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"when those accursed Republicans were so busy trying to repeal Obamacare and having literally no other ideas at all...."

Yep, good summation sir.
We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?
We'll see. Turkey seems to be more stable. Do we have any reason to believe the Turkish government will certainly be overthrown, aside from the affront to our collective geek prides?
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Love the Reddit tip.
How horrible! They should eat their own dog food and run their entire datacenter on those sleek rack servers that they make so many of...

Oh yeah.

(This is news? Lame even for the reg...)
He was on THE "green team" you young whipper-snapper and before that he worked on Mary and Mary2, languages from the long lost mists of time. After a certain point you don't need to go to school and people start asking you to teach them.
And once Facebook is shut down, it'll be interesting to see if this finally drives real Google+ use.
External disruption != internal disruption
Seems much more sensible as a quicker commercialization approach.

Java code does not depend on hardware memory models but a defined memory model. Much easier to validate your jvm is valid than all C programs that clients might want to run.

You could even have mills cpus on PCI cards in a standard X86 machine, where the java executable passes the program to the the mills on the PCI to run. A bit like how Azul and their vega machines worked (although those where network attached).
The interesting part of this from my point of view is how Stripe will manage the conversion of received bitcoin back into dollars. Will they directly sell bitcoin to consumers themselves or trade on one (or more) of the exchanges.

Stripe are obviously taking the risk of the volatility so will probably want to keep the bitcoin float that they hold fairly small. They also need to keep a reasonable margin on these transactions and watch for people who don't complete transactions unless the price moves in their favour (after the price has been quoted).

I assume refunds are of bitcoin to the agreed dollar value not the same number of bitcoins as was spent, otherwise there would be risks there too.

Edit: Found this in other story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7481219 (http://recode.net/2014/03/27/stripe-merchants-will-soon-be-a...)

Payments will arrive in their bank accounts in seven days or fewer. Neither Stripe nor its customers will hold onto the bitcoin, meaning the businesses that accept bitcoin will not be subject to the volatility of its price. Collison said his company is working with a variety of undisclosed partners to exchange the bitcoin into local currency in near real time.
No doubt you need investors to get started and arguably some technology. Or, you can start in the service sector and license someone else's tech.
The rush to defend credit cards on this thread is staggering but extremely interesting to me! It seems the consensus is that in the absence of an ideal solution, we love credit cards (especially in the USA). Two really important things:

1. Consumer protections are not a Credit Card thing - chargebacks and literally every single protection CC's give you are legally mandated by Regulation E - all payment processors must have them in place. It's unclear how this will relate to BTC, but other solutions (including my own) have this to the letter the same way CC's do. CC's want you to believe it's them, it's not - the US Government made those regulations.

2. Yes Billing and Shipping Address are needed in every instance - but there are better ways than typing them out, especially on a mobile phone. Sure there are services that can save that info for you, but a better solution is a network that already knows that info. Stripe could build that with their "remember me" features, I've built that by using the information your bank has. There are solutions, and we need them to move into mobile commerce where it's impossible for every app to have your info pre-saved. In a world outside the browser, we need better options.
But you won't save 3% because the payment processor is going to charge you, at least eventually. And if the fee is low enough that it competes with CC then the CC companies will simply lower their prices. The CC companies can afford a price war, everyone else can't.
Question of the day!

I am not supporting Turkish Govt here, nor I have any concern with this country.

If a classified video is made live on a Turkish Video website, would US Govt block it or not?

or Do you approve of releasing classified videos or calls?., because according to my understanding regardless of the content of those videos or calls, they are in violation of 'privacy' and perhaps are classified too.?

I am just making sure, that I do not become a victim of double-standards here... :/
The code being in C and being highly optimized, it would be really awesome if they could comment their code better.
Starting a startup is like going to war with hundreds of millions of people except instead of attacking you, they just do not give a shit about what you're doing and ignore you all the time.

This is really important. When I first started a business, criticism stung. Now I love it. It means someone knows you exist, and it's worth their time to tell you what you're doing wrong.
> the most important thing, chargebacks.

