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Is $2 million really significant? BTC famously passed $1 billion in the money supply recently. That means that about 0.2% of the money supply is turning over each month, and 99.8% being hoarded from month to month.

The US GDP is about $15 trillion, so about $1.25 trillion in transactions happen in a month. If you take M2 of about $10 trillion as the US money supply, about 12.5% of the US money supply turns over each month and 87.5% is being hoarded. If you take M1 of about $2 trillion as the money supply, about 62.5% of the US money supply is used in a transaction each month, with only 37.5% being hoarded.

Compared to 62.5% or even 12.5%, 0.2% seems pretty unhealthy.
I worry about that, too, but I think it's unlikely to happen, because Bitcoin will stabilize eventually. But it first needs to become so big (think $100 billion - $1 trillion here) that every single transaction affects the value in a very small way, and any top HN or Reddit article about it has an almost insignificant effect on its value.

I do believe that will happen eventually, but it's too early right now. Bitcoin works by the law of numbers - after all it's all numbers and math. When its tiny in value, its growth can be very high. When it's already huge, the growth will slow down a lot.
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If you hold the bitcoin for a very short amount of time, it's not especially risky. There's a company that facilitates payments in bitcoin: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitpay-integrates-bitcoin-w...
Bitcoin is vulnerable too. A dedicated effort by collaborating governments could destroy or severely damage Bitcoin, by e.g. blocking the protocol, seizing powerful hashing equipment, downing exchange websites, performing a 51% attack, and so on.

This notion that Bitcoin is some robust, untamperable currency system is simply incorrect.
I would figure that we'd learned a lot of lessons from Java, and Java was never truly integrated with the browser, always glommed in via some clumsy plug-in architecture.

If JavaScript was a plugin it would be just as annoying and useless as an "applet".
Gold has been used as currency (medium of exchange) at multiple points in history. It's not now. People are trying to use bitcoin as a currency atm - but it's very difficult with its fluctuations in value. It may perhaps be more successful as a medium of exchange in the future - but that won't be for a while.
If I see a currency rising in value faster than Gold itself, I'm going to want to get in on the value.

Fact is, if I had "invested" in 100 BTC only 5 months ago when it was hovering around USD$10, that would have cost me about $1000. And now it would be worth $10000. There are not that many investments that have that kind of return in such a short time. You'd have to be dumb to believe that people aren't doing exactly this. You don't see 1000% returns and just ignore it and wonder about its utility. Right now, it's a volatile and risky currency exchange being intentionally used to ride the rising popularity into a cash la-la land.

At some point people are going to convert this toy back to a real-world currency and take their winnings home with them. I don't know what's going to happen then, but I don't believe it will be good. Perhaps 'stabilizing' would be a good optimistic name for it.
Your lower bound is not low enough; it will be more like $150 to $5, or perhaps even lower.
Techcrunched: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/01/steam-gauge-gauges-the-size...
If by sell you mean buy more things on silk road from bitcoins purchased in 2011, then you are correct.
"I think that was a joke and I think it went over your head :)"

As had I. My first computer was a PCjr., with a hand-soldered memory expansion card. I repaired broken pins on processors multiple times (maybe like 5 or 6), since in that era I was also building "custom" machines for people.

But in regards to this being a "joke", it just seemed like really bad folklore to me. Having lived through that era, I just really didn't see even any remote humor in the comment.
If you're willing to trade off stability for features, the Rails 2.3 line still receives security patches to this day. You can upgrade to Rails 3 when Rails 4 comes out.

If you're willing to make a slightly different trade-off, just apply the security patches as they come out and don't upgrade minor versions without integration testing.
No need to be patronizing, I wasn't asking from a negative standpoint, I was merely curious how current non-digital modding insurance claims work.
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The thought of a mix of an asian f2p game and "in car purchases" horrified me.
A new domain name has been 10 USD from Namecheap for the last decade. A new domain name in BTC however, has varied between 1 BTC and 0.1 BTC in just the past two months.

BTC as a proxy for USD is still useful IMO, it gives us a way to avoid Paypal and other online processors. But for it to be a USD replacement, it needs to first settle down and stabilize.
"I happen to think that bitcoin is still stabilizing."

Considering that this is the largest spike in the history of Bitcoin, I would like to know what makes you think that.

"I think it will eventually stabilize."

So do I, but that is because I think it will eventually fail (and stabilize at $0/BTC).
One thing to add is that [] is much closer to the right pinky finger, which immensely boost the typing speed comparing to ().
Now that's what I call a true re-thinking in code productivity.
If we go another step further we might consider using ;
;+ 1;- 3 2;;
I am liking it already.
On the other hand, if the subsidy makes the subsidized industries lazy and encourages political competition - lobbying for bigger subsidies - rather than technological competition in this and other industries, leaving us stuck subsidizing inefficient dead-end technologies rather than moving on to new ideas from better smaller firms that didn't have the clout to get subsidized, then it will NOT be the most efficient use of $7,500 the government ever paid.

