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> I believe engineers over-rate the cost/feature-consciousness of consumers and under-rate brand consciousness.

I agree. They also tend to discount the value of an ecosystem around various high profile electronics goods. Apple and gopro are both amazing examples of that, there are hundreds of accessories for every iPhone and every gopro camera. Then there's the value of a known workflow, of positive word of mouth and, finally, a feeling of community. People would much rather ask a friend who owns a product about some issue than hit the Internet to find a solution.

GoPro and Apple both also tend to bring killer features to market first. Be it TouchID or 4K 30fps for $600.
Half our team has kids, and most of our team comes from a variety of countries half way around the world.

99% of candidates don't even get into the salary discussion phase. It's hard to hire because candidates think they know more than they really do. Some have 5 years experiences, many have 1 year experience five times.
Other commenters disagree with your dad and your second statement.
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> most part due to a bubble

Not really, Bitcoin's where front loaded. It would have been easy to have the same fixed number of bitcoins, but set things so only 70% of possible bitcoins where released in the first 100 years.
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"Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay is thought to be seeking a guaranteed subsidised price of about £168 for every megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity it generates over a 35-year period – almost four times the current market price of power." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11426...
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It feels like a reinvention of Pascal's wager to guarantee we don't sign up:

a) if I'm worried then I want to sign up but not hand over my details

b) if I'm not worried then I don't mind handing over my details but uninterested in signing up
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This. So very much this.

When you buy an Apple, you're in for a treat. Everything from unpacking to when you eventually need service is awesome. For instance, just today they spent 5 minutes cleaning lint out of my iPhone's charging socket. I was extremely delighted because I had assumed the phone has fallen down so much the socket got detached from the motherboard and wasn't charging well.

Compare that to when I bought a Samsung Galaxy thing for my mum. It was just 100 euro cheaper than an equivalent iPad, but as soon as you opened it, you felt like you overpaid. Nothing specific you could mention, but it just felt like somebody hired the cheapest possible intern to decide how packaging should work.

When I pay 600 euro for a piece of tech, I don't want to feel like I've been duped and would be better off buying a suspicious tablet from a street vendor.

And when that thing needed repairs ... well, you took it in, and they were like "Meh, this is user error. Go figure it out"

sigh
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I guess there are a lot of STEM people that have never taken a course in first/second order predicate calculus, which is usually lumped in under philosophy. The field of computer science builds on and is rather indebted to philosophers such as Wittgenstein and Godel; their finds provide the theoretical background for all modern theoretical CS.

While what they teach at the university today for a philosophy degree may let you focus on things that look imprecise, I find your statement is rather ironic. The difference between someone, especially coming out of school, who is well versed as a logician (hint they may have a math degree, but it's still philosophy) versus some one who has been exposed only to computer science, often parallels what I have seen interviewing people with a physics background versus an engineering background: almost all of the time the engineer might be able to give you enough to solve many of the problems, and have a little background, but the physicist will typically have a far stronger "toolkit" to analyze the problem, especially when the problem is novel. So goes it with a CS grad versus a math grad, typically around here, though YMMV.
MaidSafe is building the solution as we speak

Doing an admittedly very brief search, it seems there's a lot of scepticism about MaidSafe, ranging from it's "objectively a scam," through to a highly questionable IPO, and doubt over the core technology itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081247

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641149

http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/24zext/what_does_rcr...

Clarifying on my original point about not relying on blockchain technology, I think imagining a purely offline system would get closer to the question in my head.

How much can be done without relying on a network / database / blockchain etc?
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I'm not sure if I would call this a photograph
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I didn't realize until just now that she was John Conner's foster-mom in Terminator 2.

John? Where are you, honey? It's late. You should come home, dear. I'm making a casserole.
>> shifts risk from sellers to buyers (e.g. compare refund possibilities with credit cards).

Dollar couples financial services with money transmission. Bitcoin allows to decouple those. Refunds can be covered by escrow services (with small help of 3-of-2 multisig) which can be provided by multiple parties, not only by your CC/bank. Please provide a single example of service that can be provided by CCs but can not be provided by companies that operate on Bitcoin network.

>> There are various hacks that are being proposed to increase the number of transactions per second, and reduce confirmation time.

Confirmation time is irrelevant, what you really care about in POS situation is TX delivery time - and it's covered by BIP70. BitPay serves BIP70 since Feb 2014.

TPS scales to Visa levels and beyond and there is nothing "hacky" about that. Increased block size are countered by IBLTs.

