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You are correct, the HYPE around Bitcoin is built around a broken idea, but Bitcoin is built around a good idea. Indeed, the main purpose of Bitcoin is in fact to be a medium of exchange and as a unit of account. Bitcoin will be highly profitable for those who treat it as a store of value, until the market gets saturated, but the fact that they treat it as a store of value and hype it up will only expedite the market saturation process.

When that happens, then Bitcoin will maintain a steady price and it will serve its purpose as an efficient medium of exchange on the Internet without the need of a central authority. Until, of course, something better comes and replaces it.

Deflation is easily negated by the natural rate of inflation, which will always occur simply because of supply/demand economics. Natural inflation is actually healthy for the economy. Artificial inflation forces people, businesses and governments to depend on lending a lot more than on the money they earned. Note that lending will still continue with natural inflation, but the interest rates won't have to be kept artificially low (like they are now).
The tin foil type already assumes their images and routers are backdoored. Not that.. I could relate..
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Yeah I realized I might consider it if it's OSS.
I am a student, and I can completely empathize with how you feel. I can tell you that a lot of what I've seen is that it's one-hundred percent completely worth the stress and fear of rejection if even one long-shot (in your mind) pays off. I've had that happen to me firsthand, and I've seen it in other people. The more experience you have dealing with tough problems, the better you'll be thinking about them, and tough interview problems by extension. Just make your interview count as best you can, and step back and wait. I promise it's worth it.
In this specific case I don't disagree, I think they made a good and reasonable call, interpreting an ambiguous statute consistently with its other copyright jurisprudence.

More generally, I'm quite wary of situations in which the Court second-guesses Congress. Every time the Court does so, it uses up some of the Court's political capital, which is ultimately the only thing the Court has to enforce its judgments. Even though I'm a liberal, I tend to be very skeptical of judicial activism because I think that political capital should be saved for when it is really necessary.
It's like being trapped under water. We know that the oxygen will run out at some point. And there is nothing that we can do about it.

Also, there is nothing useful about realizing it.

We simply have to accept it.
Feedly got 500k users just a few days after Google announced Reader was going to be shutdown. That's 500k people who have a pulse on this type of thing. The actual RSS user total must be much higher, I guess we'll see how much higher when Reader actually shuts down. But whatever the number is, it's pretty clear that there are enough RSS users that a real business can be built on top of it, and indeed there were business built on top of it before Reader and I'm betting there will be real businesses built on top of it after Reader, but I find it really hard to look at what we know and not conclude that Reader had a profound impact in this space.

> The fact of the matter is that when Apple finally kills off the Mac Pro there actually won't be (lega) alternatives,

I don't know what you are talking about, the Mac Pro is a tower computer, there are many alternatives today and there will be many alternatives when the Mac Pro goes away, Apple doesn't dominate the tower computer market.
The referenced Heer & Robertson paper discusses chained animated transitions that take you from one type of visualization to another in a way that explains the relationship between the two visualizations. The usefulness of chained transitions is debatable, but it is important to note that Chart.js's implementation seems to starts from nothing and animate to the final position of a single type of chart. This is not really adding: "empty" is not an interesting state, so the transition is frivolous. Moreover, because it forces pixel movements on the page, the users are left with looking for meaning, and are distraction so I'd contend this impedes with overall usability. And yes, it is great eye candy, and the corporate powerpoint junkies will probably love it, but remember: they also love those 3D pie charts.
The fox is inside the henhouse now.
This might make access to the rest of the data stored by Amazon more effective.
APIs as Art
And, after WebDav and RSS, IMAP support for Gmail will become "insufficient to support great new features" so it will be decommissioned in favor of a great new API. Just wait...
That was some good stuff. I wish we had more of this kind of content on HN. :-)

That said, I've gotten a lot of mileage out of studying materials from Chet Holmes (RIP), the author of The Ultimate Sales Machine. I got hold of a set of videos he did in conjunction with Anthony Robbins, where he talks about marketing and sales at great length. We[1] are currently working to implement his "Dream 100 / Best Buyer" strategy[2] now. How well it will work remains to be seen, of course, but the idea strikes me as pretty solid.

This marketing stuff turns out to be pretty fascinating. I've also learned a ton about market research in the past year or so, and am thinking about doing a talk on "Market Research for Startups" sometime soon, here in the RTP area.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com

[2]: http://www.resourcenation.com/article/marketing-tiny-shoestr...
Apps like Feedly and NewsBlur were managing to survive before the Google Reader announcement. If you build something good, and market it well, with niche like features - enough people will be happy to pay for it to keep you and the product going.
Many in the bitcoin industry /community think that fractial reserve banking was a bad idea, and there would have never been the recent banking trouble if all the USD could be converted into gold (just ignore the banking problem when there was a gold based currency and ignore other countries that had banking problems).
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The fox was always inside the henhouse. The fox just agreed to pay discount prices for some of the chickens.

