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Well, ultimately what you're saying is that you trust the FDIC more than you trust any given bank. That's nice, but it begs the question:

- Will the FDIC fulfill its obligations at all times?

- How does the FDIC have the resources to do so?

- Does the presence of the FDIC lead to better or worse behavior among banks?

It's especially interesting to look at the issue of non-trustworthy people. When S&Ls were semi-deregulated in the early 80's, they got extra FDIC protection and were allowed to lend to a wider variety of projects. Suddenly, the credit decisions of the bank didn't matter, because the FDIC backstopped their deposits. And that attracted some really non-trustworthy people.

Wikipedia says the total cleanup cost was $87.9 billion, which discounts the opportunity cost from building pointless malls and empty offices. Can you imagine a BitCoin-based system ever hitting that level of losses?
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Thank you for link, very interesting stats. FF also has reasonable URL limit. At least for some browsers I can do it.
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Is "CD Baby" related (in any real way) to "Film Baby"? I had a less-than-stellar experience with the latter...
As you have found out, IO _is_ the hard part about clouds. It is very expensive to address it.

You probably should not be in clouds if IO is such a big deal.

Either that, or redesign to take the IO intensive part away from cloud and onto physical servers.
Your key derivation function is pretty weak. Looking at your code you are doing SHA256(password entered by user). You should take a look at using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 for the key derivation. SHA256 is really fast and given that you are getting entropy from some user entered password (which is likely to be badly chosen) you want something _slow_ to derive the key. Hence PBKDF2 with lots of iterations.
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It doesn't just get them from IRC. IRC is the quickest way for the daemon to get them.
Yep, I read that news. But they need not _connect_ to a mac or pc with wires, they should be able to sync automatically using wifi without even launching itunes. It's not that hard to do.
Because I think that higher education is a pretty awful place for vocational training - as people here constantly point out. Of course, if you want to do research or do fundamentally new types of things then a CS degree can be a great place to start - but that applies to a tiny minority of people.
Or, it's a way to ensure that Wall Street gets a (large) cut of any investment made in a startup company by "normal" people. For example, let's take the words of Seymour Cray:

The company raised $600,000 which was a huge amount of money in those days. It was done in a way that we can't do anymore. It was done on the street corner where people would stop by and say "Oh, what are you selling?" And you'd say "Oh, we're selling stock in a new company and its a dollar". And people bought a few dollars here and a few dollars there. There were no large investors in Control Data Corporation. I risked most of my assets. $5,000 dollars I invested which was a huge sum of money. It turned out to be a much bigger sum of money. It is interesting how our protective mechanisms over the years prevented such wild things from happening. Now it takes you six months to get approvals to do start any kind of an operation.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/cray.htm
As someone who doesn't particularly believe in the Standard Dogma of warming, I believe it's my turn to trot out an old chestnut: "If you don't understand [chaos theory], you shouldn't be arguing about it. [Chaos theoreticians] have spent a lot of time working these things out and are very smart, do you really think you're going to outsmart them?"

(And I do accept the credentials of the original poster on WUWT; you can't help but learn about chaos if you're in that career path. It's staring you in the face every day.)

The really interesting thing in the original post is the characterization of the Lyapunov exponent in terms of bits lost per time unit. If you understand information theory and what that really means, it is an extraordinarily powerful argument that climate is truly, fundamentally not predictable, on a deeply, profoundly mathematical level.

Part of why I don't really accept the Standard Dogma is precisely my impression that the weather simulators have no idea what realm they are operating in; they seem to have the same paper-thin understanding of chaos theory as this poster, and I have seen no evidence that they understand information theory or even know it exists, since I have never seen it mentioned by them or any of their proponents, despite the powerful, mathematical upper bounds it puts on their efforts, ones which are rather tighter in nature than the predictions they so breathlessly make.

I'm not arguing "against" climate change, I'm arguing against the value of any attempts to predict it beyond the upper limits established by mathematics.
Speaking of the morality in DNF this strip sums it up nicely.
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He then proceeds to say that he backed up his unencrypted wallet to "dropbox, wuala, and spideroak", which doesn't strike me as extremely clever when you're talking about something in the half a million price range.

On the other end it's a good cautionary tale. I'm quite curious about this bitcoin thing, but this reminds me I definitely don't want to secure all my money myself without any insurance or guarantees. A stupid mistake and shazam you lost all your money.

