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What people complaining about "insufferable tone", "author inserts", etc. seem to miss is that HPMOR is not a completely stand-alone story. Eliezer is trying to get across some ideas about rationality, game theory and bayesian statistics he previously described at lenght in his non-fiction writings[0], and he often indirectly refers to them. Having read those posts before discovering HPMOR I very much enjoyed the first chapters and didn't find any "insufferable tone", but I can understand how some of the text can be confusing to people who haven't read Eliezer's blog posts before.

[0] - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
$7 to the writer for a fiction work is pretty good, IMO. There's probably no way you're going to achieve that otherwise. (I'm part of the "fuck the legacy publishers" camp; I do care about compensating writers and some editors, but in general, I'd rather pay less, read a lot more books, and have writers paid more, and fewer useless NYC publishing house employees playing games and acting as gatekeepers.)
Ask HN: Which server for Rails is the most recommended?
I want your opinion on choosing which server to use for production rails project. And what to use for deployment. I am in between Passenger and Unicorn for server. Capistrano or Jenkins for deployment?
What I need is speed and scalability. And flexibility regarding to on subdomain redirections. Seems like Unicorn has problems with it.
> but I know that the rent in Dublin has increased from that figure

1270USD is about 950 euro; at a pinch, you can still get a city centre 1 bed for that, though a bit over 1000 would be more common. I'm also a bit suspicious of its restaurant costs; they seem high for Dublin, and its telecoms costs, while reasonable a few years ago, are now too high.
Impressive. You managed to turn the most positive news for Bitcoin into a post about the "collapse of the Bitcoin economy", through a very flimsily constrcted series of assumptions. There should be like a new version of Godwin's law wherein all positive Bitcoin news will lead to its collapse in three steps.
You've got to organize a voting ring. Sadly, I've seen this work quite well for mediocre submissions several times. I've seen YC companies do this.
Googling isn't immediately getting me anything and I don't recall the source, but I used to read a lot of urban planning books and I recall seeing a quote from that era to the effect of "Mud! Mud everywhere!" and complaining about it. "Mud" was a euphemism for horseshit. So that was a real complaint of the time.

Though the internet did not exist at the time so I don't know if it is even possible to find quotes/resources about it online. That may be part of why he kind of speculated rather than listing a few sources of information.
So, to recap: different culture, expat friendly, stable internet, and (I presume) safety for the family. There is a continuum with countries similar to US culture on one end and countries with very different culture on another end, but with various issues (safety, internet availability, language, etc). I would say somewhere in the middle of the spectrum are countries of Eastern Europe: they are beautiful, most of them are expat-friendly and have expat diasporas, stable internet, relatively safe. I would suggest you look at Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania (great internet connectivity BTW).
this article is the first I have heard of this breach.

FWIW, the article is 8 days old. Did you find out through this article before, or did you just find out from this article being posted to HN today?
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I was going to put together a tray widget tool for this, but even the example code given doesn't work for me, as far as I can tell. For the coördinates of the UK Eurotunnel terminal, it gives me: MEQ N6G 7NY5. Problems on a trivial level like that don't encourage me to think this idea is important to its creator — especially since I see the blog comments are full of people who noticed the same thing, with no response.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceplane
That's interesting. A lot of trails here that are crushed limestone and such near ranches have to explicitly post signs that say "No horses" to also stop this problem.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/opinion/The-Dangers-of-Pri...

An op-ed I randomly came across today regarding the topic.
This may sound weird, but I actually love staring at my bookshelf. I often will go, pick up a book I haven't thought about in a while, and read it again. I've filled it with (mostly) timeless technical manuals, plate picture books (like pictures of the cosmos, airplanes and things like that), plenty of sci-fi, flight instruction manuals, foreign language dictionaries and other odds and ends. There are plenty of books which I'll buy on Amazon and leave on the shelf for a couple of years and I'll randomly pick one up and start reading.

I think the point here is that a bookshelf makes ideas have a geographic location. With web sites, knowledge doesn't occupy physical space and doesn't have the same permanence which a book occupies. With the bookshelf you're reminded of ideas not because they're hyperlinked together in some ever shifting zeitgeist, but because they're literally sitting right in front of you.
Check out some of the numbers before your decide anything:
http://blog.storj.io/post/88303701698/storj-vs-dropbox-cost
Generally an interesting article, but I can't help but wonder why, of all the things to dislike about Silicon Valley, you would dislike that "changing the world" is so overused so as to be cliché. Most every region and industry has plenty of clichés; I can't really think of a better one than trying to change the world.
But slg raised interesting questions. That was the first thing I thought about as well after reading the article: will Dell (and other companies) keep the bitcoins? Rather not, the Coinbase will convert them to dollars immediately.
As someone who recently came through YC (W2014) - I can say that Alexis and Dalton have been two of the most helpful people within the YC community for us at Beacon.

