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That is a misleading point by Brian here, miners are not the only stakeholders. Eg: Majority of miners may decide on something but the users reject it through their nodes & miners coins & hardware would be rendered valueless.
The people that built giant hashing factories using custom silicon and dangerous amounts of electricity are not stupid. This idea that core developers have somehow conned the Chinese is almost insulting.
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I meant the cost to the exchange. All that money they are not making by investing is a huge disadvantage relative to the exchanges that do invest.

This is not a comment on what should be done in an ideal and/or moral world but the bitcoin (and financial) world is neither.
Ad blocking is a rhetorical misnomer. It's not ad blocking, it's malware blocking. I have no problem with ads and would allow to be subjected to them if cookies, trackers, beacons, and privacy invaders were not inserted into my personal property.
> people do not gain status (yet?) from having that "look how rich I am" app.

Actually, some time ago there was this app [1] that was basically just a background image but the price was set at the maximum allowed at the time in the Apple App Store.

Incredibly, it turns out that it actually sold several times due to people were actually "gaining status" just by having it.

In the end, it was a signal that you could spend 1K USD in a stupid background and it made no difference to you. Kind of the most abstract idea of status in a product that I can think off, i.e. I can just literally waste the money and I can prove it sort of thing

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5033621/99999-iphone-app-i-am-rich-probab...
While not true in this particular case, sometimes the title of an article on a linked page changes, making it appear as if the title submitted to HN was editorialized. This happened recently with a link I submitted that used the verbatim title, and I was called out for it when the site's owner changed the title later.
Seriously, it is much more work to make additional transfers and accountings of where all the money is going.
Funny, i have no trouble running X on a "weak" computer. What was bogging it down was never X, but KDE or Gnome. Going for a lighter DE, or stripping down to just a WM, greatly improves performance.

Frankly, the very thought that X is bloated seem insane, given that it originated in a time when servers had less resources to go on than many smartphones today.

No, what is "bloated" is the DE thinking that everything has to happen via the OGL pathway.

This makes X "bloated" in that it sits to a side and takes certain commands, while most of the UI work happens outside X.
Everything.me, a company that created an AI-powered launcher for Android closed down too, even though the product solved a technical problem and offered a unique proposition (context-based launcher). Such a promising product, but how do you compete with the likes of Google and Apple that can build their own apps, and control the platform, and have just as many talented developers as you do, and endless funding? It isn't easy at all, unless you've got traction from elsewhere, like the web (Facebook), or a social network affect (like games do, and messaging apps do).

> Since the above point forces most participants in the market to now compete mostly on price, the race to the bottom of the last decade or so has raised a generation of consumers who now expect software to be free

In India, apps aren't just free. You get hefty discounts if you use apps. Race to the bottom has meant that VC funded business can simply terminate the competition by burning through the investment. The barrier to entry might be lower, but that is setting a potentially dangerous precedent for the app-store economy on a whole, as app-developers continue their focus on acquiring users luring them with discounts, with a view to gain in the long run (which works for the e-commerce companies).

Tech companies like Google, that offer high quality apps for free, have spoilt the regular user-- no one expects to pay even a $1 for an app well-designed and well-built. Games get the money because its addictive and companies like Google haven't invaded that market yet with their free offerings driven by ad-revenues, user-profiling, and vendor lock-in.
Tabs are for making TABles. Spaces are for reserving spaces.
It's that simple. I would use Excel if I want to make a table. I also wouldn't put tables in my source code normally.
Toss profit into anything, and it can be a scary place.
Gradle allows you to 1) use maven plugins 2) download dependencies from maven repositories. So my understanding is that Gradle is backwards compatible but separate.
Coinbase still doesn't solve that without compromising decentralization & privacy, no one does. The premise of centralization is achieving security by compromising liberty. When buying bitcoin you are achieving liberty but compromising on peace of mind by being responsible for your own security.
So does it mean that people from a Chinese background celebrating St Patrick and dressing in green would be culturally insensitive because that's not their culture ? Or are white people practicing judo and wearing a kimono racist toward Japanese people ? Or that a latino female cannot teach yoga because it's cultural appropriation and disrespectful toward Indians ? So did that college ban all these stuff already because PC ? where does it stop ? everybody sticks to their culture and we enable global separation by race, sex, gender, country of origin in College so nobody get outraged at something somebody different than him might do ?
> The thing that really drives me nuts about the PC movement is that it infantilizes and stereotypes the very groups and cultures it purports to protect, robbing them of their own voices and self-agency.

