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Its a simple matter really. If twice as many people are eating twice as much food, you'll need to print twice as much money to keep prices stable. Otherwise, the price of food will double.

The central bank prints money. That is a fact. What people forget is the fact that this is useful to an economy. The central bank can abuse its power, and inflate away your cash holdings. (ie: print too much money). That is why BTC are pegged at 21 Million coins.

So the question now is, what will an economy based off of a heavily depreciating asset look like. What are the risks?
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Check out the high-level overview of Servo's design:

https://github.com/mozilla/servo/wiki/Design

The goal is extremely pervasive concurrency in aspects that no modern engine has yet begun to approach (and likely could not approach without enormous effort and/or a full-on rewrite).
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Yes, the Tesla is probably a good choice for someone who is in the $40k+ range already, since your gas costs can go to a better car. The odd thing is Tesla trying to sell this as a $500 a month car.
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Yea I was not sure. I left them after their data cap for "high speed" "unlimited" internet cap was 3 gb per month. I can put up with js injection but ridiculous data caps are something I can't live with.
wow, funny coincidence that news just broke a few days ago. good to know.
Which court case decided that browsing a website is a form of contractual agreement with whatever happens to be posted?
I really wish this were higher in the comment thread.
Other than rehashing the exact arguments and diagrams presented in the mozilla marketing material and including an extensive "interview" with a mozilla engineer:

- I would have expected him to have tried it. There's no evidence in the post that he even fired up firefox nightly and ran even a simple test. The performance graph is straight out of asm.js marketing material

- In discussing chrome's performance, he just writes "A 4-10x performance difference is substantial" without explaining why chrome's performance suffers so much relative to firefox without asm.js (take the skinning demo. Why is chrome significantly worse than firefox?) This is a point that many have discussed, including some here in various posts about asm.js

- Certain sentences seem artificial. If you've read other posts by him, does "It is interesting to see such a large performance chasm appearing between Asm.js and the current engines in Firefox and Chrome. A 4-10x performance difference is substantial (this is in the realm of comparing these browsers to the performance of IE 6). Interestingly even with this performance difference many of these Asm.js demos are still usable on Chrome and Firefox, which is a good indicator for the current state of JavaScript engines. That being said their performance is simply not as good as the performance offered by a browser that is capable of optimizing Asm.js code." sound like something he would write? At all?
LinkedIn's customer service has a tool that will remove all of these for you and remove them from the recipient inboxes (on the service, obviously it can't remove the email copies) as well, should this happen to anyone else. It was mentioned in the aftermath of the Matt Haughey LinkedIn situation.
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Are you kidding?

HTML is a massive spec even before you step in and implement the HTML5 javascript APIs.

Then you also have to make sure that your rendering engine behaves in a sane way, supports all the obscure CSS rules from the spec and from webkit...

There's a reason Opera stopped playing this game; it's hard work.
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So clean and well made!
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What parts of the language have been changing? And maybe to reduce the scope of that question a bit: are there any specific features that need to be solidified first before someone should bother learning Rust?
People are going to die. If it's not cancer, it'll be heart failure.

I'm not convinced that what this world needs is research into keeping sick people alive longer. We have lots of people as it is.
Currently it generates a HTML string rather than DOM Elements but if it did it would be cool to be able to add onclick handlers etc in the attributes argument.
Please stop calling it child pornography. These are images of child sexual abuse.

Actually, I'd prefer it if people stopped spreading hateful lies about how acceptable images of child sexual abuse are, and how this abuse causes no harm, and how it should be fine for people to make and possess and distribute these images of abuse; and if they stopped spreading FUD about how taking a photo of a man raping a child to give to the police would mean you'd be arrested, but I realise that apologists for paedophilia[1] are very vocal on the Internet.

> In the US recording child pornography usually carries a larger penalty than raping a child.

Do you have any citations for this? Specifically, a crime where a person has been given a longer sentence for recording images of child sexual abuse when that did not also involve carrying out the child sexual abuse?

[1] don't fucking dare try to start with the ephebophila nonsense.
>Developers love to rewrite stuff (obviously both Gecko and WebKit are already effectively rewrites of pre-existing technologies), but the market has a long history of not being nearly as enthused.

Actually your examples nullify your argument.

Mozilla would be dead today without Gecko, ie with the old Netscape code piled.

KHTML would have gone nowhere much if it wasn't for the Webkit rewrite.

So in both cases, it was the rewrites that made those engines break out.
Subtracting off the cost of gas is pretty shady.

* Gas car costs financing + gas each month.

* Tesla costs financing each month.