In particular, Dalton is someone that helped us when we got rejected after our first interview, stayed supportive, and always has actionable insight and advice. He's also just a legend.

As to Alexis, I honestly don't understand how he does all the things he does - he's just going at like a million miles a minute. As high profile as he is, I actually think his value is underrated in the YC community.
Hey, we're working with all kinds of disaster relief nonprofits and the like. Would be great to hear from you: partnerup@gotenna.com
I don't find it appealing and haven't read much of it (I was aware of it prior to this post).

Does that count?
Its memory is probably better than yours. https://web.archive.org/web/20060408183534/http://profile.my...

That would be "Chris", one of the "Cool New People" on the homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209175255/http://www.myspac...
It's a one way relationship though, digits always trump the letter look-alikes, so that helps.
I'd love to hear his employees opinion on whether this is a good idea or just vastly irritating.
Well, I made the assumption on the springboard of the World Urban Planning Summit of 1898, where horse manure was discussed for 3 of the 10 days with international city planners from all types of cities.

Granted, it's a thought piece on the abuse of "faster horses" myth that is often used to subtly circumvent user research and experience discussions.

But even today, like you say, no one says they want faster cars. I think today people might say they don't want a car at all, or a affordable Tesla, or if you go back 15 years, we thought it was a Segway.
Maybe you can expand to DC as well - or bring on one of us in the DC area as your proxy.
"The question is, can Coinbase sell these coins as quickly as they receive them? If not, what kind of exposure do they have to the violatility of the price of Bitcoin?"

That's a great question and I had wondered the same after reading the coinbase site the other day. How do they keep the balance between buyers and sellers and shield against that volatility? Further even if they do that today, this week, etc what will happen if there is an event in the future which alters the market?

Right now it seems like there is a "rising tide" which might be working in coinbase's favor. [1]

[1] This is more of a question than a statement and I'd be curious what others think along these lines.
Yes. As a Kindle author, I got an email this morning stating that's how it will work.
It seems like all the major carriers cooperate to some degree. This is an interesting article from back in 2012, with many good quotes from UPS/DHL/FedEx: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2012/11/16/183045/99/crimenews...

The parts about opening up direct database access to law enforcement was disappointing but not surprising.

USPS in theory actually provides better protection because US mail has stronger legal protections than handing your package off to a private entity.
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Coinbase quotes exchange rates that account for their risk.
Number of transactions would probably be a better metric

http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions
I feel like it was a rushed job - absolutely no attention to the motion work that is most of what Material design is about: http://paulstamatiou.com/design-provide-meaning-with-motion/
Likewise, any negative news about Bitcoin will be turned into "actually good news".
When I started at this place, I had 10 days of vacation and about 8 sick days per year. Within the first 3 months, I had no more vacation, no more sick days, and just 15 days of PTO. Note the mathematical inequality. We were, of course, then required to use PTO days when the office was shuttered due to dangerous weather, and everyone got the flu because no one wanted to scuttle their own summer vacation plans by staying home sick in February.

My experience is that American companies hate the idea that their employees might prefer to do anything at all other than to make more money for the company than it costs to pay out their benefits and wages. This is not a theoretical hate, but an actual, almost tangible hate. They are completely furious that their inefficient meat-robots continually whine about needing to eat, sleep, and eliminate wastes. Never mind wanting to actually leave the workplace.

US companies emphatically do not offer 4 weeks PTO to new hires. You would be lucky to get that after 5 years of continuous employment with the same company. Your mileage, of course, may vary, especially if you are in a particularly labor-friendly job market. My personal experience, however, is that I have never been able to take a vacation longer than 9 continuous days, and those were often constrained by weekends and paid holidays, resulting in 4 days spent from PTO, and 5 days from weekends and holidays.

I would be willing to put up with some of the negative aspects of having a union, if it could manage even as much as stopping my non-paycheck benefits from eroding a tiny bit every year. I have had enough.
Why don't you try and counter or answer what he is saying instead of attacking him for saying it.
And then some.
The virus doesn't need to insert its sequences into the genome. There are different types of virus, and some do (retroviruses) and others don't.

It can be perfectly fine to have the dna floating around in the nucleus or even the cell body to turn it into a protein. Exceptions abound, of course...
I meant "marginal" in an facetious sense. None of these languages are "marginal" to those who grow up speaking them (or who end up meeting a soul mate, of one kind or another, from which they learn them). That's the main point I was trying to make.
Have patiencce. Bitcoin is a very new technology and mass adoption will definitively take time, but precisely because of that you will see significant rewards by being an early adopter.
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It might have become sensationalized over the last 115 years, but you can google the Urban Planning Summit of 1898 to see where it all originals from. The sentiment. I did have to make up and just guess at what real manure problems would be besides "faster horses", but they at least make some sense and paint a mental image. I'm no historian =D
The department itself is responsible for preventing this.

