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I would walk away. Actually, consider yourself lucky that they've shown their true face so early on and you can get out now :-)

When considering hiring a lawyer etc., also take a look at opportunity cost: Even in the best case scenario, will you get more money out of it then if you freelance for a similar amount of time? Probably not...

(Also, learning from the Winklevoss twins, it seems preferable to sue a company when it is actually successful, because they got way more to loose at that point then now. Although I strongly doubt that they'll be successful...)
So what is not covered is how this cost of bitcoin compares to the cost of the present central-bank full-fiat system. Take into account the London whale, the libor scandal, forex fixing, comex cartels, all the fees and charges that are skimmed at every stage and flow into the ridiculous levels of Wall Street/The City profits. Take all the criminal actions and the fact that it seems the financial law enforcers are incapable now of bringing financial criminals to justice. How does the bitcoin cost compare to those costs? I don't know, but if I was a gambling man I'd bet that bitcoin is orders of magnitude less expensive. Does anyone have any figures to compare these?
Yeah, the crystal people.
Designing a CPU in VHDL, Part 3: Instruction Set Architecture, Decoder, RAM
Not really, most of it is just hacked together with perl: https://xkcd.com/224/
Sure, since it's happening on this side of the pond, too. "The provinces" have their own messes, like Toronto and Vancouver and Montreal (to some extent).

Same in "the colonies," like: San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Austin, the Bronx and Brooklyn (ways you know the real estate market has gone bonkers: people are buying in Manhattan because it's cheaper than Brooklyn).

Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland are getting the exact same double-whammy as London: very popular places to live along with very popular places for foreign investment.

Schadenfreude doesn't help anybody, really.
If you could figure out a way for a viewer to live "fork" the code they're watching, make their own changes, then send a merge request, you might have something very interesting on your hands.
How can an investor price somebody out? The investor only makes money if people are willing to pay rent for his property. So it is the willingness of people to pay the high rent that drives the prices up.

Edit: HN doesn't let me write more comments. I still don't understand from those videos how they make money with the vacant houses. Also the articles are a bit weird, as if renting out a few houses in an expensive street would really have a significant impact on the housing issues of London.
It isn't XHTML. Closing <p> tags are optional (which is true for many tags). You don't even need opening HTML, HEAD or BODY tags.
I find this interesting, but I also would like to see more complex use cases.
For example using using some kind of select union on several images to output a synthetic image highlighting differences or similarities?
Two points, which are not by any means the whole story but simply things to consider:

- Hard drive space is increasing faster than the blockchain size

- New protocols like sidechains and the lightning network could help offload much of the transaction load, making certain bitcoin transactions essentially an settlement representing many thousands, thereby dramatically reducing overall data size.
If the bubble burst now, Uber will be the poster child of what's wrong with start ups.

I would probably be happy if they were to fail, for their past actions toward their competitor and their CEO's comments on the drivers were disgusting.

With the back lash with California's ruling and France, I think the laws are catching up to the new tech service and it doesn't look good currently for Uber. While people may argue that it's just California, California has a big population and a big market.

But a silver lining would be Telsa look like it were doom until Model S and they survived. I personally thought they were going to make it.
Well, for Bob's bank to owe $50 more to Bob they need to be compensated so Alice's bank now owes $50 to Bob's bank. In other words, Bob's bank must trust Alice's shitty bank.

Unlike the dollar, Bitcoin is not the transfer of debt.
The blockchain can be truncated to move old transactions off. There's also no need to work with the entire thing unless you're mining.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2798/are-there-an...
But probably though.
While laws can be seen as more complex than some simple - straightforward, deterministic - logic of a program, modern programming evolve fast to include more complex models.

Advancements of machine learning, applications of Bayesian networks can produce programs with outputs similar to applications of laws. Laws themselves - by their nature - have to have an abstract element in them and a degree of generality, which makes them similar to computer code. It is those other features of laws which represent difficulties - from a programmer standpoint - which are left to be modeled with enough accuracy to be useful.
How can the author write this entire article without mentioning the real numbers that matter? The mining reward is currently 3600 bitcoins per day in block rewards, plus about 20 bitcoins in transaction fees. That means if miners are rational they will collectively buy about 3620 bitcoins worth of electricity per day.

3620 bitcoins buy a lot of electricity for sure. But it won't always be like this! The block reward halves next year, and transaction volumes will probably increase. Then rational miners will spend perhaps around 1830 bitcoins on electricity per day, while processing more transactions. Wow, we've more than doubled the efficiency in a year!

Furthermore, the block reward keeps halving every couple of years until it goes all the way to 0! At that point, the only thing funding the miners will be transaction fees, so the full costs of running the network will be borne by the users, and market forces will decide the appropriate level of resources to spend on running the Bitcoin network. It could be higher or lower than 215 MW, depending on how useful Bitcoin becomes to users.
The F-35 is one of the planes Denmark is considering to replace it's F-16s. It's most likely going to be selected because of politics, regardless of it being expensive and not at all what we need.