Regarding the issue of whether the application should encrypt the wallet by default, it'd probably be a good thing to have but I'm not sure it would have helped in this case. The wallet would have to be decrypted in order to mine or execute any transaction and the attacker was obviously targeting the bitcoin wallet specifically, so it could just have installed a keylogger or whatever to catch the passphrase, like they do with banking sites (or wait until the walled is decrypted and dump it then, or install a backdoored version of the bitcoin client...).
This is the typical "rails" response. Rails will make you a better programmer by teaching you the right design patterns, etc. Of course, it does indeed give you a proper structure to building a web service and can be quite educational. However, it can make life difficult once you start straying from "their way" even if you know exactly what you're doing for even simple things like mapping to a legacy DB with schema intact (not gonna happen). Conventions over configuration is nice but it requires some stability.

Part of the problem is the leadership. They take the stance, "you bastards are doing it wrong" if you want to do things a little different.

The community almost split when they managed to swallow Merb and keep Rails. It's toned down quite a bit but that negativity definitely carried over from the early days and infects the community (swearing in presentations and porn references, etc.).

But these thinking aids aren't exactly radical paradigm shifts that will expand your mind and make you a significantly better programmer for the rest of your days. Rails is one of the most influential frameworks and did a lot to advance the field but now there are other frameworks that are much easier to learn and get a functional web service started.

So saying dissenters are slow to learn, stubborn or haven't been writing tests really doesn't do anyone a service and doesn't make anything clearer, sorry.
Great list of infographics for entrepreneurs. Here is another http://thelifestreaming.blogspot.com/2011/03/so-are-you-entr...
Maybe I'm missing some detail of the scheme you're proposing, or have some fundamental misunderstanding of bitcoin, but if bitcoin is anonymous and untraceable, how do you prevent insurance fraud?
I don't think sticker price comes into play as much online. If you buy enough online, you get accustom to going through the purchasing process due to the additional price of shipping.

If B&N is calculating "Shipping + Tax" while Amazon is just calculating "Shipping" there will be a slight difference in price. And why not go with the cheapest?
I think you're missing the perspective of someone who has a major body of apps to maintain. I easily upgraded a trivial app. Now I'm slogging through a month long Rails upgrade process on a very large app. Unless you've been stuck with a large upgrade like this, it is probably hard to understand the upgrade pain.

That said, I love the changes in Rails 3. Considering strings unsafe and escaping them by default is great, bundler rocks, arel is very nice, and the mailer api is nice.

The rapid change and code purity ideals in the Rails world leads to benefits, so I tolerate it in Rails in spite of its costs.

This idealism has unfortunately infected projects in the Rails ecosystem that are really just infrastructure (where change should occur slowly). As examples, both Rspec and RubyGems are willing to break compatibility and code that I rely on for benefits that are neglible, aesthetic, or invisible to me. The difference is, when Rails breaks something, 90% of the time it buys me something.
I put my wallet on an IronKey - I imagine that helps the situation.
"These guys are a bunch of farmers and not necessarily the most adept computer users."

Most of the farmers in my extended family are quite intelligent people, many of whom have masters degrees in agriculture.

If instead of "farmers" it said "women" the author would likely get flogged.

That said, there's a lot of good points in this article. SSL wrapping the entire thing so that the autologin URL didn't go over the wire in plaintext would be the obvious next security step.
You should also use SJCL's AES.

Here's the link: http://bitwiseshiftleft.github.com/sjcl/
Is AT&T happy to assist you in unlocking the phone for usage with other carriers?
You've got your 30-second teaser video, clear call to action, social proof, many channels of communication, key features identified under-the-fold for more interested individuals, trustmarks (your Guarantee), etc.

I don't see any major offenses. It's standard. The only thing I'd recommend... include a call-to-action visible no matter where the user is on the tour page. (One the scrolls with the user, perhaps?) You don't want the user to search for it after they're satisfied that your product is what they need.

If you'd like more specific feedback, please be more specific with your request. By not investing the time to direct me to specific items which you are currently trying to improve it shows me that you are unappreciative of my time which I am freely offering, don't have a specific thing you're attempting to improve, or both.
No? I'd say a high of $24 and a low of $16.10 over the last 48 hours most assuredly qualifies as 'fluctuating like crazy.'
Go ahead and write a blog post.
I understand your frustration -- you may not think so, but I get it. That being said, the other points I made were in support of the answer I pose to the question: Rails is growing up. The changes we've seen aren't just change for change's sake. They're changes that continue Rails' evolution by identifying pain points and presenting a default solution to them, one that can be opted out of if desired. This is not new for Rails, but it seems like every time we turn around, people are acting surprised.
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At WWDC they had a lunchtime session that talked about the fact that they are sending an iPhone into space on the last shuttle launch and the CEO of the company doing this went to the Apple Store to buy the flight articles. He told them he wanted iPhones without contract and they said they had to ask him if it was going "overseas" of course he couldn't tell them how it was going to go "over and over over and over... seas" :-)
Allegedly.

