn't believe in the omnipotent sky being, would you waste time debating? If someone wasn't in the oppressed group of straight white men, wasn't affected by your choice but decided that their moral code made them feel threatened, would you waste time with them? Or would you expect them to own their own issues? After all, we all have enough to deal with in our lives. We can't be expected to pander to every idiot who feels threatened by choices that don't even affect them (I assure you, no LGBTQ person is going to marry you without your consent. :P )

My minority group isn't as persecuted (visible disability) but I get _so sick and tired_ of being expected to debate with those who feel threatened or confused by my existence. At least my struggles are only employment/social-related. It'd suck if laws prevented me from marrying and having kids, and you'd better believe I'd waste no time arguing with any who oppose me.
> You are describing a problem where two clocks drift relative to each other, not a problem where one clock drifts away from the actual time

The latter is simply a specific case of the former. The second clock is the one measuring 'actual' time, and the drift is relative to it.
The first story about Auroracoin in spanish
The problem with this sensitive issues is that they are still un-resolved.
Unfortunately your goverment does not want to do anything about them and keep on doing what they fucking want.

When Erdogan steps down, and hopefully a more civilized, non-military person takes over then nothing will change.

In the mean time, Kurds are still gonna suffer, Cyprus will still be divide in half, and everything else that they keep on doing.
That is only part of the picture.

Many of us bear scars from trying to write portable software across commercial UNIX systems, while discovering that POSIX only covered part of the required features, and even the POSIX ones had implementation defined behaviours.

Not to mention the wonders of each system having their own UI toolkits, besides each XWindows flavour.

I did it between AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Xenix, DG/UX.
For I client I designed a UART<->Microphone adapter. It supports bidirectional communication at ~1kbps, almost 0% error rate at full volume (~15% error rate at half) and has a terribly unoptimized analog interface. I didn't really think there was much interest in creating these kinds of interfaces, but if anyone has any good ideas I am all ears.
Any plans to enable ACH payments? My industry deals with very large sized payments (>$1000), and people currently use paper checks - $30+ is too high for the convenience. Having stripe offer ACH would enable some fantastic stuff.
My point is that people demanding scientific data for criticisms had better do the same when their favorite language gets praised. Of course, personal evidence is less strong than scientific evidence. That much should be obvious to anyone.
Do you honestly think the amount of money donated is the issue here?
But all he ended up representing was incoherent and incompatible policy preferences. I might agree that represents public opinion well, but it's nothing to be proud of.
Wolf promises to look after sheep if shepherd leaves them in open pasture.
applications / companies that have security requirements, e.g. healthcare needs BAAs to be signed and Box will do that whereas the rest (of the big players) generally do not
The portability of the web. Write once, debug in every single browser version.
I'll repeat: read my post again.

I posted two typical positions held by partisans on either end of the political spectrum. Neither did I represent as my opinion, and definitely not as fact.

Why did you latch on to one of these positions? Aren't you equally outraged about the "leftist degenerate and tool of George Soros" position as well?

Did it occur to you that perhaps if I was posting two diametrically opposing viewpoints, I was making a larger point and not simply spouting my personal beliefs?

Have the downvotes proven my point?
My point is that the app can record that click asynchronously. They have full control of everything in the app, and it bothers me in the first world problems section of my brain that they haven't tackled a lot of low hanging fruit for speeding up user interactions.
We can call this a witch hunt when same-sex-marriage proponents start guillotining the opposition in public squares, then ;)

More to the point, the David/Goliath straw man occurs at the point that someone says "witch hunt", invoking ideas of a prosecutorial mob hunting an innocent scapegoat down. Addressing the inappropriateness of the term directly is not a strawman (and additionally, I specifically addressed the content of the OP's argument in the first part of my post).
I don't know what sort of consequences you're implying, but threatening someone over anything they say or think is certainly illegal.
I guess 87% of the population is pretty tiny in your world: http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh...

Also, I think it's awesome I get to qualify as a warrior by sitting in a cafe and pointing out basic legal facts to people. Pew pew! I'm a warrior! 'Scuse me while I go beat my chest and shop for bandoliers.
Loss per share was $14.68 in 2013 and grew slightly to $14.89 in 2014. It's ok to lose money at IPO, but those losses need to be narrowing. Otherwise, you're plowing money back into a hole.
How the hell is that a false equivalence, unless you are one of those people that assumes homosexuality is a choice - which I think all rational people believe it is not.

