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Are you suggesting that goods that retain value are intrinsically illiquid? Certainly, liquidity is not important for investment targets, but I don't think that relationship necessarily goes the other way.

Yes, currency is used (where available) for transfer of value because it is highly liquid, but I would not say that liquidity alone disqualifies a potential good from consideration as value storage. Quite to the contrary. And since currency circulates rather than being reformed as tissue paper at the end of every transfer, it effectively stores a constant amount of value until such a time as it is retired.
Git repositories are quite a bit smaller than svn's[1], but hundreds of GB is pretty huge.

[1] http://www.contextualdevelopment.com/logbook/git/large-proje...
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It was but obvious that Google will start suing the moment they got their hands on patents that they can use to sue people with. So much for Do no evil :)
They have consistent pricing year-round for their on-demand and reserve instances. The spot-instances are priced dynamically by auction and the supply of them would be reduced when Amazon is using more instances itself. The price of the spot instances will never exceed that of the on-demand rate, since no-one would bid greater than a fixed rate for the same service. At the peak usage, spot instances reach the same price as the on-demand rate.
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One thing about eBooks that most people haven't thought much is that eBooks are the very first thing that we're all able to have as much as we want other than air.

He sure was right about that. It's one of the really big ideas, the kind that is going to take several more decades to really sink in.
Shallow clones don't seem to save much space: http://blogs.gnome.org/simos/2009/04/18/git-clones-vs-shallo...
Given that they don't brind much firewood (patents) to the bonfire, I'm sure Google will love that.
Wonder what was the price that was paid. Don't think they were given away free (as in beer), otherwise Google executives themselves would face lawsuits. Breach of fiduciary duty and all that.
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But the liabilities are limited I guess?
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Is it so bad? It'll get easier to find the name you want as a domain.... http://<mydomain>.<tld>;

If anything, so many tlds would devalue the existing .coms, .net, .org... if only slightly.
Not true. It's the android that infringes on the patents not the hardware.
Hmm since when did my tablet grow a cursor? Are you using hacks? :)
"... This is not to say that the human brain or consciousness have anything to do with quantum physics, only that the mathematical language of quantum theory happens to match the description of human decision-making. ..."

Read further. The writer is simply highlighting another scientific approach, "quantum logic" instead of or in conjunction with "classical logic", that could be used to model human behaviour.

'Quantum logic may be more suitable to
making decisions that work well enough,
even if they're not logically faultless'

It is also possibly an observable biological phenomena. [0],[1]

[0] Aerts, D., Gabora, L., Sozzo, S. and Veloz, T. (2011). Quantum structure in cognition: Fundamentals and applications. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quantum, Nano and Micro Technologies, ICQNM. , "Experiments in cognitive science and decision theory show that the ways in which people combine concepts and make decisions cannot be described by classical logic and probability theory. .... Inspired by a mathematical formalism that generalizes quantum mechanics the authors have constructed a contextual framework for both concept representation and decision making, together with quantum models that are in strong alignment with experimental data. The results can be interpreted by assuming the existence in human thought of a double-layered structure, a 'classical logical thought' and a 'quantum conceptual thought'"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3344 & http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.3344v1

[1] Bruza, Peter D., Widdows, Dominic, & Woods, John (2009) A quantum logic of down below. "It is known that there exist mathematical models from the cognitive science of cognition down below that have certain formal similarities to quantum mechanics." ~ http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18551/
Check my response to your sister comment: someone did actually do a controlled experiment. Engagement went up a great deal.

The anti-education culture definitely isn't isolated to minorities; it's spreading through the broader culture. Perhaps it was always there, its just recently it's becoming so not having a good education is a life sentence of menial dead end jobs so its getting more attention. Although I would disagree that it isn't disproportionately represented in minorities. Minorities experience it much more intensely because there aren't any competing ideals to help steer them in a positive direction.
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Good point. Not like it'd be accepted anyway.
You will not be disappointed by the Saleae logic. Almost everyday I'm amazed by how beautiful and useful it is. My Logic16's in the mail!
You're the first person I know that knows someone in the adult industry... :)
Umm... I think you read my question wrong. Who's not suing Google? :-)
If only promoters of Git put as much effort into fixing Gits usability as they do posturing about how everyone is wrong and how easy Git is, we'd have a better tool.
I agree with the spirit of your post but realize that selling patents is one way inventors can realize value. If companies couldn't use them as commodities, their value might be diminished.

