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>Bitcoin was a flawed experiment from the start because it has an absolute supply limit. Reaching that limit won't help. It'll make things worse. The money supply needs to expand for healthy economic activity and growth. If it doesn't, weird shit starts to happen.

Everyone has an opinion about BTC's deflationary nature, but few people seem to consider the possibility that BTC might be the first currency that works substantially differently in this regard to all other past currencies.

BTC is the first currency that is infinitely subdivisible. Ostensibly only 21 million BTC will be created, but since it is subdivisible to 8 decimal places, there will be [21 million / .00000001] = 2.1 quadrillion atomic units.

And that is only an artifact of the data structure used to implement it in code, not an inviolable requirement of the protocol. The precision, and hence the quantity of BTC, can be increased in the future if necessary.

This aspect of BTC, along with the fact that is not a debt-backed interest-bearing fiat currency might require a rethinking of the Quantity Theory of Money as it applies to Bitcoin-like currencies.

Additionally, only ~7 million Bitcoins have currently been created, only ~33% of the eventual total. The BTC economy is so new you can't buy much with it besides other currencies, computer parts from Newegg etc., and perhaps illegal drugs. Finally, forks like Solidcoin are appearing based on perceptions of consequential flaws in the BTC technology (absolute dependence on miners to extend the blockchain, etc.).

Imho it's worth withholding judgement for a few years at least and just observing how it develops. It's something potentially new, to which the old rules may not apply.
funny, the first ifttt i created was to SMS me if the temp tomorrow will be above 90 (in Los Angeles) so i can stay inside.
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I thought so at first, but that just begs the question: So what if they're less valuable that way? The purpose of the patent system is not to maximize the monetary value of patents. I mean, the status quo makes patents less valuable than they would be if the government offered a pile of gold to patent-holders every five years, but that doesn't mean the government should offer them gold.

The question is, would patents still serve their purpose well enough under such a system? Would inventors be unduly discouraged from getting patents? That doesn't seem likely. Solo inventors would just sell a license to the patent rather than the patent itself. And the biggest deterrent for lone inventors has always been the expense of getting a patent in the first place. That wouldn't change.
Um... what? That produces no exception on any architecture I know. In 2's complement, -INT_MIN == INT_MIN. It certainly can be represented in an integer, and it's perfectly legal to return -2147483648 from that division, and the machine in front of me certainly does.

Integer math is done modulo 2^n (with a -2^(n-1) offset for signed operations) on modern hardware. Overflow is part of the design. There are no exceptions defined for results that "can't be represented". Divide by zero aborts because the underlying mathematical concept doesn't exist; that's different from a mere overflow.

Obviously there can be bugs that can result from an overflow, but overflow bugs are hardly limited to INT_MIN.
I'm a Git guy myself, but FWIW: While Python seems to be the Mercurial project everyone remembers because it was the most recent biggie to adopt it, there's also Mozilla, and the Ex-Sun-now-Oracle projects and a couple of others.
Not true.

You'd be surprised at how much innovation is in the industry, particularly with respect to social media. I know: my company provides web based software to funeral homes and mortuaries. We let them design headstones online. We even put QR codes on the headstones to make it easy to find the deceased individual's online obituary within the cemetery.
We're all made of the same stuff. You are too. You can do almost anything other people can, all you have to do is get up and do it. Some do, some don't. There is still plenty of time for you.

Rest in peace Michael Hart and thank you for endless evenings of reading both in the past and in the future.

Project Gutenberg will live on forever or at least as long as a single copy remains. Building a library is one very worthwhile thing to do with your life.
I'll take you up on it. I posted my MVP here a week ago for review. URL is http://cilantrosites.com (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2927607)

You can call/email/visit any indie (ie not Applebees) restaurant or cafe. Work your hometown or I have spreadsheets of leads in a few cities.

Email in profile if you have questions.
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s/Heh/unprofessional/

The URL is unprofessional, and so are the identifiers in the source code. Protip to the devs: Dropping profanities doesn't make you look cool, it makes you look like a 19-year-old trying to impress his friends.
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I attended a talk Bob Sutton (Stanford professor) gave on innovation. One of the first things he talked about was all of the times you do not want to innovate. If you're building a bridge, you probably want to build one with a design and techniques that have been proven to work. There are many other kinds of tasks where repeatability and reliability are more important than innovation.

Handling dead bodies probably falls into that category.
The example of the "privacy protection" reminds me when I was a n00b (I still kinda am), but like 3 years ago I wanted a domain that was taken so I paid ~$15 for them for domain backordering.... LOL. I didn't really know what it was at the time (stupid me) but now I feel so incredibly stupid for basically giving away $15 and getting duped for my money.
Because they pay a (small) risk premium.
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I don't see where Good or Evil enter into any of this.