Though it won't be the least efficient, it'll be right down there. (Subsidizing and "protecting" steelmakers and automakers in the past pretty much doomed those industries to stop being innovative or competitive on the world market.)
Hi, has the 45 hour per week rule been changed?
Oh my I adore this.

His deadly prose is
so authentic that it has
a life of its own.

But ordering street
food and riding the subway
had become old hat.

"As an engineer,
I'm sort of a student of
how things fall apart."

I love short stories, and I firmly believe that one of the secrets to good storytelling is to be compact in emotion (let it expand in the reader's head) and start as close to the end as possible.

These haikus are the perfect amount of prose to package up NYT stories.
I'm using tablesorter (http://tablesorter.com) for sorting right now, and haven't really dug deep into it beyond the default configuration. I'll take a closer look - thanks!
They are! Where do you think the smart California girls go to school? In Boston.
Ask HN: You wake up tomorrow, it's 1997 again. What would you do?
Just a bit of day dreaming fun for all us solo hackers struggling to get any serious work done today while everyone else is on holiday...

3 Rules:

- When you wake up, you're the same age and in the same situation as the first time 1997 came around but you retain everything your future self knows.

- When you went to sleep you didn't know you would wake up the following morning to find yourself back in 1997. It just happened with no prior warning (and thus no time to make plans for such an eventuality).

- Tech and the world in general follow the exact same path as before (the only thing that's different is that you've seen the future up to 1st April 2013).

What would you do?
Some numbers are illegal, but that's because they have particular uses (Crypto etc). How in the world would the US be able to declare possession and exchange of data illegal?
April 2 in Japan. (Yet another i18n problem to consider.)
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OP here, this is what I'd do:

- Drop everything and convince my parents to re-mortgage their house

- Use the money to start a domain reselling business

- Buy a handful of great un-registered domain names that could be sold later if things turned sour and I lost my parent's investment

- Build my business in to a global player over the next decade and in parallel start buying up as many AAPL shares as I could afford

- Sell the business and any personal property I accumulated before the 2007/8 financial crash arrives

- Profit!!

- Get in early with bitcoin mining

- Sell all my AAPL stock during 2012

- Profit!!

- Sell all my mined bitcoins on 1st Apri 2013

- Profit!!

- Retire at 30, start a family and buy a load of SpaceX shares whenever they IPO.

The best bit... it's not entirely mad to imagine someone, somewhere might have already pulled all this off (without the need for a second trip to 1997!)
In a few hours, I'm going to a client's site to downgrade his newly purchased notebook to Windows 7. He's an average user, director of a small nonprofit who uses his computer mainly for email, Web browsing, and word processing. He used Windows 8 for a week and this is what he wrote :

I need your assistance. I did go ahead an buy a new laptop. I like the machine but am suffering on account of Windows 8!

Still, he'll still show up as Windows 8 in the market share statistics.
I'm guessing this schadenfreude must be delicious, since everyone keeps coming back for additional helpings.

Look, gloating over other people's security issues is shitty behavior, and frankly responsible developers don't do it. Am I calling DHH an irresponsible developer? Yeah. But the Rails core team has thankfully incorporated a number of smart and responsible developers over the past 4 years, and you see a whole lot less shit like that.

Even better, security issues that have languished silently since 2006 are being identified and quickly addressed.

So, no, nobody is asking anybody to look the other way. There are developers who have been in the Ruby and Rails community for a long time, who make no aspirations to being "rockstars" and are out spending their nights and weekends patching rails, and are not slagging other people off for using Java.

Think of them when you feel the inclination to rant.

(also, incidentally, most of the ranting about Flash and Java development have not focused on security issues, they've mainly focused on how awful it is to use those platforms to do development. Which is why things like JRuby are so wonderful. You get to develop in Ruby, and access the JVM's system of libraries.)
I agree. I think it's a lot easier to get started if you have SOME idea of what you want to accomplish or what direction you want to go in. And who couldn't use a good to-do list?
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Getting full information in an offer letter does not help if the fundamental problem is uncertainty before applying.
"too_big_to_fail" Erlang Process Flag
Happy customer here. I'm bootstrapping a start-up and the $100 price point was about right for me: I had a moment or two of doubt in the week or so before the call but I definitely got value out of it, and Len is "a good guy to know." Len was actually kind enough to agree to let me live-stream and post our hangout on YouTube. You can watch it here if you want to preview the product, so to speak:

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I don't know that I'll be able to spare another $100 for him anytime soon, but I don't regret hiring him the first time.
I disagree that it's simpler to regression test your own app. The recent minor-minor version upgrade passed Rails core tests, as well as test suites at high profile Rails users, yet it contained a regression that caused the disclosure of some sensitive issues at those same high profile shops.

It's easier, from my viewpoint, to stick it out at a release that you know works for you, applying patches from the files contained in the CVEs. There's still a chance that the security patch will cause a regression, but at least you're not pulling in all the interim commits.
We have methods to test UI's to validate or invalidate them, we do not have a way to create new UI's from testing. HCI research provides a good grounding for design architecture options, but it does not dictate an actual design for you.