The trading may pose some downsides, but it's not all bad.
At least some of the time that students don't care about learning is because teachers have failed to engage them. For example, most people have no idea why math might be interesting or fun, and the education system has for the most part only shown them ways it can be boring, difficult, and miserable. The same goes for literature! And history! And pretty much every elementary and high school class, actually.
Some students are good at plowing through boring and difficult tasks, and some of those students are good at finding the secret fascinating concepts buried within those tasks ... but it's a lot to ask of people.
Unfortunately, I don't have any idea how to inspire people en mass, but I'm pretty sure that the American public school system is not doing it, either.
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I personally think the much bigger question is how do we allocate the profits.

As it could rapidly go very wrong with a miniscule few controlling the vast majority of the income. And a massive income gap developing.

Kinda like what's already happening...
I really admire people who strongly believe in something and dedicate their lives to it. I wish I were made of the same stuff.
Michael Hart was a fantastic guy to know back in the early 90s as the Internet was transforming from a research network into a popular phenomenon. He'd foreseen this eventuality in the late 70s and made Project Gutenberg in part so it would be there when the world needed it. I'll always remember Michael rollerblading through Champaign-Urbana in his trademark ruby spandex singlet. And his incredible ability to scrounge computer parts. He once invited me to drive through the night to score an obsolete supercomputer that was allegedly sitting beside a dumpster at the University of Minnesota. He wanted to get to those hard drives before the rain did. Sadly, I turned him down - I had a first date that night. I don't remember her name. But I'll always remember Michael. And miss him.
"Do I really set up a working relationship with this person, who's likely dead weight and valueless now that the idea's been revealed? Do I give him the ownership he thinks he deserves, which is a 50-50 split if I'm lucky? Do I just build it myself?"

This is pretty much the plot of the Social Network.
You know that Wilson and Rushkoff were friends, yes?
> Smart people with that much attention flowing through their systems will figure out the details: which ad formats, which promotions, which virtual/real goods, which novel payment mechanisms.

Wow, you just hand waved over a tonne of details.

You should contact Yahoo to see if you can run it. You just solved the exact problem they have. Lots of attention, can't monitize.
This is a little different in that there was belief (I think Google even stated) that the halo device would be a competitive process. This document gives the appearance that now it will just be Motorola. No more HTC Nexus One or Samsung Nexus S.
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Makes sense. The heads of these companies are on psychedelics!
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OK, how is this different to whatever version of Windows Mobile, iOS or whatever?
If you somehow had access to some pre-release version of iOS or Windows ce/mobile/7/8/9/whatever, you would be under NDA.
If Google is working on some super awesome new features, why would they want Apple and Microsoft getting a heads up about it months before it's ready for customers to buy as part of an Android-powered phone?
It would be more revealing if they excluded Android OEMs other than Motorola even if they are building to spec under NDA, and had no history of leaking like a sieve.
I tried signing up and, after it confirmed my mobile number, it claimed that that number had already been used for an initial grant of credit.

Anyone else get that part to work?
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Inflation != hyperinflation. You're conflating the two in your argument.
Thank you, this is a much better reply.

The two objections I've seen to Groupon's accounting practices are:

* They had that weird metric which miraculously showed them being wildly profitable, and

* They have a long lag time for collecting actual cash, but still book the groupon cut as revenue in a given period.

The reason people get anxious about the second point is because revenue isn't cashflow. Groupon has amazing revenues on its books, but cash-wise it seems to play things close to the line.

It's a problem because it makes Groupon highly unpredictable. If a significant fraction of groupons begin to fail (and at any point in time the majority of Groupon's groupons have not been present cashflow) then Groupon is stuffed. And with only 3 years of operations, all of them exceptional and not steady-state in nature, it's hard to say what will happen.

You say "Revenue is also cash - before expenses". That's still not correct. Revenue can be booked before cash, cash be taken that isn't revenue. Sometimes cash comes in advance. The key point is: Groupon can book revenues that aren't backed by cash, and they have done so aggressively. And given their apparently high costs and relatively small cash reserves, it's basically a smoke-and-mirrors act.

They could borrow against their A/R, but it wouldn't be cheap given the factors outlined above. Whether they succeed or not still relies totally on a low bad-debts rate, regardless of what they can borrow.
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Those people sometimes bring along a 'straight man'. I end up doing this all the time - the hypothetical boss just wants to drink for free and oogle pretty girls, and I talk to the sales engineer/sales guy.
On the plus side, it keeps the boss distracted and stops stupid questions...
When you want to be rude like this, just assume there is something you don't know, and act politely to figure it out. Worst case you've been polite to an inattentive poster. Best case you learn what was that you missed, that makes the parent post actually make sense. And in any case you make HN a better place for everyone. Pretty please.
The General's office's report said that the projections would have been accurate but for the USPS earning a higher than expected amount of interest on their assets. To recalibrate based on this windfall seems foolish to me.