Three Danish defence experts pointed out that while the F-35 is the most advance plane "available", it doesn't matter. While dogfighting is out date, high tech is equally useless. Neither Denmark nor the US have been in a conflict since WWII, where the advanced features of the F-35 would have made any difference.

Unless you decide to go to war with Russia or maybe China, the F-35 is so far beyond what you would reasonable require that the cost is completely unjustified.

Sadly for Denmark we pissed of SAAB and they will no long bid to deliver plane to the Danish Royal Air Force, despite them having having a suitable plane.
Thanks for the insight. I will look at how the two mentioned apps above address the problem.
My own impression taking Uber is that same trips would have cost me more than twice if I were to take a regular cab. The reported $470M operating loss on $410 revenue seems to be somewhat in same ballpark. I don't believe current pricing is sustainable. I don't see any cost advantage for Uber other than paying drivers less than the drivers-owners of regular cab service.

IMO, Uber may be hoping that once regular cab services are put out of business, Uber can raise the prices. The sustainable long term value prop seems to be ability to call up a cab using mobile app on your phone (request and dispatch portion of regular cab business). Everything else appears to contribute to loss.

I also don't believe time has come for self-driving cars or will be in next 5 years at least. If another technology bust happens before self-driving cars become popular, these projects will go on the shelf if not cancelled (like the pet projects of founders and executives in 2000 dot bomb).
Yes, that's one of main argument raised against increasing transactions per block - it would increase block size and ledger growth rate.
More on aerospace cost escalation: http://generalatomic.com/jetmakers/chapter11.html
It's the exception in that it worked and was amazing.
What many people don't get is this is global asset inflation due to the enormous amounts of money created by central banks worldwide. The term "currency war" has been used to describe it and like any war the poor and working classes bear the burden.

My solution is to protect my family as much as possible while trying to generate enough wealth entrepreneurialy to have a seat at the table.
There are no free rides here in India (at least Mumbai). You get a promo of up to Rs 600 (USD 10) to start with. And that's it. I very much doubt the claims about drivers earning Rs 100,000+. I am going to ask my Uber drivers to and from work about how much they make.
How about a plugin to your IDE where you can share certain folders live to your audience so they can jump around the source code while you stream. Or a way for the streamer to paste syntax highlighted snippets live to their audience.
Unfortunately, this means your entire post is a Strawman Fallacy.

Fallacies apply to arguments. The parent poster made none.
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The contracts I have seen pretty much all say 'work for hire' and assign the IP to the client who is paying. Actually sometimes they try to go further and say they own everything you do while contracted with them.

Most of my jobs have essentially been startups where I was the tech co-founder, except not recognized as such, rather hired as a cheap code monkey. Those gigs are just much easier to get. Sucky and mostly a waste of time, but pays for food and rent.

Anyway I don't think anyone will share ownership of IP unless they are clueless or looking for a co-founder.
Do we really need manned fighter planes at all? For a trillion dollars, you can overwhelm enemy air defenses with cheap, primitive drones in a saturation attack.

A tomahawk missile costs about $575k per unit, that lets you buy about 2 million tomahawks for $1 trillion. If you built a drone version that could loiter over an enemy airspace and then attack, sort of a tomahawk version of the Predator, you could buy a hundred thousand of them even if they were 10 million a piece.

You could also built UCAV fighters that could out-turn and fly most fighters by avoiding the need for the cockpit overhead and restrictions in g-force. Missiles make 40g turns, and drone airfames have been build to sustain 12-15g turning.

Are we spending a trillion dollars because the AirForce has a romantic notion of a human dogfighter in the seat when a guy with a joystick could do the job? Top Gun is a lot less interesting if robots or teleoperation is in play, but do we really that kind of engagement?
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I think looking at Rosetta Code you shouldn't make conclusions about selling points :) . Rather you can use RC as a repository of J programs, which happen to have many examples - comparing to repositories for other languages on the same RC.

If you're familiar with RC, you know that it encouraged participation with unusual languages, as it's generally hard to find lots of examples of code for them. RC is a code chrestomathy site, but for Java and likes it's easy to find many good examples elsewhere. So rare languages comparatively shine on RC.
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Every time I hear "dogfighting is obsolete" or "the F-35 will kill its opponents at range with missiles", I wonder. What happens when two stealthed 5th Gen fighters with good ECM try to kill each other with missiles?
Surprise no one has asked yet but which incubator is advocating removal of a founder and is okay with the other guys doing this?

