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> What is with the attitude you have? I wasn't going on about anything, really. You brought up transaction times which are related to confirmation times. Anything other than bitcoin is molasses-like.

How is a credit card "molasses-like" when it is capable at this very moment you're reading this response of doing 1,000 times more than Bitcoin?

In the time it took to load this page (100 ms), at least 300 credit card transactions have successfully gone through whereas this cryptocurrency nonsense hasn't even completed one.
That's a false statement. Two chinese pools control 52%:

https://blockchain.info/pools?show_adv=no

A pool is not a single entity, it's composed of hundreds, thousands of miners.

To do some evil thing they will have to convince all of their miners to participate, and stay quiet at the same time. And all for what? So they can perform a >50% attack, crash the value, and ruin their investment?

I would worry more about things like BitFury's ASIC datacenter, which is a true singular entity.
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I think this is an instance where the truth is somewhere in the muddle. I'm sure there are engineers who care very much about securing cellular devices and making the attack surface as small as possible, probably working for Apple, Google, and perhaps for a few of those nation-state actors as well. I'm equally sure there are time crunched engineers who are more than happy to not go looking for problems when they have a piece of hardware that works (for their employer's intents and purposes), and that there are actors and entities out there who are dedicated to taking advantage of those insecurities.

However, that doesn't make for a very sexy headline.
The article you link yourself makes clear that those are desired, "ideal" characteristics, not the definition as you suggest.
As far as I can tell, this is the most comprehensive list out there.
And this, including the long debate about piracy in a parallel thread, is an example of those worldviews in conflict.

It's happening. Myself, and a lot of other people I know, don't feel tied to the nation states at all. Where many are still thinking about themselves in terms of their countries, we consider ourselves citizens of Earth and members of human race first, and the nationality is something I'd call a cultural quirk local to our geography. We speak different languages, but we see it in the same way as different hair colors. Just funny, but ultimately irrelevant quirks.

We had that utopia for a while, but now it seems that we need to fight to preserve it. IMO, pushing regional borders onto the Internet is a step backwards for humanity.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/

It's quite technical, but the content is good.
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I fully agree with you about debt/credit. If I give you something without getting anything in return, that can be considered debt.

The point I'm specifically trying to come to grips with is the idea that money came before barter: considering that money is used as a token that is itself bartered for goods or services, I can't understand how money came before barter. It just doesn't make sense, using money is barter.
I always thought that money has three characteristics: fungibility, divisibility, and verifiability (although divisibility can be relaxed for small values). Cigarettes pass two of the three, and fail only the weakest one, in a fashion that doesn't matter.
As other user said in another thread, polls are very sensitive to the exact redaction of the questions, so take this with a grain of salt.

The article has too few details: Was it an online poll, a telephone pool or a street poll?

The data are in http://sidmennt.is/wp-content/uploads/Lífsskoðanir-Íslending... (linked in the article). I don't read Icelandic, but with some help of Google translator I found that the numbers are in the page 16.

It says that of the persons with less than 25 years old:

Valid answers: 102

* world was created in the Big Bang (Big Bang): 93,9%

* God created the world: 0,0%

* do not know / I have no opinion: 3,0%

* other:3%

It means that 0 out of 102 persons answered that don't believe that God created the word. The title with "0.0%" is misleading because it looks like less than 1 in 1000. (My friends with more statistical background would ever ask for more samples to be happy to write a 0.0%.)
Tricky question that I'm not 100% sure on the answer of... My understanding is that it depends on the company, the stock agreement and of course finding a buyer. A company like foursquare is probably tough because there is such a risk of the stock being worthless. There are a lot of ways that I mentioned such that most common stock will become worthless, so all of that is factored in.
Why so? Not allowing me to go to the movies because I'm an Australian would be considered racist. Why is it more acceptable to do so with streaming content?
Why would you answer a question if you then don't want the person to use the answer you give?
The OP is one-sided deceptive propaganda. What I linked to is the other side. Or do you prefer to hear only one side?

There's no ad-hominem in that link btw.

EDIT: I value truth over downvotes, so downvote away if you want, but I ain't deleting these posts.
do they show a way to install them on your computer?
Your connection is only unusable if you don't cap the upload rate in your torrent client to below your total upload capacity, so that you leave some room for ACKs to be sent.

Or, you can just get a seedbox or VPS with a decent connection close enough to you that you can stream off it. The torrent will be done near instantaneously, and you'll be able to stream in higher quality than Netflix. You can stream full 1080P MKVs at <20Mbps.

