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For a bitcoin newbie, what are the credible platforms to buy and trade bitcoins?

For those that follow bitcoin news, I'm sure there is a plethora of "don't do this," "those guys did this," etc., but what do I do as someone who knows nothing about bitcoins and how to keep them safe?
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path was designed to be a deeply personal social experience. if you take the time to recruit 8 people it will be a great experience for you. i usually recommend that people start with their family first, as the core use case we tend to serve is families wanting to stay closer.
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I did answer that in the wall-of-text above:

> Note that I don't have to worry about losing the cred files themselves, because I don't store them on me [on the SD card]; I only keep the keyfile [on the SD card].

You could keep a copy of the TrueCrypt volume there, but besides making the SD card more worthwhile as a theft target [they would only need it + your master password, not it + your master password + knowledge of and access to your Dropbox], it introduces versioning/sync difficulties when you add or change keys. You're almost unilaterally using these keys to speak to remote hosts anyway, so you're going to be online enough to get to your Dropbox whenever you need them.
I remember when I got back into programming after having left it for electrical engineering for a while. When I looked on the bookshelves at Borders, there just seemed to be an overwhelming amount of stuff to learn.

Nowadays, when I look at the bookstore shelves, there's only a couple topics of interest to me. When I noticed that difference, I asked myself why.

I guess it's because I got better at figuring out what to ignore--developed a sort of taste. I didn't try to learn everything. The only way to cultivate this is to try different things, and learn the core concept, not the actual language or technology.

I think the other thing is to realize that you'll never be #1 in just one thing, unless you're willing to work harder than anyone at it. Like Olympic level hard. Sometimes that's not practical. However, if you can be pretty good, say top 20%, at two things, that when put together is pretty valuable, then that's actually quite doable.

I can always be better myself as well, and have been looking to be better.
Ask HN: Why I should attend to Google I/O?
I'm building a company focused on APIs on node.js ( a kind of Google Apps script but for all APIs -not only Google ones and not on Rhino as Google Apps Script-).
Just to know why people attend to Google I/O. Is it only a google tech conference for discovering Google tech news 2 days before everybody?
Is is a business networking event? Is it a "business with Google" event?
Which population goes there? Only Developpers using Google technologies? Is it open to start-ups which can show off their techno?
I would come from France to go to the Gluecon 7 days after, so I would like to know if I have a good reason to spend $900 to Google I/O (If I have the chance to book a ticket the 13tth of March !!!)
"Starve, see if we care"

Even if they like what Walmart is paying, their workers are still on food stamps.
The only oversight in the use of lethal force in furtherance of either identifying or killing senior al qaeda leaders lies with the administration itself.

This is not true. Both the Senate and House Intelligence committees have the right to see everything the President and the intelligence community see. If they aren't happy with how the decisions are being made on drone strikes, they can change the law that ultimately dictates how those decisions are made.

And that is the real problem with what Rand Paul is doing. If he has a problem with how drone strikes are being conducted, then he should be pushing to change the law that governs drone strikes. He should not be holding up a Presidential nomination.
Didn't microsoft have a tool out about 4 years ago where each person had their own mouse (which they shut down for no obvious reason)?
we're not sure who was first, but we believe it is a new and important use case on the mobile internet. reducing what used to take 10 or more messages down into a single click. as far as i know, emoji was invented in japan, popularized by apple, and stickers have been popularized by many of the experiences in asian markets.
This guy deserves the negative opinions - his DMCA request is completly invalid (he just gives the URL or their front page an no specific illustrations he claims are infringing), and the images that were removed from flat UI after the request are somewhat similar but not at all an infringement.

Unless he gives some solid proof, he does not deserve the Benoit of the doubt.
5 minutes and then 10 days until github is allowed to act on the counternotice?
This is a hugely misleading statement. Zoom out. Regarding the previous 2 hours one could say "Bitcoin collapses by $10 in just two hours". Zoom further out... Look at the last year... Looks like it might recently be a bit of a bubble.
The point I was making is that we have a two tiered system of justice in this country; and while it used to be the case that the tiers were divided exclusively by race; they are now divided along the lines of class, and political opinion.

The meta-point I am attempting to make is that despite the pieties and the nice heritage architecture of the buildings it lives in; our system of justice has become unutterably and unsustainably corrupt; almost as corrupt as our political system.
thanks for posting. here to answer any questions if you guys have them.
We use iMessage for this. Its awesome for remote teams & makes pair programming easy.
Based on Sen. Al D'Amato's 1986 23.5 hour filibuster of a military bill. Another of his filibusters in 1992 involved him singing 'South of the Border.' EDIT: typos.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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Maybe it's just me (using PuTTY), but it is next to impossible to read while it scrolls up my screen. Once it's done scrolling I can't see most of the listings because by default my terminal doesn't save that many lines of history.

