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I still don't see where the claim of altruism comes in. We're labelling things for their effects. Matasano secures your software in exchange for dollars. I'm currently making software respond quickly to network events in exchange for dollars. The sandwich vendor makes me a sandwich in exchange for dollars. Calling us all "dollar miners", simply because we're doing it mostly for the dollars, is not really "calling things what they are" - it's a horrendously lossy focus on one particular aspect of "what they are".
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> " tries again.... In other words, digit(s) modulo"

"Try again" and "modulo" do not mean the same thing.

Try again means you discard a result outside of the range, and then generate a new number without any reference to the value of the first try. If you have 7 kids and you're picking 0-9, you discard any results of 7-8-9 (or 8-9-0) and try again.

Modulo means you take a result outside of the range, divide it by the range, and use the remainder (which is guaranteed to be in the range) as your new answer. The problem with this approach is that it's not evenly distributed -- if you have 7 kids and digits 0-9, three of your kids will get double chances. Even if you use 0-59 as your range, some of the kids will have 9 chances and others will have 8 chances.
Without all the pieces the watchmaker is just some guy with the knowledge to make watches. Without a watchmaker, the pieces are all just pieces. It takes all of them coming together to become a watch. All of the pieces may be replaceable, but nevertheless, all make a valuable contribution.

Which watchmaker do you go to for your watch? The one that has the reputation for making the best watches - the best generalist. Just because someone is a generalist, doesn't mean they're not the best at what they do.

Steve Wozniak - Technical genius, Systems Engineer, Specialist. Arguably as important in Apple's success as Jobs. Without Woz, there was no product. It was his know-how that gave Apple life.

Steve Jobs - CEO, Salesman spectulaire, Visionary, Generalist. Exiled from his own company. Replaceable? The board of directors clearly thought so. Could anyone have done as good a job? Who knows. What we do know is that the previous management did a shitty job and in a very just turn of events, Jobs turned out to be fucking awesome at it. Kudos to him.

Could any engineer than Woz have built the product Jobs asked for? Quite probably. I'm sure there were other capable engineers out there if Wozniak had declined or not been available. It took Jobs more generalized abilities to direct Woz's talents and get a product to market.

Would Jobs have made a success of his life without Wozniak? Would Wozniak have still been a successful computer genius without Jobs? There's not a shred of doubt in my mind that either of them would have made it. Both technically replaceable, but each as irreplaceable as the other in the creation of Apple. It took both to make that magic happen.
> What happens to the other 9,500,000 app coins? Who 'owns' them for purposes of profit distribution and opinion weight?

Effectively the product's wallet owns them, but opinion weight is based entirely on your ownership of "vested" coins. If you may have 5% (to start) of the total coins, but you have 100% of actively votable coins.

And yep, minting there was confusing. Minting happens only at explicit event so everybody can control their dilution. When bounties are awarded their coins come from the products "unvested" coin pool.
Go to github.com, find 1 project that fancies you (any project it doesn't matter which one). Find 1 way to improve that project and publish your fix either as a pull request or a plain issue on their tracker. Doesn't matter if it's just a spelling error or something trivial. Just DO IT!

Don't think you can do it? Well, try and try hard! Think you can do it, but think the exercise is to menial? Think again!
I'm still not entirely sure what it does…
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> This is the place for discussion

Exactly, so don't shit all over people with your superior "I'm in the auto technology sector so my analogy is better than yours" bullshit. His analogy and points are perfectly fine and I agree with him, but furthermore you being a jackass makes me automatically dismiss your arguments.
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Isn't this the big advantage of open source and Javascript in general? Even if the creator abandons it, you should have enough development resources to at least maintain status quo.
I'm surprised there is no demo, or even screenshots. It says it's in the "early stages", but presumably it's functional.
As a landlord (in a different city where things are sensible and I can raise my rent or evict my tenant any time I darn well like because it's my fricking property) this kind of thing makes me really angry.
I think the problem with this analysis is the assumption that rental units and owner occupied units are identical to one another.

In most places, rental units have more basic fixtures an amenities and tend not to be upgraded. It can easily cost of $100K to upgrade a kitchen or bathroom with high quality cabinetry and appliances. And this happens all the time with $1M+ units.

I have a house for sale in Mexico and I'm intentionally not renting it out. Why? Because renter occupied units are perceived by buyers as having more wear and tear and low-end than a place that's owner occupied.
It's interesting that the comments by cell biologist Len Ornstein in that thread completely omit any mention of high osmolality vitrification, which is what is practiced in cryonics. I get the impression he is not aware of Fahy's approach at all. It probably is not used in his specialty.