Thank you so much. The problem with SJWs is: when you point this out to them, they'll usually shitstorm you beyond belief.
Hahahahahahaha

Ban me, whatever I care, but this is by far the stupidest top comment I have ever heard in HN. If you are still reading basically this is a lie, search for "Mirror app", in summary it has millions of downloads, it just an app that shows your camera, it has nothing new, nothing special, is just that is the first result. It has nothing to do with "unique value", it's all about the sorting algorithm Apple uses. And the same happens if you search "Flash light" and another million searches. Meritocracy is just another myth people like to believe.
IMHO, the rise of SJWs of all kinds is caused by rising gender equality in the US and Europe. Now that women and men are quite equal in our societies (though e.g. the pay gap and a gap in leadership positions remains, although the latter is most likely caused by the fact that there are not many people who want 80+h work weeks to begin with), all those who dedicated their entire personal life and their careers to advancing feminism need something to continue to work in their area.

And if you can't find a real job, just look for another "minority" to "support" at all costs.

Edit: or well, find a real minority with real problems - like PoC who are being shot by police apparently for sports or Latinos who are in the line of fire of Trump and friends. "But... wait... there's powerful opposition there (cops, Trump fans), too dangerous, let's mob against people who party in sombreros" I hear the SJWs scream...
"This is cool."

Not just cool, but useful. "UEFI" should have been a Forth-like REPL like Sun, FreeBSD, OLPC, etc.

The output of rappel reminds me of an "assembly level debugger" I used for many years called "ald". Maybe I am just stupid, but when I'm writing assembly I like to verify the contents of registers as a program executes.

From user.h:
"Fuck computers, multiarch is bullshit."

Agreed.

I need something that compiles easily on NetFreeOpenBSD x86. Mo multiarch bullshit. Meanwhile I will stick with as, objcopy and ald.
I like to start on the DNS level https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate
Ignoring the companies that onboard almost all new users and process transactions for most merchants sounds like a bad idea. But whatever, it's clear at this point that Ethereum will be how most people interact with blockchains for the first time. Anyone who wants to ignore the drama should pick up the docs and start building cool stuff with us.
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Perfect heuristic to go by.
This is how I make money sometimes... resource hire or consult gigs and help out with new tech, automation, delivery/process or do/fix things the development team can't do. So I would like to continue being paid, and the company has the confidence knowing I'm delivering what they're paying for. Any other way is just not something I'd do.

What I will do and currently do is keep in contact with guys from old companies and they are welcome to flick me a mail and I'll reply with some guidance as far as is practical
> force everything to be sandboxed

Then you're just renting your computer from somebody else who can dictate how you use it. ("Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go: I owe my soul to the Microsoft store...")
Miners make money principally through seignorage, but will eventually have to replace it with transaction fees, as Bitcoin is designed to throttle seigniorage down over time and does so in an abrupt, stairstep fashion (50% at a go).

Core (a group of people who presently control the code of the only software that matters on the Bitcoin network) has an argument for miners which goes like this: "We believe the space on the blockchain should be scarce. If space is scarce, people will a) conduct transactions offchain, which is conducive to our interests and b) bid up the price of onchain transactions, which is conducive to your interests. You'll shortly receive a counterproposal from another development group which wants space on the blockchain to be abundant. In this case, the price of transactions will go back to ~0 and, with it, your revenue. Make the right choice."

The "economic majority" [+] of Bitcoin has an argument for miners which goes like this: "You presently have been given, literally, a license to make money -- substantial CapEx and OpEx, granted, but making money is what you do every day. If you attempt to make the Bitcoin network unreliable to increase fees generated by it, the tokens you are creating daily become not-money. You should prefer your license to make money to the planned future license to make not-money."

The economic majority is hoping that miners are long-term thinking entrepreneurs and not, to pick an example totally randomly, slash-and-grab operators taking advantage of a ponzi scheme.

[+] Jargon from the Bitcoin community. The Bitcoin "protocol" allows miners to essentially vote with hashpower. The "economic majority" phrasing is an attempt to recenter the notion of votes away from hashpower, by saying that exchanges/retailers/customers/etc are substantial stakeholders in the network even if they do not control a meaningful number of ASICs. In practice, the economic majority is Coinbase, Bitpay, and "the loosely affiliated ecosystem which turns cash to Bitcoins to drugs to Bitcoins to cash."
Just by reading the top two points:

1. Some of them show very poor communication skills or a lack of maturity — this has hurt bitcoin’s ability to bring new protocol developers into the space.

2. They prefer ‘perfect’ solutions to ‘good enough’. And if no perfect solution exists they seem ok with inaction, even if that puts bitcoin at risk.

