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Yea was sent that yesterday but didn't look much into it until now. Wow, it's pretty impressive. Props to Phillip for doing the complete product on his own.
What makes you think ownership of copyright isn't transferable?
To that same token...

Let's say company A and company B create the exact same alogorithim in the exact same time. Company A markets it much better and effectively "wins" the market. Should their success be determined by purely R&D alone? Since this is a rather unrealistic (albeit becoming more and more realistic) situation. Imagine a slightly more realistic scenario. Company A starts R&D day 1 and finishes day 100. Company B starts R&D day 50 and finishes day 125. But Company B has better management, marketing, etc. and (again) effectively wins the market.

Who gets precedence?

> We're much more concerned about the very real problem that people (e.g. competitors) will use our research and work.

So why don't you just keep it secret? Is this ultimately the question?
In the USA, you can sue anyone for anything at any time. It doesn't mean you'll win, or even get past an initial hearing to get a trial.
Looks like there was an attempt to do that as a mod to The Elder Scrolls IV - http://www.thedarklands.com/
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People have sued McDonald's for serving hot coffee in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonalds_Restaurant...
Anyone else just get a black page after everything's loaded?
If you don't, then people who mis-typed their address won't know. If your splash says "We've sent an email to confirm your registration - feel free to ignore it" then it gives people a chance to say "Woah - I didn't get a confirmation."

Assuming people care.
> You are mistaken. The only reason domestic unrest is a more likely danger for a world power is because the country we are speaking of already has missile silos and stationary bases in the first place.

Actually, I think you're mistaken, but let's think this through -

There's 200 countries in the world, roughly. Call the current world powers America, China, UK, Russia, and maybe a couple other European countries.

In any given year, there's a lot more chance of any given country having a riot/unrest than there is an attack by America, China, UK, or Russia. Like, much higher. And usually, there's considerable advance warning before attacks so you could prepare.

If you like, you can add in places with a decent mix of either high troop strength or very technologically advanced military - even adding in places like North Korea, Iraq before losing its various recent wars, and Israel doesn't seem to change the numbers that much. The chance of serious unrest in any given country in the world is much higher than the chance of attack by a militarily powerful nation.

We could check actual numbers if this isn't convincing, but the number of domestic insurrections every year are much higher than attacks by a major world power. And also, those usually come with more telegraphing beforehand than domestic unrest does.
I'm skeptical too. The fact that he didn't put a disclaimer on his site that he wasn't affiliated with Hidden is odd.
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Curious if he actually stole it or "received stolen goods".

I guess they will find that out later. But congrats on a happy ending.

Of course the police will probably keep it as evidence for a year now.
'Delicacy' doesn't cover it, in this instance. He DID backup the wallet, and it still destroyed his money.
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Neat! I didn't know it was so powerful.
Most operating systems fail on various bits of hardware. Windows uses the ACPI vector, then tries the keyboard controller, then the ACPI vector again, then the keyboard controller again, and then just stops.
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I don't see how the argument is circular.
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The behavior is standardized to a degree that it works for Windows, but according to your article Windows does its own poking around for the reset. It would be nice if there was one established protocol for resets rather than any poking around at all.

I guess this was the point of your article though.
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You comment puzzles me. Hopefully you will reply below.

Are you discounting the value of reversible birth control based upon your feelings at a certain point in time? Also remember that evolution has probably programmed children be "amazing" until they can fend for themselves.

Presumably you're comfortably middle-class in a first-world country with a good social contract (yes, kid-friendly services like subsidized/free public schools and universities are a safety net). You need to step back and think about societies which don't have such luxuries.

And sorry to get all personal on you, but do you use ANY scientific form of birth control? Are you ok with you/your SO getting pregnant every year (unsure about your gender, hence hedging)? That's usually what happens w/o birth control. If you do use scientific birth control (so-called "rhythm" method etc don't count) then your comment is pretty hypocritical.
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Do it! I would love to know how accurate guys like Umair Haque, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman and Charles Krauthammer are.
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There are at least two things in every employment case, and at least one additional thing in the company principal case, that will keep wages anchored to dollars no matter what form of unicorn dollar we come up with next:

* There is a dollar-denominated minimum wage

* There is dollar-denominated payroll tax and, for contractors, dollar-denominated self-employment tax that scales in dollar-denominated amounts whether you're paid in moon cakes or rare freshwater fish.

