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The growth curve looks like a hockey stick... can’t be trusted of course, certainly not any more than cash.
> if I've not used it or worn it in the last six months, it should go

I would live by a similar rule if I didn't already live in Chicago.
Incorrect.

36x of what Trump has donated would be 0.
I think I had a coin once in a wallet long since deleted. What I could do with 5k now.
its been getting higher and higher for a while its not like it keeps crashing.
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Hey, don't tell me about my own priors!
I feel like Google's naming is clashing with Amazon's:

- Amazon's "smile" points from A to Z.

- Google's parent is Alphabet.

- A2Z Development Center Inc is Amazon's holding company for a number of subsidiaries.

- Google's holding company is XXVI -- there are 26 letters in the English alphabet.

- Lab126 is Amazon's digital product development arm. 126 meaning letters 1 through 26.

Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science?
can we please have a bitcoin thread that doesn't mention the stupid tulips
Right now I am happy as a freelance software engineer. I wasn't looking for a new job (I wanted the KNOW), but I _was_ looking for validation among business-types. I also have a few certs from AWS, and attaining those created the validation I needed in Devops/cloud (so it can be worth it for career growth).

Honestly, I just got tired of being THAT developer who willingly shirked his security duties. I always let someone else 'handle it'. In comparison now, I'm much more confident because I know (more) about securing the network and underlying ecosystem that my applications live in.

I think most people hiring want to see a developer who is excited and puts out lots of work. I've always been pursuing this in my free time, which goes a long way to show that I am truly interested in the subject. But at the end of the day, your cert can't secure a network if you can't. Get the KNOW and you'll find an opp w/ or w/out the semantics.

Hope that helps.
That is exactly the kind of matter-of-fact response that seems fine to me but makes my friends laugh
People have been saying since it was valued at $1 that it was overvalued, or nobody should pay $1 for a virtual coin. Same people are still arguing the same thing 5 years later...
Colors: an exercise in reverse engineering your education
> Capsule is far more expensive over the it's lifetime than something like a Gaggia Classic. Capsules aren't anywhere near the quality of coffee shops, unless you're counting Dunkin.

To add on to this - many offices replace their teas with Keurig capsules as well. This leads to a tea that's much more expensive (capsules are something like 4 or 5 times the cost of a tea bag), dirtier, more complicated and more time consuming to make.

Looking at the popularity of Keurig machines, I'm not surprised people saw potential in Juicero.
Would it be correct to say that there is a threshold where the value of a bitcoin makes it reasonable for retailers/small business/etc to invest in using them as an actual currency at the register? If that's the case, then it would make good business sense for someone nefarious to pump up the price as much as possible to reach that threshold, wait for the use to become common, then cash out. Effectively manipulating the market into something it didn't need in the first place.
booking.com is a deliberate scam. Their business model is to lock customer into reservation that he would have to cancel and booking.com will keep the money.

Booking.com puts a lot of pressure (through dark UI patterns) to make a reservation ASAP promising that you can cancel at any time. In many cases cancellation simply isn't possible - too late etc.. They are just keeping the money and this is exactly what their business model is after.
I was skeptical of Bitcoin for a long time, but the other day I was on a (legal) website and they had it listed as a payment method, right next to Visa. Seeing it there really showed me how far it's come.
How is DNM usage not an actual currency?
I'm kind of glad I didn't buy a lot of btc earlier - I would be a lot more stressed out about the right time to sell. Then I'd sell at just the wrong time and beat myself up for it. Then I'd probably get audited...
For all you know in 10 years it could be worth $50000. For me it’s simply a hedge against real currency the same way gold would be. How many people hold gold for the same reason?
And now fewer and fewer can afford a whole coin.
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Monero could be a better choice as it is completely untraceable.
Pink App: If Silk Road had used this design, they’d still be online
LLC cannot issue stock, right? If you buy back all stocks then you don't need to provide detailed public reports except to major stockholders?
The thing is, in real-world scenarios with databases, http, and regexs, golang and node.js have very similar performance with node beating golang in some cases.

Furthermore, not everyone is developing cloud-based apps and trying to optimize for metered cost structures.

If you need raw, parallelized, computational power, then I will without-a-doubt agree that Go is a better choice. However, to say that one would always use Go for any server (even webapps? come on...) truly doesn't make any sense.