I get this bad feeling that someone (author of the article) is planning a takeover and for all the wrong reasons. I've seen this "yeah they are smart guys, but they are introverts and our business needs to be extravert and agile and adaptive and fast moving and all other buzz words", then you introduce some of thous extrovert super agile people who just want to "bang out a solution, since any change is better than no change". Next thing you notice is that the old core team members are leaving after their protests about future of the product fell on deaf ears and these new guys are just pushing their own agenda/vision. Fast forward few years and just 1-2 or most likely none of the original team members are there anymore and cracks start to appear and these cracks are because the "better than nothing" solutions back in the day are found after all flawed, but now you have a lot of work build on top of rotten foundation and since your team now consists only of short sighted: "just fix it" people they are going to try to fix the problem at the top instead of at it's core "because we can't hold bringing in new features".
Localbitcoins has been around for years. Even in the early days, when I used the less reputable sites, I always got the bitcoins I paid for.
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Technology changes over the years, but people don't change much. http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/commuters-reading-their-newsp...
Oh, come on, let's not pretend this is somehow different from the traditional money. I am not particularly ignorant nor reluctant to learn as far as an average person on the street goes and I have no friggin idea how the mechanisms that govern it really work and cannot appreciate the risks. (Nor really can the experts it seems.)

It's the basic reality of human existence that we have to get by without having pretty much any control of the complex world around us. Bitcoin may fail any time and as a casual user you cannot help it and cannot predict it. But you can go buy some drugs with it right now without having to roam shady streets and it's all that really matters.
Because then you get all the "features" of the current banking system that bitcoin wanted to avoid.

Bitcoin is by design deflationary currency. Fractional reserve banking is by design inflationary. No matter where you sit on how much inflation and what monetary policy is best - it is obvious that it is against the intentions of the original adopters and creators of the BTC network.
Bitcoin does not achieve distributed consensus based on choices but distributed consensus based on randomness. Any miner can win a lottery & then everyone agrees on that state. However, this lottery is not totally random since probability of winning is not propotional to hashrate contributed by a miner(mining invariance). That flaw is already a major concern that has led to mining centralization.

Bitcoin is not a voting substitute. No such protocol exists yet because sybil attack is unsolved yet without identity.
Every feature you mention was available in the '90s. I'm not saying Slack is bad, just that it's nothing impressive or innovative. The only surprising thing about it is that someone didn't make it sooner.
Can you or the GP explain?
check in when it makes sense. In a feature branch? whenever you like as long as it's building often. In a dev branch directly? often enough so change gets into test regularly but not so often that your small change sets break the build our functionality other devs may also be working.

push and push regularly, in case you have merge conflicts. Get the continuous integration server building on commits and please have it email the team when the build fails too.
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well, that does make him seem a tad unreasonable then
Nope, I see it in the US here.
Wish there was a way to easily mirror it on Android - looks like good reading for a long flight.
Better to destroy than run the risk someone digs them out of the landfill and reads them. Kind of like hard drives.
Your comment is perhaps true in a general sense. However, in the case of the Bitcoin core team, we're talking about a group of people who richly deserve to be unseated.
> The rational move in a prisoner's dilemma if you know (or control) when the game will end is to defect.

Can't they always control when they stop running for office?
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"Some of them show very poor communication skills or a lack of maturity — this has hurt bitcoin’s ability to bring new protocol developers into the space."

"Being high IQ is not enough for a team to succeed. You need to make reasonable trade offs, collaborate, be welcoming, communicate, and be easy to work with."

The assumption slipped in here is that the writer is, in fact, reasonable with good communication skills - and that those he is addressing are not. He evades evenhandedly discussing their concerns with his proposal or their proposed solution. That's a mark of trickery, not good, honest communication.

I don't know about the team in question, and I don't know who's right on this issue, but I am considering leaving Coinbase after reading this article.
completely overlooked the human component

That's unfair: Satoshi got the incentives for Bitcoin brilliantly right, in such a fashion such that "Satoshi scheme" should replace "ponzi scheme" because it is better in every conceivable way.

Ponzi schemes rely on a central operator who has to do their marketing, and who generally can't tell participants "Hey I'm running a Ponzi scheme so bring all your friends because that's the only way you make money." Satoshi schemes use the Internet to set up self-organizing distributed boiler rooms. (Also, mediocre payment networks, but the payment network is not the interesting part of Bitcoin.)

