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Libraries by definition have a narrower scope and hence are more easily adapted to new situations.

Frameworks by their nature affect the whole codebase.

This is the low-coupling/high-cohesion benefit of libraries as seen in many places in software engineering.

A codebase with low coupling is inherently more flexible and maintainable. Libraries and well defined, sensible interfaces are critical to good engineering.
Apple Patents a Wireless Action Camera and Wrist-Based Remote
I personally like the idea of Gridcoin more, because BOINC lets you use your processing power for other things than just folding proteins (although with Rosetta you can still do that) like searching for aliens or looking for gravitational anomalies.
bank customers do not have enough information to determine whether a bank is sound or not.

Bullshit. Customer reviews, third party audits, history and reputation, secondary signals (quality of website, customer support, advertising, quality of investors). The list goes on [1] Your only limit is your imagination and your confidence in the intelligence of your species my friend. You've been tricked by the miserable current state of banking (a product of socialist intervention) into thinking that this is the way banks are and must be. You'd see how quickly things will change when a) banks live and die by their reputation b) anyone can build a bank from anywhere to service the world (enabled by Bitcoin.)

bitcoin really isn't a good solution to that.

Why not? Bitcoin supersedes political violence. No government can order more of it to be created at gunpoint. Therefore there is no way to enact "backdoor" taxes (inflation) to support inherently-broken schemes such as socialised deposit insurance. The only way is frontdoor taxation, which people are far better at measuring and disliking. The success of Bitcoin would cut off the last life support tube for dysfunctional government

[1] Yes, I know you'll have point by point reasons why each one of those techniques is somehow uniquely impossible to work with the 100% success rate uniquely required by this and all other regulated industries (health, inter-city transport et al), which for some reason work just fine in the industries which escape regulation (online commerce for instance) which for some reason are much more forgiving.
You can take an order, at least probabilistically.

Suppose an HFT has an order on the market from 0.30 to 0.40. If you submit an order at 0.00, your order will arrive at some time uniformly distributed between 0.00 and 1.00. With probability 0.1 you'll get a fill.
The article has to be completely misrepresenting which part, exactly, was illegal here. Nearly every high frequency trader in every electronic market aims to do something very similar to 90% of what he describes here.

Is it all because of the motive? And bots can legally do the exact same thing because it's harder to prove any motive behind a bot's actions?
What? When would it ever be OK to lose parts of an invoice. Mongo apologists baffle me sometimes. To anyone considering MongoDB, don't be fooled, you probably want to stick with an RDBMS.
The fact that opinions like these are still a thing says more about the opinion than his commitment to the node/io/libuv community.
edit: obvious commit statistics below/above.
People think they know why they do what they do. But when you try and encode it, it fails.

I've worked with traders, trying to implement the system they think they use. They had a system of indicators and said they traded according to them but when applied mechanically to trading data it didn't make a profit.
Most of the tech corporations I've worked with are "evil", or at best pointless. That's the current world I live in. With some notable exceptions, people doing actually meaningful work are crapped on. (http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/)
Man, this bring memories back! This was one of the recurring sources I had five or six years ago along with Eloquent JavaScript. Everyone doing JavaScript should read it at least twice.
looks like mostly slovak and czech competition :)
There's certainly a lot of discussion and even some controversy on whether KidZania is a good or bad thing. But one thing is certain: it's insanely fun for kids.

Jeffrey Friedl (author of Mastering Regular Expressions) has some KidZania entries on his blog from a few years ago.

http://regex.info/blog/2009-06-28/1245

http://regex.info/blog/category/japan/kidzania
95 percent of high-frequency trader orders are cancelled (so fast that nobody can take them). Some high-frequency traders have claimed to be profitable on over 99 percent of their trading days.

I don't buy the "providing liquidity" defense of HFT.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/03/schwab-on-hft-grow...
which part, exactly, was illegal here.

The part where he did this with the expressed intention to deceive the market. This is one of those cases where your intentions are far more important that your actions.
To be fair, this is a poor technical choice that no reputable DBA should ever make... Not really the technology's fault.
That won't be wire transfers, that'll be some kind of local interbank transfer. A wire transfer is still complicated (paper forms), slow and expensive to send to other countries.

You also have to give your name and address to the recipient bank to somehow prove you're not laundering money or funding terrorism.
In the end we decide whether we'd like to carry a surplus population or not. We choose if a few lucky live off the machines or we use the machines to carry the extras.

I'm afraid the default is to just kill the unneeded with deprivation. That's what happens if we just let things sort themselves out.

The real question is whether or not the machines are suitably advanced this time to prevent a global "French Revolution" against those few from turning the entire world back to cave men.

You might be surprised what rapidly becomes feasible politically at the edge of anarchy.
What you are describing is a completely redundant role. If that was all managers were, why do companies, including smart ones, have them at all?
>"as far as the general public was concerned" :) Yeah, they were too busy watching the big bottom Kim and losing their home.

