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SSD are supposedly making similar inroads in the server space, for that reason. I don't think there's much IO in a server farm, apart from ethernet. Does DRAM draw a lot of power?

Intel's problem is backcompatibility: x86 spends silicon (and power) on it, but they can't give it up because it's their main selling point.
I use counter mode with 256 bit key
Key is generated as sha256 hash of the user password
> Some things may not be physically possible, or even if they are, may prove economically or environmentally unfeasable.

Correct.

My point is that that applies to govt/social mandates as well as the free market.
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At Georgia Tech, the CS program has 'threads'\*. You can choose to study theory, or you can study graphics or whatever other practical discipline strikes your fancy.

I guess it's not perfect, but it seems to work.
Surely there's an easier, legal and potentially cheaper solution open to any government that wants to shut down bitcoin: buy up each and every bitcoin they can lay their hands on.

I would have thought it would wreck havoc with the market (there's no reason why the government couldn't use multiple fronts rather than buying under the same wallet), and past a certain point make it impossible to trade in bitcoin without inducing a headache.

However, I accept that I know next-to-nothing about how money markets really work; please let me know where I might be going wrong :)
Well, as long as the risks and dangers are known beforehand, I don't see a problem. I hate it when some "authority" tries to prevent me from doing something "for my own safety" - NO, instead, tell me what the risks are, and how can I prepare myself to deal with them, and then let me use my own intelligent mind to make the final decision.

That's like saying, water is dangerous, lets require a swimming licence from anyone who wants to swim.

Besides, your [1] in a way negates your claim - if the availability of public audited financial statements makes no change in the investment capacities of the general average public, then it surely makes no sense to base the permission to invest on that variable.
Having been a student of the guy behind 140 Varick st and re-vitalization of Silicon Alley, I am glad that we start teaching the new generation what it means to be an entrepreneur.

Most kids today are going to college for a paper degree that will get them in the corporate world and provide layers and layers of management cushion one on top of another. Although boring, political and unfulfilling these jobs are not really demanding.

Most people who go through the start-up experience (successful or not) and wear many hats come out of it with invaluable experience and make better owners/employees/consultants :)

Seeing this made my day.
Traceability in the real world banking institutions has its advantages. As a business owner I've once had a mistaken transactions that resulted in erroneous withdrawal of +10,000 from business bank account. A phone call to the bank and a bit of investigation fixed things and I don't think the bank was out any money either, it was just a wrong account number issue.

With bitcoin, things are not at all reversible.

Also I expect bitcoin to be shutdown because it could be a great way to fund terrorist activities. (There are major federal investments in anti-money laundering systems that monitor bank transactions, bitcoin transactions operate outside of this system and thus will be suspect.)
It's model-view-presenter, which is basically MVC.
This is how trafficbait takes flight. The quote, immediately stated in the article, says "blogging is largely dead". This is not "blogging is dead". Using quotations for something that was not a quote is bad journalism.
Do you realize that by that same logic, you're basically saying journalism can't exist, period? It's always a case of some "random journalist" phoning people up and asking them tough questions.

Journalism does exist, of course, so obviously there are ways around this problem. They're pretty easy to see even in this case - journalistic confidentiality, i.e. the journalist won't reveal the source, therefore no one will know anything about which company is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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> With a bank you might be able to get it back

Only if it hasn't been transferred elsewhere and laundered and whatnot. Then all the bank is doing is penalizing its other customers to make you whole.
The government does not need to take down the network to cripple Bitcoin, it just needs to make it difficult to exchange it for other currencies. This will dry up demand for Bitcoins, and the exchange rate will plummet.

The US government can compel almost any financial institution in the world to stop exchanging Bitcoins by threatening to sanction them for money laundering.[1] A private letter from the State Department stating that an activity is illegal (without specifying any laws) has been enough in the past for certain significant money transmitters.[2]

Recent reports that Bitcoins are being used in the transaction of illegal drugs & money laundering make it highly likely there will be government intervention.[3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Delta_Asia
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/paypal-wikileaks/
[3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/bitcoin_under_attack...
How often do you update your landing page before launch?
Just curious as I continue to update ours not so much based on the product being improved but my desire to continually improve upon the branding. And by continue I mean 2-3 times a year.
> what Australia does now: a government who has treated the number of students in university as some kind of target

I am beginning to see the first real results of these policies amongst that group of my friends who did not do technical degrees or have some other skill. The people who did "International Studies" or "International Politics" or any of a whole range of cool-sounding but, when it comes down to it, basically useless qualifications. None of them can get any sort of job commensurate with the headed-straight-for-the-UN promise of the degree title; at best they can hope for a public service bureaucrat job. More than one are teaching themselves programming after observing myself and others rocketing up on trajectories unthinkable in the arts degree world.

