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> I've read the early mailing list archives for Bitcoin to see if I could understand Satoshi's intent in creating Bitcoin.

The answer could be here:

Thus, bit gold will not be fungible based on a simple function of, for example, the length of the string. Instead, to create fungible units dealers will have to combine different-valued pieces of bit gold into larger units of approximately equal value. This is analogous to what many commodity dealers do today to make commodity markets possible. Trust is still distributed because the estimated values of such bundles can be independently verified by many other parties in a largely or entirely automated fashion.

In summary, all money mankind has ever used has been insecure in one way or another. This insecurity has been manifested in a wide variety of ways, from counterfeiting to theft, but the most pernicious of which has probably been inflation. Bit gold may provide us with a money of unprecedented security from these dangers.
Lets Encrypt's certs are not [yet] trusted since you are required to install a root certificate, for many end users this is not an option.
Lyft tried this and called it "happy hour". The optics of this on the driver side were atrocious, driver morale went through, the floor, and quality of service as well.
This chart[0] is why. No IE, Safari or Firefox. It's basically only fully supported by Chrome and Opera. Chrome may have the biggest piece of the pie these days, but every other framework supports all of them, so why take the risk that 30-60%[1] of your users can't use your app?

[0]: https://www.polymer-project.org/0.5/resources/compatibility....
[1]: Depending on what numbers you use.
From where do you get the ridiculous claim that human rights and the rule of law are preconditions for economic prosperity? There are many unfree yet rich countries, i.e. Singapore.
I'd take a look at Haidt's actual paper, not just chalk it up to conservatives complaining. Among other things, Haidt is fairly liberal in his politics—this is an honest attempt to improve diversity in sociology (a pretty liberal-leaning goal, usually), not conservative complaining.
Direct election of senators was a huge mistake that has dramatically restructured the balance of power. There were originally four branches. The state governments were way more powerful.
really interesting read! i wonder how many of these startup weekend success stories end this way?
broken link :(
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> it makes more sense to barter something that's fungible, which is why most currencies in history have been some kind of commodity, like some form of metal, and scarce, like some form of precious metal.

Yes, gold is a great medium of exchange because of its properties.

> Only recently have we been able to create scarcity out of other materials like paper by putting unique identifier marks on them, so that only a small percentage of the paper supply can be money and only the government has (or tries to, anyway) the technology to mark paper with those identifiers (i.e. printing money)

But fiat currencies are not, mainly because they're controlled and printed at will by governments, which means they're simply not a safe store of value.

We use fiat currencies purely because governments force us to, and it's a massive detriment to our prosperity (because there would be no inflation or bubbles with sound money).
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Maybe they just thought it was an appropriate quote and wanted to source it properly?
Some of us are in too much of a hurry to be git cloning everything all the time.
If you want to send a patch to make it work with GitLab I'd happily accept it! :)
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"What if you were using a stack of Haitian gourde? Or a stack of Manx pound notes?"

I wouldn't come back with any of the stuff, because those things are not "money" in the United States. They are convertible to legal tender money at a bank, but they are not money, any more than a used car is money just because you can sell it for cash.

If you cannot use it to obtain the general necessities of daily life in an easy fashion, it is not "money", by any useful definition of that term.
Have you ever actually used one of these services? If you can't afford it, the best strategy is to wait. Having driven for both of them - I can say that among my clients have included: A person with felony manslaughter on his record who had to get to his work on time (getting fired is horrible you are a felon because getting a new job is a non-trivial exercise). An enlisted (very junior) military family of 6 (only 4 were in the car) who needed to get some late-night shopping done at a distant walmart. The father was on deployment and only had a high school degree. Because of the high cost of taxis and the inconvenience or slowness of public transit, these were NOT options for them. Not to mention the scores of homosexual clients who were vehemently opposed to taking taxis because of repeated taxi drivers who had harrased them (this doesn't happen as often in a Lyft/Uber because of the rating system).

So, you can rail against the surge pricing, or think of it this way: Because it's something that happens largely during luxury times (e.g. bar closing) that taxes those who are wealthy and have disposable income, subsidizing affordable, safe, and convenient travel for the less privileged during other times.
Yeah but that goes against their "press a button for a taxi" philosophy.
Just off the top of my head, I'm not sure that the blockchain itself could be seen as a resource. However, the mining pool that makes transactions happen (and expensive to cheat) could certainly be seen as a resource. In fact, one might be able to make an argument that the overall mining hashrate sets an upper bound on the value of BTC. It would be related to the cost of the CPU resources necessary to cheat.
Brooklyn Startup Uses Algae to Heal Wounds
Network congestion is one of those areas where the multiple parallel TCP connections used in the HTTP1 demo can improve performance for you.