Kidding aside, doesn't this seem like exactly the sort of move you would want your government agencies to make? Take advantage of free-market services where appropriate, and not get all "NIH"?
http://shairosenfeld.blogspot.com/2013/03/translating-rails-...
BarackObama.com is hosted with Amazon Web Services as well. We can know by examining the domain servers when you look at the [whois record](http://whois.domaintools.com/barackobama.com) for that domain. (On a related note, the domain registrar used is GoDaddy)

It makes sense - government needs to host their files somehow, as we are moving into this digital age.

I don't see anything wrong with it, though it will further cement Amazon's standing as a big business superpower.
It's kinda scary that important things like this are so up in the air and could have broken massively.
This is wrong in so many ways...

Getting fired is not the end of the world.
pownce was indeed awesome.

both twitter and in some part google have recently acted very hostile to the notion of the open web. (Although referring to corporations as a singular entity irks me somewhat)
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That's why RedHat OS isn't so great, they don't build anything they just maintain it for their customers. They simply don't have the money to develop on new products then throw that investment away by casting it to the general internet community where it will be repacked and sold as an original piece of software, or forked and tangled.

Red Hat sell a lot more than Linux. They've open sourced a TON of stuff they either wrote or acquired. All (or at least most) of the JBoss stuff was developed by JBoss and open-sourced, and Red Hat have acquired other companies (or bought products from other companies) and released their stuff as OSS (or kept it OSS if it already was). Cygwin and FuseSource come to mind, and they bought the old Netscape Certificate Server code from that weird Novell/Sun spinoff that had acquired that code at one time (can't remember the name right now, sorry).

If we ever see a large company make a significant contribution, it will probably come in the form of a platform for capturing the community work into proprietary system on private hardware.

We've already seen big companies contribute OSS code, sometimes significant amounts. IBM, believe it or not, have released a lot of code as OSS, Google have done so as well, Novell have, and Sun Microsystems released nearly all of their stuff as OSS before the Oracle acquisition. Now you could argue that Sun is a bad example since they failed, but you could also argue that they were failing long before choosing the OSS approach.

There are also contributions to the OSS world from Netflix, Oracle (gasp), even Microsoft.
Was simply explaining how we as a firm view our relationships with founders of other startups... I'm grateful for everything I have.
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What can machine learning research tell about self-directed learning in people?
Off-topic: (foo)[url] syntax only works on reddit, on HN I usually put something like this [1]

1. url
Why do I need to give Fivetran access to my google accounts to try out their product? Eg, why can't I just enter my email account and click on the confirmation email for identity confirmation like every other service?

From the google page:

Fivetran is requesting permission to:
View basic information about your account
View your email address

I don't know what 'View basic information about your account' means, but No Thanks.
So what happens when a user scores high? Suppose I'm a firefox & windows xp user from elbonia shopping at 3am, does the site not let me make a purchase? Am I forced to provide extra information or are items delayed before shipping?
Except there are many people who can market and sell, but can't build. Sometimes these people need to be partners, sometimes just introducing them to the product results in them doing the marketing and the product becomes the sales channel.

Also, when you are re-selling somebody else's product, where is your passion? what ability do you have to differentiate?
Look at it this way: the CIA/NSA are pretty much the only parts of the government who know enough about computer security to properly assess the risks of using something like AWS, and therefore declare it safe for them to use.

Any other department would just say "nope that sounds unsafe and I have no idea what to look into to decide otherwise", and so ignore AWS (or basically any other modern technology) completely.
Yes I'm not a huge fan of Google, what is your point? They are a for profit corporation, so I'm not sure why I'm obliged to like them.

There has been a lot of Google news the last week, and loads of submissions on HN, so I've made quite a few posts on them. That is hardly comparable to having an account for a year or more but only ever posting in stories about a single corporation to defend that corporation.

