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Yes, any change in what blocks are considered valid, even a subtle accidental one, can be used to basically break Bitcoin.
> they report everything upstream

... and then a member of the Arch community writes a really nice document about alternatives and work arounds and fixes and puts that on a wiki somewhere.

The Arch documentation is a jewel, and I very much hope they manage to continue that tradition.
Actually advertising yourself is a huge factor in things like these.

Merit doesn't always count. Look at it this way, a manager is likely to promote a guy who for example... takes him out for lunch, looks after his interests at work and else where. Managers trust 'yes men'. So if you work hard but don't quite really act like their closest associates in the gang, you are done. Nerds with high self worth, who can actually be something by themselves by their work and sweat alone can't do all this. They always lose out like edw519 even if they have done 3x the work.

Lose out might be the wrong word. Because though you lose out on the shorter run. On the longer run, the 'yes men' lose capability to do something on their own (Read:Retire on their middle management job). The hard working nerd, if he really sticks to his guns and doesn't give up will make it big someday.
Sigh.

"...We (programmers) all are, on some level or another; we’re taking mundane repetitive tasks and automating them with code..."

Yes, and no. I have been programming or improving things all my life. That means, if you don't look too deeply, yes, I am a jobs destroyer.

But if you're not going to look too deeply, just don't bother looking at all.

We programmers take inefficient things and make them efficient. Old, bloated code gets streamlined. What used to take a person an hour takes five minutes.

You'd think -- if you kind of squinted your eyes the right way -- that eventually we'd just make the entire universe efficient and there would be no more jobs. You'd think something and it would come into existence. Many people are able to think this far ahead, and it scares them. Along, presumably, with many other things.

The problem is that such simple-minded projections of the future never pan out that way. Over and over again we make something more efficient, take away entire categories of jobs, and still people have more to do than ever. Why? There's a book in that response, but let's just say in deference to Jurassic Park, "jobs find a way". An economy is a complex system where people are always wanting something -- even when they're fed, clothed, housed, and taken care of -- and other people are always providing it. They trade, and it's this species-programmed pattern of trading that led us out of the Savannah and onto the moon.

This is the nth article along the same lines -- the future is devoid of jobs. I'm very sorry that our educational system in many western countries is ill-preparing many for work, and they face long periods of unemployment made worse by debt. It's a travesty and a scandal and we need to fix it. But don't extrapolate current unfortunate structural unemployment with the end of life, the universe, and everything. Don't flatter yourself. You are not a jobs destroyer. You're just some schmuck doing his job like the rest of us.
Where does this /r/linux bias to Archlinux come from?

I use Archlinux, but never visit reddit, hacker news and slashdot already waste enough of my internet time :)
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Perhpas he means it's a waste of cpu time :)
I mean, looks like PySide supports Python 3 (http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide_Python_3_Support), but does it work on Android (with Necessitas, Shiboken, whatever is needed for it to work)?
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I would love to see the results of this survey. Thanks.
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Good luck tracking down all the double-spends, because there were an awful lot of them: http://blockchain.info/double-spends Most of the ones I've looked at so far are Satoshi Dice bets, but there may be more substantial double-spending hiding amongst the list.
Yup, you're right. Thanks everyone who's focused on this issue.
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Is it trivial to animate these? For example how easy would it be to have one of the rainbow-bokeh bubbles slowly move upward ?
Looking forward to seeing what comes of this. Somewhat refreshing to see you opting for an alternative approach to trying to take over the world with the "next big thing". I wish you luck; onwards and upwards.
First, I don't appreciate having to give you my (fake) email address before I can see the pricing.

I would also suggest making it easy to replace images, especially the logo and the hero elements, with plain text boxes (textured/gradient/solid background). That might work better for boring businesses than stock photos.

Otherwise, nice little service, wish you best of luck with it!
Yeah, this is the model that I had in mind. There's a giant enterprise (and government!) market for this sort of stuff who rarely venture out into places as cool as HN ;-) (They can be tricky to sell to though given the time involved and even finding them in the first place.)
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Whether they count or not, I would expect to see "regular" users to be orders of magnitude more common than web crawlers.
These are inductive and deductive ways of estimating the same unknown. Both ways are valid and more helpful when used combined. They're far from the reality but their purpose is to provide a general idea.
Mate, good luck. First priority is income - if you would like some freelance iOS dev, email me your details and I will ask around.
> It turns out that my brain was only fitted with 72 bytes of "finger
memory"; furthermore it turns out to be EPROM, not Flash. I need to wipe
out all the WordStar keystrokes from 1986 (Ctrl+Y to delete a line,
anyone?) before I can add any more, and I have lost the ultra-violet
wiping-out gadget (ask your dad) needed to achieve this.