Chargebacks are awful. 99% of the time, the merchant is a trusted party with a reputation to uphold, and the customer is a nobody who either couldn't care less about or couldn't be held to their reputation. Established companies won't go around overtly scamming people. The only time that chargebacks are really a good thing is with the very uncommon untrusted-merchant sale (like a new seller on Ebay with little/no feedback).
I"ve had the same problem, and have also recognized that its really a mindset / perception problem - the bookshelf I have at home is really no different than the one at the store. I could never, ever read them all, so I likewise shouldn't stress about my "read later" list. Its just a repository of interesting "when I have time for it" items. Thinking like that is not a hard-switch thats easily flipped, but by consciously recognizing and directing my thought patterns, its helped.

One random thing that has also helped is (inspired by another post) I organized my books by color. Silly little idea. But now that they are both "to learn" and "decoration", i feel less guilty about the ones I haven't read yet.
I love hackerrank and checkio. Both are great platforms. I wish that they would integrate with Coursera/udacity so that I could solve the programming challenges in one of these mediums and at the same time get guidance from a lecture.

However, if you want to go through some of the courses, you can get some machine learning as well from lectures on programming a self driving car at udacity and implement them at hackerrank.
The examples you give sort of prove the point. People remember bad drugs that killed people for decades afterwards. It sells papers, it makes regulations, companies get sued and people lose their jobs. No one notices when people die but could have been saved.

There is strong incentive to be overly conservative, but we should focus on the net deaths - having as few people die as possible.
I've seen a lot of replies to this comment that are missing the point tomasien is trying to make. BTC can actually completely wipe out the need for VISA, MC, etc. as it can serve for the underlying technology for transactions.

The only thing stopping this from happening today is illiquidity of the BTC<>(insert fiat currency) market. Once we see more liquidity, this dream can become a reality.
Anyone using this in production yet?
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Mmm... perhaps. PR needs a simple message. But reality is never simple. You can need to get into a war for very good reasons, without having a clear, simple story to tell the press.
I would be surprised if they didn't reduce their prices, there have been too many competitive storage pricing reductions recently for them not to.
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Glad I'm not a mouse: "After two weeks, half of the mice in each group were exposed to a searingly bright light for four hours. The other animals stayed in dimly lit cages. This light exposure is a widely used and accepted means of inducing retinal degeneration in animals."

This sounds like torture to me. I love you scientific method, but sometimes you bum me out.
Having been at Sun and having been (too) intimately involved with the microprocessor side of the house for way too damn long, I can tell you that when it came to microprocessors, Sun was all vision and no execution. The theme that was repeated over several microprocessors: a new, big idea that made all of the DEs horny, but that proved annoyingly tricky to implement. Sacrifices would then be made elsewhere in order to make a tape out date and/or power or die budget. But these sacrifices would be made without a real understanding of the consequences -- and the chip would arrive severely compromised. (Or wouldn't arrive at all.) Examples abound but include Viking, Cheetah, UltraJava/NanoJava/PicoJava, MAJC, Millennium (cancelled), Niagara (shared FPU!) and ROC (originally "Regatta-on-a-chip", but became "Rock" only when it was clear that it was going to be so late that it wasn't going to be meaningfully competing with IBM's Regatta after all). The only microprocessor that Sun really got unequivocally right (on time, on budget, leading performance, basically worked) was Spitfire -- but even then, on the subsequent shrinks (Blackbird and beyond) the grievous e-cache design flaws basically killed it.

Point is: in microprocessors, execution isn't everything -- it's the only thing.
Yeah, I didn't mean to assert that growth will guarantee YC funding, but that growth is the one of the best ways to keep you on track as you explore your idea and prototype.

At least for us, it saved us a lot of discussion when we could say "is this particular feature helping us grow?" and if the answer as no, we would move on.

But I do think, even at the earliest stages, it isn't hard to gauge interest by showing demand. Sign up pages are simple enough to do.
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I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.
The point of TLS is to protect against MitM. The server refusing the non-TLS connection is not safe against MitM, a MitM can still claim to be the target server and accept the connection and thus (potentially) compromise the website/account/whatever. That is why the client has to refuse even trying to connect without TLS.
It would be nice if there were a single number that could be justified by measurement, but there's no hardware yet to measure and there would not be a single number even if the hardware existed. That's because there's not just one "Mill", it's a family.

What we can say is that for equivalent computation capacity (i.e. number of functional units) the Mill will give somewhat better performance at much better power. Internally, the Mill's power budget is essentially the same as that of a DSP with the same function capacity, because they work in much the same way. DSPs have been around for a long time, and the power/performance comparisons with OOO have been long published. For equal process and equal Mips capacity the power difference for the core is 8-12x better than OOO, and we expect to do at least as well.