Also age or whatever is not an excuse.
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I want to know what is the exact algorithm used to sort the users in the "TRENDING SECTION".
Today I noticed that, my repo https://github.com/harshasrinivas/cli-github is being listed below some other repos eventhough the number of stars earned today is high. Does the number of hits really matter? If so, in what way?
Human2machine, translate human language to Meteor Kitchen input .json file
Increasing the block size doesn't increase the transactions per block. Usage does.
I think you're totally right, but as the op was discussing taking the idea and pursuing it on his or her own, it would be a debacle to do that with a legal overhang. God forbid it takes off but he or she turns out not to own it...
Snow Crash has elements of that idea. At least in the fragments about Sumerian history and their powerful language.
> you could fund 1000 startup companies a million dollars each

A billion dollars, you mean.
Actually, when it came to integration tests KIF wasn't so bad. In fact I'd argue KIF was way better than UI Automation in instruments.

Hell, KIF even forced you to make sure you had accessibility strings on stuff like icons and shapes.
Looks like this continues on the same path.

Regarding "There is currently no way of waiting for elements to appear or disappear."

I haven't tried this, but maybe you could just wait with a condition? https://gist.github.com/seivan/0becfffbb1d7665cebfe

Or use the XCTestExpectation stuff that came with iOS 8.
https://gist.github.com/seivan/d2dee9fcff0177cb3b93
The original Bitcoin white paper very "plainly" describes how it solves this. It is Bitcoin's fundamental invention. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/
Encryption is a great way to protect against eavesdropping from bad guys. But when it stops the devices’ actual owners from listening in to make sure the device isn’t tattling on them, the effect is anti-consumer.

That reminds me of a comment from when smart TVs were discovered to be sending filenames and other info, since it was sent in plaintext: "If they had used HTTPS, this might not have been discovered."

The most important thing to realise is that security can work for you, and it can also work against you. It's not only a "right to eavesdrop", but users will need to maintain control over their devices if they want the former. This is somewhat related to the War on General Purpose Computing, and what I think is the biggest dilemma is that users need to have a certain level of knowledge in order to understand what their devices are doing and control them; but many don't want to; they only see the advantages and don't care about how something works, whether it "phones home" or what kind of data it's sending, as long as it makes something in their lives easier.

News stories about how smart TVs phone home have circulated, and yet AFAIK people are still buying them in great quantities. They just don't care. They are outraged and shocked when the news appears, but shortly afterwards they carry on as if nothing happened. That, I think, is the scariest part.
Regular (black and yellow) taxis and rickshaws exist in Mumbai and very few other Indian cities including Delhi. However only in Mumbai do they ply according to a meter. The rest of the cities, they just charge whatever they feel like. Also most cab drivers will refuse to take passengers depending on destination on a regular basis. Maybe 50% of the time. Other radio cab services like Meru (the oldest radio cab service), need at least a half hour for booking. You also need to provide your destination. Also paying cash is a real pain, because most cab drivers will just claim to not have change and try to pocket it.

Uber is a breath of fresh air here. It doesn't force a destination, you can instantly know whether cars are available or not, generally arrives in 10 minutes or so, and there is no cash payment needed.

Where price is concerned, they've now managed to figure out the right pricing, so that an Uber ride costs only marginally more than a regular cab ride. e.g. Home to work takes around Rs 200 for a regular cab. Uber costs anywhere from Rs 220 (Uber X), to 350 (Uber Black).
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It would be possible to have something like `Enum.map |> Enum.into`. You could also do `Stream.map |> Enum.into` if you don't want to traverse it multiple times (similar to Clojure's `into`). In fact:

iex> Stream.unfold("hello", &String.next_codepoint/1) |> Enum.to_list
["h", "e", "l", "l", "o"]

The reasons we don't have first class support for this though are:

1. There are multiple ways you could traverse a string. By bytes, by codepoints or by graphemes. I don't think we should pick any of those as default. Ruby did that and to this day it is source of confusion (aggravated by the behavior change from 1.8 to 1.9)

2. Modifying strings like this would be horribly inefficient. Using split/join wouldn't be recommended also as you are generating a bunch of intermediate garbage to go from string -> string. The recommended way is to rely on pattern matching and Elixir's bit syntax as the compiler will be able to optimize most cases well.
"Craigslist has pledged to donate $1 million of that to the Electronic Frontier Foundation over 10 years." is very different from what the title implies.
narrable is a cool product in the space
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4. Quit the company. Find better co-founders.

As a technical co-founder, you're the one in high demand. Why stay at a company that undervalues you? The opportunity cost is very high. Find better people working on something interesting.

