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Purely in an accounting sense, the bailouts are not a negative, since the government made money on Wall Street bailouts.

(If you wish to say they encourage unhealthy behavior, that's another argument.)
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if people really cared, they'd follow The Rules. How many other conveniences do we drop? I rarely click links in e-mail, but my non-technical eternally trusting-of-strangers friends will always be tricked into doing stupid stuff. If it's not links in e-mail, it's pop-up-windows, or salesmen with extended warranty.
This article was written in 2006. What was considered high performance at the time ? (genuine question)
'Calling it an "anomaly" strongly implies that there was some sort of unexpected natural phenomena to blame [to people who've mostly encountered the term watching too much Star Trek]'
Why are so many countries/regions building their own positioning systems? Is it just national pride? Paranoia about being denied military use of GPS?

It seems like a massively redundant waste of resources reinventing the wheel.
IG is making money now?
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>First run time is important, and interpreters are faster in this case.

ART AOT is on-install and that can even be changed to something like Mono AOT which is offline (you're essentially distributing precompiled native code along with IL) giving you the best of both worlds.

>Also, at least Firefox does AOT on JavaScript now

AFAIK this is only ASM.JS code, AOT compiling dynamically typed code would be questionable - maybe to avoid initial parsing costs but then you hit all of the problems of AOT (longer load time, need whole code) without the main benefit (performance gain).
While I agree wholeheartedly, we should probably discourage pranks that have non-zero (or at least non-negligible) chances of death as a potential outcome.
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This is hilarious, and if you think this isn't, you're clueless.
Is Docker eating Java's lunch?
Quid Pro Quo: Bank bailouts had positive returns.

Mt. Gox collapsing was a worse wealth loss than bank bail outs, by far.
This is amazing, especially for only being two weeks old. I played around with Rust back when it was 0.10 (is it still?), and it's an awesome language. I can't wait to see this stuff get more advanced. Great work!
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Isn't this covered by Cynefin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin? Action first in the chaotic quadrant corresponds to making a fast decision in the face of unpredictability.
Automobile deaths reach all-time low; motorcycle deaths are all-time high (2008)
This has been discussed many times before, however it's often in context to North America. You specifically have to look for articles that calculate economics of Chinese prices (electricity, building materials, labour, hardware etc) because they differ greatly depending on where you are.
That's not the whole story:

> Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide binary packages though.

source: http://dwm.suckless.org/
Believe it or not there are companies out there looking for people exactly like you: individuals that can come in, question the status quo, and push things forward. Many big organizations are realizing that in order to compete they actually have to operate like much more nimble enterprises. You'd be the only one who knows how to do that :-)

I draw a lot of parallels between this and the movie Moneyball. You will have lots of fun with your work - because you bring entrepreneurial passion, creativity, and grit. But there will be many that don't like you coming in, asking obvious questions, and then delivering better stuff. Find someone in executive management that has your back politically and you'll be fine. :-)

Shoot me a note at @thegrif if you want to talk more. Depending on where you are in the world I might be able to facilitate some introductions.
> They're doing the experiment because they already believe things are this way and they're trying to get evidence to confirm it.

That's not science, that's confirmation bias. In science, one would want to look for evidence that one's theory is false with as much vigor as a search for evidence that it's true. Science isn't law, and it's not religion.

> If they disconfirmed it, that'd be surprising.

If they falsified their theory while only seeking confirming evidence, yes, that would be surprising. This is why open-minded scientists try to avoid assuming what they should be proving (the real meaning of the expression "beg the question").
I am not so sure that "transaction security auditing" would be accurate though. That makes it sound like this company is doing something altruistic. The truth is that this facility was created for one simple reason: to earn Bitcoin.
It doesn't buy you anything, just as fine art and music do not buy you anything.
Am I right you did it for the C language first ? It looks like it would have been easier to implement with Lua in awesome.

Nice job!
These are old (and Microsoft browsers are no longer made of paper), but generally timeless rules.

A little bit of suspicion can save you a world of hurt.
You can find discussion of various aspects of ORTC's design on the public mailing list archive for the ORTC community group here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ortc/. In addition to using JavaScript rather than a legacy format to configure the real-time protocols, ORTC addresses some useful real-world scenarios such as mixing and matching data connections.
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I do the same thing - re-listen audiobooks. My favorites are Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry.
Rust is currently 0.11, with 1.0 scheduled by the end of the year.
Napping is quite common in China and Taiwan at the work place and at school. People are overworked though.
Primecoin has nothing to do with finding new prime numbers. It does NOT find new prime numbers, but only finds 'chains of prime numbers'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primecoin
From the article:

"That shit would be too much," Gupta said. "It'd be like that Dr. Seuss book Horton Hears A Who and shit. I read that when I was, like, six, and it totally weirded me out."

