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> To be fair, it is a historically significant motivator in the adoption of new centralized currencies.

Historically, a new monetary base needed significant printing infrastructure, law enforcement to prevent its counterfeiting (if it is a paper and coin currency, which is effectively every currency ever) and you needed to artificially control its reproduction. That requires a government. That usually is associated with taxation.

I think you are looking at the causal relationship in the wrong way. Old paper money required artificial limiters to prevent anyone from printing it and using it. With bitcoin, the trust system of the block chain means to "counterfeit" bitcoins you need as much computational power as a majority of the swarm.
Unfortunately, this notion of saving is based on a rather antiquated understanding of how banks work. In modern banking, lending is not constrained by the amount of deposits or reserves that a bank has. The only thing limiting the amount of loans given out are capital requirements, and of course risk/return considerations of the bank.

The result is that putting money into a savings account of a bank does cause the bank to increase its lending volume.

Rather, the amount of bank lending is determined by how many willing and credit-worthy borrowers approach the bank. This in turn depends much more on the overall state of the economy (e.g., whether households are confident enough in the job situation to take on a mortgage, and whether businesses are confident enough of future demand to expand).

Note that saving actually tends to be a drag on those factors, because the first-order effect of increased saving is a reduction of aggregate demand.

The reason some economists believe that saving is good at a macroeconomic level is that they believe interest rates will adjust to such an extent that banks will be approached by more willing borrowers. The problem with that notion is that loan demand is not actually all that sensitive to interest rates. Even worse is the fact that (nominal) interest rates cannot drop below zero, and (real) interest rates cannot drop below minus the rate of inflation. This makes the conservative position on the economy (disregard the demand side and target low inflation) completely untenable, but I digress...
Or know mathematical weaknesses in it.

The NSA is one of the largest employers of mathematicians in the world. They don't sit around doing Sudoku all day.
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That's also the biggest drawback since there wouldn't be anyone watching over speculations.
[ ] What separates the 10x devs from the 1x? (what _is_ it? Environment, skill, ...)
[X] 10x productivity myths (why you shouldn't believe it)
[ ] 10x productivity truths (but, but, it IS true, see?)
[ ] Be the 10x developer (aspiring to be one)
[ ] Startup perspective (should startups try to acquire 10x devs?)
[ ] Why the 10x notion pisses me off (why it shouldn't matter)
[ ] If 10x productivity why not 10x salary? (or similar)
[X] Some meta discussion on the metrics of "productivity" (solve for x)
[ ] Technologies/Languages/Tools/Methodologies that facilitate/impede 10x?
[ ] 10x in other professions?
Another one that is excellent is called "the challenger sale".

Here it is on amazon, I bought the audible version.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Challenger-Sale-Customer-Conversat...

A further one to look at is the maverick selling method. Corny name but good content:

http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Selling-Method-Simplifying-Co...
In the UK this is called Chip and PIN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN
People have been measuring the value of a BTC by its whole value until now because it was relative to fiat currencies in whole dollars that way.

If BTC was ever worth a million USD, they would probably be talking in Satoshis.

It isn't any more complicated than thinking of the difference between $1 and 0.01 cent.
For now it is very safe if you incorporate your company in India.

IP laws are little weak and innovation can thrive.
If somebody wants to copy paste it can happen anywhere, irrespective of laws.
You ask the fire marshal what was burning, about an hour or so after you've Big Red Button'ed the server room.

This story is giving the Japanese engineer in me apoplexy.
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House construction is insane, anyway -- they're full of random stuff, and there are plenty of non-accessible void spaces. Datacenters are at least generally nice and open, so finding a weird residential hidden fire should be a lot easier. (which is why datacenters get permission to run their wiring the way they do, etc., because they have so much other safety)

The right thing to do in a real datacenter it to check which of your ~hundreds of laser VESDA sensors first tripped, and investigate in that area :) Presumably you have floor air supply, ceiling air return, so the first thing to trip should be a ceiling sensor near your fire. If no floor sensors trip, I wouldn't be super afraid to go in there, and if it's only a small number of them it's not a big fire.

You don't want the dry pipe to go off for sure, and you don't want the FM-200 either, but the consoles should be reporting the smoke alarm to you way before a human would smell it "filling the whole room", and they don't generally discharge either for very small events (at least everywhere I've seen).

