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I can definitely see why you'd say this, since the original parent comment was quickly deleted and you presumably didn't see it.

The original (now flagkilled) parent comment by that poster contained some information regarding the author's place of residence. I (and others) felt this was well over the line.
> an overwhelming sense of love and comfort.

This is exactly how I would describe my experience with DMT. Once it hit me, I immediately felt as if nothing bad could ever happen to me. All tension, physically and mentally, was immediately removed from my body. Pure comfort and excitement. I'd never felt that level of calmness in my entire life even if everything that was happening to me visually was crazy.
If the constants of nature were completely arbitrary you might be right, but I don't think anyone's suggesting that they necessarily are. Some (combinations of) constants might represent underlying principles that we just haven't discovered yet.

The multiverse hypothesis which the article mentions isn't really satisfactory intuitively, but these days particle physics isn't really in the realm of intuition at all. It does run into the so-called "measurement problem". (Which may have a hypothesized solution these days for all I know, I'm not even a layman.)

Personally, I think the question of entropy is more interesting and fundamental. It's essentially the question "Why did the universe start with such low entropy?". Sean Carroll has quite a few talks up on "the tubes" about that question, and I find it fascinating.

EDIT: Sorry about the rambling, not particularly in a state to talk about big cosmological questions at the moment. Hopefully you'll find it useful nonetheless.
He claimed ownership and agreed to allow them to be sold due to the volatility of the market. The proceeds will be held until the outcome of his case.

http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/dpr-bitcoins/order.pdf
Well, in any case they have a build system in place, I hope :)

Which either defaults to using clang or gcc.
Your understanding is wrong. From the order:

WHEREAS, on or about December 12, 2013, Ulbricht filed a timely verified claim in this proceeding, asserting an ownership interest in the Computer Hardware Bitcoins
That's quite literally not what I said. I said that freedom does not inherently mean no limitations. Murder was my example, but that does not mean I equate software distribution to murder. (I had figured this crowd would be astute enough to reason as much.)

For the record, I believe that the BSD and MIT license allow the distributor to withhold source from me, which does "hurt" me from my point-of-view.

As an example, How many chemistry and biology lab machines have you seen running windows 95 or dos because the company won't release updates for old software and want you to buy a new machine?) I've seen many, and it's very difficult and expensive to keep them running at times because they don't work under emulation for various reasons.
Next stop Windows! Then they can use all the modern C++ constructs they like...
What else is there? I personally don't like the idea of not having a two-factor authentication given that someone could theoretically "brute force" the keys... although extremely unlikely in a non-LAN context.
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> Asking for where else you are interviewing

I think it's acceptable to ask where else you're interviewing, but not inquire as to how you got the interviews or what other recruiters you're working with. And I'm not sure it's fair to classify this as a dealbreaker. You can't blame them for trying and it's easy to bypass by simply saying "I'm sorry I'm not comfortable with sharing that information."

If you're working with multiple recruiters and recruiter B tells you about an opportunity you're already pursuing through recruiter A you can then explain you're already pursuing it.
here is mine - https://gratipay.com/fijal/ - not exactly killing it
It's been noted before, The S Stands for Simple: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple
Technically, the burden is still on the state. However, the burden is much lower. The preponderance of evidence standard is used. That means if "more probable than not" that it was criminal proceeds the government wins.
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkins/dp/06...
My Brief History - Stephen Hawking, http://www.amazon.com/My-Brief-History-Stephen-Hawking/dp/03...
Both real eye openers
Interesting, turns out there is a version of this for Racket: https://github.com/takikawa/sweet-racket

I will have to take a gander and see if it's compatible.
A better analogy would be firing a bullet that has the ability to correct its course in flight, which is a far less daunting challenge.
Its worth noting that while they have been seized, they have not yet been forfeited -- that action is ongoing. The sale was agreed to secure the value and protect the government and Ulbricht both from price volatility; the forfeiture action will continue against the sale proceeds.
IMHO religion has little to do with spirituality. I'm not necessarily saying it's all bad, just that it's all about politics, philosophy, enforcing a certain set of norms to allow cooperation, etc. The relationship of religion to spiritual experience is along the lines of the relationship between space themed fiction like Star Trek to actual space flight.
I thought they calculated the amount of dust that based on the current rate dust accumulation and extrapolating based on the believed age of the universe. It's a little surprising we have not corrected that thought since the moon landing.
IMHO, and this is really just my personal opinion, the only way to learn how to build a big system is to build one and learn the extent of your ignorance by failing at it the first few times out.

