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More adoption doesn't necessarily mean that. Of players who hold on to Bitcoin for longer than a few minutes, virtually all of them are speculators. If you accept Bitcoin as payment for services, your biggest technical challenge is converting them back into dollars/euros/whatever as quickly as possible. No one is accepting Bitcoin as payment and then holding on to them in order to buy something else or pay their workers.

As a long term (or medium-term anyway) store of value, Bitcoin is really quite useless for the time being.
Doesn't this feel more like Castle Wolfenstein than Doom?
This is the same company that was for the higher taxes for the rich and then made sure to get a huge loan to pay bonuses ahead of schedule so the Costco execs and board members could avoid the tax hike. Hypocrites.
Please point me to the Congress vote on the authorization of military force towards N. Korea. Also, the AUMF is an extreme case of executive overreach, and in a perfect world would be struck down, so using it as justification for your argument is suspect at best.

I fail to see where those examples you give involved pre-emptive force. A declared war was going on in each of them, isn't that exactly the situation where pre-emptive force is justified?

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.

You can call a slippery slope a fallacy all the way down to the bottom. If I called it a slippery slope in 2001, and posted hypotheticals about us shooting missiles at U.S. citizens extra-judicially would it still be a fallacy?
> why not CSS

Disabling useless CSS stuff is pretty much what Readability is all about.

Besides, CSS generally doesn't claim much of my CPU to display peripheral stuff. Javascript, on the other hand ...
you just draw over the tiles with the correct color. I guess that wasn't obvious though I figured it out. You can make as many mistakes as you want. I guess a tutorial would solve that but there is no fail. Just win or give up.
As pointed out by @bascule, Sodium will ship with the winning function of the Password Hashing Competition.
So, he 1) didn't answer the question 2) instead used it as an opportunity to campaign and 3) this some how makes it better from your point of view?
I used to use path around v1, but am struggling to find my use case for it since. So who is their core userbase?
With the format being open I really wish a Linux client would happen already.
Lol @ $10 spread.
And even that didn't stop Andrew Jackson.
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16GB of RAM is not a lot in workstation applications. I have simulations that use matrices which take 30GB of RAM. This is for one large matrix, where 24 threads are accessing different parts of it simultaneously. Your MBP is physically not capable of doing this.
My original motivating problem was: how do blogs I like make money?

Blogs that aren't about answering Oracle Obscure Platform 6.75a-R2 questions. Blogs that aren't about mesothelioma. Blogs that aren't "review" websites.

Honest, good old fashioned smart people writing thoughtful stuff.

Based on who I've talked to in areas of business and politics and the visible spread of ideas in Australian public intellectual life, the demographics for the blogs I directly host are amazing. Highly paid professionals all round. They're read in ministry offices and C-suites all over the country.

To scrape some of this high-quality audience $$ I'd need to adopt a very high touch advertising policy and use invasive user tracking to prove my demographics. I don't have time or the moral flexibility and neither do the bloggers.

Hence: how do the blogs I like make money?

(Answer right now is: at their dayjobs.)

The technology I've developed allows users to be tracked visiting participating websites without the websites being able to piggyback on my scheme to track users across multiple sites. It's resistant to the visit falsification attacks present in any standard tracking scheme.

Pointless without a business, of course. So watch this space, I suppose.
I guess we simply disagree then. I am of the opinion any action is beneficial at this point, though I can see (but not agree with :) ) your point.
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"And yes, Holder did say that the administration is not going to do that. If you think otherwise then I invite you to cite the specific statement you disagree with."

Why don't you cite the specific statement where he said that?

This: "We will not use drones for extrajudicial executions of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil." would qualify as such a statement.

"Intentions" and "hopes" do not.
More Japanese died in Tokyo from one night of firebombing attacks in March 1945 than died in either Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki.

It sadly really goes to show how right Stalin was when he made his jest about tragedies and statistics.
Google (the search engine) would be the prime example. A search engine is the service that Google provides, and by virtue of its service, they build their product (audiences) by making the audience self-select into niches (i.e intents).

Google isn't a startup anymore. If I were to be asked about more recent startups, I'd list Buzzfeed, the 9gag peoples, Ben Huh's company (can't remember the name) amongst those with quite decent strategies for advertising. You may notice that they're almost all content based companies/startups - that's because it's easier to build audiences with content.
We're also trying to make the easy things easy, whether in Latex or Markdown. Drag-and-drop figures is one example. Support for citations directly from ADS is another.

Out of curiosity, can I ask what field you are in?
Of course it's a bubble. But like all bubbles, some people will profit greatly if they know when to get out of it. It's a gamble.
Gullible VCs.
The AUMF is an extreme case of executive overreach? It passed the House and Senate 1 vote shy of unanimously.
Pardon my Bitcoin ignorance, but you can sell, say $1 million worth of coins and not crash the price?