If he'd taken a look at the Zeus editor he would have found all the features mention (except the multi-cursor thing) and by selecting the WordStar key mapping, he wouldn't even have to erase the EPROM in his fingers.

Jussi Jumppanen

Author: Zeus
So, this is copyright trolling, and not patent trolling.

But why is this example of non-practicing entities using law to troll for (copyright) damages seen as terrible by this judge, when non-practicing entities using law to troll for (patent) damages seen as great by other judges?

(Also, the federal thing is confusing to me, but I'm going to web search an answer for that.)

EDIT: Thanks for submitting a Popehat article. It was really good. I like torrentfreak, but this article had more legal "stuff"; a feeling of legal truthiness.
Looks nice and simple but that white text on green background in the "A little about me" section is really hard to read for me.
But web crawlers generate orders of magnitude more traffic than regular users.
You could see it as developed through diplomacy, but the reality was that the british colonies were all given responsible government _after_ the american revolution.

The unrests in Canada merely proved the point that the empire could not adequately control the colonies and they needed to become more self reliant.

This might sound generalist, but I don't think it's fair to look at America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as separate reforms. They were all in the same empire that fell apart.

Anyway, I don't think there's ever diplomacy without at least _threat_ of violence.
The results are only representative of /r/linux readers, not linux users as a whole.
Thanks for your attention.

I also feel that the user experience is not at all good.
Also the design is not working out.

Do you have any suggestions on improving user experience.

Except all the biggest problem that I am facing is that nobody even understands the concept of writing and sharing documents for academic projects online, rather printing them out and giving hard copies to teachers.
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The amount of regulation doesn't actually matter if the basic conditions for the capitalist mode of production are satisfied.

The market interprets regulation as damage and routes around it.
Am I the only one who think this is a cheap shot from Netflix? They are putting preassure on the ISP's to host Netflix servers for free, and when some of them dont want to do that Netflix tries to give them bad reputation by displaying this statistics (where the ones that dont host netflix servers will get a low score). If Netflix was concerned about ther customers video quality they would PAY the ISP's to host their servers like everybody else. Now they are just trying to push their costs to the ISP's and make it hard for competitors to deliver the same quality for the same cost, unless they also manage to "force" the ISP's to host their servers for free...
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Yes an API or library for text > SQL is well worth paying for. Enterprise library in Java something like $2k per install for internal use, $10k for use on a web server would fairly standard. Bare in mind that a lot of enterprises use ORMs which you may need to interoperable with.

The tricky bit is going to be your enterprise sales channel, you need someone with the right connections.
Is it worthwhile to get more back than just the motor assembly? As in, is the tank structure really worth saving?
"It used to be a thing"

More like blatant PR by aristocratic nobility.
So why not just sell it as a product rather than a service?
As a german who grew up in Eastern Germany i can tell you that the only thing stopping a full base income is influence from american politics. I say full, because we do have a de-facto base income with the unemployment payments labeled "Arbeitslosengeld II". Read up on it. :)
Pretty cool. I've become interested in this topic when I read the paper on Natural Language Query System for RDF Repositories[1], which mapped NL queries to a PIM ontology using SPARQL, but alas, I never further explored it.

It's nice to know the technology is becoming available to the average programmer like myself ;)

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.115...
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Thanks for your valuable comments.

I will for sure make those changes soon.

Also can you suggest me something on pitching point of view. Because nobody understands the benefits of going online for documentation and reviewing process of academic projects.
They find printing documents and going to teachers desk more easy then this. Where most of the time only one of the student writes that doc, and other just stays behind.
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It's same for me, too. How long did it take for you to decide that way? I do not think about giving up until I get my master degree and plan my future again.
Love the idea of been able to provide NLP to our users in a very low effort way.

However we wouldn't be able to even disclose some anonymised data, let alone have something communicate with the outside world that was munging our real data. Just the idea from security attack vector stance, effecively allowing any query would be a a deal breaker.

The problem is I can't see much happening in the way of tuning, we would be the clients from asshole land:

Oh yeah when I make a query, I don't get good results back
Ok lets have a look, what's the query like
Can't tell you that
Ok, what's the data like
Can't tell you that
What can you tell us?
System sucks

But obviously if someone else is providing data for tuning the NLP stuff to actually work on our data, if we can run the output as a AST, putting it anywhere we want as we would the output from our DSL, I could imagine the business case for paying a few cents per user, per month.
> May I add that the extend of the words in your argument and the complexity of the words you are using in it helps nothing to your point.

You've now twice in this thread made the claim that the person whose views you disagree with used a style that was too complex. Have you considered that you may be beyond your intellectual depth?