HOV is using extremely high concentrations of solutes to reduce the freezing point (a colligative property). That is the only way to vitrify something big like the brain. At least, until some super material is invented that lets us pull out lots of heat really fast. The trouble is that it is toxic to cells to be exposed for very long. With rabbit kidneys and small slices of brain tissue, the exposure time at warm temperatures can be very brief. So with current cryonics we can only make a morphological argument for information theoretic preservation.

With better materials that enable faster cooling, prevent the toxicity mechanisms of the cryoprotectant, and/or block ice formation non-colligatively (certain polymers do this), it is theoretically possible that we could get to a point where the cells are still viable. In that event, it would be like placing the brain in an "off state". You wouldn't be able to resume it again without a body to implant it in, but that's more likely to be on the 200-year radar than nanorepair, so the chances would be improved quite a bit. Also, I suspect more people would sign up for a process that does not involve "killing" their brain cells.
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YUI, differently from the other big js frameworks, has been around for a long time and should therefore be "stable enough" and there's a lot of code examples and documentation around the web.
For people not experienced with bitcoin: For some types of bitcoin wallets the user retains their own private key, whereas with other wallets they have to trust a 3rd party (like coinbase) with their keys. This second type isn't really a wallet any more, per se... it's more like a bank that you are trusting with your money.

Of course, bitcoin startups really want to use the second model, where THEY control the money, which gives them many more avenues for profit: As any salesman knows, the closer you are to the money in a business, the more money you're likely to make yourself.

This means bitcoin companies are bending over backwards to say "look how safe your money is!" However, be aware if you ever buy bitcoins, it is much better to store your own bitcoins or use a wallet that allows you to manage your own private keys, or use a (now trendy) multisig wallet where the wallet company can't move money without your permission.

If a bitcoin bank says "We insure our bitcoins" your best response is "No thanks, I'd rather not have to trust you with my money in the first place." The whole raison d'être of bitcoin is that such trust isn't necessary.
Reiterating my comment on the blog here:

Major issue with the article:

Condos do not have rent control- They are treated as single family homes- The new owner can simply raise the rent to market pricing at the end of the lease cycle. There are some rare outliers that can bypass this (such as if a tenant was present in the apartment when it originally converted to be a condo) but you should find that the vast majority of condos do not have this situation.

A much better analysis would have been on the sale of 2-4 unit buildings.
> Is there any word from Mozilla on their position for an official UI toolkit for Rust?

Well, given those bullet points, Servo might meet your needs :)

In general we're not going to think about blessing packages as "official" unless it gets to the point where some package becomes mature and overwhelmingly dominant in its space (think Rack in Ruby or async in Node); we'd prefer to focus on making it easy to upload and share Rust packages via Cargo to build up an ecosystem.
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Why do people use "the number of [...] issues and pull requests" to measure the usefulness of an open source project? Shouldn't a project gradually trend toward maturity, when the vast majority of bug fixes and big-win features are already part of it? Is that really the best point at which to start spinning it down?
I honestly didn't know it was still actively being developed. It has long been surpassed by other options, but I do have some [mostly] found memories of working with YUI. In the early days it was a lot more feature packed than most other frameworks I tried. In the first big professional project I helped build some 7 or 8 years ago, I even fought to use YUI over jQuery. Maybe its time to send a mia culpa over to my old company...
Kudos to you! Let us put the scourge that is C++ to rest.
Artificial flavours are more complex and interesting than first appears
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That does not include the cost of hardware. What kind of hardware do you need for 230 GH/s ?
Adding some sort of kickstarter functionality to this would be really interesting. Or making it possible to earn ownership points by investing money, though I imagine that might alter the purity of the community dynamic. Excited to see how it all comes together either way.
Looks like YUI is going to have bright years ahead!
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"spread the word" is not a mark of your trade because it does not identify your business. Do you think it would cause brand confusion for other people to use that phrase in the social media context?

It's just a common phrase you don't want other people to use in the same context they have been using it in for a long time.
Also, Osmos is a good game to develop an orbital intuition. Oversimplified but easy to approach. There is a deviously difficult level toward the end where they give you just enough fuel to compute the level... Unless you keep your delta-V super low, you lose. Like real life.
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Not the same, but I'm building tool for using editor (vim, ...) as backend for reviewing pull requests for Stash (git hosting product from Atlassian): https://github.com/seletskiy/ash
Go to hackathons, join a team, and build something. That's the fastest way to paid work.
Inkscape is a nice open source SVG editor.
Perhaps we should pitch in a little more so that the experimental physicists can also have blackboards.
I still don't see why this is a problem. Even if all the miners don't actually care that they're securing the blockchain, the blockchain still gets secured (assuming there's not a design flaw in Bitcoin, but that's a separate issue).
after having installed it,

$ cp ~/.tmux/.tmux.conf.local ~/

Then edit `.tmux.conf.local` and uncomment the #tmux_conf_theme=powerline_patched_font line.

