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You're being irrational now. Of course cops need to be and feel safe. They are just humans, humans equipped with guns. Anything you can do to make sure they don't fire those guns prematurely should be done, after all, they're for protecting us.

Calling it an armored tank is exaggerating. It's basically a mobile barrier that can carry a bunch of officers. There's all kinds of nice stuff you can do with them, and frankly I think it would be kind of embarassing for a town if they couldn't get a robust all terrain vehicle to some location within a reasonable timeframe.
I hope they put the government funding to good use and not waste on failed attempts, even if they think it's cheaper.
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This seems like a step away from "ridiculous" to me.

Declaring something as 1.0 means that any 1.X releases are going to be backwards-compatible with the 1.0 spec.

This is objectively different than versioning something 0.X, which implies that the baseline spec is not finalized.

Calling something "Beta", however, just means that a feature-complete major version is still being actively developed (i.e. new minor features and bugfixes).

In other words "1.0 Beta" just means "Stable spec, active codebase".
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You're right to put "source" in quotes, because that's embarrassingly weak.

You haven't even counted them. You're providing no real data.

There's no way that it justifies your stark claim that "most people in the community have lost faith in Blockchain.info".

Why do you feel the need to enhance your argument with exaggeration and unsupported assertions?
>Um, and with VISA they will just happily ignore you taking back what they consider their money and wish you a good day?

VISA doesn't consider it their money. So ya they will do that. You not knowing that suggests a huge gap in your knowledge of how credit cards work/how charge backs work.

>Why would you send money to those? Since you know there is no Chargeback mechanism wouldn't it be wise to demand product/service first or use an escrow service?

How would I know? A company can seem fine and turn into a scam quickly. I could use an escrow service but then I'd have to arrange that for every purchase when currently I can have it handled for me automatically.

>Oh, I think there we are getting to the point. You are mistaking Bitcoin for a credit card. Well... It is not.
It works very differently and if you treat it like "just another CC" you're in for quite a bad time.

I'm not confusing it at all. I was giving an example that closely maps to the security concern with a credit card.
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That means that all three forms will wind up in any Nim project that gets large enough, though. Hardly a good thing.
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So why is it called "1.0.1" (and now 1.0.1 on the homepage) and not "1.0.0-beta" ?
I thought the customer was always king, and nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM.
> I would be willing, however to pay 20+ dollars if someone could give me something close to say, Fallout 3 for my phone though.

We're already there. You can play, today, on your iPhone and/or Android device: GTA San Andreas, Bioshock and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. These are complete ports that spare no features from the originals.

However, I found that the experience is not what I sought it out to be. I realised that these are games that require focus, since they rely on immersion. The only situation in which I can actually sit down to play them for any meaningful amount of time is when I'm at home on a weekend; in which case, why not just use a console or my computer, with vastly superior input devices and display quality?
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The block size is not the limit here; the protocol aims for one block every 10 minutes so that users don't have to wait too long to get a transaction confirmed.

Cost per transaction would go down drastically with increased usage.
Not really, at least according to semver (which is what iojs uses). Stability of the API is denoted by a 1.x.x, it isn't necessarily an indication of the quality of the implementation, beta or otherwise.

Node 0.12 was always being referred to as 'pretty much the 1.0 API', not calling it 1.x.x was a kind of 'get out of jail free' card in my opinion. So i'm glad the iojs team have least drawn a line in the sand and declared their API stable.
I use to sell computers and electronics at Hudson's (in Harper Woods, MI). Commodores were a bit before my working days. I was selling IBM PS2, Epson and some Macs. Good times! Sorry, a bit off topic. But, this is where I started my software development career. :-)
Computers, even these, are cheaper than development and opportunity costs for a complex system. Especially if that system has been around for 30+ years and lies at the core of a large business.
It allows you to use your own style everywhere, instead of relying on the specific styles of the library you used (so you don't end up in your code with camelCase AND snake_case).

It's definitely unusual, but I think it works quite well.
this is a ridiculous comment.

we use a mongodb cluster for a multi-hundred GB document store that powers ~50 various worker instances, 2 sites and an API with sub 100ms response times. we have never lost data or experienced downtime worse than other dbs i've used in the past.

at the end of the day you just need to do your job properly and read the documentation, not blame the tool when you can't use it properly.

