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Do you think regulators protect Etrade from security vulnerabilities?

Do you think government is required to provide insurance?

If the consumers demand these of their merchants, it will happen in the long term on their own accord, and government is not necessary to make it happen.
You can use cross-language templating options - personally I use mustache.

No disagreements on multiple solutions - definitely a cool approach.
You assume honest intent.

This is the ideal scheme if you wish to selectively repay a few shills whilst advising others that they will just have to wait.
Stop with the 2048, please!

Edit: I guess pending comments is disabled still?
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>>A worm or trojan whose payload steals people's bitcoins is also plausible, though afaik there haven't been any yet.

There have been a couple of these actually:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2109000/bitcoinstealing-malwa...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244772/Bitcoin_marke...

http://www.coindesk.com/cointhief-mac-malware-steals-bitcoin...

And the most famous probably, cryptolocker - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker ...though this is more a ransom strategy than just out-right theft.
If I were to export a single chip to Iran, I would be a legitimate target of NSA. When Huawei sold network monitoring equipment to Iran -- knowing full well that equipment is used to target and kill people, and in contravention of US export laws -- they made themselves legitimate targets of the NSA.
I'm just a grad student in the humanities but my experience as the instructor of courses has been nothing like the one described in this post. I don't know anyone in our department that has ever been called by a textbook rep let alone taken out for lunch. Hell, there have been a couple times when I couldn't even get them to send me a copy of the book I'm teaching.

I also haven't had any choice in what version of the book I use. I've had the bookstore call me and tell me that there is a new edition and they won't order the old edition so i have to use the new edition or some other book entirely.
http://www.googlesciencefair.com/springboard/en/
The fact that this is published in the New York Times cannot be seen as even remotely indicative of the opinions of the New York Times Company ($NYT).

Krugman is a columnist. The NYT cannot tell him what to write (and they have strict editorial practices, so I doubt that they would even try).

Furthermore, a columnist can write essentially whatever they want and the paper will have to publish it. This is part of the agreement when a paper brings on a columnist (and why they must choose them carefully) - they are entering a semi-binding[0] contract to publish anything that the columnist says in the future, without actually knowing what that will be.

[0] I say "semi-binding" because it's not a legal contract, but it is a matter of industry ethics, and the New York Times has a good track record of holding to these.
If you have enough money tied up in it to make you uneasy it would seem sensible to be using dedicated hardware for your coin management (with only the bare necessities of software installed on it).
Disappointingly easy even.
> But if what you said was entirely true, there would be no new social networking services appear, ever.

I never said that. Obviously new social networks are being created through mobile apps, like whatsapp, because they fill a need that has nothing to do with your approach. There are already thousands of whatsapp, snapchat, etc clones so attempting to copy the first mover is going to be about as effective as you might imagine.
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I do recognise that not everyone is in a situation where they could move closer to work. But I'm guessing that a good proportion of people are. There are outliers, such as London.

Let's not forget - HN is not representative of the general population.
Bitcoin is the future! No regulation needed! Get your unsecured wallet here!

Can't wait for this currency to completely fade into obscurity - that's where it belongs because surely it has proved to not be a viable currency at all.
This one makes no sense...
"A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked."
They're willing to give up some appeal with the over-saturated audience to draw in the under-saturated one :).
Why should I join the Ultracoin (UTC) Community?
> Nobody sees the desperate need of legislation here?

Why do you feel the need to resort to using legislation to eliminate freedoms and rights I currently have?
way too easy, but i love the twist :)
Facebook's New Programming Language – Hack – Is A Dream Come True For Hackers
I'm surprised that there aren't any PCA/Feature-Extraction/Dimension-Reduce algos on this list. And there's also a really strong emphasis on clustering and classification.

Is this an artifact of how the list was put together or is clustering really that much more common than feature extraction? Is PCA thought to be too trivial to qualify?
We could have a site-wide NDA
The scoring mechanics are reversed in this version. Lower scores are actually better.
Any proper audio interface should have a very low noisefloor. It's more about stuff like phase distortion and crosstalk. You need to have a decent amp/speakers already to hear the difference.

Your noise problem will be coming from somewhere else. Probably a ground loop.
Being from the France tech scene and now living in SF ther are several things we should not forget.

CONS

- Yes you get big taxes, and setting up a company is a pain (RSI/URSSAF), administration is slow and inefficient.

Finding fundings can be hard and investements are generaly smaller than in the US.

French market is smal unless your target is international from day 1.