Cyber Command shouldn't be operating on US soil (or constitutional reasons), at least outside of "training exercises" and securing inter-DoD systems (of which the federal government is not). The NSA can help other departmental and non-departmental organisations secure their system either through consulting or potentially even pen testing (that's legal and part of their remit).

The FBI has also taken an on-again/off-again role in trying to secure inter-US systems but they don't really have the budget or remit to be doing that fully.

> The hackers must have used a US based VPN, because it would be retarded to allow connections directly from China to access any US DoD systems, right?

As you yourself eluded to, blocking connections based on GeoIP is utterly utterly pointless. The internet is designed such that you can route around those types of blocks fairly trivially (e.g. proxies, VPNs, foreign servers, private interconnect agreements, et al).
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USCYBERCOM is only responsible for .mil networks. DHS is in charge of the security of .gov networks.
> to prevent evil artificial intelligence from taking over the world

Many smart people find good reasons to care about that. But even if it's a personal goal for the author, it doesn't mean it's what he wants other people to do.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/66/rationality_common_interest_of_ma...

> into a cult

Oh well, you realize you're writing this on another cult's news page? ;).

http://lesswrong.com/lw/4d/youre_calling_who_a_cult_leader/
Now instead of the waste of transportation being localized near the person using the transportation, we've dispersed it throughout the global atmosphere and no one knows what to do about it.
Props to Google. This is definitely the right thing to do. Let's hope Apple and Microsoft follow suit.

There are games out there that are deceptively unplayable without shelling out.
That requires linking with libpthread, which a single
threaded program would not normally do. Otherwise, it's
not a bad suggestion.

Note that doesn't hold for Solaris, all of the thread functionality is in libc; libpthread only exists for historical compatibility at this point.
It's there. When you edit and show options, you can deliver to email or RSS.
> Cyber Command shouldn't be operating on US soil (or constitutional reasons)

Could you elaborate the specific constitutional bar to Cyber Command operating on US soil?
I didn't realize that about Ghash. Are there other zero-fee pools? Why wouldn't Ghash raise their rates? Their pool shrinks and they make more money. What's the advantage of the current setup?
I am starting to get sick of these things.

> Doing Riemann sums in Fortran is about as math-oriented an introduction to programming as you can get.

No. Math is not calculus. Math is more than calculus, more than arithmetic. If anyone asserted that "Programming is arithmetic" (or "...is not..."), they'd get their buttocks laughed off of them. But that is exactly what Sarah Mei is arguing against here.

> You might be able to say that math skills are required for computer science success, but you can’t necessarily say that they’re required for developer success.

I suppose you can't. But if you want to stay in this field for more than a few years, you might indeed want to know some of that background, mathy, computer-sciency stuff. Or does somebody need to go through that Java Generics and subtyping discussion again?

> As an example, consider whiteboard interview staple big-O notation.

Yes, let's. I had a conversation with a friend and cow-orker a while back like this:

"Why is this so slow: string1 + string2 + ... + stringn?"

"Because that's an n^2 operation. You copy string1, then you copy string1 and string2, then you copy string1 and string2 and.... Try sticking all of the strings in a list or array or something and then joining them all together at once."

"But this other JS interpreter isn't slow...."

"Because it's doing that array optimization for you, behind your back. I suppose you could limit our appy to that one browser if you are really attached to +'s...."

> But the same logical concepts are embedded in our human languages.

I would like to just note that

1. The best definition of mathematics that I know is something like "the study of abstraction as a fundamental." You can learn abstraction anywhere; it's indeed everywhere. But math is all about it.