Disillusionment doesn't really begin to cover it. The realisation that a great number of degrees are, if not useless, then at least impractical has not yet seemed to make it back to the year 12 students doing the choosing - but the secret certainly seems to be getting out, in some demographics at least.
That's basically what GS tried to do earlier this year. I don't have the source (it was in an article on HN), and IANAL, but apparently the SEC rules would apply even in such cases, since the intended purpose and effect is the same.
I'm gonna say it is your browsers fault, since my Firefox 4 maximizes it on the screen it was on.
I'm amazed that people are taking offense to my mentioning of the "F-word". Have people already forgotten what Java applets entail? At least with Flash, getting people to install/update it on demand is not entirely unlikely.
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I think he's just running with a very narrow definition of 'blogging'.

Blogging is WordPress, Blogspot, Tumblr, LiveJournal, Twitter, Facebook and any other number of mediums that lists posts of any length in reevrse chronological order, be it for profit, fun, to educate or raise awareness.

Just because it's not all techies cranking out 10 paragraph quality posts anymore doesn't mean it's dead. It's evolved.
Considering they already handle all of the import duties and VAT for god knows how many countries, and a lot of those are product specific while sales tax almost never is, it seems likely this is just talk because they know there's no way a unform federal sales tax is ever going to replace state taxes.
I thought that they ran out of money. That's a little different than voluntarily shutting down.
It's not such a bad bill, really. I personally would hate it if I created a company, got some investors, and then those investors would sell their stock, making the number of shareholders go above 500, and suddenly forcing me to incur all the cost (money and time) of releasing audited financial statements.
Had you continued reading, you'd see that I backed the point up by explaining what I meant. :)
> For example the price of wheat is not just what people are willing to pay for it - it is also the cost of producing it. You can not go artificially low with the price. Just to provide an example that is not so obviously affected by politics.

Food prices are an example that is infested with politics.

The US spends a lot of money "supporting" various food prices, including wheat. Some other countries spend resources on depressing prices by means which reliably result in shortages.
Just dug into the comments. Not sure if that's traffic from HN or their own but a lot of people are now saying "You're wrong" in response.
The evolution of Google search (at the bottom of the page)
I am in a similar situation to the author of this article: learning to program after having having tried and given up ages ago.
I believe the problem lies in trying to learn a complex language from the bottom up.
In the OP's words: "Recently I took on the enormous task of learning Objective-C from the bottom up and I was struck by something I couldn’t shake: this is too hard."
I believe one must consider the top-down approach:
figure out what you want to do accomplish first, paint the solution in broad strokes, then fill in the details.
Hal Abelson touched on this in a recent interview: "there also really are people who like to understand stuff bottom-up. It’s not to my taste. To my taste the most important thing is the idea that you build on abstraction." http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/hal-abelson/.
Get over your discomfort not knowing every detail before the fact, consider what the solution to your task might be and try it.
For a non computer example: you meet a French girl who you want to get to know her better. You could drown yourself in learning the intricacies of French grammar, pronunciation, spelling, etc.. or you could muster your courage and engage in simple dialogue of the 'me- Tarzan you- Jane' type.
Might work and you could fill in the details later.
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Wait till you have to keep up with the changes when 3.1 then 3.2 come out six months within each other, and start to change and deprecate things that you learned in 3.0.x
Show HN: My weekend project, findthemes.net
I just launched my weekend project, findthemes.net. Findthemes is a theme search engine for various Content Management System and it built with cakephp. Currently it has collections for wordpress themes. In the future I will add another CMS themes to the collections such as tumblr and drupal.

I am not using crawler to indexing themes. To keep content quality, I adding themes manualy. For you guys, themes creator, you can also submit your themes to findthemes.
Here is the javascriptlet:
javascript:window.resizeTo(400,400)

I was able to crash FF 3.6.17 with javascript:window.resizeTo(999999999,999999999999).

Just something I found interesting.
It is unconstitutional for a state to force a corporation out of state to collect sales tax, but it is certainly not unconstitutional to tax individuals in your state based on almost any concievable action the individual chooses to do.
Even if it's not, that's the easy claim to make these days that will get them shut down.

Kind of like "it's for the children". That phrase alone can be used to justify so many actions.
With bitcoin, things are not at all reversible.