You have not established that "objectification" is used incorrectly here. You have acknowledged that it can have multiple meanings, and stated that the most common usage as defined in a dictionary does not apply. You have not shown that all alternative definitions of the term, including specifically, the one used in the philosophy of ethics, is also incorrect for this use. I gave a citation to Martha Nussbaum as a relatively recent reference for this definition.

You'll noticed that in my replies I summarized the relevant points I had made earlier. You do not do the same courtesy.

I am not able to see in radar frequencies. I still know where X-band is, and I've measured its wavelength. I am not able to hear the ultrasonic sounds of dolphins, but I can hear it after shifting downwards. I cannot feel distant earthquakes, but I can read the output from a seismograph. Yes, I can explain to a colorblind person where green is. Can't you?

You pile specious arguments on top of ad hominem ones, yet still consider yourself assailable on a mountain of logic? Do you have the humility to examine your logic for faults, and the grace to help others? Or are you only out to win internet debating points?
I'll certainly publish some anonymous stats about data sources and people's desired integration method (API/SDK/appliance etc), as it's likely to be interesting to other businesses offering a service to integrate in people's environment.
I use LinkedIn the same way I used to collect Business Cards in the pre-Internet darkness.

The folks you contact regularly go into my address book, the rest go into my desk drawer tied up by a big rubber band.

Outlook is the address book, LinkedIn is the rubber band.
Yeah, that's all that continent of 17,212,000 square miles, with a population of around 4.2 billion people in 48 countries, does.
Not convinced this is Virgin's fault, but perhaps a limit imposed by Netflix. Compare the Google Fiber results for the US.

My 60Mb/s Virgin service can demonstrably deliver the full 60Mb/s — but I usually have to start at least 4 - 5 downloads to actually saturate it.
Which also applies to the 1 man, 8 hours versus 2 men, 4 hours.
Who would you DDOS if you wanted to see if your botnet works?
How would that work for a protocol that isn't HTTP?
How can I avoid being replaced as a developer once we get investment?
I met my cofounder at a startup event two weeks ago and have been working with him on his idea since then. We are trying to build a minimal version of the product, get some traction and then look for investment.

I'm a relatively junior developer while my non-tech partner has 10+ years of experience. My worry is that, once we get investment, he might decide to hire someone to rebuild the site from scratch and dump me. With his experience and connections he would probably be able to find a more experienced developer once there's some external validation of the idea.

How can I mitigate this risk?

I believe I'm capable of building the product, but I'm uncomfortable merely hoping that my partner will agree with that.

How can I bring this worry up without accusing him of using me to get investment for his idea?
As useful this by the new Facebook Graph Search inspired service my sound, I doubt the usefulness. I just prefer to have a expressive non-natural language to specify my needs (especially when retrieving data). This could be useful for the mainstream querying drunk female friends nearby but again this is solved by FB already.

However, I would love to have seen some demo.
or someone upset their comments were down-voted? :D
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I wouldn't mind getting 0.01% of the CRM market.
Technically, you could prove P=NP without actually discovering a polynomial-time algorithm for an NP-hard problem. Not all proofs are constructive.
We did discuss the electricity costs back in 2011 - with some estimates: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28780.0
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Hmm... this sounds vaguely familiar to something I might have ran into.. Do you happen to have an url to a bug report for this?
You can certainly go a long way with pretty naive models that take advantage of RDF[1][2], because you can just match words in a query to those in the ontology. Our model is a little more complicated, as we need to support everything from simple things like 'not' to negate part of a query, to more complex stuff like 'more recently', and compositional queries (what products have sold more than products that are red, tricky stuff like that).

[1]: http://gate.ac.uk/sale/dd/related-work/Kaufmann_nlp+reduce_E...
[2]: http://gate.ac.uk/sale/eswc10/freya-main.pdf
Normally I'd agree with you, but the last 12 months have seen some pretty disruptive changes (the glibc update caught me out more than systemd had).

Arch is far from perfect, and I'm not convinced I like the direction it's heading in (re systemd), but that's a plauge for the wider ecosystem than an Arch-specific issue. However Arch definitely find a nice balance between "hands on" and "lazy administration" for desktop users.

Sadly though, systemd was the last straw that saw the start of my migration away from Arch on the servers (now a balance of FreeBSD and Debian; depending on the requirements of that server).

As with everything though, it's all personal preference. So I expect plenty of people to have a different opinion (and different experiences as well).
Good luck! Look forward to hearing your story! I understand the lure of temptations of making "the next big thing" and have been at critical crossroads many times before. I feel if things happened a little different I would have found myself in a situation similar to yours so I wish you all the best in your adventure.
My brother, was at a bad stage of my life and he invited me to co-found with him. Risky on his part, two years on though and we're miles ahead of where we dreamed we could be!
These look great, but performance is really poor.
The cheapest/slowest option from Google Fiber is also much faster than the average connection speed listed for Google Fiber.