I don't know why you linked my submissions, only 4 out of the last 30 of them, going back ~560 days were about Google or Google products.
Requests:
- Integration with Feedly (my Feedly saves go to Kippt)
- Integration with Delicious (or however you spell it)
- Tag completion based on most-used tags
- I use Reddit Enhancement Suite. It would be cool if somehow you could make it so Kippt can save RES inline images s.t. I don't have to click the Imgur link to bookmark the image, if that makes sense

I've tried out so many (great) bookmarking and news aggregator services over the past couple months that I now need a bookmarking aggregator to aggregate the bookmarks from the news aggregators.
Yes, too many. Andreas Raab for one.
Google closing reader was probably something to do with the French un-digital papers that wanted the interwebs going to their website-o-pages to read content there.
... which is a really terrible way to run something effectively. Basically, it means it'll fail whenever it suddenly needs something predictable but previously unneeded.
I absolutely understand not tolerating sexism or other bigotry, but a three year ban for cannabis use seems excessive. Ask him to take it outside?
Assuming I trust Google with all the data and all my users have Google Drive, this looks like a super easy way to make documents created in a web app editable in real time by multiple users.

I'm curious about the details though, which would be ironed out with some more detailed playground examples. Does the API handle merging of the update events on the client side, or do I have to do all that work myself from the stream of insert/removal events? Can I handle them myself if I want? Assuming I want to extend the UI of these updatable strings, so that people can see other people's cursors and such, what would I need to do? Is the client-side library extendable so it can update my UI without hammering my customizations (cursor position, formatting, embedded data transformed into HTML)? How will that scale once the document grows to a considerable size (will I be able to update only changed portions of the DOM created by a large document without doing my own complex diffing logic on the client side)?

For example, build me a basic rich text editor in this that mimicks some of the features of Docs, and show me how much extra code that takes. This code sample by itself doesn't make me confident that the above features would be simple: https://github.com/googledrive/realtime-playground/blob/mast...

It's precisely those richer features of the Google Docs experience that people crave when they say they want to add "realtime collaboration" to an app, not just .val()'ing form fields to the latest known value from the server. Right now this looks like it has the features of a backbone.js + Couch adapter (e.g., http://janmonschke.com/projects/backbone-couchdb.html) except Google sits on all my data.
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I think I understand your question.

It's not so much animation of data into it's final state (which is purely eye candy) but rather animation between states. I.e. you want to show how something changes over time, the suddenly it becomes very useful.

Then again I don't know if it's possible to animate between states. (i.e. from 1990-2010)
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Did the scare about Libyan internet problems fade away?
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I can't speak for mrweasel, but in my experience, TortoiseHg struggles with performance on large repos, with basic operations (like refreshing the list of modified files in the Commit window) taking many seconds to complete. It consumes a lot of memory while idle (around 500MB on my machine), often becomes unresponsive or crashes, progress bars only represent the lowest level operations, not overall progress (eg: checking out a repo containing subrepos results in the bar going from start to finish several times), etc, etc.

It's not terrible by any means, but I'm interested to see what other clients can bring to the party.
Efficiently dumping the JVM's heap
That's not really a great difference though. Couple years time and Larry will be doing other things or working on some newer, more interesting problems. I don't see this API surviving more than a couple years considering the speed that Google Docs/Drive continues to change.
Actually, it is only less for a sub-average investment. If you invest something with an above-average return, you'll be better off investing.
Not easy to be a vendor for Federal Intelligence

I'm sure that a contract worth $600 million over 10 years would change one's tune.

The depressing thing, as a taxpayer, is that this AWS contract is probably just a fun $60M/year toy for TLA's to play around with.
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It's probably easier and cheaper for the Chinese government to just mine them. They'd control enough computing power.
Little mention of Android and Chrome? No mention of Docs/Drive, self driving cars, Go, Google Fiber or their growing forays into hardware (Nexus, Glass)?

As a lot of these indicate, one of Google's chief contributions in recent memory is helping to make computing cheap, ubiquitous and decidedly not monopolized by Microsoft. In the blink of an eye, we've gone from a world where everything the average person owns that can install software runs on Windows to a world where more like 1/3 (and shrinking) of a household's computing devices run Windows. And in 2013, Chromebooks and Steamboxes look like they could displace a lot more of MS's presence.

There's a conflict of interest here. Even if their game is more complex than Coke vs Pepsi, these are very direct competitors. An ambitious Microsoftie has something to gain in a coy, well written put down that conveniently ignores the competition's bigger recent achievements.
Looks good, except requires .Net 4.5 which we currently have an embargo on here for our dev machines since it replaces .Net 4.0 rather than side by side.
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There is already a AWS GovCloud (US) Region [1], which is segregated from the conventional/general regions. This region is specific to US government agencies with improved security. Maybe the CIA would like something special for US intelligence agencies (i.e. an AWS GovCloud (classified/top secret) Region)? There is obvious advantages to the cloud when it comes to government procurement/life cycle management headaches. There is also an Introducing AWS GovCloud on YouTube [2], it's worth a watch if you are interested.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0av2mvYq5I
I thought the fox was on the riverbank with the grain.
Does anyone understand or have any theories on what Amazon's line of reasoning might be on this?