True of plenty of payment methods, e.g. CHAPS in the UK:

Unlike other forms of payment such as cheques, CHAPS payments are irrevocable

http://www.ukpayments.org.uk/payment_options/chaps/
What is Context menu
Context menu is form of menu which is mostly used by the people and thus it appears to be shown to people on the basis of user interaction. The context menu is also known as the popup menu, contextual
Why does anyone take Austrian-School economics seriously? To quote Wikipedia:

Austrian economists also argue that mathematical models and statistics are an unreliable means of analyzing and testing economic theory, and advocate deriving economic theory logically from basic principles of human action, a method they term 'praxeology'. Additionally, whereas experimental research and natural experiments are often used in mainstream economics, Austrian economists contend that testability in economics is virtually impossible since it relies on human actors who cannot be placed in a lab setting without altering their would-be actions. Mainstream economists are generally critical of methodologies used by modern Austrian economists;[10] in particular, a primary Austrian School method of deriving theories has been criticized by mainstream economists as a priori "non-empirical" analysis[5] and differing from the practices of scientific theorizing, as widely conducted in economics.

I fully understand that economics is not a hard science, but at the same time it has been proven to be possible to derive economic models based on data that give reasonable predictions in most circumstances. Yes, some models break down under "black swan" conditions - and yet Nassim Taleb's whole business was built around the mathematical modeling of those exact conditions.

The Austrian School rejects the whole idea of a mathematical approach to economics, and yet I continually see it defended on HN by the very same people who in the next article are praising Google's ability to predict flu trends based on data, or slamming anti-vaccination campaigners.

I don't get it! Is it just a anti-orthodoxy bent that some people have? Or is it that economics bores people so they just assume that conventional economics must be wrong?
"Expertise" is relative, of course, depending on how much value someone might extract from it versus the value they might extract from other sources ostensibly covering the same topic. It also depends on context.

And I'd argue that static content by experts isn't going to be sufficient in the world we're headed to. Eventually, nearly all the knowledge in every known domain will be accessible to almost anyone. In such a world, the expert's value is only partially based on the quality or depth of his knowledge; it's rooted more deeply in his ability to synthesize the existing knowledge rapidly and innovatively, or to generate new knowledge. (Having a massive library is almost less important than knowing which shelf holds the book you're looking for at any given time, and in this sense, domain/subject expertise will still be highly valuable). Domain experts won't disappear, because acquiring mastery of a subject involves countless hours of practice or study. But as far as the consumer web is concerned, "expertise" is going to become a fuzzy and highly relative target.

If anything, I think the future of blogging (if not publishing altogether) will shift intellectual capital away from "experts" and toward innovators and creators: people who aren't just treasure troves of knowledge, but who can apply that knowledge in fascinating and creative ways.

Perhaps I'm quibbling over the semantics of the word "expert." But it's a word we should quibble over, because it's been a buzzword for quite some time now, and no two people seem to agree on what it means to them. That, in and of itself, is very interesting.
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Nobody would keep $500,000 in cash sitting around their house, but that's essentially what this guy did.
&filter[fields][domain]=nytimes.com&filter[queries][]=-username:ausername
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This seems to smack of shameless self promotion by Calacanis. He tries to discredit other sources of information and try to promote his website (mahalo.com). But any blog etc.. to get any readership you have to have some kind of draw or gimmick to get readership (or even actual content)
Are the email addresses from a purchased list? Mailchimp might find it a little odd that you managed to collect 500,000 email addresses without having ever sent out an email before.

SES forces you to gradually ramp up send amounts by sending out small amounts of emails over several weeks.

Usually people sending bulk email at scale are doing it more than once. Sending out 500k messages once sounds very suspicious.

Bronto is a great platform for large sends.
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Hey Wired, what's up with using quotes around something no one said?
Just whenever I see a word/expression that stands out I tend to assume it's something I might not know.
"audio story", "audio programme" and "audio maker" are all such expressions so bunched together it gives that sophisticated vibe.

So your selling point is "We pick the best content and get it to you", right?
But then again the selection is supposed to be wide both in terms of categories and time-length.
Do you have any good ideas on how you reconcile top quality and wide range?
Say my commute is 30 mins and I'm mainly into business/success story kind of things. Am I going to have something to listen to everyday?
Valued by who? Hasn't this been fluctuating like crazy lately?
With a bank you might be able to get it back

I'm not sure that's true. As I mentioned in another comment, the CHAPS payment system doesn't allow transactions to be reversed, and the other major system in the UK, Faster Payments, I believe has a 24 window for banks to request a reversal, usually in case they transmit something by mistake.