How thinly is this traded? 20%+ or - in hours can't be good
I have failed at more businesses than most people here will ever dare to start. Products I spent time and money developing have had to be shelved due to circumstances outside of my control. Every day I get rejected by people (prospects) who I pitch to. Of all the investors I have pitched to, I have only managed to bring two on-board (on different occasions). I spend about four hours a week emailing and messaging people in order to get them to buy my products. Most of that time is lost on people who never respond. Its a constant uphill battle that only gets easier as you move along. You can't avoid any of this, because you cannot avoid failure.
I like the idea of hashing off a root word + site. I'd rather have the browser do it for me though, and I don't think there's anything on the page itself that I could depend on to hash with. Maybe the domain?

To be honest, firefox has an encrypted database of site-passwords. What's wrong with that?
No, you would bring it down maybe $10-20.
There seems to be some very positive buzz around this screencast mentioned both in the OP's blog and around HN in general: https://peepcode.com/products/emberjs . I found it particularly instructive but found that it only scratched the surface of this new framework. At least, it scratched enough off the top that I feel comfortable rooting through source and API documentation to figure out the rest. YMMV, of course.
Vmware Workstation was first released in 1999. It never used to require hardware virtualization support until recently.

Also, 4GB is plenty for Windows XP. Perhaps you have not used it for so long now that you've forgotten, but it only ever required 64MB and ran perfectly fine with 128MB-256MB even with high performance apps. All that has happened since is a factor increase in memory requirement for a limited set of applications.

With Linux guest instances, it is easy to cap and keep very low the maximum memory usage. 6x VM with 256MB each is still only 1.5GB.

Without a change in software requirements, I doubt many consumers would feel the need to upgrade anything. CPUs/PCs really have been fast enough for many years now.
You are and it's really not cool. I never do that. I mean to each his own but blue tooth headsets, and especially talking on them in public are generally seen as douchey.
That's not answering the question. The question is, does the president have the constitutional right to use lethal force against someone who does not pose an imminent threat without due process either from the judicial or legislative branch, following some established law enforcement precedent .. intentions are irrelevant. And if anyone thinks this whole issue is asinine because the question is so silly, well that's because the answer is so obvious. "No." But that answer hasn't been stated. Paul says once it is, he will stop.
Wasn't refer ly some affiliate marketing system for startups before? http://www.crunchbase.com/company/refer-ly
Thank you for not calling me a statist thug. :)
I guess I am biased because I work at an organization with separate development, operations, and support groups. I work for the operations side of things and I can't image just letting support logging in as users. it just seems wrong.
Mtgox is having a trade lag above 15 minutes. This is making the market/traders crazy.
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Arrow keys and page down sound like "activate autocomplete" to me.
I hate to admit it, but VonGuard is right -- without a novel game your best bet is to "cheat" the system - you can hack it in "honest" ways though. It is no different from SEO. That said, even doing so will by no means guarantee you success. Your real best bet is to make a good, novel game. This game is highly polished, but the mechanics were just not interesting enough for me to recommend it to anyone.

If you are "going indie" you have to think about your real motivations -- are you building games to make a profit, or are you building games that you want to play but do not exist? The most successful games seem to fall in the latter category (successful indie games, that is). I do not say this to be snide or critical, just my honest, well-intentioned advice.
Do you keep the true crypt volume on your SD card too?
Hm, well Sidekiq wasn't out when we started developing. :) Memory has never been a constraint for us with resque though. The only problems we've had with it have been things like improper signal handling, pretty easy to deal with.
How do I make the "Services" submenu show up in the right click menu?
Ever thought of advertorials? Advertorials + rev share would be a good idea had you not listed "moral flexibility" in your list of constraints.

I noticed you host John Quiggin. I used to read him a lot. This is how he would use his blog to make money: sell his books to his blog audience. Tyler Cowen, the guy behind Marginal Revolution used to have this trick where he would give you access to his private cooking blog if you bought his book. Some form of managed affiliate system would be my best guess.

Also, mesothelioma is soooo 2005. :P
>Limitation: I accept the argument that says if they are producing significantly more than they are paid, they will eventually be paid more anyway, so the gain is both temporary and small.

Where the flying fuck have you been for the last 30 years?
I would happily read a whole book about what went into this.
> Targeted assassination is, as the name suggests, aimed at a specific person, not because they are currently engaged in firing guns, hijacking planes, taking hostages, and so on, but because "intelligence suggests" that this person has been or could be involved with threats at some point.