* Tesla does not cost financing - gas each month!
You know Resig isn't employed by Mozilla anymore, right?

This is just a JS enthusiast (understatement of the year, perhaps) discussing a JS topic.
There eventually wont be much point to mining when the cap is reached, then there will be a point to process blocks for their transaction fees. You are also right about the hardware issue, plus there are other more profitable ways to use a botnet. There is also just a general problem with the argument that it incentivises botnets, they are their own incentive, anything that needs bandwidth, cpu power, and stolen information will be much easier with a botnet.
Sendgrid strikes again! (they send email for LinkedIn)
IIRC, when I got a bank account at 15 or so, my parents had to go with me to the bank and they had to also have their names on the account.
To people wondering why Samsung would join this, I think Samsung is a big believer in the HSA Foundation [1] for heterogeneous computing, and they were one of the first partners in this along with AMD and ARM.

Samsung seems to believe in having the best performing devices and components, so it's not that surprising that they want to be at the forefront of the heterogeneous computing movement.

They also probably see themselves as a competitor against Intel, with both the ARM ISA that they support and the foundry that they own. In the next few years there will be a battle between HSA and Intel's Phi co-processor idea, and I think Samsung is one of the many who wants HSA to succeed (using computing power from all sorts of processors vs using only CPU's for everything).

http://hsafoundation.com
> (ie: if I borrow 100 BTC from you today, I only will have to repay you 75 BTC two months from now

Interest is almost* always non-negative. I'll only lend you those 100 BTC if you pay me something more than I'll have if I didn't lend them.

That makes a BTC based economy more prone to hoarding, and less prone to investing (what is clearly a bad thing), and also more prone to hoarding and less prone to spending (what economists think is a bad thing - I have no idea why).

* The exceptions to this rule are not systemic, normaly appearing in times of disruption. You can't base an economy on them.
This was inevitable.

That's why I bought Google stock after they got into Android, as Android makes it possible for Google to now step in & protect against the MITTM attacks by ISP's blocking their ads. The OS gets the final word before it displays content to the user & it can detect & block these.

Now, they just have to deploy the fix to Android...
Go with .com if you can. The domain name is very, very important.
Yes, to my knowledge so far courts have held that breaching the ToS is not a violation of the CFAA.

The proposed bill, as written, would change that. I think the interjection into the title is accurate, and makes the title less hyperbolic.
Does anyone know how hard it would be to port an h264 decoder to asm.js? If it worked, it could be used to shim h264 support into Firefox.
Presumably to squeeze out maximum performance from multi-core machines. Current engines are all single thread per page instance.
I think many Europeans looking at Cyprus taking steps to protect themselves. Just in case. And there are big players in this game as well.
In what sense? And what do you propose replaces it?
The title has little to do with the topic. The article doesn't talk about any new redefinition. Many forms of matter are already known. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_matter contains a pretty comprehensive list, including glass.

What is your affiliation with simonsfoundation.org? You post many things from there. I also see that you never comment. I'm going to assume this is a bogus account.
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Recently the biggest breaking changes have been a large amount of syntax removed from the language: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/4707

But, as far as I understand, the goal is to not change the syntax much from now, and actually get it 'frozen' by 0.7.
I believe one has already been ported using Emscripten - but this was a while ago, I'd be curious to see how fast it runs now with Asm.js: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway
But by the time you've physically perfused the brain and frozen it, substantial cell death would have begun. So if we have to freeze until the scanning/storage tech arrives, we'll have a compromised source, at best.
Same things are true for any currency, this is partly why they work. We can trust because we have common interest in the solvency of any commonly used currency. A dollar is only worth what someone will give you for it.
A great read by Hofstadter on Analogy as the Core of Cognition is here: http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.h...

I'm a big fan of Hofstadter and his emphasis on analogy. George Lakoff has and others from cognative semantics provide strongly supporting views from linguistics.

And in Machine Learning, Deep Learning is now providing new support for these views on analogy. This isn't immediately obvious until realizing that analogy is not necessarily an active process more likely a passive result of how thoughts and memories are encoded and stored. I'm curious as to whether Hofstadter will address this in this book - I would imagine so as he was long ago excited by earlier similar ML approaches (Sparse Distributed Memory).
Ok just spun up a test server with digitalcloud on the beta, very easy to set up.
One thing I'd like to know more about is security/hardening on a vanilla install.

I'd happily move a live site over to test if I know what's been done under the hood as part of the install.

