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> There are a lot of comments here about how IRC lacks features of HipChat/Slack/whatever.

I really don't understand this. What features does IRC lack that Hipchat has? AFAIK, the advantage of Hipchat is the branding, the packaging, and the support.

The one thing I see ("image previews") is a feature of the client, not IRC itself. And many clients used to offer that, way back - the reason they turned it off was because it was a great vector to (e.g.) goatse someone. In any GUI-based IRC client, this is dead simple.

Most of what Hipchat seems to provide is branding and support, and I get that that's very valuable, but I don't see why that needs to be viewed as an either/or situation.
> You make all of this sound like it's a difficult problem.

It is a difficult problem. Consider all the elements of a solution on which space missions depend. All of them must be generated using numerical modeling methods, and for a solar system simulation in which most or all the candidate bodies are modeled, the computation load is quite high.

> but you can still mathematically pick a parameter that generates something like a desired level of accuracy, instead of having to specify the parameter itself.

This isn't true, or it's not assured to be true. The reason is that orbital systems with > 2 bodies meet the definition of a chaotic system, a system acutely sensitive to initial conditions. Everyone who works in this field understands that there's a time horizon past which we really cannot say what the solar system's configuration will be.
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> If it were that valuable, we'd know by now. BTC is a failed currency, but a successful asset.

How long do you usually think infrastructure around protocol such as bitcoin takes time to develop? I personally think we're still early in the game.

> Escaping corrupt and non-existent bank to go after an uncontrolled currency is equally risky and way more stupid.

What is your proposal then? I think holding ARS at least is not very wise move, but many still seem to do it. Physical USD cash is widely used in the streets, but bitcoin or something like it could be much more accessible alternative in the long term.
Read it again. I didn't even come close to saying that. I'm 100% pro-consumer on this one.
Bookspam. It's one thing to be aware of how caffeine affects you, quite another to suggest that it's wreaking havoc onthe workplace.
I should have added that despite me not liking the std lib collections library, it's still stands above all other collection libs I've used in other languages.

The problem is that the std. lib collections tries to unify mutable/immutable and lazy/eager/finite/infinte datastructures into one class hierarchy. So you have methods like "size" or "add" on generic interfaces that mean different things depending on the implementation. So the entire abstraction ends up being leaky.

Scalaz has a few common implementations of immutable, eager data structures and ends up using a type class approach to modularity and code reuse that ends up not being leaky, it's a joy to use.

I don't think there's anything wrong with using the collections, just be aware that if you run into some edge cases, it's not the language, it's design choices made by the library writer and there may be better implementations.
Thanks for making a 41 comment branch that is about your in ability to put up with install _pain_. Totally not constructive for discussing the article.
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A great observation and one of the ways that I rationalized the loss was by saying to myself exactly the same thing.
Might have got it from Java (either the Guava library or Java 8 http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional....)
But so little of that is exclusive to BTC as opposed to a digital transaction valued in national currency, and almost none of the benefits you list accrue to consumers - they all benefit merchants.

- Getting rid of charge back fraud also gets rid of charge backs - an important consumer protection.

- I don't need 10 currencies I'd be comfortable holding, but any of these - http://fxtrade.oanda.com/analysis/currency-volatility have far lower volatility than BTC.

- Bankless people need banks, not cryptocurrencies. There's no difference to a bankless person between a mobile app to an online bank and a bitcoin gateway.

- My credit card pays me back a chunk of that "1-3% tax on everything," my bitcoin wallet doesn't. Until bitcoin gains market share and the tax goes away, I'm just paying more to use bitcoin.

- My credit card company provides fraud protection for when my card is stolen, my BTC wallet does not.

Looking to the future doesn't make me want to transact in BTC right now.
Who cares how fancy things are, in my province we generate 90% of our electricity from the sun.

We have been doing so for 60 years, we were just smart enough to let the sun boil the ocean for us and harness the power of kinetic energy, rather than try to build fancy schmancy electronics. See the snow on the mountains? That's what we like to call a 'solar battery'.

Often smart people making fancy things look down on those with working systems because the solution to the problem was so obvious that they couldn't make themselves look smart by doing something that actually works.

Like really how hard is it to build a concrete structure that contains water, and allow that water to fall over a wheel... Who cares how inefficient or old it may be when it's so easy and cheap.

It's like the guy who walks into a java shop armed with a few UNIX command line utils and bash and they all look down on him and call his system hacky when it works in a week and they're still figuring out their object model.
Actually, if you're being pressured, a better response is, "If you need an answer now, it's going to have to be 'no', so I hope you can adjust your schedule so we can consider your offer more fully."