In an office (some open plan, some cubicles, some conference rooms and offices, etc.), with a few racks of equipment, and maybe some lab space, it's a lot more similar to the scary hidden residential fire problem. :( Your risks in trying to uncover the problem are actually higher than in the datacenter because then you don't have the amazing gas system and a dry pipe backup to save you if it turns into a big fire while you're there, and it's not as designed for easy egress, and probably doesn't even have real EPO. I wonder if there's a firefighter on HN who would know the real answer to this case.
The latter seems very likely if btc every became really popular. It would probably send the United States into a radical depression and destroy its economy, but by then the ~500 Americans that own the world would have flown the coop anyway, and all that USD they had would still be worth something.
But it happens.

Our colo went down. Fire system triggered it (no actual fire was harmed in the triggering, however). On Thanksgiving. When I'd volunteered for on-call seeing as my co-worker had family to attend to and I didn't.

He thanked me afterward.

Our cage was reasonably straightforward to bring up, once power was restored. The colo facility as a whole took a few days to bring all systems up, apparently some large storage devices really don't like being Molly-switched.
If the crime resulted in downtime or in any other way inconvenienced someone else, it wasn't a victimless crime.

Disregarding semantics, I completely agree that the potential punishment is not at all proportional to the crime in this case.
And the linked stack exchange discussion:

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17704/how-to-...
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> increasing demand through lower prices

This sounds nice in theory. In practice, prices fall only very slowly, if at all, due to the way that prices are set in practice: Producers decide how much they want to charge, and they are naturally inclined to charge more rather than less. This might be different in a world where the price tags are made by customers, but we have to work with the world we live in.

By the way, this is probably the best argument for tolerating a modest rate of inflation (e.g. 5% or so): For "the market" to work well, relative prices need to change to reflect the changing reality of production and consumption. Since the mechanisms of how prices are set allow prices to rise faster than they can fall, it is a good idea for the average price level to be increasing at a modest pace.
Depending on how effective the ventilation system is / how diffuse the smoke is, the detectors may not do much to pinpoint where the smoke originated. Many DCs only have so many smoke detectors, at fairly wide intervals. There can be a lot of devices inside a 30' square.
If our systems aren't able to stand casual, playful attack, they have absolutely no chance at surviving a real, concerted attack. And there's plenty of evidence that the latter happen all the time nowadays.
The problem when sexism just sounds so darn friendly...
Coinbase publishes your name and email publicly
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No, as a matter of fact it simply never occurred to me that you might simply disagree thereby changing the underlying nature of reality in so doing.

But I suppose I am not one for the acceptance that things are only what we label them with. If no differences can be iterated between one thing with a pretty label, say a democratic government for argument's sake, and another thing with an ugly label, say an organised crime ring with a byzantine structure designed to convey the perception of community support but which retains the core underlying features of being impossible not to participate in under threat of violence, parasitic and corrupt even by it's own rules; it just never occurred to me someone might truly be naive enough to honestly accept that the labels alone change the nature of the underlying labelled things.

It's a fine trick if you can find enough suckers to pull it off I suppose.
Originally found on http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bq2p8/coinbase_pub...
I'm pretty sure most people did not do reckless stuff endangering people going about their daily business by purposefully creating a car accident.

There is stupid and there is malicious, this is way beyond stupid. After all, he did tell his friend to buckle up which indicates he was aware of the risk, did he tell the people in the car behind him to buckle up as well?
Go figure : when you are using a trust relationship between parties to negotiate value instead of just trading in raw goods, you are vulnerable to the destruction of that exchange-trust system.

It is why all the people aruging gold is such a better investment than BTC are nuts. If gold dropped its market value overnight by 90%, you would still lose 90% of your potential fiat exchanged currency as if BTC dropped 90%. All gold has going for it is less volitility. If gold ever stopped being a reserve resource rather than a useful metal, you would not get a fraction of what you spent on your gold selling it to industrial plants to make conductive cable out of.
Coinbase (YC S12) Is A YC-Funded Bitcoin Wallet
Whatever happens, you are a winner.

You decided to get out of your comfort zone, at your own expenses - not many people are that brave, and this will always pay out. Even if it doesn't work out for your startup, you know you tried, and you did your best. If you didn't even try, you would have spent your life wondering what would have happened if you did.

This will be a huge learning experience for you that at the worst may land you a highly paid job in some company looking for techies with horizontal knowledge that spaces on growth, marketing, business development, product, etc... - it is very difficult to acquire all these skills while working as employee.

Persistence is key: keep getting feedback (from customers, entrepreneurs, competitors' study, ...), keep improving the product and don't waste your time thinking about failures, depression etc... - they are just energy drainers. Whenever your brain starts sidelining on these sad topics, just think "what can I get done in the next five minutes?" - it may be answering a support ticket, fixing a bug, changing copy, implementing a new A/B test, etc... ANYTHING is still better than thinking about failures. You are failing when you think too much about it and do nothing to get back on track. And you DO have the energy to go ahead, so just go! You'll realize that very likely these 5 minutes will become 10, then 60, etc... and at the end of the day you'll feel a great sense of accomplishment.