Either way I see this doing well.
Whether this the aim of this post was marketing or not (as I believe), it's a really in depth and interesting read if you're a programmer. Even more so if you use JavaScript. It would be great if all corporate marketing was like this!
Maybe I'm a bit old-fashioned here, but I'd expect a discussion of JS performance to be coupled with a performance test conducted by the author. Is that too much to ask?
A divorce is never a good thing, certainly not if children are involved. But toughing it out is not an option either. Marriage is a human decision and we are known for making mistakes, aren't we? And if we did make a mistake, we have to rectify it or try to rectify it.

Over the time, the increase in divorce rate has has a lot to do with (personal) freedom, education and exposure especially of women; and not to the mention the era of women-emancipation and after.

Each period in the article correlates with women's status in society at the time, and is mentioned in there.

It would be interesting to know what were the % of divorces where women initiated it(it's recorded, right?).
Many states (and provinces I assume) will allow one to sit for EIT or PE exams given you can provide over X years of experience doing professional levels engineering work under the direction of a licensed professional, where X is generally on the range of 15 years.
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Just what the world needed: More talentless hacks teaching the world how to more efficiently spread bad art.

It really is a shame that time invested into areas having nothing to do with the music is rewarded over the music itself. This seems to select out the good artists who are actually doing something interesting.
"Driven" would be my choice of words there.
The Verge combats journalism by plagiarizing another article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/us/to-fight-gridlock-los-a...;
In theory, would it be possible to take an ActiveX or NPAPI plugin and compile it down to asm.js-compatible javascript?
Fairly easily if you start with Broadway: it’s an Emscripten port of Android’s H264 software decoder that writes to a WebGL canvas.

https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway
What you've described is the internal policy at the company I work for, and its a total nightmare. You don't get new versions of software until you upgrade your entire OS, a non-zero amount of developer time is spent re-packaging things that have already been packaged (and their dependencies!) and if you want to run multiple versions concurrently, you have to resort to horrible hackery as aptitude doesn't support that.

Sorry, no thanks.
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The reverse has been done: WebM has been ported to JavaScript with Emscripten, which means all browsers (IE9+) can play WebM to some degree.

http://badassjs.com/post/17218459521/webm-and-webp-hand-port...
There is a fork called Freicoin that uses demurrage instead of inflation but it hasn't done too well, there's just no demand for it. Think about it, why would anyone buy a currency that nobody accepts and depreciates over time?
Man, I hate LinkedIn. This is a perfect example of why.

Do people actually take their service seriously?
My introduction to Banks was Robert Keogh's Culture Shock website, originally hosted at my university. There's still stuff there I haven't seen anywhere else.

http://www.enthea.org/phlebas/

Note that this site seems to have last been updated in the mid 90's, so later novels are not included.
> ...unless her income is also paid in Bitcoins.

...unless her employer has to buy them in and now can't afford to
...unless they charge customers in bitcoins and can afford to
...unless their customers can't now buy any bitcoins to pay them
...unless their customers are all miners!

This game is fun!
One quick plug: the Hacker News Sidebar under Chrome WebStore hasn't been updated since 2011 and doesn't work any more. My fork of it is more up to date:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sideba...

It's useful if you want to know that there's a comment thread for any given website that you are browsing.
> e^i*pi = -1

Gee, I think that extending the power series for e^x to the complex domain is a pretty fair interpretation of `metaphor' in the context.
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Yes. Whether or not the most substantial damage occurs with apoptosis when oxygen is re-introduced, there will uncontroversially be a lot of damage even in the best case cryonic vitrification. Also uncontroversially, there will be substantially less damage than would occur with cremation or burial.

Even the lesser amount of damage may be too much. Cryonics is a bet that it is not.
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You're talking about entrepreneurs not hackers. While there's obviously room for overlap, this particular guy doesn't fall within the intersection between the two subsections of our social Venn diagram.
Have both my parents on this and its a treat to get the weekly morsels of information I have never known about them. Major +1. Good luck with the official launch!
Women initiate about 70% (or more) of no fault divorces.

http://www.divorce-lawyer-source.com/faq/emotional/who-initi...

Unfortunately the link does not provide further link to sources, but it claims it comes from US census.

I had seen the US census links, and it is correct, also the same is true in Brazil (our laste census resulted in also about 70% of women initiating divorce with no provided reason). Later if I have time I will edit this post to post the census links.
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More possibilities:

- Govt's try to crack down on BTC. The usual asperger reaction "haha, it's mathematically unbreakable" is followed by a tug-of-war and probably ends with taxes levied on exchanges and merchants.