Awesome idea though
You seem to have found the problem by yourself. IMO this would be the trough of sorrow[0] for any startup with advertising as a monetization plan - the growth but no growth phase.

In my blog post I mentioned that here there are basically two paths to go - both of which you have identified. If you want to stick with advertising, choose one?

[0]http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/the-startup-curve.html
>For some reason or other we have become averse to amending the constitution since the 26th amendment took place in 1971.

The "for some reason" is obvious. Look at the amendments passed since prohibition was repealed in 1933.

22nd: Presidential term limits

23rd: D.C. gets to be part of the Electoral College

24th: Prohibits poll taxes

25th: Relating to Presidential succession

26th: Prohibits age discrimination in voting

Notice the trend? They're all related to elections. Because that's practically the only thing left that expansive readings of the commerce clause and other constitutional provisions and outright power grabs haven't given Congress and the Executive the power to do through normal legislation and executive action.

Why go through the trouble of amending the constitution when the courts allow you to just pass a law or issue an executive order?
KIVA Systems' robots (http://www.kivasystems.com) revolutionized warehouse automation. Zappos was using KIVA when Amazon acquired Zappos, and then Amazon acquired KIVA for $775 million.

See "Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses" (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/retailrobots/)

KIVA @ Zappos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdd6sQ8Cbe0

I doubt Amazon is going to permit a contract between KIVA and Google so it will be interesting to see Google's innovations in this space.
ShareLaTeX is also worth checking out: https://www.sharelatex.com/
Sorry? The spread looks to me about 30 cents. Am I missing something?
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It's a very different kind of stress. Might be different for you, but an interview for me is like running for your life from a lion while trying to solve a Rubik's cube. I can code, but I find that I'm unable to perform very well in those situations. The financial stress and the stress of getting something done in time is something I handle pretty well in comparison. I would also like to emphasize that it's a "small" part of the reason, not a very big one.
Hi, Authorea consultant here. I completely agree. It's important to provide a seamless way to export Authorea articles to submission-ready format, for example by including the relevant Journal style file (or even giving users the option to chose from a list). Work in progress.
There was an intraday drop from $49 to $33. It later went back up to about $40. That chart isn't granular enough.
An operating system is a special case of a programming language
It's just another weapon that the government has now. When the government gets more powerful, the citizens get less powerful than their government. Most citizens fear being totally helpless against their government's power. So small incremental increases in government power, like drones, usually spell bad news for the citizens.
I've never been to Google I/O, could you please explain why people go there and what is the main focus of the event. Networking with Googlers? Networking with attendees? Make business with Google? for Googlers keynotes?
It is very common to allow a support user to impersonate a user. A lot of the enterprise level authentication/authorization software packages support it.

As long as the action is logged it doesn't seem worse than anything else.
Singapore too..
What are the odds that the latest exposure will be followed by sabre rattling from politicians against bitcoin? And would that scare off enough people to drop the price?
Right, so I didn't explicitly state that the dispute is over force against US citizens. Unilateral lethal force against US citizens who do not pose an immediate threat without due process. 5th ammendment stuff. So yes, the answer is NO.
Dedupe: a python library that quickly de-duplicates large sets of data
Ah, so apparently I learned something new: there's a FPC attached to FCI Lompoc, which I am guessing is where Mitnick served time when he was at Lompoc (for his earlier convictions, rather than the most infamous one) as well as Captain Crunch (I am guessing he did not offer Energy Transfer Massages there, however).

http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/lox/index.jsp
I am choosing to invent a new model, actually :)
Wow. I think I still have that brochure somewhere, in a box that's survived two colleges, four apartments, and a house.
The site you're looking at isn't Meteor itself, it's a site that happens to use Meteor. And, as it turns out, it was being run in development mode.
I'd also love to know the answer to this. I'm a freelance developer (Node.js/Python/Go) in SF Bay area and am wondering if this would be a good event to attend for building relationships that will lead to more freelance development work.
Nice little post. But I see a few problems. techgeeknet, is this code your work? Regardless, here is a critique.

(1) The biggest problem is doing a "free" on a caller-provided pointer without giving any explicit requirements for where that pointer originated. It definitely needs to be stated up front that the nodes in the list referenced by list2 must have been individually allocated with "malloc".

Alternatively, the removed nodes could be returned to the caller in a separate list, which the caller could then deallocate.

(2) A somewhat similar issue is that the two input lists must have no nodes in common. Again, this needs to be stated.

(3) Variable names. I see "list1", "list2", "list", "tlist", and "dflag". What do these mean? I'm not sure. (OTOH "mergedlist" is good; that should be kept.)