Even that [targeted assassination] has previously been used in a purely military context though (lookup what happened to Admiral Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy, not to mention counter-sniper activities throughout the past hundred years).

I have to agree with anigbrown here, if Congress or the judiciary doesn't give direction to the contrary then the Article II powers of the Commander-in-Chief can give some extremely broad powers to him with only a little bit of imagination required.

If that's something that scares Congress then they need to clip the wings early instead of whining about interpretation of law (especially interpretation at the farthest reaches of plausibility).
If you shag a sheep once...
I don't know if it was the first, but LINE is pretty insanely popular in Asia right now. I have friends from Taiwan, Japan, and China who use it, and a few of them all but insist on communicating that way!
What is your Line in the Sand?
So... what I said about it being "top" was technically correct, no?

Jk, good catch, monochromatic.

I'd like to say I wouldn't be making such sloppy errors if assertTrue() hasn't been engaged in this series of nutty claims recently, but that's probably giving myself too much credit.

Thanks for keeping me honest.
You might think so, but no.
This is starting to look an awful lot like a ripoff of the Japanese program LINE. But hey, if it works it works.

http://line.naver.jp/en/
The flip side to Germany's model is manifold, but one big difference is that the social security system will pay benefits to those who are full-time employed but don't have enough money to live.

Before you say that's a stupid policy, consider that this is the minority of recipients of social benefits, and that often enough it's easier to get into better paying jobs from a low paying job than from being unemployed for a decade.
Yeah, ASM is also probably the only realistic way you can guarantee constant time (i.e. guarantee a C compiler won't do something crazy behind your back)

In the meantime, people continue to use OpenSSL because using NaCl is too hard
Right ... thats my point. redis is as fast if not faster than memcached for caching exactly the same things you talked about (results of sql queries, blocks of the site etc) so why not just use redis for everything and eliminate memcached.
IPython looks amazing. I haven't personally used it yet but it appears to bring most of the Mathematica-notebook goodness over to the python community. The one thing it is lacking, which is admittedly pretty hard to implement, is Mathematica style equation entry. I can input an equation in Mathematica much faster than I can in Matlab or python.

Markdown is a real pleasure to use. One of my favorite features is that it is easy on the eyes. I was never in love with the Latex syntax.
link is broken. making it use http (not https) fixes it.
I want to see what unnatural ingredients they put into the food and their possible harmful effects listed in the labels.
It seems to have been turned into an affiliate marketing driven blog?

(someone please correct me if I'm wrong)
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"It can only go up". Yes. Certainly. Nobody has ever said that about tulips, the South Sea company, real estate in Florida, truncated SHA256 hashes, or dot-com shares.
What he says sounds kind of reasonable.

But then when I see the side by sides that have been posted here, even the things that have been taken down, I get a big "fuck off" stuck in my throat.

Similar is not copy. Unless you want the same environment for copyright that we have right now with software patents.
When I wrote my honours project (which was the first version of the tech I developed) I mentioned merchandising; it's pretty hit-driven though.

I personally make money on affiliate links to Amazon. By which I mean "I get a minute subsidy on my book habit".

Some of the bloggers make a few dollars on advertising, but the amount has steadily fallen because they aren't sufficiently narrowly focused to be worth finding a niche advertiser. And they aren't sufficiently widely read that a more general A/B brand-awareness advertiser would pay much over open-market CPM.
I have not used Ember, but you mention MVC, which immediately brings to mind Sencha. I have used Sencha a lot, and although I think it is mostly great, I do not like how they try to pidgeon-hole you into the MVC methodology, which just does not make sense in many contexts.
Hm. I'm going to disagree.

If you know the engineer can't answer it, it's silly at best to ask it. At worst, it's malicious. See http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/JAQing_off (If you don't know that, then there's no problem and a quick explanation why it's not worth asking should end the thread. It's not something I'd take someone to task for.)
I feel rather the same way about anyone who's comfortable just assuming the opposite; viz, that the mass incineration of children during at least semi-procedural wartime bombing is more fraught than obscure peacetime military action carried out for reasons that are themselves highly obscure to non-specialists. Said non-specialists who are at least theoretically supposed to have some involvement in the decision process in question. So, there you are.

I'm not even opposed to the idea of military drones, really. I just think you have a bad habit of responding to people who disagree with you by telling them that they're too stupid for you to talk to. Pity.
> Drones are bad news, especially armed drones in the hands of governments watching over their own citizens.

What I don't understand, is why when John McClane was shot at by an F-22 Raptor in Live Free or Die Hard, why there wasn't a big outcry at that time. There were no complaints, no HN threads that I remember, and certainly no filibusters in Congress.

None of the reviews talked about some "dystopian future America", they said that shit blew up and it was otherwise an action movie.