The only other benefit-of-the-doubt explanation I could come up with for such an explanation is that it seems like the creator has spent more time in academia than in "the real world" of development, and perhaps the persuit of "the ultimate async system" is more important to him than practicality.
Is anyone worried about that unsustainable bitcoin energy usage article on HN a few days ago? Would Litecoin have those same problems?
Tell that to the bitcoin remit startups in the developing world.
No, it’s a store of value like a rolex or a pot of gold. Except much more fungible. And it increases in value relatively every time new “real” money is created. I don’t agree that it’s just for illegal transactions.
I got one better... I traded 30 bitcoins for Diablo 3 gold when Diablo 3 launched, 1m gold was about $5 and bitcoins were about $7. Was just after linode wallets got hacked.

I'll let you do the over/under on that one.
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It looks a little less ridiculous a log scale but still pretty odd.

https://i.imgur.com/tIyvGFs.png
I've been talking to the founder of Pinkapp via slack. The team is clearly crazy, but they seem to have a plan. I'm not sure which bothers me more: that they have a shot of pulling this off, or that they might run with investor funds.

Still, you have to give them credit for dogged determination. Money is a strange motivator.
Indeed it looks like a bubble, but at this point I've seen it happen so many times and not actually been a bubble. Every time is settles down to a point significantly higher than it started. At this point I've accepted these are all price corrections that over compensate and then drop back down to it's true value. Maybe this time it's truly a bubble this time, but I tend to think just repeating history.
Ask HN: Why is HN so against Bitcoin/cryptos?
All these crypto posts keep appearing and the comments sections all appear to be negative towards them. Besides the insane valuations, is there any real reason to be against them, whether it's the tech or the belief they'll fail?
I think you're confused about "couldn't match their volume". Parent means (I think) that AMD couldn't _sell_ enough units. Not that they couldn't _make_ enough units (which is I think your interpretation).

They couldn't sell enough because someone was paying their customers not to buy their (superior) product.
Lack of laws isn't necessarily the problem. The problem cases like these point out is a lack of democratic control on large sums of money.

Government is just a way of getting everyone facing the same direction, they don't have to step in when society does things of it own accord.

Of course they should step in where these uncoordinated actions are insufficient or misguided.
Some millennials certainly will work in the petroleum business. They get paid good money in the extraction industry and are willing to train you & keep you certified.

That it's destroying the environment - well I'm sure the folks so employed will be as happy for their jobs as the ones on hedge funds front-running the entire market or those in big pharma who research and market the next addictive pain-killer.
I don’t see why this would be the case. The utility in currency is not value, but stability; there’s little incentive to use Bitcoin if the value is not stable.
I see so many people dissing the technology and rehashing old arguments.

You shouldn't consider Bitcoin as a currency but as a better form of Gold. Like gold it has a limited amount available: ~180k tons of gold and eventually 21 million bitcoins. Like gold it is a good store of value (especially as more people are dropping their gold to purchase BTC). Unlike Gold you can send it to someone else online and that means it can also be used like a currency (even thought it is not its strength).
I graduated in 2008. I feel like SFS really caught its stride in the second half of the 2000s. I remember when NSA started making different levels to the CAE certification (Education -> Research -> Operations), and that created a rush to build out lots of new coursework and pulled many new universities into the bottom tier, and SFS along with it. I don't have data to show, but I feel like both SFS and universities with CAE were more rare or exclusive earlier than that.
I can tell you how not to do it. I'll never forget the funniest interview I ever had. I interviewed with this company called Deja vu Security.

http://www.dejavusecurity.com/

I explicitly told them, via email, I have ZERO experience pen testing, or anything related to hacking. I'm a terrific software engineer looking to pivot into this market, would take a salary cut to get my feet wet and be mentored. Would this be possible? Are you guys remotely interested in an arrangement like this?

They say great, when can we sync up? That's definitely something we can do.

So we set a call up and the call takes literally 39 seconds, I'll never forget it. He asked me what experience I had, and I reply: None whatsoever, like I mentioned in my email I'm interested in jumping into this line of work though.

"Thanks but we're not going to move forward."

Before I can even say thank you for your time, goodbye, the dude just hangs up the phone on me lol.
Doesn't make them wrong.

I find the idea of crypto currency, especially bitcoin, very interesting. I just have a very hard time seeing how it's actually useful. It can't handle very many transactions per minute. And the thing that supposed to make it so great is that no one controls it. But if bitcoin becomes really important then people will want to control a lot of the mining power. Pretty soon you end up with a group of miners (or even a single miner) having enough power to influence things leaving you pretty close to someone being in charge of the thing.

It's such a fascinating idea. But in less there was someway to limit mining so people couldn't throw additional power at it I'm not sure it's useful.

As an example, you could use a block chain to enforce a ledger between a couple of different companies but you'd have to have some sort of contract it said everyone was only allowed to use one of device X for mining. That way everyone would be equal and you could easily check it because the blocks should be minded roughly evenly.