(4) Efficiency. As noted at the bottom, this is a quadratic-time algorithm. True, it does make minimal assumptions about the type of "info". But with slightly stronger assumptions, the code could be a lot faster.

In particular, if the type of "info" is orderable, then do a Merge Sort on each of the input lists first. The resulting lists can be merged in linear time. So the whole algorithm would be log-linear time. And there would be no significant additional space requirements (if a non-recursive Merge Sort is used).

If the type can be hashed, then deplicates can be detected by inserting all values into a Hash Table. The resulting algorithm is still quadratic time, and it does require space for the Hash Table, but the average case is much faster: linear time.
We need something more than "well, the administration thinks they killed the right guy".

Then lobby for the repeal or amendment of the AUMF by Congress. The executive Branch is currently authorized by law to make those sorts of decisions.
Ask HN: Emergency, where can I find building footprints for Kent County, MI?
Hey HN,

We paid a county for some GIS data, thinking it would be great, but it's complete garbage. Now we have 11 days to deliver our product to a utility in Michigan but we don't even know where to find the data we need.

We need building footprints for Kent County, MI along with their street addresses. Primarily we're looking for Grand Rapids and some of Wisconsin, MI, but if someone had access to this data, we'd like Kent County entirely just to be safe.

Does anyone know anybody who would be able to provide this, or help us find someone that can? I know Google, Nokia, Bing and a bunch of other companies have the data, but I doubt they are willing to sell it to us. Although if they did, that would be awesome.

Any ideas? I'm trying everything.

Thanks in advance, Phil
I've had good luck with Bitfloor. They let you do a cash deposit at Bank of America, and it goes instantly to your account. No ID or addresses or anything.

Yes, they've been hacked before and lost bitcoins. I figure 1. being hacked once probably makes them a lot more cautious now, and 2. what was stolen was bitcoins that were sitting in user accounts there. You're at very low risk if you don't leave bitcoins sitting in your account - transfer them to a private wallet or convert them to USD immediately.
Why does that automatically preclude being motivated by good will? If their goal is to provide better wages to their employees then they would be best able to do so by increasing their competitive advantage by any means possible. Clearly there is a limit to the level of wage increase they are able to sustain when their competition is paying their employees rock bottom wages.

There's no reason why corporate interests and good will can't sometimes go hand in hand.
I'll get excited about stickers and a store when there's an API to back up the years of content I'm generating in Path. I'll even use the store to pay for access to the API.

Sent a support request over the weekend asking directly, hope they've just been too busy with the release to respond.
I haven't tried this yet, so forgive this ignorant question:

I don't see the full value of just my own mouse cursor...

Wouldnt it also be great if there wasa quick-fading text box
that becomes opaques when I type something, then fades back to transparent with some delay?

Is the assumption that everyonre is on a con call with the mouse?

(I am not saying I don't see the value of a mouse cursor - I am just not seeing JUST A MOUSE CURSOR as a business)
Raising the minimum wage increases the disposable income for the employed. You are making the assumption that an increase in minimum wage does not decrease the employment rate.

Your particular country may be benefiting from a commodities export boom, free-money level interest rates, or any number of other internal or external factors, which allow employers to get by fine with raising the minimum wage. Perhaps they had huge margins already, the customers can eat the increase in cost, CEOs are enjoying a stock market boom and don't dare to let their companies growth stall, whatever.

In an economic contraction things aren't so rosy.

We have a unique situation now where minimum-wage level employees are increasingly competing with machines. Increasing both the minimum wage and labor costs just expedites the progression of this trend.
pray share (microsubscription has been done before as you said). How would you do it?
People on IRC keep trying to tell me bitcoin is stable. I'll never understand what their reasoning is.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but asking for my own edification.

I can't find (or am misinterpreting what I can find) in the DMCA that makes it legal for fair use.

The main portion I'm trying to interpret is 17 USC S 1201 (a) (1) (A):

"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter."

I'm not finding another section that creates a fair use section. Does the phrase "protected under this title" create the fair use exemption? Or is there some judicial precedent that I'm missing?
You might consider something like Vala (valac), which produces glib/gobject c code from a c# like syntax.
It wasn't meant to be misleading. It was meant to be funny. There was another post here about how Bitcoins went down $10. By the time I saw the post it already went back up. So... yeah, I just posted it more as a response to that other post.
Notice though the big conceptual difference between any online (collaborative) LaTeX editor and Authorea. In Authorea articles are written in a browser and live in the browser (as HTML5 pages). There is a huge potential to be exploited by such a paradigm shift.
Did you also update your XP to the latest service packs and patches? My updated XP in a VM currently runs at 780MB after one morning of very light usage. It has only one application open at 100MB.