They are the ones that matter when you're trying to promote a new currency. And yes they don't care.

>Did you see how poorly Amazon did? They're a much larger and better store. No coins on Amazon.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here?

>What would those, 'more profitable ventures' be? You of course don't say because those miners aren't good for anything else.

For Vault of Satoshi it was apparently streaming video.

>If you're pretty sure, you would say why, but you don't. Apparently cirucular logic is big on the HH. That and or Tourette's.

I've said why. You are throwing out a lot of personal insults here to cover up the fact that in all your posts you've added zero content. You've attacked things that people have said without providing counter points and insulted them to mask your lack of content.
>Is there any evidence for a sufficient willingness to work under a basic income arrangement to keep the economy going?

No actual experiment with basic income has, to my knowledge, ever shown a double-digit percentage reduction in total work hours.
Opinions and counter-measures in an extreme situation: Security these days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8864791
How do you link the browser to the session, if not with cookies?
Entrepreneurs smell an opportunity[1] to roll out one of the many, many new energy technologies that have developed in the meantime in your area (which somehow was overlooked until this point.)

[1] An opportunity made possible by the ability (created by Bitcoin) to profitably and efficiently collect micropayments in poor regions of the world
current hash rate GH/s: 300,000,000 //https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

GH/s/w: 4.6 // http://www.coindesk.com/a-look-inside-kncminer/

watts to provite current hash rate: 300,000,000/4.6 = 65,217,391.30 w

kw to provide 1s: 65,217.39

an hour of that: 65,217.39*3600

234,782,604 kwh

10c per kwh => $23,478,260.4 per hour

24 hours => $563,478,249.60

my own figures are even more wacky so I would welcome some better statistics.
I'm firmly of the belief that will only happen if we have a basic income system, which I'm all for.
Visa and Mastercards business isn't payments it is letting people buy stuff with money they don't have. Bitcoin doesn't compete with them at all.

>It would also be potentially beneficial for the user since if you could purchase things with bitcoin at your local store the owner wouldn't have to pay the bank or Visa a small fee to make a transaction.

I don't pay them when I make a purchase the store does. That saving could be passed along but it wouldn't be.

>The biggest problem bitcoin has at the moment is all the hackers stealing the bitcoins and giving it a bad reputation in the news.

The biggest problem bitcoin has at the moment is that it isn't really better than existing systems for 99% of the people in the world with money. And with that comes complexity, security risks and volatility.
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Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Remote: depend on project

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: C/C++/Java/Obj-C/Bash, Linux kernel/drivers, embedded software, networking, distributed systems, backend

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eugene-leviant/23/41/929

Email: evgeny.leviant (bow-wow) gmail.com

Working as lead software engineer in Motorola Solutions. Overall 13 years of experience

Here is a link to some freelance projects done in the past

https://www.odesk.com/o/profiles/users/_~015a549a3f5599f35e/
Turkey may ban Facebook and Twitter, following the leak of state secrets
I find this attitude confusing. You're suggesting that cops are the ones who need to be made to feel safer? That by making them them feel safer they might be less likely to start shooting? Who is protecting who in this brave new world?
Thinking of it, currently you don't have that much offers, so it's not likely that people will find it interesting. What I would suggest is allow people to leave a cv and say "I am based in X [important for time zones] and I want a remote job in domain Y". Employers could then contact interesting profiles, and you could sell access to emails and names.

If you add such a feature, please let me know (email in my profile).
give me a break, it does O(n^2) work to verify that the response is sorted and contains the same values.
Actually, they posted thw wrong link. That article is not written by wwwdesigned, but by me. Here is the original text: http://www.itexto.com.br/devkico/en/?p=60
Slightly confusingly, the authors BTreeMap just appears to be a binary tree, while the standard library BTreeMap is a B-tree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree
How Zomato plans to eat Yelp’s lunch in America
We Need to Stop the White House from Putting TPP/TTIP on Fast Track
> For example, you can't get a hotel room last-minute with a credit card in Vietnam, where I checked, because they need to verify your ownership/control of your credit card with a pair of small debits, probably because of the fraud/chargeback situation.

This problem is soluble (as sibling points out, it's been solved in the UK). Conversely Bitcoin always takes about half an hour to settle transfers, for fundamental design reasons. Bitcoin qua Bitcoin is never going to be an effective way to pay for your shopping, and if you're using "Bitcoin" via a Visa-like entity, the benefits over just using Visa are questionable.

> Another example, you want to donate to Wikileaks from the US. Not so easy.