But when miners can buy additional mining capacity, and they get rewarded for doing that with more money, how does this not end up with a winner takes all situation?
Sure, but thankfully you don't need a whole coin for most transactions. It's not an inherently meaningful thing.
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Do these scale horizontally? I know Github has an issue with scaling since it has a concept of private vm when you purchase the enterprise license.
Businesses wanting to use it probably care more about stability than anything. If there was a limited supply and it wasn't easily divisible then I'd agree with you.
I'll trade you my $150,000 iPod Touch.
It's a mistake to anthropomorphize HN. It's a group of people, each with their own motives. It could just be a vocal minority that are speaking out.
The graph in the article (1), showing a much steeper slope than other bubbles is fascinating for a couple of reasons:

1) The total SCALE of the bubble is much much smaller than say the tech bubble - the 280 stocks representative of the tech bubble fell almost $1.7 TRILLION in 52 weeks (2) vs the total crypto market cap @ the moment of ~180 billion.

2) The total scale of the Crypto bubble has MORE potential than stocks - why? The opportunity for casual global participation and almost complete lack of regulation / sophistication.

If the single use case for Crypto is nothing more than the world's greatest tulip mania / pyramid scheme it has the potential to be a multi trillion dollar asset class / wealth transfer.

(1) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIaa9KcVoAAcs3m.jpg:large

(2) http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/11/09/technology/overview/
Also in how liquid it is. If a very large retailer decided to do this with the block chain be able to keep up? I know the block size was recently raised but would it be enough?
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> You couldn't get someone with an AS/400 to move to a Unix workstation if you used a nuclear bomb.

Still can’t. The new bottom end model (iSeries) is cheaper (sub 10k) and will last for another 10 years until a new one is needed. The place I work is buying a new one because it is hitting the end of support (damn thing was bought before 2008). No problems that lasted more than a couple of hours in all that time.
But it is a psychologically important thing, and Bitcoin price has always been psychologically driven.
I'm curious what the naming conventions are going to be to transact bitcoin on a regular (offline) basis.

Are you going to say 1/10 bitcoin or will that have a name?

One thing I haven't seen anyone talk about is the language to make bitcoin more accessible.

No other currency (that I know of) has 1 unit as the MAX unit to transact (at such a high value) with no smaller denominations.

If Bitcoin really DOES end up at 100k/coin - and you want to buy something that's $10, are you really going to say .0001 bitcoin? There has to be a cleaner way. Even that, you could easily screw up decimal spots very easily.
Wouldn't that happen to any general crypto currency that got popular?
Bitcoin's main product is trust, so if trust in the system decreases, the price will drop. If someone demonstrated a security flaw and began to exploit it, that would likely do it.
Fun fact: even when you exclude defense spending, total government expenditures per capita (federal, state, and local) are $1,500 per year higher in the US than in Canada.
Yep, 26 is also a numerical value of YHVH, i.e., Yahweh :)
Each bitcoin can be divided into 100 million atomic units called "satoshis". 1 BTC is just a particular denomination, in the same way that $20 and $100 bills are denominations in use for USD.

1 BTC is a historically common denomination that will likely receive less usage if the price continues to rise.
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It's also harder to confiscate than gold, given one takes reasonable security measures.
Heavy rains can make dirt roads impassible. This is why transportation to clinics in remote villages becomes unreliable in the rainy season.

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I feel like there should be a solution that covers 99% of online projects. out of the box it scales, deploys, upgrades, does continuous integration, testing, logging, supports all major logins, has an admin console, metric console, etc... maybe it starts with the traditional Todo app and you just start modding.

I find it incredibly frustrating that much of this isn't a solved problem that I can then just insert my side project into.

hacking is fun until I have to maintain it and then I start wishing for all of those features instead of having to spend days or weeks implementing each of them from scratch
I'd say 90+% of the people pay the lowest option of $10. I doubt lower would bring in many more people. I have a rewrite about ready with the amounts being radio button with the non lowest amount selected. I be this brings in a little more per person without a big drop of in count.
why is it useful? you can store and instantly send any arbitrary amount of money anywhere on the planet and it is the hardest (impossible?) for a government to steal it from you
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I don't see a lot of differences between the self serve milkshake machines in gas stations and this proposed self serve juicer.
It's not that hard to add to a real website, but what percentage of transactions are conducted in it?

I mean if some big retailer like Amazon or BestBuy or Walmart to accept it, but only 0.02% of their daily transactions involved bitcoin would that be a success? It's a lot of money in absolute numbers, but it's minuscule as a percentage.

If it were 5% that would certainly be something to look at.