I started a decade ago on my first job on a 20.000 line web app developed with two other guys. Over time that became a 700.000 line system developed by several dozens of people and on track to be a million lines in two years. Between then and now I've learned that I'm very ignorant. I still feel like I'm trying to figure this stuff out and not quite succeeding. :)

As a good second-best choice, try contributing to a large open source project. No books will teach you this stuff, you have to do it to learn it.
They believe it is until it's their own assets on the line.
Oh, my bad. Sorry. I thought this was selling off more of the earlier Silk Road stash, not the "personal collection". Should have read more carefully.
So basically, put the current value of the coins in escrow, instead of the coins themselves, in case they drop in value dramatically over time. Makes sense to me.
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https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tor+traffic#!/story/sort_by_date/p...
Some say that if HATEOAS is followed, there should never be a reason for a client to "know" an API. The assumption is that every link in a resource can be characterized precisely (via link relations, profiles, media types, etc.) enough that automated clients know what they can do and how they should do it. In practice, we're not really to that point yet, but also in practice there is often a human around somewhere to help a client navigate a changed API even if it can't figure that out automatically.
" google is working with the LLVM team to integrate the toolchain into visual studio "

the 3 giants are working together...
two points:

1. why do you necessarily assume that REST API's are only accessed by robots? A human developer can benefit from HATEOAS quite a lot by being able to use the RESTful service's outputs as its own documentation. The developer can discover the features of the API by following links provided in the API outputs.

2. An API client can check that it matches the interface specified by the API just by comparing the URI's it is accessing with the URI's provided by the HATEOAS part of the RESTful service. You can automatically detect changes, breakages, or new feature introduction. This doesn't spare the client developer from having to update their client code, but it gives that developer a powerful tool for getting updates about the RESTful service.
I don't understand this article at all. The pension fund uses block trades. Who takes the other side of those trades and how are they compensated?

I suspect that an equity desk takes the block, parcels it out into lots of small pieces, and works the market to get it off their books. Of course, they charge for that service, both in commissions and spread. So effectively, instead of paying HFT firms for providing liquidity, they're paying an investment bank equity desk. Does this really save money? If it does, why all the hoopla about HFT if you can avoid them by going through an equity desk?

Don't tell me that they just put their block on IEX and the tooth fairy fills it without price impact. That would be some serious magic.
Sure, they certainly have download-continuation deployed, but they also have a lot of data and a very narrow channel and time window - the lander had only battery for 68 hours most of the time the lander is not visible to the orbiter. The problem is not imaging. The lens is certainly magnitudes better than you can see on the pictures, but transmitting all those pixels back to earth is the real problem. TCP kinda gets hard if RTT is approximately one hour.
Do you see a way to make progress on this one without guessing?

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Yes, of course there are situations when you shouldn't use a custom verb.

- Routes that intended for use by people via clickable links (web browsers and email clients) obviously must use GET; I believe HTML forms are likewise limited to GET and POST by the `method` attribute (I've never submitted a PATCH form myself).

- You may have to interop with intermediate proxies that perform some form of DPI. For example, some proxies know that certain requests can be cached based on a URI. These proxies may not have support for custom verbs.

- Corporate firewalls may whitelist verbs [1].

In general, the idea is to strive to use verbs that have broad applicability in your API, but that doesn't mean every resource must implement every verb (e.g. read-only collections usually don't implement DELETE). But that's just an standard application of the uniform access principle.

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HTTPPUTOrDELETENotAllowedUseXH...
Funny it should have barely any effect on the price, but if the news caused this drop it is probably because people sold anticipating that the news would cause this drop.
Once you start calling colleges "Indoctrination Factories," we can safely ignore anything else you have to say.

If your point is salient, you won't have to insult the very people you're trying to convince.
There's a lot of people saying "don't use btsync for sensitive data" and rightfully so. What are some alternatives that are considered more secure?
They are working on a detailed answer...
I never know what wget will use as the file name so I only use it if the resource has a real name, if it is only like in your example I would always prefer:

curl https://news.ycombinator.com > hn.html

That way I am sure I don't overwrite some other file I already have in this folder with the same name which wget will give it.
While we're being honest, I don't think there were ever charges filed against Ross for hiring anyone to kill anyone else
> It seems to be a big loophole for the government to just go and steal whatever they want from you, before you've been proven guilty.

Nevertheless, that's how it works in the land of the free.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433/pol...
Except the BSD licensed code may not be available for you to distribute or play with; that's the crux of the issue.
God, this things are so "public", I could never imagine myself publicly leaving a dev team... But maybe I haven't been working long enough.
I'd love to see such a list. I am anxiously awaiting your "Show HN" submission, scott_s!
http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/32575-multiple-massive-sec...
It would be comparable to saying that he should get a fair trial, even if everyone "knows" he's guilty.
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I don't see anywhere in your cited article that says the coins were purchased for more than market price. Can you point it out for me?