You will be rejected a number of times. Your work and skills will be understated. A LOT. Entrepreneurship is a great toughening experience. Be a winner, believe in yourself and always work to proof people wrong.

Also, if you need more customers - would you be able to provide a free account to some early members, in exchange of some valuable feedback? This is one of the best product growth hack.

One advice though: if you don't need to, don't search for funding. Build a MVP that works, that customers love and make it profitable. Even if you have a very small set of customers. You may need funding when you decide to scale it - but that's a much better situation to be in (and your startup evaluation will be way higher).

Now, think about what you can do your next five minutes to improve your product - and do it :)!

Best of luck!
I'm afraid of what might happen, because in the scenario of a rapid climate change, the consequences are unpredictable. For example, today there are many people living with the meltwater, and they would return to the stone age.

Currently I see this as a problem of garbage. Polluting industries, such as batteries and tires, are already required to collect their waste. I think the rich oil industry should also be required to collect the garbage of co2 that is generated by their product.

I do not want to create a flamewar, just want to express my opinion and sorry my bad english.
Of course there isn't something illegal in using offshore accounts, but why they would put only selected names publicly, while many others remain hidden. What will happen if in those files we find out that there are people working for/related with Guardian and those major news agencies that investigate this case? Are they the new judges? I think if they have such information they should release everything, because they don't have the right to select just a few names and put them on display.
I would say it's better to pick a task, then take a look at what programming language is commonly used for that task. Want to write a web game to post online on a game aggregator? Sign up for Kongregate and NewGrounds and find out what they support. Flash, and Java unity seem to be your choices. Rather write a game to post yourself for geek cred? Pygame and HTML5 are much cooler options. Would rather create a web based app? Ruby and Javascript may be the way to go. Want to make an app to use on your phone? Objective C or Java are probably your best options depending on your phone. Programming is a means to an end and while enjoyable by itself the best way to narrow it down is to pick a goal.
I don't know, Gold has a well known historical value, but the recent spike in value caused be distaste of Dollars is very similar to what is happening the Bitcoins.

The problem with Bitcoins is that market has already proven it is capable of spiking to zero. Gold could drop, but it is very unlikely to drop too far below its historical levels (since there is demand for it by itself) in contrast, Bitcoins don't have any straight demand.
Just like anything, you have to have the right balance of deflation/inflation in the market + devaluation of currency. This is why the throttle is key, who controls it, on what basis. I think this is the exact opposite, I think devaluation of a currency over time allows markets, investment, loans to thrive. If your money is shrinking you have to invest, the market will beat the mattress stash over time always due to this.

When you invest you create bigger dollars. Someone paying interest their actual value of their dollar might be .85-.95 where the person collecting 5% interest is collecting 1.05 during that same period simply by investing rather than money sitting at 1.00 doing nothing or shrinking due to devaluation.

I sum it up as this, poor people pay interest, rich people collect it. Without devaluation of currency and if the currency just naturally grows at a rate at or higher than inflation or deflation for too long, why invest then, why take the risk if your money grows without investing? The feudal gold conundrum - the mere fact of people being born makes you richer because they have less and there is limited supply? Supplies have to increase, thus currencies have to be devalued. Devalued currencies lessen risk of investment because if you aren't investing you are holding smaller dollars over time. This fuels products like the 30 year mortgage even more, without this banks wouldn't loan as easy. People don't invest as much in deflation because they are overpaying or buying high, holding onto cash is better during those times, so increasing circulation and spending actually fuel investment due to devaluation. It is all a balance and has and will continue to evolve, it works for the most part with fiat levers to get through turbulence and momentary irrational behavior.
Yeah. So estimate the cost there are like $100-250k? I'm willing to accept a pretty low risk to my life for ~15 minutes of searching to save my company $250k. It's a risk on the order of riding a motorcycle from Oakland to San Jose in rush hour, I'd roughly estimate.
>>Agile is the current day water fall model. I mean in spirit on in factual procedures.
>>My latest irritation is manager types getting too obsessed with Unit testing, it reminds of XML and the way it was abused.

Whenever I read opinions like this all I hear is "Wah wah wah. I'm old and I don't like learning new things. What's wrong with the way I've always worked? Wah wah wah, managers."
Similar for me, but wasn't sure how common it was.
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Spot on. We were rudely awoken at 3AM by our alert system after one of our DC's caught fire (host Europe/123-reg in nottingham - utter fucking cowboys now moved on from there). UPS blew and took out the entire power system and generator.