Want to talk about hacks of all kind? Talk about today's banks tech. Hundreds of millions of dollars being stolen by hackers, hundreds of billions of dollars of drug money being laundered by HSBC and friends, tech out of sixties, broken security model of CC, huge amount of regulation that attempts to fix all this mess. Costs costs costs. This is unfixable mess.

Disclosure - I own small(!) amount of Bitcoin.
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This is super tricky. One project I worked on looked at pedestrian deaths at a regional scale. We were lucky that the regional government had daytime population estimates for the CBD. Otherwise downtowns tend to look like pedestrian killing fields. Even with those daytime estimates, you're stuck treating those areas as "special," and thus limiting yourself in terms of the kinds of comparisons you can defensibly make.

You don't always need to supply a rate to get a useful visualization either. In the case of pedestrian fatalities, you might still want to invest heavily in safety improvements where absolute numbers of fatalities are high, but rates are low.

On the visualization side, I've found that maps are not always the best strategy for spatial data.
OK, but who pays for 4K 30fps at $600 other than pros?
No, you're wrong. This is not a theoretical issue there, but a practical one.

Almost all mathematics (and this certainly includes Wile's proof) could be written in Coq, in theory. It is extremely hard to do in practice.

Mathematicians write proof for their peers who have a smart brain. Most of the trivial and less than trivial details are omitted. Coq cannot not accept this (because he is very stupid and can't figure the missing steps). It turns out that it is particularly hard and boring to fill the missing holes in a "human" proof.

Gödel comes in when you try to prove Coq's correctness within Coq (but this was partially done, in a sense)
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Great Project!! The user experience on the page is quite nice--a bit like Trello crossed with GitHub; turning traditionally static wiki content into interactive content.

On a related note, I'm curious to hear what others think about the trend of sending data over-the-wire and rendering HTML on the client. I just started working with Meteor, coming from a traditional web development background, and I see major benefits regarding multi-device rendering and real-time updates. However, I'm still on the fence regarding this paradigm and continue building new projects with traditional server-side rendering and DOM manipulation.

Playing with federated wiki is very convincing that data over-the-wire is the future.
Part-time possible for remote positions? (e.g. with hourly pay)
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> Do we tell cancer or AIDS patients their only hope is to change their outlook on life? No. We know the physiological cause and treat it.

Well, this is the worst possible interpretation of my point, or whatever they call that in debate circles. I never said all physical ailments have a psychological basis, obviously a virus doesn't, just some of them very well could.

I think it's crazy as well as ignores a lot of evidence out there to rule out all physical ailments from having a psychological basis. A scenario often cited towards this is the plunge in life expectancy across the board following the collapse of communism in ex-communist states, due to tremendous amounts of stress from a forced change in your way of life. Clearly psychological dimensions can affect your physical health and balance of systems in your body.

I agree that such a diagnosis should only be a last resort, but I disagree that it should never be considered a valid diagnosis.
would just like to point out that bitcoin is fairing much worse than the currencies of Russia, Iceland, Greece, or Argentina, so not necessarily a great primary currency
I'm curious in particular as to how they plan to deal with the UX side of things. I'd go so far as to say that such issues could make or break the entire concept.

There's been no small amount of problems with Windows' inability to adapt to the new wave of high-dpi displays. My partner got a Yoga 2 Pro with the 3200*1800 screen and for example the youtube player controls are almost impossible to interact with in some view modes (even with a mouse pointer). I can see this being similar, in that if the app determines at runtime how to display its controls then there seems to me like there will be issues, for example with reflowing text or image positions to accommodate button size changes.

I mean, the alternative is to have Mattel's My First Computer and have all UX elements touch-size by default but then why even have a high-resolution screen with more precise KBM inputs? I know that I don't really want huge icons on a 4K monitor because i want significant screen real estate.

I think that it's going to be interesting to see how they strike this balance.
It'd be more effective for everyone to vote for people that intend to break down and illegalize all of these facial recognition things, if we're all going to organise something anyway.
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Umm... I thought one of the biggest shockers to expats living in Japan was the huge reliance on cash, even for big purchases. The chart here says otherwise.
There's a second blog post published at basically the same time by the CEO of Restlet with more info about the connection between Groovy and their API platform and language development: http://restlet.com/blog/2015/03/02/head-of-groovy-project-jo...
That would be true if it were a freely oscillating system, but since the tide is 'powered' by the moon I'd think the tidal cycle should keep going until the moon stops orbiting. (though I'm not 100% sure I understand how tides work)
I'd assume that 35 years of inflation needs to be factored in as well, at 2% that would half subsidy by that point. Also, there is an inherent cost to green power, if it was cheap power companies would flock to build them of their own accord, but of course they dont, so the government has to subside them.
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Sure but any STEM major is going to be interacting with computers to a significant degree. It helps significantly to understand them. Maybe not to the same level as a developer on HN, but at least to know how software works and the fundamentals of programming/controlling the machine.
I've posted this because I really like the elegant way in which he expanded the 6502 instruction set. Something similar could be done with just about any other processor.
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>Please provide a single example of service that can be provided by CCs but can not be provided by companies that operate on Bitcoin network.

more or less instant transactions? Like the guy said, transactions take forever with BTC
would just like to point out that this isn't true.