Exploding offers are unfortunate and a significant negative data point about the behavior of the organization but they are not the only data point. The above answer will defuse the threat and give you the upper hand in the negotiation so you can make the right decision for your team, whether it's 'yes' or 'no'. This is helpful for exploding offers in any circumstance - jobs, M&A, etc.

As a side note, while short-horizon offers are terrible, it is reasonable to have some expiration date. Techstars Seattle, for example, has 10 slots and while they might be able to add an extra one or two, logistics don't allow for the kind of flexibility that YC has[1]. I believe there's a good way for an accelerator to handle this ethically:

1) Tell applicants when the decision date is when they apply (so they can plan accordingly) rather than surprising it on them as a negotiating tactic

2) Provide all relevant information when they apply, so they can consider the possibilities in advance, versus (for example) springing restrictions, valuations, or fees on them when they get the offer

3) Allowing enough time between the acceptance and the notification for the team to make a good decision - a week seems reasonable.

YC's behavior is exemplary here; their model and position in the industry lets them be super-flexible. Other programs may not have the ability to be quite as flexible but that doesn't mean they're unethical if they're thoughtful about their implementation.

[1] My understanding as a mentor for the program - I don't have inside knowledge
> the kind of nationalism that brought us the Great European War (...) is pretty much dead.

Not sure which rock the author is living under... Has he ever heard of e.g. Golden Dawn? Seems like this kind of nationalism is still very much alive.
1. It's a not a real-world scenario. Especially the part where you don't spend USD becuase more merchants begin to accept BTC, like if you're going to buy bread with BTC. You're not and if you do, you're 1 in 100.000.000.000.

2. Yes, that might work but it's extremely risky and complicated. When if you need to cash out quickly? What if BTC prices goes back to 150 USD because a large BTC holder (an investment bank) decided to dump the price?

3. Yes, that's true. But you have to do some kind of leverage for your prices automatically adjust btc-to-usd (or eur), otherwise BTC volatility might kill your business. But this is true, it's safer and quicker than credit cards + no other parties involved/documentation/transaction costs.

4. Yes but a volatile currency that has no central bank behind it, is not gold-backed and has no country who will support it, any economist knows that can go from 1000 to 0 in less then 3 hours. If you're sleeping in the meantime you might end up loosing way more than your pre-calculated predictable CC costs.
Note however that EU != Schengen zone. (Though there's more to control of borders than simply crossing borders without immigration checks.) In fact, UK border checks are relatively strict even for other EU citizens.
> But just as Zipcars have presumably eliminated some car ownership use cases at the margins, fully autonomous cars would have a significant effect.

The big big thing I see about driverless cars is:

a) You can use it on-demand, even more easily than Zipcars. No need to physically be located near a lot, I can "hail" a driverless car and have it waiting for me when I need it. Smart routing and allocation can ensure that capacity is used smartly - it could drop somebody off while picking me up.

b) People who can't or won't drive can benefit from this. From young children to the elderly, transportation becomes much much easier. Have to take your kid to an appointment in the middle of the day? A driverless car can pick them up from school and bring them directly to the appointment and you can meet them there. You go to the appointment together, then driverless cars can take each of you back to your daily work, saving time all-around.

Yes - it's useful to have a car to keep stuff in. I can imagine you could keep one "on call" for a day out, and you can meet the car (at whatever exit is closest to you!) throughout the day to get supplies or drop things off.

Maybe I'm being too optimistic about what driverless cars can give us. Realistically I think hands-off driverless cars are within the next few years, but FUD and lawsuits will prevent more radical forward progress. It's certainly not unimaginable that it will take an entire generation of people to die off before truly autonomous cars are common and accepted.
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i don't quite understand, is this for arduino and raspberry pi? I understand comment 1 that the language may not be correct for the platform, but it doesn't come right out and say whether this is for RasPi and/or Arduino although it would appear so since it as -uino in the name. I see they are offering their own board, is this a language and board, neither both or separate? Kinda super confused here.
I think the point is that any calculation about whether we will be economically better off is inherently a short-term forecast. Nobody knows beyond that.

I think the point about the ideal size of a state being closer to Scotland's population than to the UK's is a reasonable, fundamental contribution to the debate. It's not a 'cookie-cutter' argument. People are right to think in fundamental, philosophical terms.