Nailed it.
They have two main detectors on the LHC, with different charateristics, and several teams using different procedures to analyse the data.

The finding of the Higgs, for example, was published by two teams.
People will also follow re-key instructions taking them to phishing sites. They'll tell strangers their passwords and download and run unique video codecs (aka malware) to watch some special comedy video file they've been sent by a friend. The answer is to educate your friends, family and any stranger who will listen to perform some critical analysis on an unsolicited approach by e-mail, phone, sms, or whatever.
It's interesting that you mention pennies because there's a push to have them eliminated. It's almost a cultural phenomenon that they still exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_debate_in_the_United_Stat...
Guys, this will absolutely kill your chances to hire any good developers in the future. This is the kind of thing that you should not respond to publicly and pay your lawyers for instead. The number of technical mistakes you made in your post paints you in an even worse light, but at the end of the day it's a "he said, she said" situation, where we can't compare code bases on what was done, what the quality is, and how the code is currently used.
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Very interesting idea!

I have a suggestion for how to deal with these magic numbers. Make 9 out of 10 blocks duds (and it should be known in advance which), that contain very little reward. This means that, most mining power will switch of for these blocks, and only be active for the other 1 of 10 blocks.
No offense, but your case sounds somewhat similar to patent trolls. "Spread the word" is your trade mark, huh?!
What's next you guys gonna trade mark the word "Dear" and sue anyone who starts their email with that word?
Zombies have always functioned as emotional shorthand for a condition in which it’s morally allowable to attack everything, to see every encountered life as a possible threat, while resenting or mistrusting the last few survivors.

Not strictly accurate...if you consider the plight of folks in Romero's ___ of the Dead series, you see that that isn't the case. Zombies are a convenient standin for a constant, seething, but not largely dangerous existential threat, a backdrop against which human drama can be cast.

That's the best bit of the article--especially towards the end, the author plays a few "mmmm yes privileged males pandering" cards and fails to critically evaluate their own claims. As an example, consider the Left 4 Dead series approach to zombie apocalypse: people still work together, laugh, cry, and try to make the most of things while supporting each other.

There is a good conversation to be had about why apocalyptic memes are so popular in fiction (interactive and otherwise) today, but the author doesn't really do anything with that. Maybe we'll fare better here.
> to make it more efficient, you could first use a modulo operation, but only using a base that divides the original range (e.g. for 7 kids and 60 seconds, do 60 mod 10, then redraw if the result is 7, 8 or 9).

This makes it less efficient - in this case, 18/60 chance of having to redraw, versus 4/60. Taking the modulus of the largest range you can leaves less residue (what lutusp is alluding to, without realizing others are describing a simple way of getting an exact uniform distribution).

If you want to make it more efficient (in terms of entropy used), you need to save the 1-of-prime (eg bits, trits, etc) that have been successfully chosen (uniformly). For example, with 6 children and an 8 sided die (3 bits), a roll of 6 or 7 would narrow the choices to only children 0-2 or 3-5 respectively. Your subsequent rolls could then be done with a 4 sided die.
Given the human misery that has always come hand in hand with diamond mining (see http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15842524/ns/world_news/t/diamonds-..., for instance), yeah, that one seems like a tragic waste. All that suffering, just so people far away can have something shiny.
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I've been playing around with a somewhat similar project at http://news.siliconfilter.com/ for the last few weeks. My biggest challenge was the grouping that I need to do in the background so I don't show multiple versions of the same story from different sites. I'm mostly using some basic text and link analysis for that. I think Techmeme does some of that by hand.
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I would say it's a combination of a factually incorrect comment and the arrogant tone in which it is presented.
Yep, always tell them you'll handle the issue by calling them back using the number on the card. Maybe ask if they have a name or extension or something if need be.
Maciej hit the nail on the head here. Funding does not equal working business model (yet).
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Part of the issue here that is not measured is just how fan into Staten Island would you have to go to find a household for ~$1100 what what does that income to time spend on travel ratio look like? This study says nothing about how far away they would have to live to normalize for this, as different cities have different transportation systems access and the time spent on travel is a considerable component of your happiness, which is obviously not calculated here.
Nowhere did I mention Manhattan, but even in Queens or Brooklyn you will be hard pressed to find apartments at those price points available. Since when is Jersey included in NYC housing statistics? Can you point to where that is stated in the linked article? Ridiculous.
I don't understand your objection.

Most research leads to no result. Most of the remaining research leads to only marginal results. Most of the research that leads to important results isn't still ground breaking. Only a tiny minority of the rare class of research that leads to important results is ground breaking.