*disclaimer - this is not to say postgres isn't awesome.
There's several U.S. universities represented, at least one Dutch and I also see some cities in Germany, Austria and Denmark.

But yeah, the guy who started it is from there so obviously he has an easier time marketing it to nearby universities.
that the trader did not want them filled does not mean that they could not be filled.
The CAP theorem suggests some limits on a distributed systems approach. These matter very much in industries like banking and others involving financial transactions. It's no accident that checking each transaction for credit card fraud is listed as a feature. If there's float, there's an opportunity for arbitrage.

IBM is full of really smart people some of whom work on really hard problems using the principles of Computer science. The z13 wasn't the result of two recent grads pivoting a Yelp for Rabbits startup and the z13 isn't for companies hoping to do a billion transactions a day. It's for those doing it.
I didn't read it like that at all, I interpreted it as the gp distinguishing between the two.
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These "Portugal cakes", if still exist, are not popular in Portugal. We still have recipes of cakes and breads with raisins but the orange flower water, I’ve never heard about it. It might be a recipe branch that grew independently taking Portuguese traditional ingredients (raisins, oranges and fortified wine) and didn't survived in Portugal.

Nowadays the most Portuguese pastry is by far:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel_de_nata

They are easily available in Portuguese emigrant neighbourhoods all over the world. Give it a try, you'll not regret it.
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Ah, the libertarian dream.

Maybe the "entrepreneurs" will in fact "smell the opportunity" and move in and save the day, but for what? What's the gain? Why design critical infrastructure so that its survival is based on a hypothetical market scenario, when it can be done right in the first place?
>>The Better Angels of Our Nature explains some ideas that I think should be widely understood, like the idea that the basis for morality – and the continued decline of violence – lies in empathy, strengthened by rules, codes and laws.

This statement contradicts itself. Laws, at the end of the day, can only be enforced by the threat of eventual violence. You can't force someone to be empathetic or moral, they need to choose to be that way through their own understanding of the world, their place in it, and what they view as right and wrong.
Can you point me to these serious developers who would be using Nim or contributing to Nim if a Nim mailing list existed? If I have proof that these developers exist then I may actually implement it.
I'm suggesting retraction should not be implemented in the first place
Not really...

His open-source projects has lots of users, but no contributors.

He gets angry e-mails frequently, but never once got an e-mail offering help or praising the project.

But that is Brazil for you, asshole jerk behaviour is the default.
Bitcoin is the electronic version of "let's buy a lot of gold and stash it somewhere".

It's also the electronic version of: Be able to move that gold around the globe near instantly, without a middleman, at almost zero cost. And some other quite neat things.

While these features may seem "anecdotical" for many people in the western world, there's also a large number of people in poorer countries for whom e.g. the fees on long distance transactions or not being able to get a bank account are a very real problems.
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I agree, Youtube really has to shape up. And I hope they are up for the challenge.
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On the other hand, there is evidence from other situations that when people feel safer, they simply increase the risk level. When people wear seatbelts, they drive more dangerously. Fit airbags; people drive more dangerously. Wear a helmet while cycling; people cycle more dangerously. Turn up inside an armoured tank...
The only reason why this is "illegal" and HFT is legal is that the HFT firms are paying customers of the exchange. It's really quite scary how complicit and front-runned the whole stocktrading business has become. I really recommend Flash Boys which is an interesting read on the topic

http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt-ebook/dp...
I didn't realize my statement would confuse someone into thinking it was the result of a scientifically accurate survey and not just an observation of sentiment. I apologize for the confusion.
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There was a trademark issue between them and Joyent that also made the node-forward GH repo to go private. They might not be comfortable using term Node.JS on the frontpage.
The 1.0.0 release was called 1.0.0 - there has been a patch release since. Pretty much any software I can think of lists the latest release on the homepage rather than linking to a static version, but you're right it's a little confusing that specifying a version in the querystring doesn't actually appear to link directly to that version.

EDIT: confusing if the intention of the iojs team was to have the querystring actually mean something... they may well not have that intention, in which case meh :)
Irrelevant. A decline in difficulty occurs due to a decline in hashing power. Not a decline in real energy consumption.

A decline in hashing power can only happen from people looking at real energy consumption and saying "to hell with this". At which point the network compensates to keep hashing difficulty the same, but does not reduce energy consumption for any of the remaining participants.