* And, if you're a company principal of a non-passthrough entity, there is an IRS requirement that you be paid a wage that corresponds to the fair market value of your role, and anything you do to not pay yourself a reasonable-looking dollar-denominated wage stands a good chance of getting you audited (this rule being one of the primary ways business owners attempt to avoid paying taxes).

It's only been fairly recently that the Department of Labor has issued opinions about foreign nationals being paid in foreign currency based on the current exchange rate available in the vicinity of the employer; that is, there are very specific cases in which you can pay someone both Euros and Dollars. Making geeky assumptions that, because some PHP program somewhere generates some number people call an "exchange rate" that means Bitcoins get you around the FLSA minimum wage... dubious and risky.
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The question I have is whether or not it is the intention of the patent system to protect against someone else independently developing the same thing. If that is indeed the intention, then I am opposed to all patents because I don't want this kind of protection to exist in any shape or form.

I'm not a lawyer or historian, but I suspect that protecting against independent invention may not have been the main goal of those who created the patents system. I suspect that this kind of protection may just be a side effect of assuming that it is generally impossible to tell whether or not an invention was arrived at independently and that it is generally impossible to keep the inner workings of an invention secret.

These assumptions are not true in the same way for software as for, say, the typewriter or a particular kind of elevator or even a chemical substance. That's why it may make sense to think about software patents seperately.
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Serious question: If bitcoins can be destroyed so easily (either by accident or deliberately), how can anyone know the actual number of coins in circulation?
I don't think I will use an app like Hidden mentioned in the post. It's just a laptop if you back up your data. But using an online service means that they have access to every activity you do on your computer. I don't think I can trust them. What if they activate the software and record user data without you knowing?
Andrew Warner, get the Hidden guys on Mixergy. Would be great to learn about their conversion rate with this awesome campaign.
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If bitcoin really took off, I think people would use dedicated devices to store them, not their home computer/phone.

That's the beauty of bit bitcoin. It's not just big banking or you matress. Innovation has just begun.
This has "marketing campaign" written all over it. Good try.
New York Times article as the site is hammered: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/business/27delaney.html
Thank you! Excellent piece.
This isn't the scale I'm talking about. You don't need a fleet of $500 million USD submarines.

11 US aircraft carriers? 11 missiles. $100+Billion vs $15 Million. 30000 soldiers vs 0.

During the cold war this is the strategy that Russia took - let the US build expensive ships, they build [relatively] cheap missiles. The Chinese are doing the same with the Dong Feng missiles.
As I understand it, you can only prove how many exist, inclusive of 'lost' BC.
Well, he doesn't actually say that it happened to him... just that it could happen.
The new follow button provides no confirmation when you decide to "follow" somebody and it provides no way of undoing your choice. I made this simple demonstration in five minutes of a button that follows your cursor around the page hidden with opacity.

If you followed the instruction and clicked on the page, you should see that you're now following @justinbieber.

Imagine a scammer teleporting the follow button on top of links in onmouseover in a similar manner.
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Agreed. Obviously K&R is a benchmark. But I'm also thinking of "Effective C++". This was a fairly thin book, but after reading it, I realized that I didn't know half as much about C++ as I thought I did, and in its relatively small number of pages, it taught me a hugely disproportionate amount of how C++ really works.
Brilliant one here - CorsixTH, remake of ThemeHospital. https://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/
Anyone wonder about "Guy sleeping on the couch next to my MacBook."? Doesn't the app use the computer's camera to take pictures?
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correct me if i'm wrong (i don't know enough about bitcoin), but wouldn't it also be the case that he would've lost his money if he shut down the live CD system before backing up his data?

edit: 1 hr later, upvotes with no correction, so i think "delicacy" does cover it. why would you send $81k to a system that could lose it with a power outage, crash, accidental shutdown, etc?
Argh, this is actually a very legitimate case. It is rather unfortunate that in most people's eyes this is viewed as a textbook example of a farcical lawsuit.

Some points, which are mentioned in the very wiki article you linked.

* The coffee was about 45F or 20C higher than McDonald's guidelines.