It's just netting you a larger share of the limited network resources at the expense of others on the network.
True, but they expect to have that done within a month. If you really want http 2.0 before that, then use one of the other free CAs
Peter Doherty: Knowledge Wars, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I feel like it's something that happens a lot more than people are willing to admit. Idea guy just assumes he's the boss because he had the idea and runs away with the company and the developers that worked hard to make it happen just hope they are lucky enough to be selected to be on the company with little equity.
Take a Core Dump: What to do when your app crashes on Linux
Panoramical
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you can make pulls from coinable wallets provided you have enough money in there.
Xbox getting “Edge” browser
well

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkVbIsAWN2luXUhlA1bO1...

TLDR: YELP salespeople keep spamming you with phone calls, Louis was getting tired of it, but still polite (I would simply tell them to eat duck), so pointed out his friends business two blocks over pays $5K every month and seeing his books there was zero effect. What does Yelp salesperson do? She emails him PRIVATE INFORMATION OF COMPETING business :o.
Paper money is really only an incremental improvement on minted coinage, which isn't really so recent.
Presumably Rust wasn't stable enough for him to consider because that's the single language that seems to address his complaints.

Once you bar garbage collection, you're pretty much left with C, C++, and Rust (FORTRAN weenies can leave the room, thanks).
"The same order of magnitude" means a multiplicative constant of a number from [1,10). 1/3 is decreasing by an order of magnitude. That is the typical usage in the sciences. Anyway, it's splitting hairs over something even less worthy of splitting hairs over.
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That's a software patch. I meant changing the hardware to fix the bug at the source.
> She's a remote contractor who lives in a country where the banking industry imposes really unreasonable fees on international transfers.

And she most likely converts her bitcoins into whatever local currency she needs to pay for her goods.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10233676
> under a temporary import authorization from NHTSA

Sounds legal.
Well, despite what some TV preachers will claim, God's not a genie that grants magic wishes if you pray right. And He's not an animal that does tricks on command. So it's hard for me to say exactly how he will respond if you (or anyone else) start asking Him about the big questions of life.

That being said, the Bible does say that if a son asks for bread, his father would not give him stones. So if someone asks God to make it clear that He exists and cares, God could literally start talking out loud if He felt that was best. But that's not typically my experience. Personally, I've heard God speak through feelings of conscience, relevant scriptures, wise words from godly people, a change in my heart over the course of a prayer, or serendipitous circumstances.

I'll be honest, it takes a certain level of trust in God for any of it to make sense. If someone approaches God with a sneer, I wouldn't count on God responding. If your child or SO spitefully challenged you to prove yourself, what would you do? That being said, God has a habit of going above and beyond for me.
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Yeah, `/s/blockchain/mining pool` on my original statement. The mining hashrate also helps set the value of BTC in my model as well - it means that other valuable activities can piggyback on the hard-to-forge nature of the blockchain.
Don't just down-vote dammit, give me an argument if you care so much to click.

The people are being hoodwinked into buying these so-called "tablets" of smaller sizes, where as, none of these should be called tablets, rather, they are just a bigger size phones with no traditional calling features. Amazon or no Amazon, you would be wasting your time, energy and $$ if you buy a tablet with anything less than 1024x768 resolution. Just don't.
How many of those places do not instantly convert to USD?
Is there a way to conclusively prove that any time spent further considering an idea is a waste, and if so, should that idea be tossed out?

Failing that, if you can show that an idea is almost certainly wrong, is it appropriate to almost never condescend to discuss it?

It's important to have a good answer for this stuff. Time is an important resource. If we spend 1000 years answering questions that should have been solved in 50, we have failed at science.
As you say, the libsupc++ requires you to provide malloc and free, just like libcore.

> probably much of the safety

Only if you want to make life hard for yourself. The standard library is not at all special in its ability to create safe abstractions for `unsafe` code, and doing this makes things so much smoother: you don't have to scatter `unsafe` all over your code, and you let the compiler help you as much as possible. Also, I think there's a lot of nice stuff in `core` too; even string formatting works.

You can still implement equally safe version of them tuned for your environment or, more likely (as the ecosystem develops), use a crate that someone else has written that does it for you. Here's the start of an implementation of a version of `Box` that returns `Result` instead of crashing on allocation failure:

extern crate core;

use core::{mem, ops, ptr};

extern {
fn malloc(size: usize) -> *const ();
fn free(p: *const ());
}

pub struct MyBox<T> {
p: *const T,
}

impl<T> MyBox<T> {
fn new(x: T) -> Result<MyBox<T>, ()> {
unsafe {
let p = malloc(mem::size_of::<T>()) as *const T;
if p.is_null() {
Err(())
} else {
ptr::write(p as *mut T, x);
Ok(MyBox { p: p })
}
}
}
}

impl<T> Drop for MyBox<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe {
drop(ptr::read(self.p));
free(self.p as *const _);
}
}
}

// allow `*` to work
impl<T> ops::Deref for MyBox<T> {
type Target = T;
fn deref(&self) -> &T { unsafe { &*self.p } }
}

This is a safe interface, and is a simplified version of how the built-in box is defined in `std` (well, `alloc`). I've completed the rest of the core functionality `Box` offers, including a demonstration at the bottom: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=77f2b15bcc4273846140&versio...