That's true in any field, in any period.
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The reason it seems expensive and wasteful is that the costs of current money systems are more hidden.
I couldn't agree more. The overhead must be staggering. New construction, all that equipment to purchase, set up and keep running, the amount of electricity it takes to power the whole thing, monthly warehouse rent.

This has to be a loss leader, I see no way this is a positive ROI anywhere in the near future.
From the mathematical point of view, physics is about finding smallest set of axioms from which you can mathematically derive complete theory of universe's behavior. Validity of such axioms is in turn validated by experiments (by testing whether results match theory derived from given axioms)
Levine has a much more responsible review of this deal. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-27/levine-on-w...

This existing post is extremely aggressive and over-the-top.
Fulltext: https://pdf.yt/d/ZTzcsTMzDeUPKhiq / https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/243666993/2014-franco.pd... / http://sci-hub.org/downloads/ce4a/franco2014.pdf
Some days ago we were discussing about sharks eating these calbes and how Google stops them http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/08/15/how-goog...
I think I explicitly stated that I was not covering the whole story. The above would be another consideration - with both pros and cons (of which suckless, of course, stresses the pros) - which should be factored in. There are others as well.
So first Google+ drops its real name policy [0] and now it's removing forced integration with Search results? Great to see the forced integration of Google+ with other Google properties being rolled back after Vic Gundotra's departure. Nice work, Googlers! What's next?

[0] https://plus.google.com/u/0/+googleplus/posts/V5XkYQYYJqy
It looks like a useful service and it says their legal documents are prepared by professional lawyers, however, the footer, contact page and terms of their website do not state their company's registered address, or number – in fact I can't find this information anywhere?
I would say it was created for the simple reason of maintaining the security of the blockchain. That's the fundamental idea of Bitcoin: the blockchain is protected in a decntralized manner due to proof of work. The reward is added to incentivize people to help maintain the security of the blockchain.
Rigorous, well-concieved hypothesis-driven research with lots of controls, ought to be considered as valuable as studies that show positive findings. The sad fact is that they are not.

There is also a chicken-and-egg problem here with changing the culture. Sure, I could decide tomorrow that I will no longer battle for space in the high-impact journals that usually display this bias — in favour of more enlightened journals like PLoS ONE ... and I wouldn't suffer, I have a job... but what about my grad students and postdocs? The consequences for them would be real, because biases also still exist in the minds of professors, hiring committees, and even their peers. 10 papers in PLoS ONE just are not considered the same as 10 papers (or even 5 papers) in more "established" journals. There is thus a lot of implicit pressure to just abandon studies that show null results and pursue different ideas until you find an effect.

There is also huge pressure today (very explicit) to continuously generate "novel" ideas. If you want a competitive research grant now you have to generate a groundbreaking idea. If you want to publish in the top journals you have to generate groundbreaking ideas. Amazingly there are colleagues that have a success rate with grants and with high-impact publications so regular (EVERY SINGLE YEAR) ... that wow, how amazing it must be to be able to generate a brand new groundbreaking idea at such regular intervals!!! (sarcasm). And so there is yet another kind of bias present. (politics, the favoured few, the ivy-colorer-special-people, etc)

I could go on with other injustices but the bottom line is that [NEWSFLASH!] science is not objective, but like all aspects of life, is chocked full of biases, politics, special interests, and cow-towing to the bottom line (i.e. money).
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Japan is covered by a single orbit and there system provides significantly higher accuracy (cm vs meter) than GPS so for the fairly low price tag for seven satilites it's probably worth it.
Wouldn't that mean you could only have new transactions when the next magic number comes out?
I've got a solution that is halfway working. It saves sessions, windows, and paths, but not panes:

https://github.com/jamestomasino/bin/blob/master/tmux-sessio...
Multiple band GNSS chipsets have just recently become more common. The GLONASS constellation was inactive for quite some time due to economic issues in Russia, probably the reason it's seen slow adoption. Galileo is the only other GNSS system, but it's incomplete. Then there is the issue of different bands, and need for more complex antennas and LNAs. Most of the numbers I've seen for chipsets indicate that GLONASS support is still relatively unoptimized, power consumption for GLONASS acquistion is far higher than for GPS, but I'm not sure if that's simply a poor front end for the GLONASS frequencies, or if the signal/processing is significantly different.

Beidou (China), QZSS (Japan/Australia) and IRNASS (India) are all regional systems with far smaller systems (3+ satellites), and in the case of IRNASS and QZSS, heavily augmented by ground based stations (). Development of low cost RTK (real time kinematics), giving centimeter precision in some cases, has really been driven on a large scale by the Japanese. There is some great reading (and heavy math) on the RTKLIB site, http://www.rtklib.com/rtklib_document.htm, not only about RTK, but GNSS in general.