Honestly, I think we place too much faith in banks sometimes.
I'm a BitCoin skeptic with the best of them. But this is breathtaking.

That's one thing about bitcoins. There's no FDIC or SIPC watching your back. It's the wild west with train robberies and stage coach heists in all.
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Seems fairly inevitable: if I sat by the window of my house, talking to anyone who walked by about having a large cache of money, which it was clear was also in my house... well, I would probably want to do one or all of: (a) invest in some quality locks; (b) stop talking about it; (c) keep my money somewhere else
You're right. The lunch places are getting better, but that doesn't really support the idea that it's more than just bankers these days.
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Practical advice from the HN community is appreciated. How do I render a beautiful landscape using WebGL? How should one go about implementing a 3D WebGL mode for a 2d strategy game? Thanks!
Ah, the power of the exponential function - well worth a watch
Agreed -- there are still lots of hard theory problems waiting to be solved, and we also still need people to write operating systems and design strong cryptographic protocols. Not everything is as flashy or "cool" as iPhone games, but it's still interesting to some, and those people need to be exposed to these topics so they can find their niches.

(Also, it really bugs me the way he slams his own field -- discrete math is not exactly "arcane".)
"Its users will slowly lose interest, moving on to other networks and platforms (possibly Twitter, or whatever emerges from Apple's iCloud)."

Facebook is not going to be supplanted by Twitter or iCloud, neither of these serve remotely the same purpose.
My understanding is that you can use T-Mobile voice, since iPhone is quad-band, but not data.
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Nostalgia Forever. I remember playing the older Duke games as a kid (strip bars anyone?!) and thinking it was an amazing game. Like many people here, I carried that nostalgia with me for many years to the point where I bought (I didn't pre-order) DNF--and well... all I can say is, when you grow up your taste in things change. I wouldn't call DNF a bad game, it's just not something the adult me wants to play. I know though, if I handed this to my younger self, I would be quoting the stupid one liners all day at school. Gearbox made a decent game, they just didn't realize their main demographic grew up.
http://blockexplorer.com/address/176LRX4WRWD5LWDMbhr94ptb2MW...

That's the account record of the address that supposedly stole the huge amount of bitcoin. The maximum balance I see it have is 400 blocks. Is it missing from the record or is a bitcoin block larger than 1 BTC?
This is neat. Would it be possible to extend it such that you could drop a key file into the password box to do the encryption/decryption?
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This reminds me of the "come from" statement. COMEFROM is a long-running joke, it's a flow control statement which is intentionally confusing. It works like a GOTO but backwards. There is no indication in the area being jumped from that flow control is about to go somewhere else in the program. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/COMEFROM

I think, when parts of your currency start to resemble any part of INTERCAL, you have a big problem :-)
How's that Haskell lacks channels?

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/stm/2.1.1.2/doc/...

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.2/html/libraries/base-4....

It also looks that "select" statement could be done in a combinator library way.

The power of Haskell (or of any proper modern language) isn't in the language itself, it's in the number of things you can express as a library, on top of the language.
The submitted article is about the situation in Britain, and the situation in the United States is similar.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-05-11-remedial-c...

http://www.all4ed.org/about_the_crisis/students/college_acce...

Providing remedial (secondary-school level) mathematics courses for college and university students is a big business in United States higher education.

http://www.aleks.com/

http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~bgold/DvMthIn.html

It's commendable that higher education teachers give their students a second chance to learn mathematics that young people could learn in primary or secondary education, but even better would be for young people to have opportunity to learn mathematics at a younger age.

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/NoticesAMS2011.pdf

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/Lisbon2010_3.pdf

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/CommonCoreIV.pdf

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

Grade inflation after entry into higher education

http://gradeinflation.com/

has been going on in the United States for quite a while.
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JQuery Editor
Guys could you have a look at http://www.jqueryeditor.com and tell me what you think of the concept please?

Thanks

Phil
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Cool utility - one minor change that I would use ... put in an INPUT box, so that I can paste a URL in there ... then when I click on each size, open the tab and point it to that URL, then I can quickly see my site in all of the different sizes.

Well done, quite sexy :)
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You can use strings to represent relative times:

&filter[fields][create_ts]=[NOW-5HOURS%20TO%20NOW]

or exact timestamps:

&filter[fields][create_ts]=[2011-06-01T05:00:00.00Z%20TO%202011-06-02T07:00:00.00Z]

or both:

&filter[fields][create_ts]=[2011-06-01T05:00:00.00Z%20TO%20NOW]