Use private trackers as they're much better seeded, as well as the more obvious benefits.
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Just makes it super easy. No difference other than how you do it. And yep, apm works
I'm just looking at the docs to determine if a project is worth my time investment (especially the learning curve).

No docs? => get off.

Docs unreadable => get off.

Docs outdated/StackOverflow filled with crap that is obsolete since 2 months and the question was asked 1 month ago => get off, work on your backwards compatibility, come back maybe.

Docs readable and reasonably current and the first 10 google hits for a common question don't offer 10 contradicting versions? => <3
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Yeah, and now look at SO, it's got so many "rules" that you can't look cross eyed at it without breaking one of them. "You don't have enough rep!" "A minimum of 15 characters per comment." "At least 5 characters per edit." "That's been asked before." Eventually, everyone just stands in line with blinders on, forced to stare straight ahead, mouth shut, one step at a time. There's never an end once you start "tackling" these so called problems.
Autonomous operation might require updating infrastructure. That falls under the scope of government.
A sneaky way would be to set them by percentage when gas was low such that it lowers taxes at the moment, but creates higher taxes on average through the typical boom/bust cycle of gas.
Errm, that's exactly the definition of a soft fork: old nodes can't fully validate the new transactions and can potentially accept transactions that aren't valid. The P2SH soft fork a few years back worked in exactly the same way, reusing existing opcodes in a way which meant non-upgraded nodes would allow anyone to spend those transactions. If that isn't a soft fork then nothing is.
It depends. Are you a programmer? Do you have a family? How old are you? What skills do you have? How good is your idea? Do you have backing money, if not what is your plan to raise it? Are you aware of how incredibly hard it is to make money?
Ever heard of a CityState?
I doubt that will happen. Very few people list that as their deal breaker, and it's their entire business model. If egress were cheap you could easily load balance between providers.
Furthermore, there are numerous court cases that say that, e.g., letters to the editor may be printed in the newspaper, even the absence of any explicit permission. IANAL, but I'd be really surprised if there's any license or attribution required.
I do wonder if it's a ripoff. I'd heard of this idea before flux, and I wonder if Apple is nimble enough to be able to 'respond' that quick. Frankly I doubt it, especially if they put lots of thought into it.

I mentioned 'app' because if it WAS an app (which isn't their style, even their apps are often bundled with the OS it would be especially egregious since they'd be doing the exact thing they told flux not to (and as we all know Apple is happy to break their own rules).

I completely agree that in the anti-trust sense (like what happened to MS) the app/built in this is irrelevant.
You are of course correct. But Bitcoin is a fiat currency that exists without a state. That is rather (nearly) unprecedented.

All other decentralized money had demand other than for its currency purposes. Cigs in jail are in demand so they became a way to store value.

Bitcoin is the opposite. It has value because people are saying it's a currency. But it's monopoly money.
Did you read the article? Such a monumental change in behavours is going to bring in massive changes to the legal framework, safety standards, insurance practices and road markings and upgrades to name a few aspects.
Why would I leave a good job to do a few weeks of interviewing for your company?
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>" and there's no technical or intellectual reason they should exist"

I disagree with this completely, and I described the objective and intellectual reasons behind it in my other post!

Very, very few people are capable of taking a post-graduate course-load and producing journal-quality research without any formal training.

It's become a trope to dislike academia and to make the assumption that it is incapable of producing a result that is worthwhile (all while most of us in programming make intense, constant fundamental use of functions, ideas, algorithms, systems, etc that are the results of PhD in Computer Science or academia in general)

The objective reason is that academia produces better researchers who are far better prepared to publish their results. The intellectual reason is that a system of learning statistics, experimental design, and a subject matter under the tutelage of a proven expert which requires the person to literally succeed in their job of researching and publishing before even being given the title PhD produces a very high rate of high level success.

>Yes, yes it is. Research should not be for a closed shop of inward looking, often archaic and relatively backward academic institutions.

IT ISN'T! Just because you're not a part of centralized, systemized education and can't access this tool doesn't mean you can't research.

You also don't have access to a NMR, or an fMRI, or any number of hundreds of others of tools that cost $100k - 1m+, but you can still as a layperson educate yourself and attempt to contribute.

But I think to assert that randos-at-home are the literal equivalent of the academic process and PhD's is beyond absurd, and that every man should have identical access to what earning an PhD earns you, is also absurd to me.