Does Android/HTC infringe on some Apple patents? Maybe.

Does Apple infringe on some of these patents Google has given to HTC? Maybe.

Are the likely outcomes more favorable to Android/Google/HTC with Google having given HTC these patents? Almost certainly.
WebGL and desktop GL will slowly converge? Isn't WebGL already basically just a JS API for OpenGL? Doesn't that make them already relatively converged?
> Um... what? That produces no exception on any architecture I know.

Have you tried actually compiling and running Tavis's test program with the given arguments? I did and it crashed on my Core i7 running on OS X.

In gdb I get:

(gdb) run -2147483648 -1
Starting program: /private/tmp/test3 -2147483648 -1
Reading symbols for shared libraries +. done

Program received signal EXC_ARITHMETIC, Arithmetic exception.
0x0000000100000f23 in main ()

Hint: it won't work to just compile a program that does INT_MIN / -1 at compile-time, the compiler will do constant-folding that prevents an actual "idiv" instruction from being generated.
Ah, very interesting list.

I guess I think of Python differently from the other projects in your list because the choice of DVCS chosen by the core team seems to me to impact the DVCS that someone will choose for their library in the language. I don't really have any evidence for that, however.

Do you think that (a) language communities tend to standardize on the same version control, and if so, (b) that language communities tend to standardize on the version control of the core project for the language?
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You are using these words but putting them together in an order I don't understand. Liquidity isn't important for investments? "Quite the contrary" that liquidity doesn't "disqualify" a good as a store of value? Are you saying suitability as a store of value varies inversely with liquidity? Do you park your money in antiques and artwork? Currency "stores a constant amount of value"? It doesn't inflate and deflate?
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loved the video, hated the music. it was upbeat but a little annoying for me. overall, video was great though.
I don't think he was ever really going to become an "AOL Ventures" employee per this erroneous subhead here. There are really only 3 guys at AOLV and it seems his relationship with them was going to be as a LP.
Why does the "about" URL reference profanity?

Why did the page's source contain profanity, as pointed out by another poster (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971423)? (The profanity has since been removed.)

If your target audience is non-programmers, then make the URL something I can e-mail my mom without having to answer awkward questions.
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Good interview:
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-michael-h...

(Link at the end to a pdf with interview).

I was curious about how he funded this project.

Excerpt from interview:
RP: Do you get a salary from the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation,
which was founded, I believe, in 2000?
MH: No. We don't attract enough funding for that.
RP: So what do you live on today?
MH: It's been two years since my last pay check, but if you save all your salary when
you do get one, $100,000 will go 10 years with no salary, at $10,000 a year.

Interesting that he lived so cheaply in order to work on something he loved.
Intel x86 spec for idiv says Interrupt 0 is triggered if the quotient is too large to fit in the designated register. That would seem to be the case here.
They are the only government institution required to do this, and it has crippled their ability to remain profitable

The post office may be the only government institution required to do this, but every private institution is required to do it.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00004:@@@L...;

Since the post office is supposed to be more or less independent of the government (i.e., profitable all by itself, rather than govt. subsidized), it's quite reasonable to demand that it be subject to the same pension regulations as the private sector.
I think (a) is true, yes. I've written about the migration of KDE from SVN to Git in a longer comment elsewhere in this thread, and Qt (not a language, but the library framework most of KDE's products build upon) switching to Git was definitely a significant factor in Git gaining traction among members of the KDE community. The KDE community consciously wanted to harness the potential synergy it saw in the KDE and Qt ecospheres syncing up on the same VCS.

OTOH, I think the Python community is pragmatic enough that it wouldn't have chosen Mercurial over Git if it being written in Python would have been the only point in Mercurial's favor, from the POV of their requirement set. But it probably does have an emotional/affinity effect, after all language developers do obviously have to care about language! :)

Interestingly, one of the best Git libraries around is actually a pure Python implementation of Git and its protocols: Dulwich.
easy to say that in hindsight - IBM hired Lou Gerstner when it was at the brink of sinking and his previous experience did not have much overlap on what IBM did - he still managed to turn things around
I had the same problem, but finally discovered that DomainsByProxy uses the same password as Godaddy. The hard part is finding your customer id.

when you make a new purchase at godaddy, it gives you the option to link your new domainsbyproxy purchase to a previous account. it lists all your previous login ids.

so just grab those login ids and use your godaddy password for each of them.

Once I was able to grab the right login id I was able to use my godaddy password (the original password you used when you purchased the privacy protection, if you changed it since then, it will not be the same as the new password). Once logged in it was easy to remove the privacy protection and godaddy immediately reflected the new status.