If you take the view as I do that an institution ought to make choices that will keep it around for hundreds of years, spending money conservatively enough to afford promises made to one's employees becomes a wise choice instead of a suspect decision.

That said, I do agree with the General that the USPS is unnecessarily entangled with the US government, and would be able to adequately fund its defined-benefit obligations without legislation (as private companies do), and also regulate overpayments and underpayments better without relying on the GAO or Congress.
The question of enforcement is an entirely different one. I was talking about the mechanism, not the legalism.

This is one reason why global top level domains are a bad idea, there is no clear legal jurisdiction for them unlike country code domains. A legal framework can be built around xxx.us, for example, because it would map to an existing legal jurisdiction. The same can't be said for .xxx or meta-tags in documents served from arbitrary domains/locations.
Apple was probably more inspired by their own iPad popovers, which they seem to have implemented in several other apps as well.

iCal: http://cl.ly/9xSk

iPad: http://developer.apple.com/library/iOS/documentation/UserExp...
One of my favorite parts of my job is the ability to grab thousands of machines at low priority for the hell of it.
We used to evade the filter at school by entering IP addresses instead of normal URLs. (This also seems to work to evade the IWF.) Is there an easy way to block IP addresses based on a reverse-lookup match against .xxx?

Regardless, I could see this being used as an excuse to shunt porn sites to .xxx, even if doing so wouldn't actually solve anything.
The fact that you are located in the Bay Area is why only 20% of the students are problematic in school. In the rural area I grew up in, it was more like 80% of the students.
But doesn't git stop you from switching to another branch when there are uncommitted changes?
This bit of asymmetry also leads to this interesting security implication: http://my.opera.com/taviso/blog/show.dml/639454

(In short, (INT_MIN / -1) can crash your program with an exception, since the result can't be represented in an integer. It's an easy way to crash a program that does integer math on untrusted input.
It's "Don't be evil" — a much less ambitious goal. Ordinary people do marginally evil things all the time without being thought of as being evil on the whole.

And it's a pretty weird morality where protecting yourself makes you, as a whole, "evil."
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I program in Ruby for every day stuff and as a hobby. But for $$$ I work on what I think is one of the internets best kept secrets: Dolphin (boonex.com). I tried to find other people that use Dolphin on hackernews, but I can't find any stories or comments besides the ones left by me.

It seems to me like hackernewsers are biased to writing their own communities from scratch in Ruby on Rails or Django. Dolphin is written in PHP and even though its not my favorite, I like doing something different for work.

Would you use this software to build a community? What is stopping you from learning this software and writing modules for it? Are you working on another open-source gem?
I'd like to add that being useful isn't a negative for something's properties as a currency - for example, the reason cigarettes become a currency in a lot of jail/P.O.W. situations is because they are always liquid due to smokers needing to smoke.

Often in those situations, cigarettes come into the economy as a ration (or a purchase limit) that people get whether or not they are smokers, and the economy revolves around getting this commodity that everyone gets to the minority that need it. Pretty quickly, you end up with non-smokers trading cigarettes with each other, because you can always get whatever you want through paying a smoker in cigarettes.

Bitcoin could benefit from that if it encouraged a very large drug market, because people need their drugs. If an easy, comfortable bitcoin drug market could get a lot of volume, it would become a lot easier to buy a cup of coffee or a car with it, and the prices would rise and fall based on the relationship of the ease of purchasing drugs with bitcoin vs. the ease of purchasing drugs in dollars. Maybe money laundering could keep bitcoin stable, too. In any case, to be successful, IMO bitcoin will have to be driven by something other than belief in bitcoin.

The use of the USD? It can be used to pay US taxes.
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This. I also used to work at Amazon until recently. Amazon understands decoupling, deeply. And it's applied everywhere. In the code. In the architecture. How teams are organized. How processes are designed.
Ditto here. I use GoDaddy for domain registration, and an InMotion VPS for hosting. The interface is confusing and cluttered, but their call-in support is always really friendly and reliable. Nothing makes my blood boil hotter than bad customer service, so despite GoDaddy's sins, their knowledgeable, friendly customer support team makes it worth it to me.