This is a very important distinction most test-only UX designers miss.

For example: If you test a skeuomorphic design versus a flat design, the testing will only tell you which of these interpretations of each design philosophy works best. However, maybe a better, more inspired, skeuomorphic design would possible perform better than flat if given a a different interpretation.

tl;dr -- testing only shows you which implementation works better in a set, not the best implementation possible.
This is generally incorrect, because if you think about it the cars that died young aren't included in the average. The problem is that there are two averages being cited, and you can't just multiply them to determine a joint average without knowing the nature of the underlying distribution.
Of course, PG covered this in the Arc FAQ

Why not use some other delimiter than parentheses?

We tried various possibilities. Square and curly brackets lose because they are less directional than parens (left and right differ in fewer pixels); < and > lose because they don't wrap around enough to enclose expressions longer than tokens.

http://www.paulgraham.com/arcfaq.html
Bitcoin hasn't yet proved it can do either 1 or 2 yet. If it succeeds in either it will do better than gold is currently doing as currency.

But I wasn't trying to measure currency dick size. I was just making the point that not being good at 2 doesn't necessarily hurt its ability at 1.
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Different races, ethnicities and people differ in subtle ways. People metabolize different molecules differently. However that still is no excuse to repatent a drug.
MeetMe Engineering flashes back to the 90s
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And tell me, what is a good BTC tip today?

1BTC used to be a decent tip at $5. Today that is a $100 tip I'm giving someone. Anyone who gave money to Bitcointip is suffering from the volatility in the marketplace.

A true BTC enthusiast will be happy when BTC stops moving. It doesn't matter what value BTC has, as long as it is constant. Only hoarders want BTC to keep going up and up in value.
I can understand that, but in a web app like yours which is meant to be very responsive, I think you would be better served by handling misses rather than letting errors throw away the stack (so to speak) every time a miss happens.
1. Open Sublime Text
2. Write code like a bawss
3. There is no step 3
Great story, and quite fitting for April Fools Day on HN. ;-)
You said the forex market is prone to manipulation and then said that it's way beyond the capacities of any central bank to manipulate. So which is it?
Since Bitcoin's monetary supply is totally disconnected from economic activity, I wonder how it can ever stabilize (except perhaps by accident).
> it would be much more efficient to ramp up gasoline or carbon taxes, offset with lower payroll taxes

Maybe, but you are comparing "it would be better to do this optimal thing which hasn't actually happened and may be politically hard to make happen" to "this thing that actually did happen was worthwhile". Both can be true.
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How can you call something a baseline control with completely different messaging and layout than the variation? The last two examples can't even come close to attributing the increase in conversion to larger images. This is just an advertisement for WhichTestWon. Coincidentally, WhichTestWon is the author's employer...
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Gold and silver are not money either, except in a tiny minority of countries. Wages are not being paid in gold or silver, debts cannot be settled with gold or silver, and neither gold nor silver is commonly traded for other goods. Nobody uses gold or silver as units of account. The only resemblance either metal has to money in this day and age is as a store of value, but if that is your only requirement to consider something to be money then you would need to include land, buildings, and various collectible items too.

Gold and silver are commodities, traded like any other metal, and the historically-motivated obsession people have with using gold as a store of value makes it more difficult to acquire gold for industrial uses (which would be a real, productive use of the metal).
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You make a good point, but you went too far in saying that this is not true. The universities you describe here enroll very few undergraduates and tend to have a low percentage of low income students.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/rankings_2012...

UC Berkeley, for instance, enrolls more low income students than the entire ivy league combined. 44% of UC San Diego undergraduates qualify for Pell grants.

I knew people at UCSD who were trying to major in computer science while working 20+ hours a week at Nordstrom or the Tie Rack at the local mall to pay the rent. There was some financial aid available, but not enough to cover the gap. There are plenty of rich kids at UCSD as well, but there's a big mix.

I understand that when two high seniors in a wealthy school district bump into each other in the hallway and get out their measuring tapes -er- acceptance letters, UCSD isn't considered especially elite. But if we lose a computer science student who got into UCSD because he couldn't keep up with the need to survive financially while passing compilers, vector calculus, physics, and a GE elective, we have lost an elite student.

I'm glad I saw this up close and understood the problems it causes. I actually think that it may be a problem at Ivy League schools that students are so far removed from this problem - they meet fewer low income students, and those they do meet are well funded. Do they meet the student who is struggling with the financial aid application because her father is claiming her as a dependent but isn't actually giving her any financial support? I know two young women in this spot, one who gave up on pre-med at least in part because of tough financial problems.

Going to college with a large number of low income students at a school that is not quite as capable of funding them as an Ivy League opened my eyes to a lot. In particular, I'm galled by the claims of large silicon valley companies that there is an engineer shortage. I'm all for skilled immigration, but how does it strike you that a government and corporate elite bleating about a skills shortage is willing to watch a talented young student get bounced from a compacted CS department while working 30 hours a week at nordstrom? All while state funding is dramatically reduced?