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> Currencies do not have (>10% of volume of transactions) investors, they have (>90% of volume of transactions) users.

Are you sure about your numbers?

from the fx exchange wikipdeia page:

> As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal of perfect competition, notwithstanding currency intervention by central banks. According to the Bank for International Settlements,[3] as of April 2010, average daily turnover in global foreign exchange markets is estimated at $3.98 trillion, a growth of approximately 20% over the $3.21 trillion daily volume as of April 2007. Some firms specializing on foreign exchange market had put the average daily turnover in excess of US$4 trillion.[4]

If you are right that less than 10% of fx transactions are traders and there is 4 trillion in fx trades a day then there must be 36 trillion in non trader transactions a day.

That seems a bit high to me:) I think if anything you've got your values transposed:)
Not mentioned: Survey Monkey was founded in 1999. Dave Goldberg was hired in 2009.
Thieves don't tend to be very intelligent people, thats why they are thieves, and the thieves who are very intelligent don't usually steal phones.
>Could you give a couple of examples of how a business which incorporates employees family's is beneficial?

For one, it's more humane. Family businesses, and businesses with close relations, have worked for centuries in other fields.

So why not in software/tech?

Of course if "making it big by any means" it's what motivates you, then don't do it. The family/close business is more like the highly successful restaurant that refuses to even become a chain.
Wow, this bitcoin / Winkelvoss story is front page news on the New York Times website: http://i.imgur.com/rSLLqZz.png
A video explaining and showing the technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NMfp13Uug
That sounds fair.
A Startup Spirit, without the 18 hour days
And once again, the anti-HTML zealots are out in force, declaring that just because they don't like HTML email, no one else should be permitted to receive HTML email.

A counterpoint:

I subscribe to several HTML newsletters, and the fact that they are in HTML is a huge advantage to me. It means that JavaScript Weekly (Peter Cooper's newsletter) isn't just a mass of URLs. And it means that I can quickly preview the newest fonts from FontShop without having to visit their site.

You may not like HTML email, but it has tangible benefits to many of us.
I'm completely fascinated with how quickly this bubble inflated and deflated: about 3 weeks.

If the bottom hadn't already dropped out, I would say that this news article indicates a good time to hit the sell button.
Its not DRM. Its a way to prove in a court of law that software was copied. It is more of a digital watermark.
Bitcoin is also founders' shares in a potential new future, a future where crypto and loose internetworked coordination replaces many old habits and institutions.
"Market panic is something else entirely."

Because? Your evidence for conspiracy versus what we're observing is far less convincing.
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VPNs can be made illegal if necessary. That's already the case in some countries.

I think people generally grossly underestimate the reach of the government when it comes to the internet. Ultimately they can change the very foundation of the net if they see a compelling reason.
Indeed, many people enjoy reading content in their email client and prefer it over other delivery mechanisms. (Some people live in their email client.)
EA Lays Off Most Of Its Montreal Staff in Disastrous Day for Developers
The thing is, and I apologize in advance for being blunt, it doesn't matter what you think. It does matter what the Indians think that they ought to do with their lives. Some of them might think that optimizing Advertising algos to make money makes them happy, others might find the challenge of solving real social problems exciting. That choice is theirs, individually, to make. I have friends who emigrated to the States and became wealthy doing quite routine work, but their children are now back in India, volunteering for social work. I'm not saying that's always the case, but it's not something we can (or should) force anyone to do.
Given that child pornography is government enemy #1 and still runs rampant on Tor, I doubt this.
Can I remove my node from the ladder? I am so ashamed.
>> "The whole point of having a country with a central bank that can print money at will (fiat currency), is to have full control over inflation/deflation."

This exact idea is at the heart of George Soros' description and prescription for the Euro financial crisis, whereby individual Euro members do not control the European Central Banks and cannot control their own situation to their likings: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/george-soros-on-t...
your argument is tangential.

bitcoin's inherent deflation is not by money destruction nor increases in production, thus these arguments are not relevant, although true within its own context. since bitcoin, like gold, has a finite quantity, deflation is mostly due to demand, which you have chosen to ignore in your argument.
Someone who knows more about this stuff than me: would it be possible to create a crypto-currency that avoids the problems existing currencies have with (inf|def)lation?

I'm thinking of a system like bitcoin that also acts like a central banker in regulating the money supply, perhaps by linking the availability of new coins to the current supply/demand.
"Those who have large amounts of debt on the books" are short dollars, not long dollars, if you mean debtors (as suggested by your "real estate benefits") rather than creditors (as suggested by your "interest rates go up") — both groups have debt on the books, just on opposite sides of the ledger.

Creditors compensate by increasing interest rates on new loans, but that's, properly speaking, a response to expectations of future inflation, not a cure for past inflation.