Here's the thread that helped me...
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=272435
Mercurial has quite a few merits! I like git but I like hg better.

The main thing (to me) git has going for it, is GitHub. Even though BitBucket is getting better; it's still not GitHub.
Wow, the licensing authority could suspend a person's journalist credentials for writing "the wrong thing at the wrong time". This is a great idea! FOR DICTATORS AND FASCISTS, not for the USA. Licensing journalists is most un-American, and I'm ashamed of the Fed who proposed this.
Thank you for offering to do this. Two of the sites we operate that we'd love some external feedback on are http://www.ties.com/ and http://www.scarves.com/ - I can be contacted via the email address in my profile.
No, in two's complement:

int_max + 1 == -int_min
I'm a pious hg user - even gave git a good run (mostly because of Github). I can't get over how amazing mercurial patch-queues are. Big win. I love mercurial's easy plugin development and hooks (thank you Python); I love how many awesome plugins exist for mercurial. On and on and on.
I've started to think that it is wishful thinking. That was a big realization from that experience, that my echo chamber of programming sites and blogs and friends was not representative of programmers as a whole at all.

I also saw the appeal of that side of the industry. These guys all had way more varied hobbies and family lives since the programming stuff is "just my job" and had a good stable career path because any motivation we in the hacker news crowd would spend on learning new cool stuff they spend on jockying for position in the big office social/political world.

The lure of the office drone never got me though, it was too obvious to me that you are just selling the best part of your day for most of the week during the best part of your life only for money, since the actual hours are spent doing something you are marginally competent at and find uninspiring.
Yes, you are right of course. The interest rate could not rationally go down below zero, but there would still be demand for loans during the deflationary period, so there would be other compensation (like equity in a business) in exchange for the load so that the risk/return would be proportionate to the risk-free rate of holding cash.
I saw a wonderful talk at HOPE 6 concerning Project Gutenberg, and can only assume it was Michael Hart speaking. It made me donate on the spot.

As a staunch supporter of paper books I don't often read eBooks, but I can completely understand and appreciate what an immense resource they are to those less fortunate (and picky about their medium!) than I am. Rest in Peace, Mr. Hart. Your legacy will live for years and years to come.
That makes sense, but what I'm wondering is: why doesn't the same argument apply to all products in the presence of deflation?

It seems to me the real problem of deflation is that debts get harder to pay off, not that people put off their purchases. But the "deflationary spiral" of delayed purchases is what people keep talking about, and I haven't heard a good reason why the tech industry is uniquely exempt from that.
Yeah, I'm the first one in Asia :)
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Try http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart
The "who we are" bit definitely needs to be front & center, and if you don't have enough people with serious & relevant credentials, it's important to get more on board.

As a very small start, are any of you currently living in a house like the ones you're proposing? Have lived/are living in one of the many eco-villages around the world? Helped found any of them?

I love this kind of idea -- but it's one of those kinds of things that explodes in complexity when you get beneath the surface. Don't listen to the naysayers, generally -- but listen very carefully to the ones who have experience/expertise you're lacking, and get started sooner rather than later on attacking the problems they foresee.
It will be amusing to see how this is justified from people who have previously claimed Google has played no role in offensive patent warfare. I don't blame them for doing it. The system is what it is. Google has to arm their client-states with weapons at this point. Until the laws change they would be stupid not to.
I can see the headlines now "Crunchfund backed by AOL - will go without Micheal Arrington just like the Crunchpad backed by Micheal Arrington - will go without Micheal Arrington".
OK kids, here's what you need to know. There are three levels of your relationship with Godaddy:

Level 1: You're in balls deep. You register your domains with GoDaddy, use their DNS servers and host your shit on their servers. You also get your SSL certs from them. That's what the OP was doing.

Level 2: You're in up to the balls, but that's where it stops. You register with them, host your DNS with them but your website lives on another providers servers and you get your SSL elsewhere.

Level 3: You wearing a condom and don't give them their own key or underwear drawer. In other words, you register your domain with GoDaddy but you host the DNS somewhere else like DNSMadeEasy which costs, but is reliable. You also host your site somewhere else like Linode for example. And your SSL cert is something that costs more but is reliable. I have an EV cert from Verisign which costs but you get better conversions.

Level 3 is the only place you want to be. Pay them the bare minimum, immediately delegate the DNS hosting to a reliable rock solid provider that doesn't black-list DNS servers and use that provider to point your A record to whatever web host you're using. You get cheap domains and the only time you have to wade through GD's cluster fuck interface is when you change DNS providers or want to register another domain.

My primary domain did over 27 million DNS requests last month via DNS Made Easy with a 12 hour TTL and it's been registered with godaddy for over 4 years now with no problems at all.
> The precision, and hence the quantity of BTC, can be increased in the future if necessary.