Additionally, if you were a rational investor who believed the coins were worth above market price, why would you not additionally buy up any coins on the market that were selling below that price? Ultimately, bidding up the market price to whatever the "above-market" bid was.
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>There's a real argument that in a hackathon 10% extra time isn't worth it, but in the real world where you don't always have 48 hour time limits I've always been in the opinion that the initial time investment is far outweighed by the benefits and the additional cost that you would incur by making it mobile-ready later (which usually requires either rebuilding the frontend templates from scratch or hacking away at the existing codebase in a way that is far less organized/sustainable).

Oh, I completely agree with this. I'd say that even during hackathons, mobile is definitely something you should keep in mind when you're building your design, markup, etc. just like you normally would so that things will be easier in the long run. However, the key thing is that when you hit something that would be easy to deal with on desktop but hard on mobile, you should just go the easy desktop route and leave the mobile solution for later (post-hackathon). And when you're building web apps, those kinds of moments will pretty much inevitably come because mobile is hard - compared to desktop, you will generally speaking always have less screen real estate (and input elements need to be larger, making it even smaller), a lot less processing power, lack of precise pointer input and hover (touch vs mouse), etc etc.

Again, the point here is the difference between building websites and web apps. With websites, your biggest concerns are generally that the site scales nicely to various screen sizes and that links are comfortably clickable (and that it all looks nice). This wouldn't be all that hard to do even under time constraints. Web apps on the other hand generally feature a lot more (single-page) interactivity, and getting that right is a lot harder.
just ordered this. thanks for the recommendation!
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Nothing in that article states that the coins were sold above market price. The only publicly known data points were some significantly below-market bids (<$500 when the market price was ~$600) that did not win.
A POST to /email would be fine...you'd expect back a 201 Created.

To really do it, you'd want /emails instead of /email, and then you'd expect that you could access any given email by /emails/<id>, getting a 401 or 403 if you tried to access one that doesn't exist. Further, you could expect that you could then augment the email resource with a status flag, and then you could even sort for sent emails by /emails?status=sent_and_acknowleged or similar.

For your second case, a POST would be a little weird, unless it returned you a new stats_report. I'd suggest changing that to /stats_reports, and have it create a new stats_report object. To view latest, you'd GET /stats_reports/head or something.
Can Rosetta not be angled to reflect sunlight to Philae, Iridium style? How close can Rosetta be placed to the comet?
A good related article about locks from the BBC: Is the traditional metal key becoming obsolete?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29817520

I'm quite conservative when it comes to locks for the home and prefer the traditional mechanical lock and key. I like the Lockitron feature of recording when a lock is opened/closed but that could be integrated into a mechanical lock without requiring the lock itself to operate electronically.

I think this quote from the BBC article above sums up how I feel:

...what about wear and tear, asks Brian Morland of the History of Locks Museum in Bournemouth. He cannot foresee a time when mechanical locks won't be part of our daily life. "You drop a key in water and it's okay. If you drop an electronic key (or smartphone) it will cause endless problems."
The cockroach that you see is usually not the only one around.

A framework that doesn't support extensible verbs in 2014 is bound to have more problems than just a failure to implement one RFC correctly.
I'm the auhtor of the Erlang article on How I Start. I've felt the same in some ways because it would offer a nice comparison point, but the problem with this idea is that it doesn't let the authors pick a problem for which they think their tool shines.

In a way, forcing the same problem on all authors is more or less risking telling them "you may have to use the wrong tool for this job, but please tell us how you'd do it."

Instead, I think the current format is, well first of all nicer for the author (they can pick what inspires them), and also gives you a richer level of content where you may end up learning more than you thought you would.

For example, the Erlang text focuses on Releases and shipping Erlang systems, something I felt was still blurry in a lot of people's minds. the Elixir project is done with a concurrent approach that wouldn't necessarily carry over the same way in Ruby, and Ruby's text is showing how to build a gem.

Letting the authors pick their subject means they can choose to focus as much as possible on what they feel is trickier with their tool of choice, rather than just showing a given program, for which a site like rosettacode.org might be more interesting.
I'm not an expert, but you can do this in a language with dependent types such as Idris. But given the historical progress of the industry, it will probably be a long, long time before such an idea percolates down into an industrial language.
> They're a giant sales and services organization

Case in point: SmartNET is tech support on steroids. It's truly unfathomable how knowledgeable the person on the other end of the line is; they've been thoroughly trained in 1 particular area of Cisco networking related to the class of device you own, and without fail have the solution to your problem.