* The coffee caused third-degree burns that required skin grafting

* Liebeck initially only asked to be compensated $18,000 largely to cover medical expenses; third-degree burns, an eight-day hospital stay which lead her to lose 20 lbs.
Update: A Nokia spokesman says the Microsoft rumor is baseless
Thanks for your feedback. It appears that mentioning a HN darling guarantees that my post gets flagged and will never hit the home page (as of now, 9 points in 30 minutes, and it's below a post with 5 points in 3 hours - how much flagging does that imply?)

Groupthink? Guys, try to be open-minded and accept that constructive criticism and engaging a community in debate is not a bad thing. Cheap censorship is.
This happened about ten days ago. I knew John a little, and put up a post with a couple memories here: http://blog.mercury-rac.com/2011/05/29/in-memory-of-john-del...

And here's one from the Freakonomics blog: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/05/24/r-i-p-john-delaney-pr...
Will my homeowners insurance policy cover damage to my bitcoin wallet?
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Can't reach the page, but the submission title made me want to share an on-topic book recommendation - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer. [1] It's a very sad, but thrilling, account of a catastrophic journey up Everest.

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Many web frameworks have these basic building blocks. I'm a PHP guy, so I'd recommend the standard options: Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc. They will all do registration, login, profiles, etc., as well as get you security features and a platform for plugins developed by third parties.

Many of them have plugins for payment stuff as well.
I don't understand. What does the "send 1 BTC to yourself" bit of this process do? I'm confused by what exactly is happening that makes the bitcoins disappear. What are you supposed to backup, if not the "wallet"?
The rumor is that MS would buy the phone business. Nokia also has several billion dollars in cash, Navteq and a 50 percent stake in Nokia Siemens Networks.
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i don't understand how he lost all his money. aren't all his transactions still stored in the block chain? the network should still agree that he has his money, as he hasn't sent it to anyone (other than 1 BTC)
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You don't. And unlike actual goods, when they are lost, they are lost forever.
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So aside from K&R, what are some of the best small books?
Interesting question.

I can give you a counter-example, why I think that taxes shouldn't apply to generated coins: Let's say you programm an application (or paint a picture, etc.) and it is easy to estimate the market value. Do you need to pay taxes for your application (or the picture) as long as you don't sell it? IMO it's the same with generated Bitcoins.
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This article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978295 has stuck with me since it was posted a while ago.

I guess everyone who goes there knows the dangers, and would be prepared for the worst.
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Does it really promote innovation to advantage 2nd movers? Sure it is possible to add to the software and improve it, but often, the innovation is simply execution, buzz, sales and other non-trivial business things. How can there be a reward for the equally important talents of having the vision for new solutions and ability to create them if there is no patent or licensing protection?

Also, it scares me a bit when someone as influential as Fred takes this to his blog - read by so many startups. VCs make money from execution and have an (or another) incentive to suggest that patents are not an acceptable tool for startups.

I agree with the need for patent reform, actually, but a) I'm not sure eliminating software patents is the answer and b) would encourage each startup to make their own decision on how to use the current laws to give them every advantage they can get.
The transactions are in the block chain, but the key to make new transactions are in the wallet.dat.

That being said, I dont see how any bitcoins were lost given the example in the post. When the wallet from the flash drive was restored, he should have access to the coins again.
Hmm, but a carrier can do a lot of different stuff. It's about nuance. Sometimes you just want to float there quietly on the horizon looking like 90,000 tonnes of badassery while the diplomats do their thing. Didn't Sun Tzu say something about avoiding the need to actually fight whenever possible?
I understood this in the original parent's comment from "monopoly game", and I suspect the original parent understood it & meant it that way. Rarely would those words be used together not meaning the board game. (NB nouns in German are all capitalized).

In economics, in English, "real economy" refers to the creation of products and performance services as distinct from financial markets, but it's hard for me to tell if that's what is meant here.

[edit: fixed my post to refer to the OP ]
> This was tweeted out and shared to a couple hundred thousand fans following on twitter and Facebook ...

Looks like they already had a lot of customers.
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Yes, but if China also built the fleet, then it would be in a position to project power farther from its shores. If all you wanted to do is keep the carrier group away from your own shore, then capable missiles would suffice.
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