I guess, what I'm saying is, I don't follow your logic on the lack of equivalence. Please explain.
It's not obvious that you need to verify your identity to withdraw. It would be very easy for someone to see a deposit address and assume withdrawals would be just as friction-less.
I would be very careful with using this for risk management. It has very different characteristics from exchange-traded options contracts that you may be familiar with in the US. Purchasing call options is pretty safe (excluding security risks, of course), but purchasing put options is quite dangerous. They have a margin requirement of 20% on put options that are written by users, but critically, this is the maximum amount of liability the put writer is taking on. So it's actually not a put you are buying, but a "bear put spread" with a lower leg 20% below the upper leg. This makes it unsuitable for managing tail risk, which, for bitcoins, is significant. For example, if you had bought a contract at $1100 which is roughly the top of the bitcoin market in December, and it fell to $600, you would only be covered for $220, and would be out $280 plus the cost of the contract (Edit: apparently this isn't correct, in another comment they say that you get the cost of the contract back).

The fact that they require 100% margin on call options isn't as much of a concern (for simple risk management applications), because you still gain the exposure to the underlying bitcoins. It would be like if the exchange required you to submit 100 shares of MSFT to them to open the call contract, rather than using cash settlement. It's not good for liquidity because it makes it hard to be an options trader, but there will be very little liquidity anyway the way it's set up currently.

Another concern is that the guide doesn't disclose what they use as the underlying price for the contract, what exchange they use as the benchmark.

It should also be noted that they appear to require photo id in order to withdraw any funds from your wallet, which is likewise not disclosed in their guide.
Turkey is also just blocking "illegal content."
Oh gosh! Some anonymous coward is holding me accountable for something I'm not actually trying to do! I'm quivering.
> Good thing the Seattle City Council is essentially shutting Lyft down in the name of safety and ‘protecting me’ from this company.

Sorry to see this kind of misinformation about why the Seattle City Council acted. Taxi drivers pay commercial driver's insurance ($7000-$11000/yr) that insures the city against third party personal injury and property damage claims due to taxi accidents.

Ride-sharing companies offer cheaper fares because they don't pay for the same level of insurance, shifting the burden of liability on to riders, tax payers and the general public.
We have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost
Speaking of trolling, I didn't say that at all. I was pointing out that an appeal to court precedent is a form of appeal to authority, which is hardly convincing, with numerous counter-examples available upon request.

Perhaps the actual reasoning of the court might be convincing, but in this case, the reasoning was, "there is no rational basis", which reads more like an admission of ignorance than anything else.
It's not a public issue. He didn't support the anti-gay marriage bill as a representative of Mozilla. He did it in his free time and as a SINGLE person. I absolutely DO NOT agree with him, but that has nothing to do with Mozilla or his professional work. I don't support either boycotting any Israel company, but if that company supports Israel apartheid by any means, then yes, I do support its boycotting. And if Eich does anything anti-gay as Mozilla CEO (e.g. ban gay employees), then I would boycott Mozilla as well for letting CEO's personal beliefs interfere with the organization proper working and he should be dismissed because of unprofessionalism as well.
Translation: trying to start a witch hunt against someone based on their political stance and trying to disenfranchise them of their livelihood.
Name-Calling in the Virtual Playground
Actually a lot of this is surprising for me...I have a buddy that works there right now and while I knew there were bleeding some cash from articles I had read, I was under the impression that they actually were doing better than that financially.

The close to 1000 employees is also fairly surprising, but I would agree that it would mostly be on the sales side.
This is just incredible beyond imagination. I don't think even the author realizes this. I don't think the marketing copy catches the real potential of this thing.

This makes it easy for developers to distribute cloud apps without having to manage users, billing, hosting, security or any of that SaaS boilerplate. Just code the app and distribute it for your users. This changes everything.
Same goes when bribing a cop here. If you bribe too much you're targeted as easy money among the other cops here. Say for example you're caught driving without your insurance, you bribe and then every other cop knows you don't have insurance and squeeze you for money left and right.

Source: 3rd world south america
A company can be spending more than they make, and still be profitable (a la Amazon) - hence the "plowing money back into the business" comment above. A company in its growth stage believes there is significant profits to be made by spending on customer acquisition, and generally is making an informed decision not to pad the coffers and horde money (a la Apple).
Check out the posts by Gayle Lakkmann on quora[0] related to common English mistakes (you might have to register, but it sounds like almost exactly what you are looking for). It is focused a bit more on mistakes common to those from India, but it is worth checking out. Your English is very good, and I have no trouble following your sentences. Through your use of commas, your writing actually "flows" better than many native writers whose work I read.