Without an unbiased third party auditing of their accounts I would be loath to place too much trust in data they themselves produce to say how awesome they are. Especially with such a significant amount of capital allegedly at stake and nothing to lose for bending the truth.
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Facebook has already reached maturity and has become "too mainstream". Plus, it's a lot less useful than it used to be (more spammy). It's only natural that early adopters want to move to something else now, or simply quit it because they got bored with it.

If there would actually be a competitive and disruptive service to switch to (besides Twitter), Facebook's early adopters would quit it even faster than they are now. But for now we're just seeing those getting bored with it quit.

Looking forward to see if Diaspora, Altly and Incliq will be those "disruptive" services to compete with it (though I'm not sure if either of them will be disruptive or just incremental). Or perhaps something new will appear soon.
He doesn't seem like a very decent person based on his online conduct. I don't know why people take what he says seriously at all, he got lucky with Weblogs.com and hasn't done much to distinguish himself after that.
True, but atleast the banks were real physical places with real people at the helm. It is really hard to trust anything over the internet these days,except if one of the big financial players like Citibank or someone like Amazon starts a bitcoin bank.

AFAIK any of the online banks could be running out of a hole in the wall in Ukraine or Nigeria. Even paying online sites with credit cards is risky these days with the rampant fraud etc, I wouldn't trust anything online only enough to entrust my money unless backed by a big player.
ahem, read up on European history..

The Merchant trade in Europe came up with three valued things:

1. Corporations
2. Insurance
3. Banks

Those three items are related to one another. While its true that due to the anonymous nature BitCoin is biased towards illegal mafia-like formation of banks and such for illegal activities as soon as legal activities start using them as trade banks, insurance, etc will form as a nature evolution.
I work on this kind of thing (not at Google) and your answer here is helpful. If you'd be up for an offline discussion about other gaps between Excel and web-based spreadsheets, please email me (address in profile).
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Whoever downvoted me is apparently unaware of encrypted protocols like SMTP w/ TLS (which most major webmail providers use) and IMAP (which is increasingly preferred over POP3).
Sorry, OT, but this was in fact almost my exact experience with military recruiters. I signed papers with the Marines on the spot.

And I don't know about honest and effective, but it does I think target a specific type of person.
Not quite. The CPU power spent on a bitcoin guarantees that a certain level of work must be performed to reverse an existing transaction. In other words, an inherent property of a bitcoin is that it is hard to double-spend.

Creating a token of information that cannot be spent more than once is hard to achieve without relying on a central trusted authority, so I'd argue this inherent property of bitcoins is useful and valuable.
FilmBaby was started by a CD Baby employee. I let him use the name.

I haven't talked to him in years, so I don't know if it's part of CD Baby now or not.
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My university had 6 month prep courses in math and science for people who wanted math or science degrees, but didn't have the pre-requisite grades or had been out of high school for so long they'd forgotten it all. The course basically covers the last year and a half of high school and the first of half the first 'real' university level courses. If you passed the prep course they'd let you in. Surely you could do something like the for CS as well.
"We pick the best content and get it to you" - that's right! We have an editorial team for quality filtering and we're starting with content that would appeal to a certain type of person rather than categories or genres. In the same way that TED Talks may appeal to a certain type of person rather than someone who is looking for content on a niche category. Later, when we have more resources we'll look in to categories and if they may be of use.

I worked on another startup in the same space and one of the main reasons that we stopped was because analytics showed that our users liked having good things to listen to rather than personalising, browsing by category or by mood. Creating a trusted channel and things that make listening easy (as in when you're rushing out in the morning to work) is the focus for now.

I'm going to have to now go and make stuff!... a tiny team means lots of work and less time on HN ;)
Why not? They couldn't have made the phone without Nokia's IP. Seems like a pretty reasonable tax to pay. At least they're not asking for 30%...
For every CDC, I wonder how many scams were perpetrated at the same time.
It's not a matter of women being "scared off". Diversifying the people at the top is one of the key steps to getting a more diverse organization. This was an opportunity to do it. YC chose not to.

In contrast, there's 500 Startups, where Dave McClure is actively reaching out.* Which environment is likely to look more attractive to women entrepeneurs?

* http://www.ezebis.com/venture/dave-mcclure500-startups-found...
Probably no money at all this quarter, and a loss the following one. Of course one can argue that this would not be happening if their CEO hadn't Osborne'd their whole smartphone range and mostly alienated their sales channels.
So, I agree with you at some level -- people who think they want to major in CS should be hit with the real thing ASAP, just as aspiring chemists get hit with Organic Chem and aspiring physicists get hit with the wave equation.

But:

Where is the fun and easy intro to BioChem course so that we can entice more people to become doctors?

Nobody dies when a literature major builds a PHP website in their spare time, or hacks together an iPhone app.