I suspect for most people (that is, non-anarchists) that's actually an advantage. Bitcoin is the equivalent of paying in used notes; it inherently carries a whiff of, at minimum, tax avoidance or socially-disapproved earning sources, because the big places where Bitcoin is more useful than conventional currency are tax evasion and socially unpopular activity. Whereas someone paying with amex likely has a proper job.
Because a framework is basically a set of libraries that work together to help you get to a certain goal.

Arguably a framework is a lot more than just a set of libraries - it's a formal specification for how you layout your code, from what directory you put a class in to how you do your database migrations. Dropping a few libraries in to an app won't make you work in a specific way. Using a framework will.
The reliability and speed advantages of PostgreSQL over MongoDB. Plus the fact that sometimes KV/document is better and sometimes normalized relational. Is nice if one tool solves both.
Super nice, dude!

I made a port (rather than a remake, like yours, with fancy new graphics ;) for the web which works on mobile: https://basicallydan.github.io/skifree.js. It has the monster and snowboarders.

Yours is much prettier though :D Nice work and well done on the success!
The typical method of no till farming is to hose the field down with glyphosate. Are there large scale "organic, no till" farms operating?

The health benefits of 'organic' are also pretty nebulous. I guess they tend to grow varieties that have been bred with more focus on taste though.
I do have good advice on how to find a tech co-founder, but this is the hard kind of idea for you to start as a non-tech. You would need a top level engineer on a niche domain. If he/she decide to do it, the tech challenge would be so much harder than the non-tech challenge, that he/she wouldn't need you at all as a co-founder.

I think you should pursue more a not so high tech dependant idea, like: Airbnb, Groupon, Yelp, this sort of thing.

This might apply to you: http://xkcd.com/1425/

EDIT: I think the NSA part was just a joke.
The compiler does not need to be compiled for the cross-target to just run binaries, just the standard library like C; but, once they exist, running the compiler directly with `rustc --target=...` and using the dependency/build manager cargo `cargo build --target=...` both work fine.

Of course, it is harder to obtain cross-compiled versions of the Rust standard library at the moment, so what you say is likely true.
Why British Prime Minister David Cameron's Plan to Ban Encryption Is Stupid
Reminds me of The Game of Life game (the Milton Bradley version—not the Conway one). That was one of my wife's favorite games growing up, so we got it as wedding present. When we tried to play it once, I found it even more boring than I expected for a kids' game: The prospect of buying a house, getting insurance, etc. is incredibly mundane when you already have the real-life versions.

Our kids aren't quite old enough to play it yet, but I've been trying to figure out how to hide it from them. Not only is it unimaginative, winning is defined as acquiring certain possessions and building a perfect 1950's-style American family. Not that there's anything wrong with that in real life (my own family fits the stereotype), but there are plenty of other ways to "win" at real life.
`nimgrep` is a tool that comes with it to help with that. It's actually pretty useful, especially when dealing with wrappers over C libraries (I'm looking at you, SDL2...)
It's entirely normal for interest on savings accounts to be above RPI/CPI inflation. Whether "inflation" is the proper term for those price changes is an uninteresting argument, but it's very ordinary for the basket-of-goods purchasing power of your savings in ten years time to be more than it is now (my (UK) savings account does that, and it's by no means unusual in this regard).
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Full ACID transactions, reliability, access to trained DBA-s.
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This is satire, right? Right?…
What is this what looks like flow style programming environment? I could not find anything about it.
Nearshoring as a Good Alternative to Offshoring
>So if I offer a trade, and then withdraw the trade because I decide I don't like the idea anymore (or 'any other reason')... that's legal. And routine to do on microsecond timescales.

Yes that's right. So quickly you may as well assume that they are updating the price they are willing to buy/sell continuously in realtime. Which is the idea. And because they are updating their prices continuously and accurately, they can keep the gap between those two prices as small as possible. For some bizarre reason, this is the only field in all of technology where HN contributors get freaked out by this. Name a control system that doesn't update its outputs frequently.

>But offering a trade, and then withdrawing the trade manually a few seconds later because I never intended to execute the trade... that's not legal?

Yes that's right. Markets work on trust, if you don't actually want to buy/sell what you're claiming you want to buy/sell then you are lying. More importantly, if you don't want to trade, what are you doing putting the order in? What does that leave as your motivation? Manipulation, that's what. Which is illegal. It's very hard to define market manipulation, but that's just about the easiest way I can think of - can you think of a simpler definition? They have to settle on some way of describing it, and it's not unusual for crimes to be defined by intent.

>Doesn't HTF presuppose that we are hard-coding this behavior, this tactic, into the trading algorithms of automated traders?

I don't follow
> about the kind of attitude you need to have to discuss, develop or debug issues around the Nim toolchain

Well, it's the kind of attitude that let me contribute to the language, and fix bugs despite being rather new to it all, so I'll be honest and say that I think it's quite good. Aside from that, the IRC channel is always super busy and amazingly helpful. I think a mailing-list is a good thing, sure, but it's not the be-all-end-all, in my humble opinion.
Yes, bitcoin mining would be worse. Provably worse.