But,

PROS

- You have a pool of not so pricy talented workers (Well supposing you benefit from “Credit impot recherche” otherwise the total cost of an employee is x2 his salary).

- Fight for some government subsidies (time consuming).

- Leverage the government to pay your salary while bootstrapping. For startupers with previous work experience, you can quit your company in good terms and receive unemployement paychecks for a year or so.
I was able to get into a situation where holding down the left key allowed me to get into a cycle of the tiles being split and then combined. This meant that I could get as high as score as I wanted. I got bored at 2662784 points.

Edit: Just realized lower scores are better.
People with no significant accomplishments or recognition in the real world look desperately to fill the void online. See forum moderators[0]. 49 out of 50 moderators are cretins and know-it-alls.

I still use StackOverflow a lot but I hesitate to ask questions in some tags because of the losers who pounce at the chance to sound superior.

[0] - http://i.imgur.com/QW4lN.jpg
Here http://maxtaco.github.io/bitcoin/2014/01/16/how-jason-bourne...
This one is very good!

And some more ideas: throw the numbers using slingshot, arrange falling tetris-blocks-numbers, make 3+ exact numbers in row disappear, the same but on the moving spiral track, farm the numbers (feed, buy supplies).
These sound like all CONS to me.

Except the last one, which is just plain disgusting.
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> Have we still not agreed to stop paying attention to Paul Krugman altogether?

Are you kidding? I love Paul Krugman. He's my favorite comedian!
Being wasteful, in my mind, is wasting resources, energy, effort etc. for slight conveniences and superficial benefits.

And who gets to decide which conveniences are "slight" and which benefits are "superficial"? Sounds like nice work if you can get it.

Where is the computer you were using before now? Chances are that someone else is using it

Not likely. Computer recycling centers return the materials to manufacturers so they can be used as raw materials for new production. They don't resell the systems as-is.

Chances are that you just threw it away, which is more detrimental to the environment than continued use.

If your definition of "wasteful" is "putting things in landfills instead of recycling them", you could have just said so.

You couldn't sell and develop new hardware at such a rapid pace if people weren't readily throwing their old stuff away to have it replaced.

This is quite true. But you're failing to ask the next question: why are people readily throwing their old stuff away? Because the new stuff is perceived by them to have better functionality. (This is not just true for computers; it's true for pretty much everything, cars, houses, clothes, etc.) They may be wrong, but who made you the judge of that?

For example, when you say:

the cost of manufacturing your current laptop was more than what you save by using it instead of the old one.

You are completely ignoring the benefit to me of having my current laptop instead of my previous one. You're basically saying that people should be satisfied with old, outdated products that don't work very well compared to new ones, just so that we can avoid manufacturing new ones. If you want to make that tradeoff for yourself, fine, go for it. But if you expect other people to accept your definition of what are "slight conveniences and superficial benefits" that don't justify buying new stuff, you're going to need to do a lot better than just pointing out that people buy a lot of new stuff.
I think this idea first appeared in the United States. I'm sure there's a story about how Ford sold the Model T. Few people could afford to purchase up front, so groups of people joined together and paid a set amount each month. Say $50 amongst 100 people. Each month, they'd buy a Model T and a few lucky people would get the car. So, rather than 100 people waiting a year to purchase, on average they waited only 6 months. That spawned the creation of mail order, then revolving credit, and the Western world has never looked back.
His newsletter is cool too. One of the few Newsletter I'm happy subscribing to.
What is the difference between this guy's scheme and not using the debit card for purposes other than withdrawing cash at ATMs ever? As an added bonus, your cash at the bank stays as cash theoretically forever rather than converting itself into a video game.
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Krugman also backed his argument with data, notably the exact same data that Silver is disparaging by hiring people like Roger Pielke Jr. as staff writers. The data is in, and has been analyzed in a multitude of different ways: climate change is real. To ignore that is to ignore the role that expertise sometimes has to play in understanding and interpreting data.

While it's superficially true that this expertise can be used to enshrine unscientific dogmas in the trappings of science, to reject expertise period is to reject the role that knowledge can and must play in forming an understanding of our world. Data do not exist in a vacuum, but are collected in actual experiments, the complexities of which must be understood to gain insight from that data in a way that reflects reality. Not being wary of (or even intentionally misconstruing) how data is collected and represented leads to mistakes like normalizing away trends, then claiming those trends don't exist; this is precisely what Pielke Jr. did, and what Krugman was criticizing.
My friend, remember the Government Koan and persist. You have a long way ahead of you:

If it moves, tax it.