I sure hope they can get their act together. C'mon Bezos, I give a shit[1]!

[1] https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...
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From extensive, sometimes bitter experience: I think there's a lot of truth to this.

Startuplandia has a sales playbook that works well for selling to early adopters and the SMB market. That playbook does not work well selling into the F500. In particular, BigCo's don't respond productively to passive sales processes. A lot of the things you do to optimize passive sales, like free trials or tiered account models, don't really help F500 procurers. It is sometimes just as hard for those people to spend $5000 on something as it is to spend $100,000. Sometimes, it's actually better for those people to spend $100,000 on something even if $5000 would buy them a reliable call option on the value of the product.

There's a reason the enterprise sales playbook leans so heavily on inside dial-for-dollars sales and direct account managers: that process works.
"Seems odd to describe this as a polynomial-time attack"

Is there some part that does not run in polynomial time in the parameters of the system?

"I would argue incorrect to describe the result as "broken crypto", as this has little to do with the cryptographic components of Bitcoin, and is more a fundamental design limitation."

Cryptography is not limited to hash functions and digital signatures (the two primary cryptographic primitives used in Bitcoin). The "broken crypto" refers to the fact that Bitcoin fails to meet the security definition for digital cash, a type of cryptosystem. Moreover, Bitcoin is not secure as a multiparty computation protocol (also a kind of crypto) against malicious parties, as the attacker's work is polynomial in the system's parameters.

One should not make the mistake of trying to separate the security of cryptographic building blocks from the security of a system as a whole. My "pet" example of this fallacy is "robust" encryption. In a nutshell, an encryption system is "robust" if only the intended recipient can receive a valid message. Using PGP to sign and then encrypt a message is not robust, even though the signature system, hash functions, and ciphers in PGP are secure as signature systems, hash functions, and ciphers. The reason is pretty clear: if you send a signed+encrypted message to me, I can decrypt it, encrypt the signed message for someone else, and then send them a valid message.

For most PGP users, robustness is not an important security property; usually, the recipient's name or some other identifying detail will be clearly written in the message. On the other hand, for Bitcoin, the protection against double spending is absolutely necessary; a polynomial time double spending attack on Bitcoin is very bad.

"As a workaround, merchants will just demand more confirmations for higher-valued transactions"

Which only forces the attacker to make a polynomial increase in their work. An attacker only needs to do as much work as the sum of the work done by all other participants in the system to remove any workaround. Right now, that is well within the reach of governments, banks, and perhaps the larger criminal enterprises of this world.

"Checks and physical cash also wouldn't meet your definition of formal security, but seem to work in practice."

It would not be the first time someone has proposed that digital cash go beyond what is possible with physical cash (see Page 2, Property (e)):

http://pdf.aminer.org/000/120/358/universal_electronic_cash....
Height, weight, IQ, Bone Density, math ability.... you name a quantifiable human trait, men are more diverse than women.

And I didn't say anything about women should "know their place"... it's just biological reality that the top and the bottom are male dominated. As such, you can't expect proportional representation at the extremes of expression.

And to only look at the good end and attempt to create proportional representation there is an anti-male practice.
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There are a lot of tech companies in Burlington/Waltham area, as well as the downtown Boston are (where I live and work). Honestly, the easiest way to get started is to join LinkedIn, build your network, join a lot of job groups and start networking with people working at those companies. Sites like indeed.com and developerauction.com are pretty good as well.
I think you would find that most minority groups (whether they be religious groups, women in tech or geeks in high school) would be tired of asking those they consider to be offending them to stop.

Under no circumstances is that a justification for taking matters into your own hands. To suggest that it is creates a negative feedback loop where both sides feel justified to take ever increasing actions against the "aggressor" (from their perspective).
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There's potentially an argument for a currency itself to not have investment/fractional reserve features, but there is really no viable argument against investment assets existing independent of the currency at all (but denominated in that currency, potentially).

Also no sound financial argument for anyone (except those with short term needs or exceptional risk aversion) to store the majority of his wealth in a non-appreciating asset (like currency, even fiat USD) vs. income-bearing assets.
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Apple dominates the "Tower Computer that legally runs OS X" market.