For the powerline symbol to work, you need patched fonts: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts
Kind of a bad quote. Ornithology would be useful to birds if they could understand it.
My response to wearable computers has always been "Why the hell would I want that?"

But this gives me an idea that nobody will have to want them for them to become widespread. Instead, occupational health and safety bureaucrats may wind up mandating their use for workers in certain occupations so that their vital signs can be monitored for safety reasons. If the worker's heart rate climbs too high for too long then a buzzer will go off and force them to take a rest.

Nobody will want this, workers or employers, but it will be forced upon both of them by safety rules.
Thanks! Changed from http://www.wired.com/2014/08/multiverse.
Abandonment is a risk facing any heavy "all-or-nothing" frameworks, not only is this bad for existing apps built on YUI, but it's also bad for developers skill set investments that will soon become obsolete.

It's hard to imagine heavy popular frameworks like AngularJS falling to the same fate, it would need something far superior with a lot of traction to displace it. But it's still a risk if you build your application the "Angular Way", "The React Way" or "The Ember Way", etc where if the primary developers halt development for whatever reason, your app dev stack becomes obsolete making it harder to attract great devs (who don't want to invest in a dying platform).

It's less of a risk with lightweight frameworks and libraries like Backbone.js where the code-base is so small and extensible, anyone can easily maintain their own fork. It's also less of a risk for WebComponents as the component model leverages the browsers DOM and lets you use modularized encapsulated components built with different technologies, so if one of the technologies ever becomes obsolete you can always start writing new components with newer tech and integrate it with your existing app, without having to rewrite it.
Moore's law is in effect right now, and yet mining keeps getting more expensive.

The exact number of hashes per joule is irrelevant since the work being done isn't useful. This is purely a competition about spending the most. If hashes get 1000 times cheaper, they'll do 1000 times as many.
Oops - taxes were forgotten! They can differ wildly due to income level and legal loopholes, but it's pretty safe to assume an additional 130k in sales doesn't all go into the seller's pocket.
I've never used SymPy, but after looking through the tutorial, it looks like a nicer symbolic mathematical library than Theano. I know that the libraries have different focuses; Theano is about speed and tensors, while SymPy appears to be about algebra, but I would be interested in seeing if they have similar capabilities.
XSLT is kind of like complex regexs, it's a write-only language. I've written a few XSLT transformations over the years for various things and every single time without fail I realize at the end it was a huge mistake.

Also most data is in CSV or similar delimited format and won't be usable with XSLT.
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question - "Users can create an account" & "We collect email..."

Do comment forms count? What about contact forms that do name, email, phone etc?
It would be more accurate to say 'can add over $100k to sale price.' In the case of legitimate owner move-in evictions, for example, compensation to the tenant is capped by a statutory formula. It's been a few years since I looked at it but I think it was in the region of $15k for the most complicated situation. There are additional constraints, like if a child is in elementary school you can't move in until the end of term due to the difficulty for parents of switching schools.
tumblr is an interesting choice of venue for an official yahoo announcement. you would think they could host their own blog.
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I'm not happy with the concept as a tenant either. It distorts the economy and artificially reduces the supply of properties that are available to rent.
I must say, very very efficient on my teeny processor.
Yeah, the claim of "free" gets annoying rather quickly since probably 99% of sites will do something that requires payment. For example, I went through with what I felt were fairly common practices (totally arbitrary) and the cost of a privacy policy ended up being $30.
>> "I can raise my rent or evict my tenant any time I darn well like because it's my fricking property"