The whole of Rust's standard library (including `Box`, all the containers, all of IO) is built via this process: wrap the raw `unsafe` functionality into safe interfaces that manage things like checking `malloc`'s return value, bounds checking buffer accesses.

> If you want a container that takes user-defined allocators, I'm not even sure what'd you do.

Do exactly what C++ does: have some interface (a trait, in Rust) that an allocator needs to satisfy and have the collections take a type parameter that implements that interface. We "already" know what this looks like in Rust (broadly speaking):

struct Box<T, A: Allocator = DefaultAllocator> {
p: *const T,
allocator: A,
}

The hardest part and sticking point for including this in `std`/`core` is working out a good interface, because it will live forever, needs to cover as much of the problem space as possible and have accommodation for some possible future expansions to the language/library. This isn't such a problem for a container library outside `std`, which is much more flexible because it can be versioned independently, at whatever pace is necessary.

An out-of-tree version aimed at a single use-case (e.g. embedded development) is likely even easier, since the problem space is smaller.
Is this an advantage over paypal where I am insured as a buyer?
I do think that the claim that surge pricing works to increase drivers in the area - while apparently borne through the data, might not have as solid a mechanistic grounding as the writers presume. I would encourage the authors of this paper to actually go out and drive and test the presumption of agency in the matter through experience. Drivers (in their social networks) always say "don't chase surge". It's usually good advice.
Code • Life
Is the e in San Jose, California really accented? (It shows up as San José for me.)
Swift also allows REPL for documentation.
As an aside, is this dynamical friction completely analogous to friction in gases? Do stars reach "thermal equilibrium" in their velocities, and can be somehow talk about things like entropy w.r.t to stars instead of gases? Found it fascinating for some reason...
I am always happy to see the Métis represented on an American site. Thanks my friend, most people don't know much about us. Seriously though, I am not sure that returning to a philosophy of segregation is the best path.

Perhaps focusing speakers that cover challenged and topics of interest is better then reducing intercultural exposure?
256 bytes. Insane. Most x86 instructions are 2-3 bytes already (up to 15 in x64!), how much can you even tell the OS in so few words... That's some seriously clever wizardry, congrats.
Long done. ;)
I hope someone will!
"Uhh ... heard of GPS? Wifi? Bluetooth?"

Yes, I'm aware of these technologies.

"Any of these could assist..."

Yes, someone _could_ build a system/process which would solve the problem. The thing is, no one has done that _yet_.

That's why Uber has introduced an 'English' service as a workaround. Sure, the wait time might be 5x the other services, but the driver has a better chance of finding you if you don't speak Chinese.

I stand by what I wrote earlier: a non-Chinese-speaking tourist hailing regular Ubers in China (UberX or People's Uber) has a ~50% chance of being picked up at the right place without excessive delay or confusion.
I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a criticism of bitcoin's utility or not, but if it is I think you missed the point. The point is she has more currency units now than before, because she didn't have to pay the bid bad bank, even if she had to use local fiat to buy bananas.
The main way is through the presence of active galactic nuclei (AGN). If the black hole accretes gas rapidly enough, it can become very luminous, sometimes brighter than all the stars of the galaxy combined. One thing astronomers have looked for has been two AGN in the center of a galaxy (known as dual AGN). I think the main way that they are detected is in the X-ray since the two AGN generally have different spectra, so it's possible to distinguish them. (I'm not an X-ray astronomer, though, so I may be way off base.) But these searches for dual AGN have found that they are very rare relative to single AGN.
Driven by paper money boom.
Anyone else think it's weird that regulators of X can decide what is defined as X?
How Pixar accidentally deleted Toy Story 2 off their servers and restored it
Might want to add a "(2014)" to the title.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10235706
Try a good flux framework like Nuclear or Redux.
This is the most important point. We apparently live in a country where regulators get to decide what falls under the umbrella of their regulation.
Peace comment blocker (which I figured was for Discus style comment systems used by news and blog sites) blocks HN comment contents.

Seems like it shouldn't block comments on sites that are 100% comments. Ghostery doesn't.
Don't think 'lock' think 'swipe over to make sure this isn't a pocket dial' screen.
The fact the Bitcoin is officially a commodity, is why we need ethics in Bitcoin regulation.
Nice visualizations.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10235377
and you can often architect it so that most things are static! HN can be fairly static, right?
Productivity is the creation of goods and services. Goods and services are the building blocks of wealth: one who has more goods and services is more wealthy. It is impossible to create more wealth without increased productivity.