Your premise is wrong. Bitcoin has a mechanism called "difficulty". It's very much at the core of the protocol, google it and ponder how it affects your argument.

Furthermore, the current economics of mining have a fixed expiration date set to 2140, that's roughly when the last coin would be mined.

The protocol will need to be changed fundamentally long before that date. Since we don't know what that change will look like, we also don't know how it will affect the network's power consumption.

Any "thought experiments" that naively extrapolate from the current power consumption are as pointless as trying to guess your car's mileage based on its fuel consumption during ignition.

The protocol is still in the bootstrap phase. If it prevails then the bitcoin in 10 years will be very different from the bitcoin of today.
Devaluing savings is good for society. Savings are fundamentally antidemocratic; unconstrained savings inevitably result in the capture of economic output by a rentier class, destroying productivity and entrenching a permanent aristocracy.
As an example, that's exactly what I'm doing with my SDL game experiments; I'm using Nim as a "better C", effectively. It works rather brilliantly.
Police carry weapons (truncheons, pepper spray, sometimes tasers), just not firearms by default.
> NoSQL doesn't replace SQL databases, it's looking to optimise a use case where transactions are not required.

I'd be curious to know in what contexts anyone would not want transactions.

I readily see the case for memcached or equivalent when it comes to caching -- it is very valid, and indeed useful, when slightly outdated data is perfectly acceptable. I can even picture how you might be using MongoDB to do the same, even if you admittedly have me wondering how you're invalidating the mess.

For a persistent data store, however, I'm honestly at a loss. In my own experience, transactions are needed as soon as there's a remote possibility that a concurrent write may occur. Even embedded systems need them, when you're threading statements concurrently for performance reasons, or when you're subsequently merging local data with another node. (See CoreData/iCloud bugs for what occurs when you ignore ACID in the latter case.)
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I am on an iSeries, the little brother to the z. We have a pair of zSeries as well. COBOL and RPG (its fully free form by the way, looks like any other language) are both very much rooted in business logic, in particular math. Their number handling is well known and without inconsistencies of many newer languages. That and the code base is well established and works. Throw in that memory leaks are nearly non existent, code is independent of changes to the microprocessors and your investment always comes forward.

Seriously, we have code whose originals can be traced to systems long dead. Yet code is not stagnate, full SQL integration exists for most language, there are many ways to get to the web. That and you would be surprised at the number of companies who use these machines simply for one reason above all, reliability. Our last crash was a site failure and even then we rolled to the DR site instantly.
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I believe that their cover was blown early and not enough data is available to analyze their intents.

Now, it could simply be click fraud or it could have been the initial steps for a longer running disinformation program, but it is difficult to tell with the limited data available.
It's hard to take that article seriously when it's surrounded by anti-vaccine stuff[1] and various conspiracy theories[2][3][4].

I tried reading the actual content, but the unnecessary verbiage and hostility forced me to skim it. The counterarguments I did read are mostly FUD. For example: How can we know that people in prehistoric tribes were likely to die from violence? Well, there's an entire field of forensic anthropology that's up to the task. Pinker's just citing the experts.

The claim that Pinker misconstrued numbers particularly annoyed me. If we want to compare violence across societies, we need to compare homicide rates, not the absolute numbers. Pinker rightly acknowledges this, but the authors of this article claim only absolute numbers matter.

And throughout the piece, the authors try to push their own agenda. Something about modern society corrupting humankind. It quickly grows tiresome to read.

I'm sure there's a decent critique of Pinker's book somewhere, but your link isn't it.

1. http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-is-australias-vaccine-mafia...

2. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-walls-are-crumbling-down-ar...

3. http://www.globalresearch.ca/just-as-isil-gets-exposed-as-a-...

4. http://www.globalresearch.ca/paris-killings-terrorism-or-fal...
I wouldn't chose a language based solely on that, but when faced with a few equally good choice, then I will absolutely go with the one that has a, to me, better development environment.
> It's a fork of node.js with ES6 support. The goal is a faster release cycle and an updated V8 engine, plus an "open governance model" as opposed to Joyent's domination of node.js prime.

For the record, I believe that's what should be written as the first answer on the FAQ (and maybe on the site's index.hml). The current one is atrocious.
Thanks for sharing this. Good information.
Thanks, I didn't know that existed. Nice!
Depends on the problem. If my problem is that I want to sell stuff on a website, or have a blog that lets me promote my organisation, etc, then a framework is a great solution even in the long run.
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"my chances to die in a war are vanishingly small"

Worth noting that a lot of us who were around before '89 didn't think this way back then.
Are you saying you're using a single MongoDB collection as a dumping ground for all your entities? I hope you're not building a real product that someone has to maintain.