If it keeps moving, regulate it.

If it stops moving, subsidize it.
Yeah, I got the same with the down key..

http://imgur.com/EQ3qS2n,JfIL6Ln
I missed whatever controversy started the current round of 538 commentary. All I know is that they put out a statistical march madness bracket and heard something about their global warming piece not worth the time figuring out what the drama was about.

So I'm behind the times. Why are most of the comments on this article pulling out all well-worn Hacker News tropes for dismissing the article and/or making the field slippery enough that I can ignore what Krugman says?

As far as I know, Krugman and Silver are both regarded as real smart dudes in their respective fields (both with actual political hacks ready to paint them as hacks), and nobody is expected to bat 1.000 so this looks like a "hey kid new to these waters, be careful there be dragons."

So is the drama over a politically sensitive topic? I'm assuming. Is the narrative about the issue coming out of 538 more pleasing to the ears of entrepreneurial self-styled "hackers" than the one from Krugman? I bet so! Now that I've posted this, I'll go catch up on the drama to find out just how wrong I am.
I expected more from Krugman. All I saw were statements that carried no weight and complaints about how Silver and his team, instead of asking for the blessing of their "peers", tried to do the job by themselves.

Krugman's mentions "But data never tell a story on their own.", and does the polar opposite, tries to tell a story with no data, and that's the wrong kind of story for what he was aiming for.

Using Krugman's own words, his post "looks like something between a disappointment and a disaster."
Lets say you're exporting a single chip to the US. You know full well that your chip will end up in a drone. That drone then obliterates an innocent child in some godforsaken backwater in Africa or somewhere. Does that legitimize their making a target of you?
> "hey we can get a great business deal and corner a market by doing this, this and this - legal team: are we doing anything wrong here?"

Wrong question.

Should be: "are we doing anything illegal here?".

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right. That's the whole point here.

If you have a Office of Legal Compliance whose job is strictly to decide whether something is within the law or not, a corporation might easily get the idea they can get away with doing all sorts of wrongs.

Is it legal? Possibly, apparently. But should you nose through somebody's private email without their consent? Is that ever the right thing to do? I'm gonna say no, almost always. There may be a few exceptions in some specific circumstances, but that is not for the Office of Legal Compliance to determine because ethics isn't their job.

(it might be nice if it was, but it's not)
Good twist, won this one. score 15168

I guess I should get my karma up with the pending comments coming.
I don't see the point in trying to keep up with design trends. Either it's good or it's not, and trends do not change that. I think it's pretty decent right now.

But an API would be nice, preferrably with a live stream for stories and comments.

I'd love to build a custom terminal client that filters away stories I don't want to see, and hilights things (both comments and stories) I'd likely find interesting.
Twitter yesterday, TOR tomorrow, what next FB and G+ and then what will they block to stem people speaking things about the Turkish government.

From what I understand the whole blocking twitter is due to the Turkish government not liking what is said about them on twitter. Now by their actions they have created more people saying things they will not like on many other platforms and with that, were will it end. Will they block of the entire internet or will they deal with the issues being raised about them in a constructive way beyond effectively gagging everybody as they are unable to put there hands over there ears.

Either way, this is a dangerous path they are taking and the fallout will be greater than the problem they perceive too be abating.
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Look, Steve Jobs, despite his accomplishments (and I don't mean to belittle them at all) is a gnat in history. Like the rest of us.

He had marketing brilliance, and was a trend-setting and trend-guesser. But he didn't truly change the world. He didn't better our lives. He (Apple) produce(s) high quality, high price hardware. Simple as that. But in America, right now, we measure wealth to be greatness. It's sad really. Wealth means nothing unless you spread it around. Which Job's never did. As a rule.

Steve Jobs was not a generous man. Not at all. And he also wasn't a kind man. Maybe to his family and close friends - the personal Steve Jobs - I don't know. But everyone else was a tool to be used. Even Woz. Hell, especially Woz.