The ability to subdivide BTC is irrelevant to the question of depreciation. If 1 BTC goes from $10 USD to $20 USD, then 0.5 BTC goes from $5 USD to $10 USD. It doesn't change the money supply any more than slicing up a gold nugget creates more gold. Bitcoin is still inherently deflationary. All subdivision does is avoid imposing a minimum transaction size.

Bitcoin is also unique in that a substantial portion of the total BTC that will ever exist have already been destroyed, as many early adopters abandoned or lost their wallets.
> Because looking elsewhere in the PaaS space, instance-based pricing — or something similar — is still the norm.

That's not the point. The point is that AppEngine boosted their pricing from between 5x-25x depending on the project. People aren't mad that AppEngine is using instance-based pricing, they're mad that they bought into a proprietary system that has a lot of lock-in and then the system increased their pricing by a ludicrous amount.
Totally agree. We switched from SVN to Mercurial around 6 months ago and I have to say I am annoyed that I have to spend so much time messing around with the tool rather than coding.
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> Why do Americans assume all Chinese and Indians are fools?

Why are you jumping to that conclusion? All I read was how fucked up the management structure was and how Yahoo managed to consistently hire bad managers who hired bad engineers who drove projects into the ground. It just happened that they found a lot of bad engineers in India. (And you admitted yourself that there are plenty of bad engineers in India, just like everywhere else).

> The US taught us ideals of capitalism

"Do as I do not as I say" is perhaps the new motto. What we teach is propaganda. That is for bed-time stories for kids, not for the real world. If you look at how external trade, tariffs, protectionism, subsidies for our various industries work, you'll quickly understand that it is most definitely not a 'free' and 'open' market. When we say 'free' trade and 'globalization' we actually mean 'you open your markets so we can flood it with our companies' goods'.

> I am from Bangalore, And I seriously don't understand this Bangalore and Beijing hate.

Again, why do you say there is Bangalore hate? There is hate at bad management decisions. Apparently Yahoo has managed to consistently hit the majority of bad engineers and an ex-employee was watching his company's projects go to shit because of it. Dunno, seems like a valid thing to hate...

> What you must fear is good hardworking folks coming at cheap prices.

Hardworking is not good enough. Compensating by lack of knowledge by doubling the effort, and writing, 10x as many lines of code, is the wrong way to do it. It is a sure way to fail. In a more sarcastic way it would mean "When unsure how to proceed, just keep churning large piles of code!"

Programming is not picking potatoes. You cannot substitute 1 good programmer with 10 average ones. It just doesn't work that way. When you pick potatoes, you can say, if I hire 10 pickers and they pick x potatoes per hour then I'll get these many potatoes -- awesome. Programming is like composing music -- a hundreds average composer monkeys won't be able to compose a piece that one good composer can. It just doesn't work that way. It is inherently a creative process.

> In fact we love America for the help they offer us.

Sorry to disappoint, I seriously doubt genuine altruistic motivations are the cause of this "help". India might perceive it as such, but I seriously doubt that's how American (or any) external policy works.
I have 98 of these in a box on my wall...

You can "control" it via a web app running node.js. Had a bunch of kids over this weekend who loved playing with it.
Wow, I went from 999 to 964.. that's 35 down-votes! This is insane, but not surprising coming from PHP folks. (Too serious to laugh, too stupid to switch, too stubborn to think, too old to learn, amen.)
Is anyone else mildly curious as to the actual code that was used? Even though I imagine it nothing more than a graph with specific weights it still must have been pretty complex.
Tech news just became a whole lot more boring. I, for one, will miss his scoops, they were always the most exciting, scandalous ones.
Like he won't start a new site?
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Is there anything to stop Arrington from creating another news blog? He's losing properties like CrunchBase and the conferences, but why not take a few of the TC employees and keep writing news?
http://istechcrunchdeadyet.com/

"What happens if arrington leaves (as many founders do)

"Site is done. He leaves, and his sources will follow him and he will setup shop elsewhere."
As an investment, it's like gold but without the intrinsic value part and the "historically used as an investment for the past couple of millenia" part.
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As GP said, not if you're creating a new branch. There's no history in the new branch to potentially overwrite your uncommitted changes in the working tree, so nothing for it to object to.
You're right. I'll rephrase:

The reasons certain devs choose Heroku over EC2 will be the same reasons certain devs will choose Parse over CouchDB and the like.
Only a couple times in the last year, just used them to register the name for the startup my wife and I are hacking on, however they came highly recommended by a friend of mine and Googling turned up many happy customers.
In case you needed to get to the slides [PDF Link] -

http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2011/slides/GlennVander...
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