- BTC become a speculator's haven like penny stocks, the endless boom/bust cycles driving out merchants (except for drugs) and consumers

- The protocol weaknesses overwhelm BTC (e.g. it takes hours for any transaction to clear) - scaling P2P is goddamn hard.
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Yeah, "Published April 1, 2013"
>I think an economy that builds on people buying loads of crap they don't need is at least comparatively bad. We certainly seem to have a problem with using more than we need from the planet.

With productivity steadily rising in the developed countries it's gonna be tricky employing 6 billion people. as an example: if all the farmers were as productive as US farmers, we'd need to employ about 0.3% to feed the world. a lot of the "useless" products and services (think about the back office of your local government, which is printing documents, scanning them again and the typing them into a computer form) actually employs a large part of the population - have you thought about the implications if 90% of the population is not required to work?

We need inflation, we need people who keep spending their money and hence we'll ultimately need some sort of devaluation. A possible scenario: inflation will be introduced by new cryptocurrencies, which broaden the monetary base. hence it's ultimately the consumers who will steer the rate of inflation (and the adoption of new crypto currencies) and that seems to me like the most democratic thing that ever happened to a currency.
That's assumes you are starting from no one having any to one person having them all. If someone had 1 billion in demand for bitcoins it would drive the price up, some would sell hoping to cash out, but others probably more would save seeing this big new interest as a sign of increasing value. You can't count out the sociology and the theater of it. Or other external forces like unstable/untrustworthy national currencies, or the value of relative anonymity.
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Not only is that unlikely, but it's also false because the recording is inadvertent (and thus, the intent element of the criminal statute cannot be satisfied).

However, the intent element would be satisfied if you keep the recording without informing the police and giving them the recording ASAP. Furthermore, you would not be subject to a longer sentence than the original perpetrator, since the original perpetrator will almost certainly be subject to civil commitment statutes for sexual offenders that keep imprisoned indefinitely beyond his original sentence (Pedophilia is considered a mental disorder, and ephebophilia is also considered a mental disorder to a lesser extent, by the DSM 4.)

Source: I am a former criminal defense lawyer.
I am no language expert by any means, but I haven't had much trouble picking up Rust. In fact it's been a lot of fun. I've mostly used the official documentation [1](tutorial, manual, core/std reference). Sometimes I will have to look at some unit tests on the rust github source to see how something is used.

[1] http://www.rust-lang.org/
> Conveniently ignored in all the stories about teenage whiz-kids who make money off internet businesses is that they are invariably committing federal felonies.

Or, y'know, they've had their parents sign up for such things for them. That's what I did.
>I wondered why they don't teach this stuff in high school or college

I actually have assigned it and some of Paul Graham's other essays; many students, however, appear to reject his advice, or are not ready to listen to it.
It sounds more like you're looking at all of this through a strong negative filter.
Generally in financial time series, any exponential growth is indicative that something is growing "too fast." It has a better than "pure luck" shot at being right eventually when applied to stocks, but is misapplied when used on fiat currency....There is no constancy underlying the asset.

Of course...in order to prove something was a bubble you'd have to define "bubble" which is surprisingly hard.
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I think it could do well as a reserve currency. Any country that isn't the US would be better off holding and transacting in BTC than in USD.
For 3rd party widgets, I actually prefer iframe for security. The same domain policy makes it more difficult for xss in the iframe to compromise the parent page. For HTML5 sandbox iframes, the security boundaries are even more strict and tunable.

There are some disadvantages to current iframes that Moot addresses like the lack of CSS cascading from parent page to iframe. The seamless iframe spec addresses this issue, but it's not widely adopted yet.
On one hand, Amazon just launched a half-price competitor to DropBox.

OTOH, Amazon also just dropped DropBox's Cost Of Goods Sold by (what's likely) a non-trivial amount.
It depends completely on which chemotherapy you get, which cancer you have, and sheer dumb luck. Both "chemotherapy" and "cancer" are blanket terms covering a multitude of radically different things.

Best case: your cancer is contained to a single organ and susceptible to antibody therapy. Practically no side effects, and you'll most likely be healed.

Worst case: your cancer has spread to multiple organs, requires the use of cytotoxics and your body reacts badly to those. You're better off setting yourself on fire - at least then you'll have to endure at most a few days of excrutiating pain before you die. No, that is not an exaggeration.

Source: my girlfriend who works as a nurse in a cancer ward specializing in chemotherapy.

Most importantly: make that decision yourself while you can! Don't leave it to the doctors (who only learn ways to keep patients alive at all costs, not ways to decide whether it's better to let them die) or your relatives (who'll tell the doctors to do everything humanly possible to assuage their feelings of helplessness and guilt).
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