Despite us turning him into a Saint, in 100 years he'll be forgotten. Bill Gates might not be though.
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Hi Kevin, I have sent you an email with link to over 100 designs I have done. Please take a look. Thanks
At risk of exposing my own misinterpretation of it, it does make sense if you read the section where Tom Knight is listed as a primary developer of LISP machines. I believe the implication is that he understands it, whereas the novice does not, and the machine responds to his touch.
Why can I vote multiple times on the same idea as a single user? I just gave 5 votes to the top one.
You absolutely do. I think it's hard to draw any solid conclusions from this snippet though; an alternative explanation is that Page thinks there are already plenty of people and resources directed at building schools and curing malaria, and that his own money is better spent widening the solution spread than reinforcing the more classical work.
The Koan implies Knight was able to fix the machine by power-cycling because he, unlike he novice, understood what was going wrong.
I'd like to help, but without also facilitating paedos. Is there an easy way to limit my tor exits to Twitter and its subdomains? I.e., can I do the configuration in Tor rather than messing with routes/firewall on the OS?
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I had negative karma and I deserved it for being a retard on some occasions.

And you never feel as good as yourself as when the other person walks out of the discussion with a solid comprehension after a give and take with you. Nothing beats that. So even if you're doing it for the ego, talking down to someone is a nickle, compared with the equity you have sharing the knowledge with someone else.

One of the best lessons I've learned is this one: You learn so much teaching and explaining to others, you wouldn't even believe.

You always neglect an area of a topic because you find it "trivial", or "easy". Your brain tricked you into thinking you understand it. (I had this when I started was learning English. I was able to read books and understand, I watched movies and understood.. But it's only when I started to interact with other English speakers that it became obvious I sucked at articulating my thoughts. It was hard. And it's not like I didn't understand English, but writing and talking was something else). Knowing is something. Doing is another.

I've had the privilege to tutor a lot of my classmates, the benefit is that they ask questions you haven't asked, for you've taken a concept or another for granted. This pushes you to deepen your knowledge enough to master it and be able to explain it from a gazillion angles until you lock in an angle from which things seem clear to the other person.

So when they say: "Thank you a lot for taking the time !", I'm thinking :"Thank you".

You'd never be able to do that with only your own perspective. (perceptual positions, coming...)

I use that approach too learning about something. I take all assumptions from the table and go slightly schizophrenic: One personality is "dumb" and "newb", the other tries to explain things. It's one of the greatest exercises provided you take out assumptions. You detail every thing until it's rock solid.

Most advanced users can explain advanced concepts to beginners, that's how you recognize them. They have a solid basis. And if the topic is really complex, the beginner at least grasps the concept of it.

Like I hang out in Python's mailing lists (I also was on Perl's) and I'm in Electronics' forums (ETO, mainly) and you wouldn't believe the effort the most senior users there take to make sure people understand a concept. Many uses, big fat posts detailing not only a fix to the problem, but how to think about it.
Oh, common. No one said a path to enlightenment is easy :)
Ask HN: Julia Macros
From what I've heard Julia macros are very similar to Lisp macros. Since I don't know Julia myself, I was hoping someone who is familiar with both Lisp macros and Julia macros could give a comparison.
Perhaps the open-source model may be used to draft new textbooks. Free textbooks for the world containing up to date information. Call it WikiTextBooks?
I still know of one ATM (Bank of the West - Walnut Creek) whose ATM runs Microsoft Network OS 2.01. (or maybe 2.1?)

I think that's OS/2 - it looks like DOS with tcp/ip. The copyright on the screen states 1992.
Thank you but this is for running your own wallet not for running a payment receiving and sending system for thousands of customers.
Maybe naive, but here's what I wonder. Why doesn't someone write an exchange, open source the code, and build transparency in from the beginning? Publish every wallet address with no associated info so users can watch transactions on the blockchain. Publish cold wallet addresses too and automatically route, say, 90% of deposited BTC into those. With such a system, you could transfer in BTC and watch 90% of it go to an address the exchange claimed was a cold wallet (I don't know how to verify that other than by trust, but this level of transparency is at least more than what we have today.)

Just to be clear on what I'm not saying, I don't claim this will solve all problems. I also don't claim that it is preferable to keep a significant amount of one's currency in a remote account. But people are going to do it anyway, angry/snarky/intelligently-worded arguments not withstanding. Why not embrace the transparency these platforms offer to buoy user confidence?

Even if you could start your own exchange using this codebase more easily, most of the value from such a service comes from professionally maintaining quality infrastructure, providing trustable guarantees on security, etc. The alternative is a series of crappily-coded exchanges that will continue failing due to poor code and lack of transparency. I don't know how to solve the problem of nefarious parties starting exchanges with this code, but solving that problem isn't my intent.
> these journalists argue that these revelations are unjustified, even treasonous, because this is the type of spying the NSA should be doing

No, the NSA should NOT be doing this. It's not done to prevent any attacks on the US, it's simply economic espionage. It's economic warfare. It doesn't belong in any "democratic" country.