That's for equal compute capacity. Every architecture has a cap on scaling compute capacity. The cap seems to be around 8 pipelines in OOO machines; try to add more and you just slow down everything more than you gain from the extra pipes.

The Mill has caps too. We don't know yet where the diminishing returns point will be in detail, but our sims and engineering expertise suggests that it will be somewhere in the 30-40 pipes region. Such a high-end Mill would swap a good deal - but not all - of its power advantage for more horsepower.

You have the inverse story at the low end of the family: the lowest Mill has only five pipes, and no floating point at all. Not barn-burning performance, but much lower power even than existing non-OOO offerings.

So there's no one number, and no hard measurements anyway. If you doubt our projections then you are entitled to your opinion; in fact there's a fair amount of disagreement even within the Mill team as to what we will see in the actual chip. But the team includes quite a few who have been doing this for years, and in several cases were involved in the creation of the chips that you would compare the Mill against, so their considered opinion should not be rejected out of hand.
Datatau isn't doing too bad.
Thanks bargl. We are working on it. Hopefully you'll get to hear some good news soon.
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I could see this being like Scratch where it enables younger kids to make apps and explore that without knowing how to program fully. Very Cool!
You're right- the internet isn't magic. There is a natural law at play here, and you just mentioned it!

Information does want to be free- its not just a slogan, its a universal law.

There is no practical way for a corrupt government to constrain the flow of information in this day and age.
You have an odd way of phrasing it.

I would have said that the tax issues DO change because you've held an asset for Y years: if Y >= 1 year then you are taxed at one rate and if Y < 1 year then you are taxed at a different rate.

Regardless, the tax consequences are now clear.
Because what you just said is also very generalized. You put people in two buckets: followers and leaders. Where's the in-between?
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Probably, even if its just having a good time.
I can't believe only 10% of SF homeowners have earthquake insurance.

Unfortunately, I'm sure there will be a taxpayer funded bailout of all these people once their homes are damaged/destroyed in the next big one. So, why bother?
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I'd kind of beg to differ on this one.

Six years out, of my high school friends, two have left the hometown (in addition to myself). Of my college friends, half are un(der)employed.

I don't strive to be different from them; I like my friends. I still spend time with them, I get together with them whenever I can.

Now, at my job, I'm in a very typical enterprise-y position, with all the things that that entails. I've been informed that I'm very talented, that I'm a rising star; but really, I just want to keep moving my career forward. I'm not going to do it at (too great of) expense to my social life or my relationships, but I want to be in a position where I've got a chance to grow and learn. It's become increasingly evident that that may not be here.
Specialization at install time is, in a lot of ways, the most reasonable answer. (It completely sidesteps the permissioning issues involved in write permission on a global cache at first execution, for example.)

However, hacking an existing package manager to do this job may not be entirely trivial --- and, in typical server environments these days, there will often be more than one package manager to hack. Language-based package managers like Rubygems and npm, for example, build binary extensions for Ruby and Node/Javascript as part of their job. Updating any of them to deal with an additional "specialization" step may not be much of a big deal --- but dealing with all of them might be. (Particularly if you have sysadmins that like to, say, run something like debsums to verify that the installed files are exactly the same as the ones in the package --- which might fail on a "fattened" binary.)

If you've already had coffee with the maintainers of, say, apt (or rpm), npm (or Rubygems, or PIP), and a few others, hashed out the issues, and have worked out that it's no big deal, that's great! But if not --- management of servers these days is complicated in ways that you'd never guess from just looking at the hardware, and a few of those coffee chats might be enlightening.
My understanding is that, under Swedish law, Assange has what amounts to an arrest warrant. That they don't call it that and insist on merely claiming he's "wanted for questioning" is, as far as I can tell, semantics. He'd be brought in for questioning and subsequently arrested pending a trial. I'm not a lawyer though, much less in Swedish law.

I think Assange should go to Sweden to face questioning and his likely arrest. I think he's denying himself and the other parties involved justice on the matter, something Assange claims to hold in high regard. However, I also don't think he'd ever make it to Sweden to begin with, even if he did decide to leave the embassy. And, even if he did make it to Sweden, the U.S. State Department has made it clear that they will hunt him to the edge of the Earth for what he's done and enabled others to do.
Shouldn't you know what you want to to, if you're a professional?