> nobody can back anything

I can't tell if you're actually unable to understand the distinction between reserve-backed currencies and fiat currencies like the current dollar, or if you're intentionally bringing up irrelevancies to try to confuse the discussion. Your unwarranted personal attack earlier in the thread makes me want to assume the latter. In either case, shut the fuck up, because whether your ignorance is faked or not, you're not contributing to the conversation. You're just being an asshole.
We need more of that. This kind of experiment shows how natural evolution works, even though it's not an intuitive idea.
BTW, 99% of all Github projects use it as centralized VCS.
You might be right. I don't really know people who use foursquare, and it's use cases from a consumer standpoint are really limited to people who live in cities (forget middle america)

That said, this round does make a lot of sense for investors and management. If they didn't raise a round they would have run out of cash. That's over 5 years and $100M down the drain today. Rather than write the entire thing off, they're giving the company another 2 years to create something worth more than bankruptcy. There is still a lot to bet on. I'm not sure where they'll concentrate, but there is something valuable in being the location based layer of the internet, or being in a position to make cities more searchable on the go.

Notice it's a debt round (w no valuation). They aren't trying to value the company higher, they're just trying to keep it alive as cheaply as possible
Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous
Coping w/Mt Gox's false BTC price
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I think a nuclear missile falls under the definition of WMD.

Edit: I assume you're implying that the US is wagging the dog here and that the threat from NK is overblown and/or this assessment is indended to create an incident.
When I first read this blog article, I was instantly sold on this idea (I personally go to alot of events to represent our company). I was on my way to sign up for a trial but stopped short when I saw the pricing. Why is this service so expensive?
How is it paranoia when the previous apple II's ROMs were copied and used in a competing machine. Apple then went to court and won but it was not a clear cut victory so they decided to 'digitally watermark' the ROM so if it ever happened again they could easily prove in a court of law a competitor copied the rom. It doesn't sound like paranoia so much as a reasonable action to prevent something that had already happened to a previous product.
> But only if it's the sole/main currency. Otherwise it becomes like gold is today, only a bit easier to move money in/out of it. That's always been the main flaw in the "deflationary" theory, it depends on some absolutes that wouldn't exist in the real world.

The deflation argument is usually an argument against the proposal that Bitcoin ought to become a major currency and that it should displace traditional sovereign currencies. So, no, its not a problem with that argument that it relies on assumption of a dominant-currency role for Bitcoin.

Its probably true that such a role won't ever happen, in no small part because there are enough people with enough economic power that understand the problem to prevent it from happening, but that doesn't make the argument is invalid as to why it shouldn't happen.
If I remembered I'd link it.
>Think of it like this: do you suppose Google preferred if you bought an HTC First, or an iPhone?

If the default search on First (or Second) changes to Bing, etc. and the iPhone uses Google and then I guess they would prefer the latter.
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Most reblogs are blank. I agree that replying on your own blog isn't a mistake. I'd just amend that Tumblr almost gets it right.
I might consider it an advantage if Google isn't able to snuff out my user's accounts/access with impunity. I don't understand the technology enough to know whether that is the case, but I wouldn't rely on Google for authentication at this point for this reason.
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> in general I tend to see anything that someone writes as their personal opinion, separate from their employer's position, unless it's a statement from the company on headed paper (or an official account)

This is actually important in this case. (BTW I do not work for Apple, never have).

Lets say Apple has a new Mac Pro coming out. I tweet the following

Mhurron: The new Mac Pro performs like shit.

No one thinks anything of it really. However if the following happens:

Mhurron(Product Development Apple): The new Mac Pro performs like shit.

Apple has a problem (which is quickly going to become mine) and what I just said looks like more then just some crazy guys ramblings. This is what happened here. This guy clearly listed his position at Microsoft then proceeded to comment and argue with people over a product he had direct knowledge of. That looks like more then just arguing about personal preference.

I too hate the idea that someone could take my opinions as official position of the company I work for, but at the same time I don't go out of my way to brand myself as working for that company either.
Cloud computing companies are preparing to dunk their servers in vats of oil
I mean, I have nothing against Ivy League schools, or their graduates. And I won't even say that I think they are overrated so much as I think other schools, and their graduates are underrated. I also think there are a lot of other factors that affect the extent to which someone is a valuable employee, beyond sheer academic ability. Attitude, work ethic, personality, ambition, perserverance, cultural fit, etc. Net-net, my personal belief is that a firm can hire recruiting largely from schools that are not the famous, elite "top tier" schools, and still hire plenty of smart, talented, successful people.