But when it comes to the best tools that cost the most and the best opportunities, those who are a part of the system will get those options. If you want to study medicine you can do that anywhere but if you're not apart of a med school getting access to medical cadavers will be difficult.

There is so much disrespect for institutions and what we as a people are capable of when we systemize. I understand the appreciation for decentralization and the FOSS model behind technology but there is so often a complete unwillingness to show any respect to any centralization at all, it's very strange.
I joined Milo.com about a month after the A round was closed, everyone post-A was given between 0.1 and 0.3%. If you are joining early seed round, you would probably expect around 30k in salary and between 1% and 5%. The question is how much do they want you to join, and can you sell yourself a little bit. Find out what their pain points are that you think you can honestly attack on day #1 of joining, and make sure they know you intend to fix those problems ASAP. Then tell them what you think is fair, and let them agree to that (or don't join). As an engineer you shouldn't try to negotiate too much with a founder because: If they are bad at negotiating, the startup is going to fail, and if they are good at negotiating they are going to convince you to take a really bad deal (and you will be happy about it).

If you are an engineer that is good negotiating, you shouldn't be joining someone else's startup (you should be working on your startup, even if you are 15).
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Interesting product!

off-the-cuff unsolicited design advice:

Consider bringing the effortless setup section below the price one. having two three-column-circle-things-with-pictures on top of each other confused me for a moment.

Also, I can't remember which UX article I read this in, but text-based user assistants that refer to themselves like "hold on one second, I'm looking up something" or "I can't find what you're asking for" become quite annoying to read/listen to after a while. Consider phrases that remove "I" or "you".
Cigarettes have all those properties, just somewhat imperfectly. Cartons are divisble to packs which are divisible to individual cigarettes. Cigarettes are pretty durable - if you don't get them wet and avoid breaking them they have a reasonably long shelf life. And they are pretty uniform in each division - carton, pack, cigarette. Since prisons allow prisoners to smoke cigarettes they have the cover of utility while being used as money.
It sounds to me like the funding is being allocated as a response to private investment. Companies are going to create self-driving cars - the feds want to be ready for them instead of a roadblock.
I have kind of confusion, your rant about people on HN not understanding that "re-programmable computers that, at a low level, run the code you ask them to" and the fact that no one has a complete ownership of all the parts inside that phone or any other option makes difficult to sustain an option as secure, because those options would comprise several different cpus.

The closest way I can see to get something to be trusted is to start from a GNU approved laptop like [2] and add to it whichever modem you had on the neo9000 via usb... just as you said, but then you have this situation...

For something to be secure... there has to be a secure chain of trust...

-who creates the cpu? which kind of microcode has on it?

-video controllers? blobs? drivers?

-anything with DMA, who created your memory controller?

-are you sure about the media you are using to install?

-who creates the hdd? did someone "touch it" before you?

--what about the controllers on the hdd? ram? take a look on the latest technology and you'll see there is no way you can trust anything [0][1].

--anything with a controller... this is a cpu... this is something not being driven by the main cpu it's an attack vector.

"The potential of reprogrammable computers that, at a low level, run the code you ask them to doesn't seem to get through to most of the HN crowd" Do not generalize, different people, interests and approaches are part of how nature works, and remember we are as a friend said the "nature virtual machines".

[0] http://bgr.com/2015/02/17/nsa-hard-drive-firmware-virus/

[1] http://recode.net/2015/02/17/nsa-can-hide-spyware-in-hard-di...

[2] https://www.fsf.org/news/libreboot-x200-laptop-now-fsf-certi...

edit: format
Most of your OS is not open, so why bother? That's like spraying perfume in a room full of skunks ...
There are no good academics in the EU
Anyone who understands Bitcoin is rejoicing. I'm sure he's also happy to hang out with the banks, it's a win-win for everyone: http://bravenewcoin.com/news/30-top-banks-and-mike-hearn-hav...
Would love your take on the open-sourxe/proprietary issue, especially as it affects the farmers ability to fix or improve their own equipment, legally.
Voted up because I had to get halfway through the comments (and even searched "apple f.lux" on Google but only turned up results from November) before finding the name "night shift" that I could then google and get the background.

Is there a better way for submitters to include a second, explanatory link for context when the linked article does not provide any?
Having a limited supply of money encourages hoarding. Hoarding does not an economy make. Bitcoin would fail there too.
Getting rid of tuition must only apply to undergrad. A lot of grad school programs (law, mba's, some master's programs) are ludicrously profitable
Rather than asking us to take this on faith, do you know of any resources where it's possible to learn about the technical details hidden "in the weeds"?