As the referendum draws closer I find myself paying less and less attention to short-term issues (which are mostly just quibbles over SNP policies, which really don't have much to do with independence - we could get independence then elect a different party) and thinking more along fundamental lines. One thing I'm sad not to have seen much discussion on is the constitution for an independent Scottish state. That to me is vitally important from a historical perspective.
When do they launch? No launch date posted, and just a landing page doesn't answer all my questions.
Yup. Also, the system set up by the Confederate States during their brief existence was a weak federal system too. (Jefferson Davis spent the whole war trying desperately to convince the Confederate Congress to strengthen it, because he quickly realized that it was too weak to successfully conduct a full-scale modern war. He never succeeded, though.)
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Is this where your getting all your info https://data.cityofnewyork.us/

It's weird to me that your usage case on the site is for an individual person, but you only offer monthly subscriptions. In my experience people usually aren't looking for a place for more than 30 to 60 days, so why would I want to buy into a monthly subscription model with usage caps. Kind of annoying to have to sign up then almost immediately cancel.

A smaller developer or investor would probably be more interested in a regular subscription.
FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need
Good one, yes, that's even better.
> If it's admitted (to the EU) at all, which is far from certain.

I don't see why it would not be admitted. The EU is not in the habit of turning down that kind of country: wealthy, peaceful, of Christian heritage and adjoining several EU countries.

And if you want to play that game, it's not certain that England will remain in the EU. An independent Scotland could well end up the only part of Britain left in the EU. Yes that would be a crashingly stupid thing for Britain to collectively do. But it's not impossible.
There are also a lot of people that believe in angels and think we should switch to you-keep-what-you-kill libertarianism, both questionable viewpoints.
Why AI Is Easy and Biological Neural Networks Are Not
I think this was published in 2010, so not really new - but probably still a possible attack vector.
If I had to guess it'd be similar to Gumroads 5% + 25cents.
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Favicon isn't changing for me in Firefox 33. Also worth noting that it still triggers when it's the frontmost tab in an unfocused window. I'd pulled up a smaller window on top of it, so the change to Gmail was hard to miss.

Despite that, I can imagine people falling for this even if the favicon doesn't match. They'll just say "Oh, Gmail's favicon is wrong. Silly web browser." If they notice the favicon at all.
Another Scot here (and a 'no' voter). Totally agree on almost everything except the 'short-term implications'. They have the potential to be both devastating and medium- to long-term. The currency issue, for example, is decidedly less trivial than either side have said. Specifics will depend on a lot of fights between Westminster and Holyrood that we won't get to see until after we've decided.
It's not an 'advanced discussion' in terms of technology but we have to face the fact that there are many people who work here in the States and want to work in the states that get hampered by immigration rules. My girlfriend is working on her PhD in CS and has faced huge uphill battles to get into for internships simply because of where she's from. She just wants to work on tech, but the hurdles she has to go through are ridiculous compared to what citizens or even immigrants from other countries have to face.
interestingly, the attack even works when you view the page on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20100527035243/http://www.azaras...
For userscripts in chrome, TamperMonkey is much better than the built-in script manager.
> It is a difficult problem.

Implementing an ODE solver good enough to use for designing spacecraft trajectories is a difficult problem. Implementing an ODE solver that can handle an n-body problem (with a fairly small n) without leaving user-visible magical parameters is not difficult. Introductory textbooks can explain how to do this.

> The reason is that orbital systems with > 2 bodies meet the definition of a chaotic system, a system acutely sensitive to initial conditions.

Even if you have a chaotic dynamical system, you can still solve it. You don't solve it in the sense that the trajectory you get is the correct one, because, as you rightly say, that is mathematically impossible for long time periods. But you can solve it in the sense that the solution you get "could" have originated from an initial condition close to the given initial condition.

There are many interesting things you can do for complicated ODE problems. But writing ODE solvers of the level of complexity and accuracy we are talking about here is a solved problem.
And this is why us financial people have our own secure messaging services that don't touch email systems other than for notification...
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It's not clear to me that you actually read the article since a large part of it is about elegantly dealing with streams of UI events such as mouse movement without resorting to callbacks. Not sure how multithreading even applies here. But if you want to talk about multithreading the model described is exactly the one embraced by a new up and coming language called Go - it's users love this stuff precisely because it's more readable than writing code with explicit threads and concurrent queues.
We'll see? There is no refuting argument in there. Please provide an example of how you expect bitcoin to remain "free" going forward based on arguments already providing showing how it can't be free.
Hey think of how easy it will be for front-end designers to be able to go into the 'embedded' market. What do you mean limited RAM?
`Hey think of how easy it will be for front-end designers to be able to go into the 'embedded' market. What do you mean limited RAM?
There is also the matter which was discussed in the original post: there are countless ways for employers to take advantage of immigrant workers. This makes them more desirable than native workers, who have more options.
The only reason a big corporation would want to depend on a currency without central bank banking (e.g. controlled somehow) is if it owns the largest chunk of that currency, so it can play the role of the central banker as it see fit.