2. If I go up to a native Japanese speaker and tell them, "Arigato!" they'll (I hope) pat me on the head and say "You're welcome". They'll probably think I'm an idiot, but they'll know what I'm trying to get across. If I try a similar feat while programming, the magic smoke will leave me blinded and with serious lung damage on its way out of the computer and into the ventilation system.
didn't mean to imply "only" as a less-than comparison -- just a distinction.
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I think this could pretty easily be solved if there was a somewhat small box on the frontpage with samples from posts from the last hour that haven't made it past /new yet. This puts the important stage of the democracy (the primaries, if you will) back in the average users' hands.
Inline JSX is such a stupid idea, and react.js doubles down on stupid. Why do this? The documentation never explains why it is good to add some invalid JavaScript syntax to a library. I want my templates in the same file as my JavaScript logic, inline no less, peppered throughout variable declarations and function calls all over the place, like I want to stub my toe. I do not want to stub my toe and I don't want to use JSX. Notice the complete lack of support in Webstorm.
Author here, I strip digital signature by default. Plus not everyone signs their windows binaries. Only Microsoft really. Plus I put BDF + mitmproxy together to patch binaries via MITM: https://github.com/secretsquirrel/BDFProxy
The US just claims every "cyber attack" is the work of Chinese hackers. It is very politically useful both for the continued demonification of what they see as a large adversary but also because it makes the US government appear less incompetent (as they often play up the "elite Chinese hacker" architype).
What are you charging or what is your LTV of a user?
Well great. Does DHS have the appropriate competency to handle this kind of stuff?
Notice how all these big "wins" for bitcoin come in the form of services facilitated by a centralized 3rd party. Coinbase, Bitpay, et al are becoming the de facto gatekeepers of bitcoin in business, it's not hard to imagine a future where these companies are the only practical option for real people interacting with the bitcoin economy. We're building a centralized infrastructure around the supposed decentralized currency of the future and these companies have extremely cumbersome KYC procedures; paypal never required me to scan a passport, take a selfie or submit to social graph analysis in order to use their services.

edit:

As some have pointed out, KYC is for buying bitcoin, not for making purchases with bitcoin, this is a fair point, but I think it's still noteworthy to recognize that most people will endure that KYC process to acquire bitcoins since the alternative is something like localbitcoins (scam prone and considerable effort for a newbie). Additionally, it's still true that for most people, the practical utility of bitcoin is a function of the services that these 3rd party companies are willing/able to provide, if some of these big players went bankrupt, suffered from long term DDOS, encounter legal problems or have their coins stolen by hackers, suddenly your average consumer has lost practical use of their bitcoins.
The difficulty comes from multiple solutions to your puzzles (which would force the player to guess). As it turned out, a purely randomly selected puzzle would 99.9%* of the time give you a puzzle with multiple solutions. I would have settled for 99%, but more was too much server resources to hog!

And then add the screening for difficulty levels.

*Not an exact figure =)
What's interesting is that they are limiting this borderless currency to US-only. But it doesn't take much to start accepting from other countries after they get through the legal complications, it probably won't take too long :)
No the worst possibility is an undercover Officer gets blown and ends up staring in the latest Al Quaida "happy decapitation videos" series
Is it reasonable to expect every department, organization, and agency to have flawless security?

Not necessarily blocking based on IPs, but requiring VPNs to access these networks, which would be a requirement for another level of authentication and another point of monitoring who accesses the systems.
Which basically means don't bother ever submitting.
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Maybe that was true in 1965, but it's nowhere near the case today.

Historically the downtown business core of Montréal was Anglophone while the poorer, rural areas were completely Francophone. However, rural people could still vote: the result was the 1976 provincial victory for the Parti Québécois who immediately introduced far-reaching legislation requiring the use of French in public places, in the workplace, etc. The effect of this was to make Toronto Canada's primary business center.

There are still some English areas, I think mostly around McGill. Most of the city is completely French though.

As an English-speaker with only a rudimentary knowledge of French, I found Paris a lot easier than Montréal to get around in. In Paris, as long as you can remember to start with a nice "Bonjour"/"Bon soir" everyone I spoke with was happy to help in English as best they could. In Montréal, language is so politicized that doesn't work. To be fair, once people found out I wasn't from Canada they would be friendly and helpful -- their first assumption, though, would be that I was probably just someone from Ontario, must have had some French in school, and now am just refusing to try.
> Amazon became successful by selling books.

Licensing, not selling. Unless you were talking about dead-tree versions.
why not use already-established grid systems instead of making a new one? MGRS is commonly used in the US military and does the same thing.
There is a lot of research on this, but "patching up the genome" isn't possible that way.

Gene therapy generally only inserts DNA into a cell (by whatever means possible). Inside the cell, it gets used almost as if it where inside the actual genome.

The problem is reaching enough cells and getting the genes to work well enough...
You cannot pass state down to transcluded elements. They can only get their state from factories, just like... jQuery. Or no framework at all.
Having an established relationship with the moderators and/or being an already respected member of the community helps a great deal in those scenarios. Obviously, that takes a lot of investment in time.
I didn't read the Sequences (mostly, it must be said, because they were boring), enjoyed the first few chapters, didn't mind the insufferable tone, and just ignore the unsubtle preaching. I'm more bothered by That Major Story Event in the 90s chapters than his authorial quality, really.
Here's a classic piece of data journalism on the topic:

'This problem came to a head when in 1894, The Times newspaper predicted... “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.”'

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-...
Ideally, you're blogging for intrinsic reasons and not "I want to get famous and be on the top of Hacker News."

I've been there, it's not that special. :P