It definitely happens.
Not really. Programming is very different to driving in a straight line.

As an admittedly fairly poor analogy, in programming you generally still have to assemble the car first. Silly things like laying out controls, moving data from/to the db, etc.

Having a really easy to assemble car is still going to take so much more time than the time you spend driving from A to B. So it's much more important. Add on top that you're going to be constantly asked to disassemble it and reassemble it to change the wheel size, etc. because accounting forgot to say that you'd be driving off road.
Guess what? It's broken as hell ;)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland10chipbroken.p...
Extremely thankful, it brought smile back on my face. Thanks a lot, next 5 mins. yes I am going to do some stuff for sure. Thanks a ton man! Folks on HN are so amazing.
And in fact, writing scads of dumb code is often the sign of a poor developer. It often follows from the "never turn back" mentality, that leads them to follow an initial poor choice of solution through to the bitter end.
No, I don't want people to figure out, who I am. I want to build an anonymous identity read this http://dudeofjude.tumblr.com/post/45575373237/maintaining-an... :-)
The analogy I like is that traditional currencies work in the same way, the money supply is the 10,000 coins and the central bank represents the 99 people and has the 1,000,000 coins. (In practice they have an infinite amount but whatever)

In traiditional currency systems the central back adds more money to the supply by buying financial products

In your scenario the 99 people add currency to the money supply by buying whatever they opt to buy.

The differences are that the central backs can print as much currency as they want rather than being limited to what they bought earlier and that it's many people vs one institution with some mandate to keep the currency and economy stable.

That said, if I was one of those 99 I would be careful and probably collude with the other 98, if I tried to cash out too fast I would collapse the value of bitcoin and the rest of my investment would be rendered valueless. So they do have an implicit motivation to preserve stability.
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Well according to Wikipedia:

>Lenat was frustrated by Automated Mathematician's constraint to a single domain and so developed Eurisko; his frustration with the effort of encoding domain knowledge for Eurisko led to Lenat's subsequent (and, as of 2008, continuing) development of Cyc. Lenat envisions ultimately coupling the Cyc knowledgebase with the Eurisko discovery engine.

I don't know what he intends to do with it from there, but it could potentially make for some very powerful AIs.
glad to help - I went through many times a situation like this, and I admire people like you who take initiative and get out of the comfort zone.

Whenever something gets really tough - you should be thankful, because if means that you stumbled upon a situation that only few people overcome (for entrepreneurs, many times this situation is depression), and now it's your chance to finally distinguish yourself as a winner.

FYI: http://1humor.com/img/upload/25062012104430-zone.jpg
Of course, because only your views represent the "underlying nature of reality", and anyone with a more positive view of collective government is necessarily blinded by labels. And it's so obvious that when it comes to human affairs, particularly those of a social/governmental nature, that there is one single empirical truth. Of course! How could I be so stupid?

I don't think that most western nations do have a government that could be described as an organised crime ring. I don't think you can cite this as an empirical fact. In fact I think that all of the words you used there are overly-emotional negative labels you use to reinforce your own belief that democratic government is necessarily evil, a view I don't subscribe to.
And apple would only have to make sure, that you get no warning, that another device was added to your keybag.
>Welcome to the New World Order where they can throw you into prison at will with supposed evidence which truth content can be hard to verify even by experts.

Emm, how is this different than the "Old World Order"? I mean, then, they could put you in prison at will, period (the king, the local sheriff, the lynching mob, etc). They didn't even need any evidence to be verified.
The GP post is perhaps a bit too dismissive of Bitcoin, but you should be very careful of hero worship as well. The pool of people who could have created Bitcoin includes almost everybody who has taken university-level courses on cryptography, and probably a whole bunch of non-academic crypto enthusiasts.

After all, there are really only two cryptographic ideas in Bitcoin: One is to used public key cryptography and signatures for transactions, which is completely obvious. The other is to use hashing for proof-of-work to build the block chain. This is certainly less obvious, but it wasn't outlandishly new either. Ideas like hashcash have been around much longer than Bitcoin.

Putting it all together in this way with its appeal to the goldbug mindset was certainly clever. But you are seriously overestimating the amount of intelligence required for developing Bitcoin.
I believe that's what the inventor originally made it for, if you look at his postings.
So which browsers on the market are currently using webkit proper? I've heard that Apple uses their port called Webkit2 for Safari, and now with Chrome and Opera using Blink, who's left?

Or will Webkit2 and Blink still pull changes and improvements in from Webkit?
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This is one year and something old and returns better results, in my opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo

On the other hand, they presented only the best results in that video.