When other corporations realize what is happening they will dump the currency in no time and the currency will lose value.

The Linux is not controlled by anyone. Any company can build upon it, modify it and do what it needs to do. The comparison between Linux/BTC is extremely flawed!
I'd say we're still somewhere in the ignore -> laugh stage.
Thanks for this. I was looking for someone to come in with basically this point. Sam's point seems to be that if you are trying to hire/fund within a ballpark range of candidates/companies, then exploding offers aren't good practice. If you were trying to hire exactly one candidate, or fund exactly one company this quarter, than exploding offers make more sense. Because companies are often hiring only one person for a role, I don't expect he would extrapolate what he says to hiring.
For your specific problem:

http://www.zillow.com/research/data/
I didn't realize how old this post was when I submitted it :/

For as much as Aza brags about his UX expertise, not dating his technical blog posts is inexcusable.
Why the downvotes? Expanding Earth's economic sphere to all of cislunar space necessarily expands the resources and energy available to human industry. There will be returns, and the economy will expand. It's not zero-sum.
Stay aloft indefinitely (or at least, for our purposes indefinitely). Satellite based telescopes will always have a limited life-span, either they end up dropping too low and de-orbiting or they run out of aiming propellant.
Anyone else starting to get creeped out by the amount of sites using Cloudflare (including HN itself)?

By now these guys are probably handling at least 25% of all my webbrowsing traffic, and because of their man-in-the-middle architecture they are not only able to track your browsing habits, but also to actually see all the plaintext content flowing between you and the destination server.

This is starting to become one giant single point of failure as well as way too much private information in the hands of one single (USA-based, ahem) entity. And it's not just sites like HN and Reddit; but also Bitcoin exchanges, domain name registrars, etc; sites you'd expect to be a little more picky about which party to BCC on every last bit of private user information.
I'm not sure anyone 'should' be offended by an exploding offer. There are lots of potential factors at play. You only see people talking about exploding offers of employment when the window is relatively small - no one bats an eye when given 45 days to accept a job offer, as that should give plenty of time to find other competitive offers. It's those 3-5 day figures where candidates tend to think they smell a rat.

No one wants to be forced into a decision at gunpoint, which is essentially what a short notice exploding offer becomes. Part of this is also dependent upon the length of the interview process and how much detail is given. If you interview with a company 10 times over a 6 week period, I don't think a short window for acceptance is overly limiting for most candidates.

We often see candidates trying to expedite the offer process in order to receive offers around the same time. Candidates are at their most advantageous position when they hold multiple active job offers, and they have the opportunity to leverage them off each other (I'm not suggesting this tactic). Yet when companies try to expedite the acceptance process, suddenly we feel that there is something dubious at play. Candidates want companies to make quick (and positive) hiring decisions, yet want to take their time to maximize their ability to shop for offers.

More senior talent is less of a commodity than an entry-level candidate, so you might expect more junior level candidates will see exploding offers more often than senior candidates. Senior talent can also leverage their experience a bit more in order to get windows increased if necessary.

I don't think they should be offended as much as they should be curious as to why the company employs such tactics (assuming again that the window is short).
As someone who works in K-12, allow me to familiarize you with the "Oh My Freaking Goodness!" initialism.
I must admit I don't know enough to really comment on the danger of fissile vs fusible materials; however, I was taught that one of the boons of fusion was that the energy source was stable (radioactive-wise) before entering the reaction.
Looks great! I know the exporting features are in Beta now, figured I let you know they the docx export feature doesn't save a file with an extension, and even if you manually add the extension, an error occurs (on Mac Word 2011) - "The XML file resume.docx cannot be opened because there is no available data view (XSLT)."
> There are a lot of benefits in owning a car that you can keep "stuff" in.

So, combine driverless cars with depots with loading/unloading robots, then you can leave stuff in your driverless car, and have access to it with the next driverless pickup.
TextMe - Too much texting apps started popping around.
Cactus - Photo sharing app with option to put a title on it. Had this a while ago, then whisper and others showed up.
Escape the Monster - iOS kids game, some creature have to avoi d obstacles to escape the monster. Lack of time.
Invoicer - Mac app for making invoices. Lack of time.
Donster - Texting using only recorded sounds. Lack of time.
I think you're confusing popehat.com with antipope.org. Charles Stross is a self-described socialist.