They can be totally upfront with participants on exactly what is happening -- early adopters (arbitrarily large number, arbitrarily geographically distributed) get enriched by convincing later adopters that the things the early adopters got for free are a) in fact actually money and b) going to be worth even more in the future. And this empirically works on intelligent people! Very well, in fact! You can even attach it to a memeplex which suggests that you are doing the later adopters a favor by creating a Satoshi scheme!
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this is open source software - you act as if the seat can't be earned with enough commits.
I think we can put this issue to rest with a language note.

I think we can all agree that most brains' classifiers have associated corporate ownership with men. So, saying it's a corporation and then saying it's female-owned cancels out to (gut feeling, perceived) neutral, or at worst goes over to slightly female-biased. Saying it's a corporation and then saying it's male-owned would have double intensity, and go over the edge.

If you don't already think of corporate ownership as male, then emphasizing female ownership would push it over the (female-wards) edge for you.

If the table stretches from -1 to 1, 1-2 is OK while 0-2 is not.
The "Genesis" BTC blockchain seems to have its fate sealed.

Elements of a genius ponzi scheme mixed with psychology of the limited edition beanie baby craze and enough allure of "technology is magic" created a "valuable" cyber diamond to send hordes of processing power to "mine" and sell off like hot potato stocks.

As we begin seeing more viable altcoin systems with practical improvements, "investors" and processing power will jump ship to the improved cryptocoin protocols. Bitcoin and the bandwaggon of investing in a BTC as a currency which inherently encourages not spending that currency (deflation as a fundamental design) is such a paradoxical mind fuck it's one of the most brilliant pieces of art I could imagine.

Inflation is incredibly healthy for an economy because it creates an incentive to invest money into new businesses and real goods and services instead of being buried outside of the system where it does no good. The trick is to prevent hyper inflation - and in BTC or other arbitrarily produced currency systems, there should be mechanisms in place to avoid the abuse of the fabrication of the money tokens.
Interesting article. I am not a bitcoin user for a reason that the article seemingly underscores: Bitcoin lacks stability. This makes me sad, because I would very much like bitcoin to succeed.

The more I look into it (and I may not be looking at it clearly), the more bitcoin seems like a digitized version of what we currently have in MeatSpace: An unbacked inflationary currency.

I think worrying about scaling in mining activity is a problem in search of an audience.

If miners hit the wall, and are not able to put more coins into circulation, there is an opportunity to stabilize coin value by having demand tempered by supply. Also, with bitcoin (or any other digital currency) there is the capacity for psuedo-infinite fractionalization of coins.
Agree. I bought a better than Arduino clone for $5. The Chinese even sell cheaper ones but you must have some luck with the soldering.
I'm drawing a blank on the normalization that would be relevant for transactions. Do you mean something like "the sub-sub-account determines the sub-account which determines the account"?
That's not just common usage, it's the technical difference between "company" and "corporation".
ITunes has not been required for about five years now.

Ours is primarily a Netflix device.
Well, I don't claim to speak for all Mexicans, though. Much less for Mexican-Americans, who might have a stronger reaction to this sort of thing after decades of considering themselves American but having Anglo-Americans be "oh, so, aren't you one of those foreign peoples with the funny hats?". So just interviewing me and having me be "oh, if it's just wearing sombreros it might be fine" is hardly comprehensive.

But I think what matters, in addition to (and co-varying with) how the affected minority feels, is the attitude of the people doing this. There is a fine but still relatively objective line between a party that celebrates Mexican culture, one that mocks it, and one that does neither. Also, even if you think you are in the third or first case, if someone comes to you and tells you that they feel you have done the second, how you react to that is important.
> Core believes the space on the blockchain should be scarce

The demand for a free replicated database is virtually infinite. Space on blockchain would not be abundant at any blocksize.

> Miners presently have been given, a license to make money

This is a license anyone took up on themselves & nobody is doing anyone any favors; everyone(users as well as miners) is looking at their own advantages. Rather this "economic majority" (debatable) desires something that is not-money in future because in short-term greed of the insatiable desire for golden egg that is the blockchain-space they will kill the bitcoin goose by centralizing it even further.
> I wish now that Jobs had gotten his way in the beginning, and all of the apps would be web apps

The IPhone ecosystem would be nowhere near what it is today if not for native apps. It would have been a serious mistake. People want native apps because the mobile web sucks for anything a bit more complex than displaying text or simple forms. And web APIs on mobile in general still suck. Caching sucks, The DOM is still slow and cannot deeply interact with phone features or hardware.

The mobile web has failed since native apps are still required. Every web tech base mobile OS have failed. Firefox OS for mobile has failed.
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