Also, I apologize profusely for some of our ridiculous grammatical rules. I'm a native speaker, so I don't think much of it, but I'm amazed at how poor some of the "rules" are.

[0] - http://englishtips.quora.com/
CPUs (x86 or PPC) only do out-of-order execution when it is provably the case that it doesn't matter. The result of running any given sequence of instructions in lock-step, or out-of-order should be exactly the same. If not, you found a CPU bug!

That said, timing matters in these tight inner loops, and that is where the details of the CPU pipeline matter, with respect to emulators. How many nanoseconds would it have taken for the emulated CPU to execute those instructions? That requires knowledge of how the CPU works. And sometimes, unfortunately, game code stupidly depends on these details.
> My point is the service industry disappears. retail clerks, wait staff, gas station attendants, cleaners. Nobody does that work because they like it.

No, they do it because they need the money to live the lifestyle they want -- and often need more than the reasonable level at which UBI would be set any time in the near future. Otherwise, no one would work the hours in those industries to make more than even the (very high for UBI suggestions in the near term) $20,000 proposed in the first post in this thread, yet many people do.

(Of course, lots of people "work" in those fields because they are either owners or immediately family of owners who stand to benefit, in the long or short term, from capital returns of the business, so they aren't working strictly for the wages, and UBI has little effect on them at all -- except perhaps to raise the wages that their big-chain competitors have to pay and increase their opportunity.)

So, no, for a whole lot of reasons I don't see UBI killing the service industry.
That is the essence of Commu^h^h^h^h^h"Democracy".
Hey, Stripe, thanks for listening to the feedback that was provided, e.g., in the previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349607

Really appreciate it!
Missing flight MH370 lost in southern Indian Ocean, says Malaysian PM
and have every single kind of mineral deposit in the world, with some that are only mined there.

China is on a completely different level as oblio already said :)
They don't have to agree on everything but I certainly wish they'd agree not to try and ruin each others lives.
Ask HN: Is there a blacklist of careless spam-reporters?
My app's emails have recieved 10 spam complaints out of 11,000 sent, which has knocked my SendGrid reputation down to 85%, despite clearly marked unsubscribe links included at the bottom of every one. The posts I've read about how to reduce spam reports tell me to do everything short of a giant, flashing "UNSUBSCRIBE!!!" link at the top of all my user emails.

I'd prefer not to burden the other 99.9% of my users with prominent, ugly unsubscribe links or double opt-ins upon signup, for fear that one of these 0.1% of recipients will carelessly hit the spam button instead of unsubscribe. It would be great to have a service that would allow me to (a) report email addresses of users that have unjustly marked me as spam and (b) check a new user's email address against their database to find out if other app developers have had problems with that email. Then I could take measures to avoid sending those users any more email than necessary.

Does such a service exist?
It's a custom designed site with a rails backend, pretty simple.
You said it: Brendan Eich. In his free time. As an individual person. Mozilla has nothing to do with what this guy does in his free time (and I hope it doesn't).
Yes, you're trying to do exactly this.

What's the endgame for this ridiculous charade? It's to get Brendan Eich fired.

You're aiding and abetting it. Hence, you're trying to get him fired.

Actions have consequences, and I'm holding you accountable for yours.

Feel free to find a fault with any section of the reasoning.
#1 sounds like Ben Horowitz's last ditch IPO of Loudcloud (except market conditions today are much more favorable). The story goes that Loudcloud was unprofitable, headed towards bankruptcy, & couldn't raise VC capital, so they went public. http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2001-04-15/the-last-days...
A personal preference: Don’t downvote comments that are already grey, unless they are very offensive.
I should start this off by saying I believe gay couples should be allowed to get married. I cannot fathom what reasoning you can use to say that gay people should not be allowed to marriage. However, the more I learn about the topic, the more I realize it's actually very complicated.

With that being said... Marriage seems screwed up. Why do we have unions of two people? Why don't we allow the union of three people? Or more? Where do we draw the line? What if some guy/gal wants to marry his waifu/husbando, or another person wants to marry their car?