It had a huge spike of worth that was total bubble and it has deflated from it. It is still up dramatically from when I started buying them at $5 each.
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I work for a very large company that is supposedly "leading the charge" in the IPv6 space.

Three years ago all groups were supposed to have converted completely to IPv6 by the end of the year. Never happened.

Back then the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses was "any day now". I guess someone must have found a closet with a bunch more of them somewhere.

I think for us operations types IPv6 is still too complicated. I mean when someone says "hey, what's the IP of that web server?", saying "192.168.13.129" is easy. You can even memorize an address like that. "fe80::2bdd:d4c5:f093:300a", not so much.

Besides the IPv4 address exhaustion problem I don't think anyone has made a compelling argument for IPv6 yet. At least not on the ground.
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And a counterpoint:

http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2015/03/uncle-warren-...

Accept no one's argument at face value, especially when it's coming from a man who has spent the last 50 years exploiting market inefficiencies.
"Minimum 4-Year Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent from a "top ten" institution."

Coming off a bit elitist on your career page.
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Excellent contextualization of the issue: there's a lot of factors that go into.

And Gill's my favourite BECAUSE of his antics! What a weird guy, and so supremely capable of creating beauty.
This is a major part of the plot in the movie Kuffs. It was the first time I realized that such a thing still existed in modern times.
What would happen if they raised the plate a few inches from the bottom? With this experiment they're only looking at a cross-section of the wave.
But that would still leave you with a risk that the card is closed or that the payment will get rejected, right?
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The cc65 project also has a very excellent 6502 assembler, ca65, which I find quite nice when writing assembly by hand. Together with ld65 it implements a full unix-style module/library-archive stack for 6502 object code. The assembler's macro system is quite well developed, as well, to the point that I prefer using it over cpp.
> AWS was cheaper in most cases not because of bare metal vs AWS, but because of the sheer efficiency of scale, and not having to hire staff and expertise to manage all of the infrastructure.

Once you get to a certain scale, you're hiring admins either way. The only question is whether you're hiring AWS admins or you're hiring bare metal sys|network|linux admins.
It will be hard to find any investment options with better risk/return characteristics than paying down your mortgage. It's also quite tax efficient by construction compared to putting the money in an investment where you have to pay tax on interest/gains (though some countries allow for interest rate deduction from tax anyway). An added benefit is that it makes you more resilient to temporary loss of income etc.
If something has negative externalities, the solution is to tax the externality. E.g. a carbon tax will raise the price of fossil-fuel energy, which will make some green energy projects worth building. That's it -- job done.

Subsidising "good" projects is instead of taxing bad projects is the wrong way to do it, because the government has to evaluate every project proposal to figure out which projects should be subsidised. Whereas a carbon tax does it for you; all the government needs to figure out is the cost of carbon, and the market takes care of the rest.
This is something that interests me very much.

My vision is an "active" notebook--something I can record ideas or hypotheses in, come back later and find them explored, implemented, fleshed out and connected to the rest of the world's knowledge.

Blog comments don't cut it. They can you help make simple discoveries or connect you to others. But, they're better than nothing.

Right now a software project with issue tracker is probably the closest thing, but this is like manual labor. I might have 5 ideas in the morning (or just from reading an article like this one). I look forward to the active lazyweb of the future.
So is this protected from the "Ken Thompson Hack"? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack

I guess it would have to be cross compiled for your system otherwise your existing compiler could corrupt it...
Huh? Medical professionals, lawyers, accountants, actuaries, etc. are all license-based professions. There is a very good reason for this, because a big part of the job is about adhering to important laws, regulations, ethics, etc. A big reason for the non-reciprocity (US-trained doctors cannot practice in many other countries, for example) is that these laws and regulations are not universal. There are some reciprocity arrangements in place, but given how bureaucratic the licensing system is, it is just hard.

You don't have any justification for making programming a license-based profession. You wouldn't want that even if you are an American citizen. It makes things significantly harder and more arbitrary when you have licensing requirements (just look at how hard each of USMLE, CPA, bar, CFA, etc. are, even for US citizens). Engineers, for example, can be licensed, but apart from public contracts in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering, few employers care if you are a 'P.E.'
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