Also, yes, virtualization wasn't always needed, but without it anything slightly CPU intensive will be awfully slow. I can see it working for CLI-only linux/bsd systems, but not much else. Do you ever compile something bigger on your guest systems as an example?
Double-check your code for the stalker social networking buttons; they're about mid-screen on my ipad. Even if they were well-positioned they'd be annoying, but as it is they're super annoying.
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To quote Lessig from his Twitter today (which is how I found out about the filibuster and started watching at work):

There is plenty to disagree with Rand Paul about. But this filibuster is not. Thank you, sir.

http://twitter.com/lessig/status/309415470879100928
links to pdf's:

1: http://web.archive.org/web/20130118044626/http://guidetodata...

2: http://web.archive.org/web/20130118052353/http://guidetodata...

3: http://web.archive.org/web/20130118053433/http://guidetodata...

4: http://web.archive.org/web/20130118052556/http://guidetodata...

5: http://web.archive.org/web/20121017144318/http://guidetodata...

6: http://web.archive.org/web/20130118052100/http://guidetodata...
Mobile app churn is insane. Unless you can bring people back into the app every day, or it is a super utility, they will leave. Period.

I run a much smaller app that's bootstrapped, but we have hit top 100 free apps in the App Store before, and have been featured in the section our app is in, so I'd like to think I've learned at least a couple things -- tweens and teens more or less dominate app store explosive growth with regards to social apps.

I think the sticker chat is definitely something that those teens are into. That being said, those same teens mostly just care about followers and likes, which is why Instagram is quite the 100 pound gorilla in the room. Believe it or not, there are tons of folks on IG with tens of thousands of followers, who on twitter or Facebook have 10-100 followers. It is the de-facto mobile social network.

Honestly Path is a damn beautiful app, but because Path does not have enough content, people will leave. Period. It would be interesting to hear what the engagement numbers are on that 6M.
That assumes a rather static view of the situation. For Costco to maintain the advantages they gain from the wage disparity (employee loyalty, motivation, etc) they would have to further increase their own wages if such legislation was passed.
Email me.

Edit: "invent a new model" is hubristic code for "independently invent a new model that actually can be analogised to some pre-internet models".
> Please point me to the Congress vote on the authorization of military force towards N. Korea.

That's why I said "quibble" :)

Congress eventually appropriated funds for North Korea and increased the size of the Army to match, but certainly got blindsided by the Truman Administration (who even tried to claim at first the Congress didn't need to approve at all).

It is at least certain that Congress has decided to treat it as a declared war (e.g. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/benefits/a/vetbenefits.htm where they talk about Veteran's Preference programs, they specifically list out the time during the Korean War).

> And the shooting down of Flight 175 would have happened within our border so I fail to see how that applies. The U.S. Government has the appropriate branches of government (Law Enforcement, and by extension, some parts of the Military) to deal with such situations perfectly legally without any AUMF or drones.

The military is very much not an extension of law enforcement, as that is illegal per the Posse Comitatus Act. (Edited to include the right law; I said ex Parte Milligan before because I've been up too long)

In fact the Navy's surface ships will take a US Coast Guard task force with them to handle law enforcement duties when they are involved in interdiction operations (since the DoD requires Navy to obey the provisions of Posse Comitatus even though it strictly speaking only applied to the Army).

There's no need to worry about shooting missiles at U.S. citizens after 2001 though. We've attacked American citizens on military grounds since the Whiskey Rebellion.
Pretty handy, I've always wanted remote access where two people can move the mouse separately.
My son has always had his math questions answered. His mother has a MS in both Math and Neuroscience and a BS in CS (with a minor in History). His dad (me) is just a dumb-ass programmer.

When he was 5 we would practice 'math' in the car as we drove to school in the morning. Mostly addition, but then subtraction (including negative numbers). From there we moved on to repeated addition (multiplication). Sometime in first grade, he asked a question at the dinner table. He'd noticed that 2x2=4 and 3x3=9, but wanted to know if there were two numbers that could be multiplied to 'make 5'.

Square roots. Did the same picture thing.

He went to school the next day, and proudly told his teacher that he knew "square roots". We got the note back asking us to not teach him "advanced math". The Parent-Teacher conference ensued. The teacher didn't remember what they were.

#include <polite/conversation/about/not/discouraging/him>

sigh.
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Is freedom a bubble? There is tremendous value in freedom. Bitcoin provides this in abundance. Like P2P filesharing, no amount of legislation and regulation will wrest control of it back into the hands of the government and financial institutions - it will only continue to be embraced as public awareness grows.

It's not a bubble, it's a snowball - at least in the long run.
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