But correspondingly, the mean difficulty does go up continuously - that's the fixed number of coins. So even when the block to block difficulty is adjusted, the net trend is less coins per unit hash, which means the marginal energy cost of the coins approaches infinity.
>which enabled working-class people to own fairly large amounts of clothing for the first time, and even have fashionable clothing, which had once been the exclusive preserve of the rich.

No, that was due to social reform as a result of the threat of anarchist/socialist/communist uprisings against the established order.

Average living standards went down during most of the industrial revolution.

>reforming that system worked out a lot better than trying to work with people who were so threatened by change they would destroy other peoples' method of earning a living.

Except the capitalists attempted (mostly successfully) to destroy alternate ways of earning a living other than industrial work.

America was flooded with immigrants because it was a chance for peasants to have land of their own.
They might not have been "vanishingly small" (looks to my right to the Civil Defense Block Mother sign we put up in the late '60s), but I and most of the people I knew rated the chances as "small".
If that is true, we will see Comcast try to sell off its losses in the coming years, and if that fails, go bankrupt. No company, no matter size, can keep a failing investment indefinitely.
I'm not confusing it at all. I was giving an example that closely maps to the security concern with a credit card.

So if you agree that Bitcoin is not a credit card then what relevance does an example have that maps to the security concerns of a credit card?
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Tim Peters is one of the smartest guys in the Python community. But where is he? What is he doing or working on?
>power usage of cpus, then gpus, and then asics, you'll see that in general power consumption for bitcoin constantly increases.

That does not tell the whole story though, power usage per gigahash is a more accurate measure, because the higher the GH the more secure the network. From CPU, to GPU to ASIC the power use per gighash has fallen significantly.

If you really want to compare it to the banking sector then you need to include the full and real costs of that banking system, power alone is not the only cost. One bail out, as seen in the last few years, dwarfs the power cost of bitcoin. That is without considering the knock on effects of the banking meltdown on the overall economy.

And bitcoin can take advantage of improvements to reduce power consumption of ASICs (as there is no next step tech that will provide an increase in gigahash as ASICs did, so now it goes to refining the power usage. Additionally larger farms are looking at renewable alternatives and uses for the excess heat being produced. It is still a very young sector so there is a lot of working out to do, but it is being done.
I believe SMAP makes UDEREF obsolete, at least on processors that support it.
What are you talking about? We run a 800+ GB mongo cluster and have never lost data.
In a sql db, every single thing needs to fit into a flat schema with nesting done by relations.

Nope, see Postgres (hstore and json).
Quite frankly you should see this as an opportunity to start your own thing. More importantly I would question why weren't you promoted especially being the one of the first employees? Assuming you have done nothing to piss the founder off, you should be truly appreciated for what you have achieved whilst motivated through career progression etc.

Also bare in mind that this is a normal process for SOME companies as the more they grow the more people are hired so as to try and achieve more (this is debatable) work thus higher revenues.

Personally, I would see what you really want from life and if you are seeking credit/appreciation for your own work then

start a new business
or co-found a product
or join a startup that is prepared to give out equity
Agreed, that was my intention. The cultural narrative in Western societies is that young people are less important, that they aren't capable of contributing to society in as meaningful a way. While this is attitude is certainly less visible in the tech scene, I felt this post could serve as an important reminder that people of all ages have a lot to offer.
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> the difficulty goes up, so more and more power is required to preserve the status quo.

No. the difficulty goes up so more hashing power is required, whether this means more actual power usage will depend on the machines being used and their efficiency.
> Be able to move that gold around the globe near instantly

The biggest advantage of gold is that it's value is relatively stable and has been used as a valuable metal since ancient times.

That's quite the opposite of Bitcoin actually.
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> No new indoor mall has been built in the US in 10 years.

This does not imply that malls are dying. Existing malls may be expanding, e.g. the largest in NY started another round of expansion in 2007 and shops are still opening up in the new space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_USA

Online ordering is never going to put clothes & accessories or fragrance shops out of business, until you have very high resolution displays and tactile output, or figure out one-hour-or-less drone delivery for free.