If you don't know what you want to accomplish, you need to experiment. This is when those non-destructive features come in handy, but if you know the goal and how to achieve it, they aren't necessary.
I wonder how much damage it would take to bankrupt even the reinsurers. Would a hurricane Katrina sized disaster hitting every city from SF to Vancouver do it?
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May they wanted to use that for creating traction in the first days of the launch... then again everyone can just signup and this doesn't make sense...
That seems to be at odds with how Bitcoin works with the handful of large retailers that accept it. Reading online experiences, there are a subset where they order something at Overstock/Tiger Direct, the order does not go through, but the Bitcoins are sent, and they are told to complain to Coinbase. The alternative is I spend 5 minutes on the phone with a third party to issue a chargeback. ACH are also reversible by a third party (the bank).

Is my understanding flawed? How does a chargeback work when a third party does not exist and the protocol does not allow chargebacks.

Edit: Note that the merchant itself doing a refund is not equivalent. The important feature of a chargeback is that its a third party issuing it.
How would they pay for it, if you deny them any income?

A civilized society costs money. Police costs money. Roads costs money. Inspectors for all sorts of safety standards cost money. Education costs money.

Without some form of tax, anyone would be free to rob you, you wouldn't be able to go anywhere without roads, you wouldn't know if the house you want to buy is actually safe to live in, and everybody would be stupid.

Go try it out. There are countries where you don't have to pay any tax. Go see how you like it there.
Just a quick comment: If I wanted to embrace functional programming, I would skip Scala and goto Haskell, ML, or Clojure. And if I cared, I should really dig deep into this subject (tool vs. language). Scala just doesn't fit my needs. btw. I've preordered that book awhile ago just for supporting it but not really interested in it.

Becoming professional, and gaining experience has given insight in helping to choose stack in respect to matureness, stability, tool support, documentation etc. It's not that you cannot write Scala code for production and be happy about it. But I rather not. Writing fast is only one part of it. IntelliJ supports the whole aspect of development cycle, and it's good to hear Scala plugin is catching up. Just my opinion.
No it's not. Since businesses have to convert most or all of it to real cash and it can take hours or days for this process to complete, there would be padding built in to account for the volatility.
What makes AI difficult in these games is pattern recognition of higher level strategic abstractions. A human player can recognize that placing a Go stone or a Terran command center projects some power in regions around that spot. The human can use intuitive pattern matching to assess when he has a superior force in an area and can push to a decisive tactical victory, even if the human isn't quantifying every move in precise terms. An AI must quantify every bit of power projection somehow, which becomes impossible with present computing resources in games whose possible state space quickly explodes into 10^10 or more possibilities.

It's actually a similar problem to computer vision. Identifying a battle front from the current state of a war game and recognizing the tactical possibilities is similar to edge detection in a photograph and recognizing objects. Humans do that essentially with highly parallel computations and lookups by billions of neurons. Until we get billion-core CPUs and billion-ported RAM, AIs will not have the same capability.

Source: I've done some development on AI for Civilization. It sits somewhere between Go and Starcraft in AI capabilities. Civilization is turn-based like Go, but the state space explodes far more quickly like Starcraft when you have 100 units which can each make a dozen moves in 100! different orders on a turn. (In Civ, the order on which units act each turn is extremely important, where workers lay down railroads for other units to move, or where you attack a city with artillery before the ground pounders.)
I disagree, because Bitcoin's monetary policy can be changed at any time. In fact, Dogecoin, which uses a fork of the Bitcoin code, just changed theirs a short time ago, without much fuss, to a continuous inflation policy like you mentioned. I agree that for either of them to be used as a currency (rather than just for speculation), a low and stable level of inflation is necessary.

But that's all about inflation in the long term. In the short term, the rate of inflation depends on other factors such as the rate of capital moving into the Bitcoin economy and the rate of Bitcoins being lost.

So right now, there's no reason people should hold back on adopting Bitcoin because of its current monetary policy of having a fixed maximum number of coins. It's not like there's a fixed amount of money or time that can be invested in it; there's no reason people like Stripe and merchants can't do their bit at the same time core Bitcoin developers do theirs..
Happens all the time, unfortunately. Now, whenever I work on a project, the very first thing I think about is how the distribution is going to work, and then build the app around that.

The interesting thing I've found is that in the successful apps I've worked on, distribution has been 90% of the effort, and the actual app people see is like 10%. So in a way distribution is the app.
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Well you don't have to revive the whole body, or even the brain. Just preserve the information in it.