And things are going to get even more interesting with the data from the GRACE satellites, their gravity model will help improve position accuracy even further.
"'todalay boogus' arguments which amazes auntie, mommie and magazine editors but a real physicist would instantly dismiss."

For the record, my father was far more amazed by rambling, not entirely coherent speculative physics ideas than my mother or either of my aunts.
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Would anyone be interested in a capable (and free) apprentice?
I'm a bootcamp graduate, with all the good and ugly parts of the experience that that status entails (Good: I learned more in ten weeks than I might ever have before in my life. Ugly: I still feel a far-cry from production-ready.) and I wanted to propose something to the population of Hacker News: A mutually beneficial, adapted-to-modern-times apprenticeship.

The problem: I have the means to contribute professionally in development, but only small, personal projects (along with my bootcamp capstone) under my belt for experience. I need hands-on experience with larger projects in order to convince anyone to make a serious bet on my future and hire me, full-time.

The solution: I help you out. I write code, refactor, do the semi-technical grunt-work and scripting that always comes with dev projects. Anything that could help me be more attractive as a developer in the future.

What I ask: A recommendation and - on a larger level - career guidance. The opportunity to code meaningful things.

Who this is great for: open-source hackers, freelancing lone wolves, senior devs who want to outsource some things.
Great question. Maybe it just became (relatively) so easy that it's a good large-scale project space agencies around the world can use to get funding?

Military use makes sense for Russians. China is also building one.

I don't know what's the rationale for the European Space Agency. It's supposed to be a little better at higher latitudes.
It isn't currently, but we might look at opening it up at some point.

It is free.
They added a Surfline channel last October, so a whole slew of non-technical surfers have started using it to get surf alerts. Granted, that is just one audience, but it is something that people are using it for.

[Why Surfline doesn't provide alerts directly is another conversation]
Neat start, but only 3 languages makes it a little wanting and the title of rosetta stone a bit of an overstatement.
As typical L2 technology for such cables is SDH/SONET, the difference in latency after single ring failure tends to not be noticeable for normal IP traffic.
A lovely set-up. I may grab a few tidbits for my own. I'm also doing a powerline (airline) inspired bar, but I put mine at the top so I don't get it confused in vim. I really like the maximize/promote to window feature.

Here's my conf for reference: https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/....
Credit, blame, what's the difference, really?
1. Prior results show that antidepression drugs don't work for the majority of patients:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

2. The linked result shows that directly manipulating serotonin levels in animals doesn't produce depression.

Guess what effect this will have on the worldwide, multi-billion dollar market in SSRI-based and related drugs? If psychology was a medical field, clinicians would be ordered to stop prescribing these ineffective drugs. But don't hold your breath for that outcome.
Misleading question since it implies that all programmers dont get along with business types.

Clearly a subset of programmers DO get along with business types after all most established companies have programmers working for business types. Similarly many startup founders are BOTH a programmer and a businessperson.

A better HN question IMO would be: How do programmers and business-types communicate better?
I agree completely... but one man's waste of time is another man's productive enterprise.
Last time I checked this was the main thing that was missing for Go (a complete, multi platform GUI lib). Has there anything like this arisen yet? Some quick googling points to Gothic, which sounds promising.
Weren't the original formulation of Gödel's theorems dealing with natural numbers (a discrete setting)?
> I find comments like this funny. If this is the case why not go out and make those millions?

Because marketing and sales don't simply boil down to having a superior product? You're making a strong market quality efficiency argument here that I'm pretty sure that you don't even agree with.

Also, I'm happy and well compensated in my own industry.
Would anyone who's used elementaryOS care to comment? I was looking for a Linux distro to sideload onto my newly-acquired Chromebook Pixel and it's a toss-up right now between elementaryOS and Cinnamon/Mint.

I'm hoping for something that looks nice, can take advantage of the Pixel's high-res/high-density display, and still has reasonably high compatibility with any development tools I may need to install.
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Oh man, honestly I always ask for payment.

And the issues: once I had a family member asking for way too much and taking way too long to respond.
I had to stop doing work with that person.

tl;dr:

1.- Avoid it as much as possible.

2.- Ask for more.

3.- Read point one.
Depending on the email client, JavaScript can be used to trick you about the destination URL.
It is true that they will never be "proven", but that doesn't mean we can't build a tremendous confidence in them through experimentation. (Which is to say "I agree", but I wanted to put a slightly different spin on it.)
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