The purchasing process IS super greasy car salesman - I'd never ever refer a client to GoDaddy. They'd end up buying 20 things they didn't need, 20 times the cost it has to be. That gets obnoxious, but oh well - at least I know what to expect every time, and I can just say no. It beats talking to the unqualified or rude techies at other hosting companies.
This is what the KIDS.US domain was supposed to be. Their directory lists fewer than 10 sites that successfully signed up. All of the content is dead or stale. Just how do you police any sort of dynamic, interesting, ever changing content?

http://www.cms.kids.us
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"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

I really like this quote. I discovered Gutenberg looking for something to read on the train pre-ebooks days. I really got sick of having to take books so I wanted a way to get books onto my PalmIII. [0] Searching around for anything in text format I stumbled onto Gutenberg. How do you get the text into the palm in a readable format? Using open source software like Plkr. [1] If you ran Linux the morning routine would go something like this:

* sync PC with Palm ~ http://flic.kr/p/mhmuK

* manually select Gutenburg novels to read & add to plkr.

* plkr client would crawl various web sites I read, compress the pages & sync with the pilot.

* read on the train.

I'd make this morning/evening habit. I benefited from Harts vision for many years.

"My father read an assortment of these made
available to him by Cambridge University in
England for several months in a glass room
constructed for the purpose. To the best
of my knowledge he read ALL those available.
. .in great detail. . .and determined from
the various changes, that Shakespeare most
likely did not write in nearly as many of
a variety of errors we credit him for, even
though he was in/famous for signing his name
with several different spellings." [2]

Hart was certainly well read. You can open random classics like Macbeth & find his comments like this one in the forward of Macbeth.

[0] 2005OCT151730, Palm III, diary in use ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/52909493/in/set-720575...

[1] "An Open Source Success Story: A History of Plucker" ~ http://www.plkr.org/about

[2] Project Gutenberg, "The Tragedie of Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, July, 2000.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2264/pg2264.txt
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Sounds cool. You can do it for Cilantro (cilantrosites.com).

Email in profile.
Or still own equity in the company.
Git appears to be fast becoming the standard DVCS.

Is there any reason that all reasonably well-run projects should not be using git?

GitHub seems vastly superior to BitBucket, and git itself seems pretty much isomorphic to hg (albeit with worse syntax). (This ignores darcs, bzr, etc., but those never seemed terribly competitive for mindshare.) Furthermore, the network effects (with pull requests on Github, not having to have people learn a new DVCS to commit to your project, etc.) seem huge.

Aside from some new innovation on the scale of switching from a centralized VCS to a distributed VCS, I can't imagine anything that would cause me to try to start a project in something other than git, learn another VCS other than git, or try to convert someone to another VCS other than git. Is this the wrong attitude?

Is there any chance that Python might see the light and switch to git from hg? At this stage, choosing hg over git for reasons that seem increasingly irrelevant (better Windows support at the time, written in C/shell rather than Python) is starting to look like a worse and worse historical decision.
I haven't looked at the technical side of this yet, but any thoughts on this being extended to physical object interaction? (see: tweetjects, http://www.instructables.com/contest/makeittweet, Web of Things, etc)
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I used GoDaddy when I first started, years ago, but quickly moved away from them. Been with Dreamhost for years now and it's been very good. Adding SSL can't be simpler, they even streamline the process, allowing you to buy the cert directly in the panel (or import your own from a third party), assign a static IP, and everything works inside an hour. Anyways, just wanted to share my experience.
My comment above links to the ghost-town that is *.KIDS.US, which - with Congressional support - tried to do exactly that. It failed then, and would fail now.

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> Where as static typed languages are more slower and require more structure at the start, but the productivity boosts come later on when you have to support and alter the thing.

This seems like a useful test. Create a code base and ask participants to add some features and fix some issues.

> IMO stick to the language you enjoy and don't buy into hype and people with agendas.

A dearth of real studies makes hype and agendas the only thing there is.
People die at all ages and for all kinds of reasons. If your curiosity is morbid, you can probably hunt around for it. If you have respect for others privacy, you'll accept the information given.

Obituaries should celebrate a life, not explain a death.
I couldn't agree more. I've seen firsthand people using Go Daddy to check out a possible domain only to have Go Daddy squatting on it the next day. He was able to get a few of them back, but it such a hassle.

This was a couple of years ago; I can't imagine how much worse things are now.
Same. They also offer free anonymity, and I find their interface for both registering domains and hosting easy to navigate. I share their hosting with a handful of friends, mostly for testing and extremely low-traffic, personal use stuff.
This was the first thing that came to my mind after reading about it. I guess has to do more with the particular format working best.