People say stuff about the sanctity of marriage, but it seems like a horrible joke. Look at divorce rates! Traditional marriage looks like a joke.

I'll admit I'm not very well educated on the topic, I'd love to hear the reasoning for these limitations. Maybe it would make sense to just break out the benefits [1] into more types of unions. For example, I can see how you might not want to allow a 5 person marriage where only 1 person has citizenship in the US; then you would have four people gaining citizenship at the same time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_and_responsibilities_of_...
Holding a Glass of Water – Managing Stress in Call Centers
By having clear, correct, and second to second visibility of exactly what is happening on your floor, ClearView gives agents and management the ability to manage stress more effectively, allowing everyone on the floor to have enough faith in each other to work as a team instead of trying to hold up the glass of water alone, and unaided.
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It takes a bit longer than a week to organise an IPO, my guess is it's been on the cards for a lot longer
I have a hard time understanding all the call for separating private and work. The issue brought by this post is not private (in the sense that the donations were public) and the purpose of the donation was to make a private view to pass into law, not just express some personal opinion.

Also, the position of a CEO on social issues has non negligible impacts on the organization. He won't block Mozilla from hiring gay people of course, but nobody would expect him to actively push gay peoples' rights inside the organization if these were not upheld enough. Or does Mozilla have full parity when it comes to married gays and married hetero couples ? Will married gay people get to work intimately with the new CEO (and not just as a token gay people in the team)?

These are all legitimate questions. Perhaps Eich won't be worse than anyone else on these issues, but now his public karma is negative. If from here Mozilla appeared to be championing gay rights and parity more than ever before, then I think team rarebit would revise their position. But until then their reaction, while emotionally charged, seems fair enough※ and sends the right message.

※ especially as in anyway they are bound to build for Mozilla's platform nor use Mozilla's products.

PS:
From Mozilla's donation page :
"At the heart of Mozilla is a global community with a shared mission—to build the Internet the world needs. Support Mozilla with a donation today—for a better web and a better world."

I think a lot of people really see Mozilla as organization with strong moral stance, and actually working towards making the world better. Visceral reactions on events like this one are the flip side of the coin.
let's gamble, buddies!
I see. Let's suppose I own a 1 contract (x100 BTC multiplier) of BTC/USD put contract at strike price $100 BTC/USD when BTC is trading at $100 USD with expiration two months from today (an at the money put). As part of initial margin requirement to enter the trade, the seller has to put down 20 BTC or cash equivalent of $2,000.

Suppose BTC drops 40% in value or $60 in one month, now the notional value of my BTC contract should be $40/BTC or $4,000/contract. Not only does 20 BTC valued at the original value of $2,000 no longer cover the mark-to-market value of my put contract, its market value at $1,200 covers even less that requirement.

Now suppose I'm nervous because I'm sitting on a contract that should be worth 4K when the collateral of my counterparty is only worth 1.2K. Also since I bought a put which means that I'm betting against BTC, that would only make me more nervous about counter-party risk; and I'd demand my counter-party to put up more collateral.

However, if the exchange isn't willing to extract from my counter-party and isn't willing to step in. Then, I have no confidence in such a market.
That link is completely irrelevant.

Social justice warriors are defined by the bigoted views they hold that they try to pass off as anti-bigotry, such as the view that men, white people and hetero people can't be discriminated against.
What, is the NSA too busy surveilling US citizens without a warrant? Or is it like infiltrating the anti-war groups during the 60s - too easy to pass up anti-war people who have opens meetings, so you don't have manpower for organized crime?

Here's a hint: if you can't remember the past you're doomed to repeat it, NSA.
Very cool.

> Ongoing experiments have a dedicated chart up on a monitor in the lunch area so everybody can see how they’re doing.

Is your tracking and reporting (charts) system home-grown too?
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How are they not treating Brendan Eich equally? He's the bigot here who wants to deny them happiness, not the other way around.
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Will this end up devaluing Dropbox in its future IPO?
This makes it easy for developers to distribute cloud apps without having to manage users, billing, hosting, security or any of that SaaS boilerplate. Just code the app and distribute it for your users.

Of course, the users probably won't pay and you can't use ads, so there may not be much business here.
Weighed in the balance:

1. the right of gay people to get married

2. our personal right to pay money to bigots using specific money-transfer services

I'll be honest, I keep re-rolling, and it keeps coming up 1. What am I doing wrong?
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