Of course you're going to think that - it's in your best interest. But it's not fair to a tenant. Without regulations on evicting people asshole landlords could make families homeless for no reason. I don't think you should have to pay to evict someone but if you rent your property out there should be regulations in place to protect the tenant. If there weren't I think you find the market for rental properties start to diminish. People who could afford to buy (and that's true of a lot of renters) would to avoid the risk of their lives being turned upside down overnight.
you know more and have suggested more jumping-off points for further research than anyone else in this thread - so of course your comment is near the bottom. this site sometimes, sigh.
This is totally unrelated to their code review software (I still have no idea what it does from the repository by the way) but I can't help to think from their domain (http://review.ninja/) that somehow we crossed a line in the TLD business, this does not even looks like a legitimate url.
You actually didn't give a single good reason not to trust insured 3rd party storage. You just jumped to conclusion while shitting on companies that are improving bitcoin security.
I've met the team working on this and got to see a demo of it recently. It's pretty cool gear -- hopefully someone from that team can hop in here and answer questions. They're working on some interesting things over there.
In addition to what others have noted:

he's seen as someone who develops people internally, with many of his management team having started out as baggers years ago

the stores have been noted for years as having good prices (and, at least where I am, exceptionally fresh produce, because of the high turnover because of the good prices).

*The employees made the case to the public that the new management team intended to load the company up with debt, to the benefit of shareholders and to the detriment of employees and customers. Given people's experience of how private equity firms have ruined many things this seemed plausible, especially given that non-unionized employees were willing to put their jobs on the line because of it.
I'm not really in favor of rent control, but your attitude is precisely why it exists. Who wants to enter into a contract with someone so avowedly uncooperative?
I am totally fascinated by the concept of a $100k kitchen renovation. What does that even look like? Where I live you can build a small house for $100k.
YUI did host its own blog, but it was shut down a few days ago. http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2014/08/25/weve-moved-to-tumblr/
They own tumblr...
The US likes to think of itself as a deregulated, capitalist country, but still has a large amount of regulation (largely state not federal it seems). In the UK rent control was abolished by Thatcher in 1980, and while there is occasional talk of reintroducing some controls the basic premise seems unlikely to change.
I love this idea! I work in an open space with a bunch of developers in close quarters, and we're constantly interrupting each other. The collaboration is great, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to get some uninterrupted time to really get stuff done.

My only concern is that the sign always says "Wired in" even when you aren't wired in. I know I could teach my co-workers what each color means, but I would like it if it was a little more intuitive. What are your thoughts on how to get your co-workers on board with this idea?
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Your hypothesis about rental markets diminishing in areas without rent control isn't supported by empirical evidence. Quite the opposite in fact. Essentially all studies have found that markets without rent control have much more robust and stable housing stocks.
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>but it's also bad from developers skill set investments that will soon become obsolete.

Why is it bad that developers will move from old legacy frameworks/libraries to newer, more modular solutions? I don't quite understand why someone would be unhappy to have to learn a new JavaScript framework.
I work in Liferay Portal and AUI, which is a fork of YUI. Liferay will probably be impacted greatly by this. My company has done a few large scale Enterprise application implementations in recent years and continue to do more Liferay work (It's actually booming). YUI is a huge framework and not just a library. It contains a lot of neat UI Components and Utilities. Although styling the components and making them responsive always seemed tough.
yup, this ^ and I have a feelling a lot of these new gTLD's are going to be doing this
They had to reference some usage metrics - maybe that was the least painful to acknowledge?
Been queueing up some more of the great pages provided in this thread. Keep them coming! Thanks so much!!
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Coming from a professor, I, myself, would always presume that there was a worthwhile lesson in those kinds of short remarks. It sounds like they were possibly steering students away from questions that could not be resolved empirically, which would place them outside the scope of physics; those kinds of questions could also be debated endlessly and derail the class.
Is there any project in Rust that is deployed even in dev environments?
If you provide a way to contact you, or I can provide a way to contact me, I am willing to offer some of that career guidance, as well as some paid intern work.

Lets get in touch, we can discuss some specifics, and my background so that you know what I bring to the table.
So long as the mace is California compliant (which I think means 2.5 ounces or less), and they are not felons, minors, or addicted to any narcotics, it is perfectly legal -- so long as they only use it for the purpose of self defense.
Time spent learning new frameworks and "different approaches", is not spent delivering value to customers. Not to mention all the existing libraries/components accumulated in the years of simplifying building apps with it also become obsolete.
Where are you sourcing your contractors from? From the examples, I'm wondering if you're acting as a middleman between elance/getafreelancer and the end buyer.

What happens when a customer isn't satisfied with the deliverable?
Orbiter too. It's incredibly difficult to make your orbit. You really have to get it right from the get go on the ground. If you have to do an orbit transfer, that can sometimes be a huge amount of your fuel just to line up for the transfer before even breaking orbit.

I gained a true appreciation for difficulty of the kind of maneuvers that are common place in science fiction after spending time with Orbiter.
That's currently what's going on, but it's changing in the future: https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/wor...