Cisco is the only company I've encountered where the support contract is laughably worth the price.
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One of the fact that surfaces from the book Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary is that Linus wrote the code for Linux in ~15 months and it was ~15K LOC. I usually take that as gold standard for productivity of brilliant programmers. Note that as per the book, he almost exclusively spent entire time writing code during these months (he would put down the curtains if it was a rare sunny day outside and skip showers and just about any events so almost all he does is write code).
rsync, and I'm not delighted at this answer either.
Not really. Asset forfeiture has nothing to do with a fair trial. Those are two separate concepts under the US legal system.

Also, he is getting a fair trial.
How DAOs Can Replace Corporations and Traditional Governments
Just get into SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle or any of other enterprise software, be half good at it and make $200+ per hour.. Be ready to sell your engineer soul & any resemblance of quality principles in the process..
Source code of Polish electoral voting system?
Is that the same Theo who threw a tantrum because nobody notified him ahead of time of some OpenSSL vulnerability after he specifically declined an invitation to be on the cross-distro security mailing list where such notifications get posted?

http://lwn.net/Articles/601958/
To make certain classes of bugs impossible. What will end up hapenning with all code that must be kept is that ever stricter compilers and static analyzers will find the unsafe code and it will be fixed piece by piece.
This is is a genuine question: if you don't version your API somehow, then how do your clients handle breaking changes?
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Allegedly. Just because the DA says so doesn't mean it's true.
'Fraid I don't understand your response. What is Groovy and what has it to do with Spider?
My understanding is that 5-MeO DMT is very different from DMT. Have you tried both?
Speculation is providing liquidity. I don't understand how you could do one without the other.
To add to that, Ulbricht voluntarily agreed to this sale:

WHEREAS, the Government and Ulbricht agree that, due to the volatile market for bitcoins, the Computer Hardware Bitcoins risk losing value during the pendency of the forfeiture proceedings;

WHEREAS, the Government and Ulbricht agree that the Computer Hardware Bitcoins are to be liquidated or sold by the Government before the conclusion of the forfeiture proceedings, with the net proceeds of the sale to be held as substitute res pending further order of this Court;
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What a terribly defeatist attitude. Of course it's easiest on the conscience to defend the morally upstanding members of society, but legal practice is (or should be) continuously reevaluated and updated to fit with current societal norms, without respect to savoriness of those whom would benefit in the current situation in question. Asset forfeiture has real and valid uses, and DPR's case may or may not be one of them. But to completely dismiss the discussion of the overreaches of the use of asset forfeiture throughout the US because DPR's case is "easy" seems like a cop out.

Your rationalization appears to boil down to "the status quo is the status quo, so we shouldn't bother trying to change it."
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> They refuse to support them today because there's no benefit in doing so

That's nonsense. Clear benefit is supporting codecs which their users can encounter without forcing them to reencode to anything else. For instance, you buy some music in FLAC and can use it, rather than reencoding it first. I.e. interoperability and treating users well, rather than being jerks.

Clearly for Apple "benefit" means screwing users and degrading interoperability.

> Supporting codecs they're not supporting today takes both non-trivial engineering resources, but may expose them to patent risk depending on the codec in question

False pretenses to hide real intentions - retaining lock in and reducing interoperability, which were always Apple's notable goals. Specifcially about patent risks - they are already using a bunch of codecs like AAC, so obviously they aren't concerned about risks when using them. So they can't claim they are more scared with other codecs especially if they are explicitly patent free.
>front-running usually involves an agency problem

Historically, in the HFT world, it also involved getting ahead of big orders in the order book by taking advantage of how orders are systematically queued or prioritized.
Nope. That's why I mentioned the variety, though.
What percentage of (and which) AWS features do you think are utilized by the majority users of AWS?
The term "professional" should be taken euphemistically here. You will likely have a much better time with someone highly experienced with hallucinogen usage rather than a scientist in lab conditions.
How does that differ from the way every market maker deals with informed traders? (Serious question, not a challenge.)
I'm always curious why people don't like list comprehensions - care to expand on that?

I'm also the opposite of you on `function` vs. `func` - I think `fn` would have been even better! The verbosity of `function` is one of my least favorite things about javascript. It seems superficial, but I think it makes it noticeably more awkward to program more functionally.
I don't want to seem pedantic, but it's explicitly not front running, despite this articles misuse of the term. Front running is when you trade in front of your clients' trades based on the information they provide you, not your competitors'.