In the aforementioned mall a large proportion of the shops are exactly this type, along with restaurants and entertainment (video games, bowling and the like). It's hard to deny that the expansion of online ordering has forced malls to adapt or die, but it's simply incorrect to pronounce the death of the concept.
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> because you can easily find a guy who worked with Rails framework and knows it inside out

That's only relevent when you are hiring someone to deal with the monstrosity of a rails app that you ended up with because the abstractions didn't quite work for the problem you were trying to solve.

I've found it very easy to use some Rails best practices in a Sinatra app and not have to deal with all the routing/controller cruft in Rails, while still getting sensible filesystem conventions.
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I think this is also about choosing your battles wisely. When you build something new you will find it is hard. You will have a lot of flexibility choosing how to go about it. It's not necessary to reinvent the wheel on every front. That's why I love frameworks (Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, templates, even spreadsheets for business plans etc.).

Frameworks quickly allow you to go from 0-80% without having to start from scratch. You just take something that already exists and then fill in the gaps with your values, colors, content etc.

I agree with gitaarik that in the grand scheme of things libraries are also like a framework.
Near instant is a bit (a lot?) misleading, it takes on average about 10 minutes to have a transaction confirmed, sometimes much more.
What is your title? I'm guessing it's developer or engineer. If you view yourself as such, others also view you as such, and you won't be considered for management roles, because you're not a manager. I've chosen this for myself deliberately, and i accept that the cost is that i have to define my role more narrowly. I don't think how long you are at a company matters that much, or even should matter much. As the old saying goes: what have you done for me lately?

I've seen this transition happen myself, where the company grew, got cut up into a bunch of departments, all of which got a manager, mostly external hires. I feel like this way of organizing companies (departments, hierarchical, middle management, etc) is an anti-pattern. Everybody does it because everybody does it, but every dividing line you add reduces efficiency, and I've seen firsthand how damaging middle management is to the agility at the individual level. I don't know what the antidote to this anti-pattern is, but i feel like company structure is a territory ripe for innovation.
I actually came there via two other aggregators (Twitter and Prismatic) and thought that I had found the source. Will be more careful next time - sorry about that. In any case it was an interesting read.
> Can someone suggest when it is actually useful over a properly tuned relational database?

Maybe when developers don't want to bother to learn SQL?

On my CS degree we got proper introduction to SQL and the relational algebra behind it, so for me it is just a tool, not a scary monster.

I really love the data integrity options I have at my disposal with relational databases.

So for me this all NoSQL fad never made much sense. Then again, I never had to deal with a Facebook like scale problem, only daily reports from mobile network operators across their whole network elements.
The 'Market Cap' of bitcoin is more a reflection of how much people believe in its future value. It's not a very good indicator of current adoption.

For adoption, you'd want to look more at data like transaction numbers, transaction value, merchants accepting it and order statistics from retailers. There's not much data, though.
Sure. That is what you get e.g. with NumPy in Python. However, as you already said you only get "most" of it. The remaining niche is still large enough that Fortran has lots of users.

http://www.numpy.org/
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If you're saying that HFT algorithms don't publish trades from a pure manipulation purpose I call BS. There are many HFT firms that been caught with their hand in the cookie jar doing just that, the problem is that they are even more that hasn't.

It's really hard to prove intent when trading is done in microseconds and the truth lies somewhere in the algorithm. Those who got caught got caught mainly because of their email trail
It's called a "wire" transfer for a reason. In the EU, they take a day and are free.
Command line and user in browser window can both be united into: executing the code provided by the user.

Eval can be closely compared to the execution of a binary file. Do you trust that user to upload executable and run it on the host? Then eval is fine, otherwise - you are asking for the trouble.
I'd say it's your comment that is somehow contradictory. Most people are law-abiding citizens not because they fear the threat of eventual violence, but because of their moral & empathy. Laws are just a framework around it to negate deviations from this stable state, but it's usually not the amount of violence you can unleash that will really convince people to follow laws they don't perceive as legitimate.
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I appreciate you skipping the whole rest of my comment to focus on the completely not relevant point of questioning why I included a specific example.

If you want to ignore that is fine with me. But there is still a lot of my comment left up there.
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Haha. No, it's more like this for me: if the provided education system were good and appropriately diverse, few people would feel the need to pay to leave it.

Then you might be able to say that everyone had access to a decent standard of education.
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couldn't any other language add matlab style matrices and end up being as good as it, fortran, etc?

In theory, sure. In practice a bunch of languages have tried and yet Fortran is still the king.