The listed speeds are impacted by all sorts of factors (not the least of which is that most of Netflix's content likely caps out at somewhere less than 3 Mbps, so it will be tough for any ISP to have an average speed much higher than that).
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When the established industry starts suing you, you know that they're starting to become scared of your disruption.
It's nice, still for me it's not even half useful as the long time ago abandoned ion3.
Yup, people are making the privacy/security aspect pretty clear, thanks for confirming that. There are also issues about partitioning of data from one data source that we need to address - only being able to query data on your own user_id etc.

When you talk about tuning, are you saying you'd be unlikely to have time to train the system after initial setup? We're making an iterative model that'll allow you to add new concepts, new sentence structures etc as you go, and we've thought a few times it would be good to expose a log of queries (especially failed ones), and also allow end users to say 'this is wrong/nonsense' whenever they get results.
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I like Sublime, but I think it's criminal that it can't show line endings. That's right up there with syntax highlighting in my list of must-have features. How often do line endings screw you? Since I tend to work on a lot of cross platform stuff, for me, it's all the time. I pretty much keep Notepad++ around just so I can pop things into it to look at their line endings.
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A bootstrapped business takes time to generate anything approaching a minimum livable income. I'd suggest doing a couple of freelance projects first to keep the wolf from the door, and then return to your business ideas.

You can't bootstrap without bootstraps...
At the moment, one ton of coal per hour.

Assume that mining reward is approximately equal to investment. This will tend to be the case, though it fluctuates.

Right now we're rewarding 25 bitcoins, at a price of $45, every ten minutes, or $6,750 per hour. Let's say half the required investment is hardware, half electricity at the national average of 11 cents per kWh. Divide 3375/.11 for 30,681 kW power devoted to bitcoin at this moment.

With similar calculations, I recently figured out that if bitcoin were to reach the size of the U.S. dollar in about 20 years, it would be consuming about a gigawatt. It was less than I expected, because the number of new coins per block keeps decreasing, and you only pay electricity for the new ones. This doesn't account for transaction fees, which increase the mining investment that can be sustained. At the moment I think they're a small percentage of the mining award. I'm also neglecting miners' profit margins, which decrease our energy investment.

Coal is 22% of U.S. power production, and generates 2,460 kWh/ton. (30,681 * .22) / 2460 happens to equal almost exactly one ton of coal burned per hour to support bitcoin.

The U.S. generates 227 GW from coal, so our 6.7 MW is about one part in 33,000 of total U.S. coal consumption.

Sources: just type questions into google and all the numbers come right up. I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that U.S. numbers were more typical of the bitcoin population than global numbers.
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Very nice idea!

Is it opensource? Can we see the code somewhere?
> Users hate dependencies.

If they know about them. In this case I believe everything necessary is bundled with the application (as is with Kivy mentioned above).
I love the idea of Ubuntu (not that it hasn't happened many times before) and have a great deal of respect for Mark Shuttleworth for basically funding Canonical out of his own pocket. However he (and Canonical as a company) make some terrible design decisions (Unity, premature adoption of Pulse audio, and -most recently- Ubuntu going solo with display managers).

I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if Shuttleworth sees himself as the "Steve Jobs" of Linux and with the direction they're taking, I think Ubuntu will be like Android/Linux (ie still "Linux", but largely incompatible with the traditional desktop Linux ecosystem).

Hopefully I'm wrong. But Shuttleworth has done little to give me confidence.
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I'm hoping that now that we have the major framework - Django supporting python 3 in Alpha (now) and fully (in v1.6) we'll finally see a slow move to python 3.
great comment. update - they have resumed deposits.
It depends greatly on what one is doing. Py3 needlessly restricts what you can use, a particularly compelling thing being PyPy.
I like the idea, but am not sure what I'd use it for. What drove you to build it and how do you use it? Is it part of a zero inbox plan?
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Could you explain this? I'd figure the performance would be greater than using an repeating image for a background.
The issue we have with that market is twofold:

1) they often have sprawling, disparate data sources, with schemas designed by deranged people in the 80s or 90s. The cleaner (and admittedly smaller) your data, the easier you can integrate, and to be honest, there's probably a hard limit at some point beyond which we couldn't provide value without doing bespoke customisation.

2) there are some fearsome competitors at the higher level of the market, who offer wider business intelligence suites.

This may be fear-based thinking though.
Interesting. I always found it fascinating that a lot of people start laughing when watching the horror in a movie like "Ichi the Killer". Maybe humor is the emotion of the absurd and unreal.
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