I wouldn't continue working on this. Sunk cost fallacy. Recoup the cost instead. Ask them to pay you for the work you've put in so far before you give them the code. Then I'd move on to bigger and better things. Focus your energies on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems.
If it was a dozen aircraft, which is where the Russian 5th Gen fighter program is presently, then that might be it. But the US military is ordering over two thousand of them. That's a little much for keeping the skill and knowledge base around.
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They sold Atlas to Facebook, no?
Hi, good and simple design. Liked it. But when I open the webpage, it is stopped at 25:00. But if I click to another link like "Short Break", it suddenly starts. And when I click Reset, it resets but starts again. I couldn't find how to stop it at 5:00 :)
SQL is awesome, but it doesn't mean you have to keep the CAPITAL LETTERS.
Curve25519 implementation was taken from the internet. The problem I see with all the Java implementations of it, they're not reviewed by professional cryptographers. This is one the reasons why Scorex isn't production-ready.

RIPEMD implementation was taken from the internet too.
Amazon launches Prime Now in London - 1 hour delivery
I really liked the design, and since it is done only in front end right now, I also liked the idea.

It may not be suitable or the perfect solution for hackers like in this website, but we should remember that incredible number of people are using "password1" and "123456" and alikes. This website can really help to those who are not very well at using computers. Oh, but they will probably write these password onto a post-it and stick it on their monitor, but an effort is an effort :).
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A pragmatist would say that you are right. However ethics teaches us that you are wrong.

Remotely destroying things is not going to help us as a race. Keeping the human in the danger zone helps prevent violence, everybody has something to lose.
You can also check out conference videos:

* Elixirconf EU 2015: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWbHc_FXPo2jBXpr1IjyU... (at least Michael's and Claudio's talks)

* Elixirconf 2014: http://confreaks.tv/events/elixirconf2014 (at least Martin's and Stephen's)
HN doesn't appreciate when you use words they don't recognise. It makes them feel stupid and that is a Bad Thing™.
The implementation of FATCA alone is estimated to cost 100 billion USD. And that's just one regulation of many.
> Cost of recruiting drivers is relatively high - probably around $50-$100 per driver.

Hrm. Instead of working from first principles, we can poke at some data. Zen99 calculates that Uber seems to be spending some $1M/year on Craigslist ads for SF drivers alone [1], and as of the end of last year, they had about 16,000 drivers in SF [2]. Assuming generously that they recruited them all that year, that's about $62 on Craiglist advertising per driver, much higher than your $5-10 estimate.

There are also incentives like an unconditional $500 on your first ride [3]. In NYC, Uber also offers new drivers a free defensive driving class and doctor's examination at their offices [4], because they need those to get on the road. You will not find doctors to do exams for $2-5.

I would guess total driver acquisition cost, including first-trip incentives, is much more likely to be in the $1000-2000 range, at minimum. And we still haven't gotten to long-term subsidies like uberPOOL, which is what I'm really curious about. Even a $10K driver acquisition cost could maybe be sustainable if each driver lasts over a year on average, since it's a one-time cost. But it needs to pay better than taxi wages + cost of car maintenance for the driver, and at least break even for Uber, in the steady state.

[1] https://tryzen99.com/blog_posts/on-demand-is-in-demand

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/22/n...

[3] http://www.driveubernyc.com/try

[4] http://www.driveubernyc.com/defensive
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Well, it wasn't originally equipped with guns, which was a severe limitation that was exploited to great effect by the enemy.
The jokes above that say that this was done by our simulators to save on computation are amusing but wrong. Quantum computation is famously harder than classical computation.
There is currently a (ballpark) 7tps limit due to the current 1MB block size limit although this is currently under the subject of intense discussion/debate and will likely be solved in the coming months/years by a combination of increases to the block size (imminent), and the deployments of technologies like side chains and lightning network (both under development).
I'd guess you got downvoted for a number of reasons. People do dislike the program. The F-35 has been hyped and sold as a good dogfighting aircraft. That dogfights are now obsolete and replaced by missiles is the exact claim made before Vietnam, and is going to push some buttons. Also, there's no real-world evidence that its true. And as earlier comments indicate, if close-combat agility is completely unnecessary, then the whole F-35 program has proceeded from really flawed presumptions and needs to be re-thought.
Hey fellow European. I am not a plane specialist by any means, but I have a question about that F-35 potential purchase. Denmark is part of the European Union, so wouldn't it make sense for Denmark to purchase a European fighter jet like the Eurofighter or maybe a Rafale? Then again, maybe those jets are not very good, dated or too expensive, I'm just genuinely wondering why Denmark would not put its money where its interests lie.
F-18 = 65.3 million

F-35 = 148 - 251 million depending on model

It actually looks reasonably decent value when you look at it is this way.
1. For now make sure nobody but you has access to the code

2. Lawyer up

3. Please let us know how this turns out.

Remember, Greed kills. A former partner of mine never got enough. In the end, he ended up with nothing.
ps -- replying to self, but hopefully you'll see it -- if you decide to do anything in this space, I'd be interested in talking to you...