Moreover, there are fun and easy intro medical courses: They're called first aid courses, and everyone should probably take one.

Lots of majors have an intro class that emphasizes fun and higher-level perspective at the expense of the details. They often have demeaning nicknames ("Rocks for Jocks", "Physics for Poets"), which is unfortunate, because I'd far rather see people have one superficial course in a subject than know nothing about it at all.
I believe that StraightTalk (http://straighttalk.com) piggybacks off the AT&T network. However, they might not like you using that much data. American carriers generally restrict which devices you can activate on which plans in order to guestimate average data usage for that device. For example, Sprint charges an extra $10/mo for unlimited smartphone data over the unlimited data for other devices. So, StraightTalk might decide to disconnect your device if you use "too much" data and aren't using one of their devices. I'm not saying it's right to put restrictions on "unlimited data", just that they might decide not to serve you as a customer using a device they don't sell (and it might mean that you have a $650 iPhone that you can only use on AT&T).

It's also possible that StraightTalk doesn't rent 3G off AT&T. So, it might still just be 2G. For example, Sprint roams on Verizon, but doesn't roam on Verizon 3G, only 2G (except in former Alltel areas).

It should also be noted that over 24 months, the unlocked iPhone will cost you an additional $18.75/mo. So, you'd have to find a discount carrier that was a lot cheaper, not just a little bit cheaper. If you expect to upgrade your iPhone every year ($37.50) or 18 months ($25/mo), the unlocked's pricing starts looking worse. So, make sure to think about that too.
Can you accuse someone of theft if they steal BitCoins from you?
Call me a redneck but I've never made an appointment to get a haircut in my life, and "rafting trips or overnight stays" are a pretty selective subset in my opinion.

Speaking from personal experience, the GP is correct. At my local climbing gym, the groupon special just brings in 30 extra new faces to the already crowded gym during peak hours. The slow times are just as slow as always.

They are now under-staffed during the peak hours (which get busier every time they offer a special) which means that the general state of the gym declines and the new customers just accept it because hey, they got a deal right?

It's a race to the bottom and I can see customers turning to businesses that focus on offering a great experience every day. Those businesses don't use groupon.
I agree that circulation of currency/commodities is necessary for a healthy economy. I don't agree that we're better off having value stolen from our currency by inflating it for the sake of "incentive".

How many joe sixpacks actually spend their money as quickly as possible because they're afraid of inflation? Hopefully it never comes to that.

> Deflationary spirals are no fun.
$5/gallon of gas and $7/gallon of orange juice are no fun either.
I think a lot of people aren't really following this argument correctly. There is no necessity for the government to completely destroy BitCoin. This isn't about it being all or nothing, or even the government obtaining satisfaction in its efforts. The point is that they have very powerful tools to move the "demand" part of the supply/demand curve determining BitCoin's value in dollars (and by extension, the greater Global Economy that dollars are a part of; it is basically impossible for BitCoins to have vastly greater value in Euros than Dollars because that's just an arbitrage opportunity that will be immediately exploited and thereby removed). By powerfully dropping demand, the value of BitCoins will rapidly drop. The fact that they are rapidly dropping tends to self-reinforce. In minutes or hours, your "$500,000" of BitCoin could be worth ten cents. Are you going to be motivated to stick around after that? The True Believers will, but most average folk and most intelligent financial folk won't.

The end result may be an economy that the US government can't shrink past a few tens of thousands of dollars any more than it can eliminate drugs. But even if BitCoin is not "killable", it certain can fail to meet the goals set out for it, and it is pretty much within the power of the US government, and for that matter several others, to make that happen. You don't have to destroy it utterly to make it useless. In fact I'm rather concerned that BitCoin can't even survive a non-government caused shock once it is being used by more than just True Believers.

(Also, note that the immediately obvious parallel of the drug war doesn't apply; government attacked the supply of the drugs but has much less power to affect demand. Attacking supply causes prices to rise, but then the increased prices drove increasingly well funded smuggling efforts. If the government could actually remove the demand for drugs in some magical manner, the War on Drugs would be over in a matter of weeks.)
So only "elite" people should write then? Sometimes I wonder if there's something truly wrong with Calcanis.
I wish it was the same for all companies... This is really different from my experience with major music companies...

Do they have an API for selling their music?
And it's simple to run a keylogger after a brower/flash/pdf/java exploit to grab your password, isn't it? Not even admin/root access is needed.
Bitcoin is a Thesis of one Guy. Its great in many ways but in terms of Softwaredesing and Engeniering at least the Client sucks. I've the Auther had knew it would be blowing up like this he would probebly have build something better.

Its Open Source and you can interact via JSON so it would be that hard to build a good client that does this kind of stuff.