Now, to your point, the fruits of productivity could be unfairly captured by non-producers, in which case wealth is being misappropriated from those who created it to those who have the power through whatever form to capture it (i.e., taxes, feudal land ownership, etc).
Everyone will win when producers find a better monetization strategy and we get rid of ads entirely. Consumers will pay for things of value. Just look at Netflix for but one example.
If a company is offering less than is legal, that probably correlates with their willingness to engage in other activities in regard to your employment which are contrary to your interest. Travelling to a foreign country to work for an organization of questionable ethics is a substantial risk.

My advice, for what it's worth, is to pass and keep looking for something better.

Good luck.
Hey! BR HUE here too!
I've made one similar but with election expenses!
http://tomaladaca.org/

Great Work man!
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10235072
Ask HN: I've applied at Toptal and failed the Codility tests
I've made the 3 tests pass but scored 0 at them, I don't have experience solving those types of algorithms as I've never had to deal with them before.

They said I can apply in one month or two again, what would you guys do? Any advice?

Really frustrating.
It's very similar, but not completely analogous to friction in gasses. But the long-term result is the same. An object moving through a gas will slow down until it comes to rest with respect to the gas. Similarly a massive object moving through a medium of stars will slow down until it comes to rest with respect to the stars.

There are many parallels between thermodynamics and orbital mechanics. In fact, a collection of stars can be thought of as a self-gravitating gas where the particles don't collide (they're so far apart relative to their size that collisions are very, very rare).

The analogous concept to thermal equilibrium in gravity is called "virial equilibrium." One of the very interesting things about a self-gravitating system in virial equilibrium (like a cluster of stars) is that it has negative specific heat! So if it collapses it loses energy, but the stars move faster so it heats up!
The fact that D-Link published code-signing private keys by mistake, is why we need ethics in code-signing.
It kept on loading while it was showing me the blank page.

At least a blank page is quick to read.
Show HN: Finally, creating group and collaborative websites is easy
Ask HN: “Pay to turn off ads” SaaS
Scenario:
An author/website publishes quality content and makes money with ads. There are some regular readers who prefer to remove ads (or who use an ad-blocker but would like to support the site).

The website would get a cost-per-visit (capped to a maximum per month from one user).

The service would support multiple websites, and it should be super-easy, like clicking a button "Remove Ads" to remove ads and start the micropayments.

I have a feeling that such a service will be popular soon (but do not plan on building it myself, if it doesn't exist)
Red River Metis here. We look white to dark... but we have a very similar history of generational abuse by the Canadian government.

If anyone has read April Rain Tree. Well that was a Metis author. You can't judge a book by its cover. So I get being held two steps back and what trauma does to opportunity.

I think there are better ways to support experience specific generational understanding/education with then segregated environments.
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Windows XP marketshare is three times bigger than OS X and twelve times bigger than GNU/Linux. Why the Rusts development team would not put effort where it can get a good share of end-users?
The fact that we're welcoming Anne, Ben, and Joe, is why we need ethics in welcoming Anne, Ben, Joe.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10233800
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I'm working as a remote programmer with a 9 hour time difference from my colleagues. It's been a real hassle to organise my life because our team likes to pair program a lot. This has meant some pretty bizarre schedules for me.

Lately, I've been experimenting with a split schedule. I work 8-12 in my morning time zone solo, then I work 5-10 with a 1 hour dinner break in my evening. This gives me 3-4 hours of pairing (depending on how my partner and I schedule lunch/dinner). Between the hours of 12-5, I do some cycling, go shopping, do some cooking, and importantly have a 1 hour nap.

While it's not ideal (would love to get in a few more hours of pairing), from my own personal perspective it has been extremely good. I am able to concentrate fully for the entire day. I never feel tired at work any more. The nap is amazing!

Of course, it is 11 am and I'm writing a post on HN (bad Mike...)
The fact that China's booming middle class is creating world's most dynamics consumer market, is why we need ethics in creating dynamic consumer market.
How are wallets "non-US based" or "US-based"? A wallet is just a collection of private keys...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223480
If its economy won't hit a hard-landing and the current reform is successful, then yes I think China will have a booming middle class by 2020.

But does the emperor have clothes on? No one can really say for sure.
A person who pretend to be asleep cannot be waken up
（你永远唤不醒装睡的人）
I gotta stop supporting this racist site. I will not pretend being actively discriminated against is ok.
The fact that reporter C.J. Chivers had to suddenly stop, is why we need ethics in war journalism.
People often project their work aesthetic onto others. Americans live at work, joke, etc and put in longer hours because it is expected (this leads to more goofing off actually) where some other cultures just do work while at work and then go home. Don't assume everyone is the same.
great story