What I'm able to find looking around amounts to Apple verifying that the firmware loaded matches what's expected--but that's simply checking the binary, and doesn't give users any assurance whether that baseband enables backdoors or not. I didn't find anything about mitigations present in Android.

Articles like this one (http://mobile.osnews.com/story.php/27416/The_second_operatin...) indicate that it's pretty easy for an attacker running a cell tower (so, organized crime, or governments, or a blackhat with a few thousand bucks) to get code execution on (some) baseband processors. How do phone vendors mitigate this? My (admittedly pedestrian) knowledge of typical SoC setup makes it seem like that would be very difficult to do in software.
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The two reasons cited why there won't be a pop:

"1. Startups today are generating real revenues off of a massive customer base (thanks to mobile and broadband saturation).

2. Startups with money in the bank or even — gasp! — profits, don’t go out of business! Founders are aware of this and are watching the deflation I mention above and, largely, taking measures to control their burn."

Both are laughable.

1. No, startups today can fund the ongoing chasing of customer counts through lavish spending of investors' money.

Earlier in the article a bullet point called out so darlings (Dropbox and Evernote IIRC) as facing an uncertain future in the face of an easily duplicated business model.

These 'massive' customer bases are as fickle or more fickle than in the past. Earlier today I read: 'no one under 19 uses Twitter.'

What was there massive customer base, again...?

2. Startups with profits go out of business when those profits evaporate because the flow of free investment money dries up for _their customers._

That's the thing I'm watching for in the immanent pop: the cascading crisis as each successive tier whose business models are predicated on the one before it, all falling like dominoes.

It doesn't matter how nimble you are, or how well managed, or ultimately, how well capitalized, if you business is selling to others in the same sector.

Failure goes viral, too.

8/10 for teeth-gritted sweaty-browed optimism, however.
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opportunity 1 :
pros: the offer has been offered, would get experience living on own, most projects seem interesting.
cons: would have to move, transportation/commute.

opportunity 2 :
pros: location, if offered would prefer this opportunity.
cons: not definite, project unknown.

If I hear from opportunity 2, most of the issues would be resolved. I am not very good at pros and cons, but these are the ones that I see.
> Modern smartphones have a CPU chip, and a baseband chip which handles radio network communications (GSM/UMTS/LTE/etc.) This chip is connected to the CPU via DMA. Thus, unless an IOMMU is used, the baseband has full access to main memory, and can compromise it arbitrarily.

Indeed. Such design coupled with very obscure and closed baseband firmware is a security nightmare. One should ask, who was pushing for such an approach.
You don't get it. Every 7 or so transactions that bitcoin has processed in that couple or so seconds cannot be clawed back, as in NEVER, unless there is a flaw in very popular and important cryptographic technology which in of itself would mean a whole lot worse things can/will be happening besides your 0.01 BTC coffee being clawed back. Those 300 credit card transactions can be clawed back for up to 100+ days. If you are a fraud, you can sit back and relax for a few months before scamming someone.
And how do you define when it requires attribution and what % constitutes a change and how do you calculate such a %? Also what if I the author put a different license on my answer, which is it?
And thank for for taking the time to reply.
From a different prospective, he's willing to pay for content in his area. By refusing Netflix the rights to sell the content in his area, the rights holders are indirectly refusing to sell him the content. He offered them the money, but now it goes to someone else. By showing the money is there in his market, he does encourage the rights holders to allow Netflix to sell in his market.

I understand other entities likely hold the rights in his area than the ones allowing Netflix to sell content in the US.

Analogies only go so far, but it's more like he tried to pay for a Hilton room in Elbonia, and Hilton said "No f'ing way we allow franchises in Elbonia", so he paid for a Motel6 and then went and slept for free in an abandoned building where someone had illegally written Hilton above the door. Yes, Hilton's intellectual property rights are being violated, but he's not incurring direct costs upon Hilton, and he did give first offer to Hilton. Hilton is losing opportunity cost, but it's hard to blame the person who tried to pay them.
I wish startups could tackle actually making affordable home ownership a reality. This is a much larger problem for our generation than what people care to admit.

Specifically, I'm wondering why there are no cheap modular houses (like in movie ex machina). Houses that are mass produced, cheap and relatively easy to ship and assemble but configurable.