Why is it OK for the American military to use an F-22 Raptor on one of their own citizens but drones are no good?

Mind, I understand completely why people are concerned about why the military could or could not be employed domestically; I just don't understand why people are fixated on drones as opposed to black helicopters, rocket launchers, bazookas, motorized anti-aircraft weaponry, bum-standard rifles and carbines, etc.
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I would propose the description of unsustainable and incapable of delivery as better than out of control.
What I find cool is that it seems that all sorts of growth rates in nature (and even computer science) can be expressed in terms of elementary mathematical functions. Things can grow at exponential rates, logarithmic rates, hyperbolic rates, etc., and we actually have the terminology to express all these types of growth curves, whether they apply to bacterial colonies, or a nautilus shell, or a tree-trunk's diameter. Growth is described by log x, or a^x, or x^n, or sin x, or other functions we've already catalogued, and there's nothing "in-between" these curves that isn't already covered.

Are there any natural generative processes that produce/grow at a rate that isn't modellable by a linear combination of basic functions? Have we essentially discovered all the possible functions that describe how things grow or accumulate? Do more complicated functions sometimes describe changes in nature? I'm no mathematician, but I'd enjoy learning about this, because it puzzled me back in school.
Holder is not going to say 'no, it doesn't,' because it does. For one thing, the Coast Guard is explicitly excluded from the Posse Comitatus Act; for another, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 affirms the AUMF and identifies a class of persons against whom the Executive may act freely (members of Al Qaeda and suchlike); for a third, Posse Comitatus prohibits the use of the military (including the Coast Guard) to enforce the laws instead of the police, but (as you observe) this does not apply to situations of war or insurrection.

Ryan's letter to Brennan asked about whether the administration believes it 'has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial?' It says nothing about a 'non-imminent threat,' and Paul himself seems to appreciate that emergent threats like a hijacked airliner being used as a weapon would not fall within the scope of his inquiry.
On HN we try to upset the established order, so if you could just go ahead and rearrange your list, that would be greeaaaat
Yes, that was their prior model - a very difficult one to scale, so not exactly shocked at a pivot.
Lag in dynamic systems often causes humans to reach for dramatic adjustments.

cf. The Beer Game or Dietrich Dörner's thermometer experiments.
Then why don't you just search via Google? "site:amazon.com bank of bob" or even most of the time you can just add the word amazon to your search query "amazon bank of bob" and I get exactly what I'm searching for.

To me you haven't made any case at all why others should have to suffer so you can have auto-focus on Amazon when your needs are already met elsewhere.
our core use case is families who love using path to share privately. we also have a large set of users who are sophisticated quality and privacy-conscious internet users, who have tried every social system over time, and are looking for a high quality, premium, guaranteed private social experience. there are a few other random use cases, like users who use it for an enterprise case of sharing within a company, but those are fairly small.
And what would it bring it down to if it that drop caused a mild panic in the market?
yeah i saw that too.. thought it was really cool..
Just a note on the approach taken here: I can't say djb would approve of Sodium, but when I asked him about NaCl's portability, he had this to say:

"The real work here is making everything PIC. Of course, if what matters is the API rather than speed, then achieving PIC is easy: just remove the asm."

Sodium is mostly a "just remove the asm" project, so it seems like djb doesn't hate the concept at least.
this was a pretty important part of the utility we were working towards. both with one-click location, and with stickers, we wanted to create one-click utilities that reduce what used to be 10 messages down to one.
> I would pay 10x more for consulting instead support. The constant need for support means your team is incompetent. If you need external support to keep things moving, chances are you won't get very far.

Totally, agree

> I don't really understand what 'rely on a community' means here. Who does not depend on open source software?

I'm sure you know this - that's how a huge chunk of non-tech people view anything labelled with "open-source", they all view it as "unreliable" or "geeky". By how I constructed my sentence it seems I'm saying this from my perspective, but we're like minded in that aspect: everyone depends on open source software one way or another.

I'm just assuming that's how his client thinks.

I'm assuming the decision maker for his client is one of those 'guys' who's outside the tech bubble, and probably worse: they don't listen to engineers. I mean, if OP has already built a nice prototype on Backbone and it's all good why would they go towards ExtJS? Backbone is widely used and constantly worked upon, if his client is well aware of the software development industry they wouldn't just dismiss the prototype and go towards something with 5-digit contracts.

Again I'm just assuming the worst case scenario about OP's client by trying to understand the situation from what he said about their decisions.

> I'm also a co-founder and technical guy, I assure you spending money is always the last thing any company wants to do.

I'm also sure you know this: any hard-headed, non-tech decision maker outside the software industry who is very desperate would throw a lot of money for a problem to go away.