Maybe time will prove me wrong, but we'll see...
Older guy with children here. To me having a 4 year old, even well behaved, in the office is disruptive - period. Maybe occasionally is fine and a treat for everyone but I simply can't see how doing that on any regular basis makes any sense at all. And no comparison to a pet who, while needing walking and might bark occasionally, or get attention from co workers, can sit for hours and do nothing and not make any demands. Not that I haven't seen children of the owners of sushi or chinese restaurants sitting doing their homework while the parents work.
You do get extra tax deductions as an international student if your country has a treaty with the U.S. Which countries are completely exempt?

AC-21 portability doesn't come into play until you are almost at the end of the green card process. The long wait is before you get to that stage.
No Costco offers something similar to 'instant shipping', which means you come, you shop, you leave :)
If only the war hawks could dig up an extra trillion dollars, they could make their dreams a reality. I don't think there is public support (currently) for spending money on unnecessary wars.

EDIT: With the sequester going on in DC, I think that there is more of a feeling that we can't print extra money to fund a new, unnecessary war.
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Or some of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_Unicode_typefaces
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You're right: upper Indiana is boring.

Now, try southern Indiana, around Nashville and Bloomington. It's like a small slice of California, with the rolling hills, pine trees, scenic routes, huge lakes, and awesome liberal atmosphere (home of IU).

I'm so glad I'm here, and not elsewhere in Indiana.
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I would absolutely love if you could post the reference of this book here - and I'm sure a couple of other folks would as well! It sounds quite interesting. Thanks a bunch.
unless the cloner did major modifications the code to display the icon would still be there and recognizable. It wouldn't take any half competent engineer very long to find the new address to run knowing the exact block of code they were looking for.
I agree that typography, a tiny subset of HTML, is important, and that the emails in article look good and are very readable. However, like with most things, such as scripting and root access, there are security and eyecare concerns involved. And so, I think it is still best that only I am allowed to pick the font and spacing that are comfortable for me, and the sender can only send me plain text information.
Cheney. We meet again.
Congrats to the pulse team. Also, dammit.
That is not a bug report, rather an unhelpful opinion on semantics.
It's a lot easier to have children when you treat young, single, nonparent co-workers like cogs that can work late and do your work.
c'moooon. u.s. agency has no credibility at all. they said that iraq had wmd, then when you searched on google, google printed ot that there were no wmd.

http://www.salon.com/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/
At the same time, positions go unfilled and those managers complain they can't find anyone qualified enough...
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Parent's video is a Simpson's clip showing "Itchy and Scratchy money", similar to Disney Dollars.
I think it's worth considering how the physical structure of the office and how the structure of people's working time at the office makes children more disruptive than pets.

I'm not a fan of dogs in the office during the day to begin with. Maybe it doesn't make sense to have kids coming in after school, either. But if you're regularly going to have people working into the evening out of a sense of shared endeavor, integrating kids into that (maybe they can do their homework, or play video games in the corner, or just eat a shared meal there) doesn't seem crazy.

I concede that you have to plan this out in advance; you can't just take an already-running open plan office in San Mateo and say "bring your 4 year old to work any time" and have that work out.
US adds Russian supercomputer maker to list of nuclear threats
Since you enjoy speaking in absolutes, I'll speak your language. You're wrong.

Millions of people not only ask for emails like this, they enjoy them and engage them, and companies all over the world have conversion data showing that people want to get emails like this and use them to purchase things.

Nice try though.
The Second Life Marketplace (for the virtual world Second Life) is something like this Photoshop Extension, enabling any SL user to sell their creations to other SL users.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com

Unity (the game engine and game editor) also has a marketplace, called the Unity Asset Store. It's integrated right into their editor / IDE.

http://unity3d.com/asset-store/
But if you move towards making proprietary currency the only way to pay in a given area, it seems shady to me.

Somehow, I doubt Amazon plan to remove the other payment options.
Indeed, the 2 seconds it takes to find the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom.
I wrote some example Ruby code to do the same thing (we use Google Authenticator on the web and for our VPNs via the Perl hooks in FreeRADIUS) if anyone is interested: https://github.com/bithive/example-totp-vault
I wish there were a great monospace font with extensive Unicode symbol support. DejaVu seems to support a lot of math symbols. But it's far from being perfect.

My favourite fonts Inconsolata and Adobe Source Proc support barely anything beyond latin1. So I usually end up with some ugly font mix due to fallback.

(Of course if you want all of Unicode and hate yourself there is GNU Unifont. edit: Just checked and Unifont only supports all of BMP.)
Also, aside from NDAs-- most people willingly consent to limiting their free speech as it relates to their employer when they sign their employment contract.

The typical boilerplate employment contract usually includes easily overlooked clauses that cite publicly embarrassing or disparaging the employer and/or its partners, customers, etc. as cause for termination.
> But Valve is (a) fanatical about hiring, and (b) rolling in so much money that they won't have to make any tough decisions in the near future, e.g. laying off part of the staff to keep their company afloat (which can destroy the sort of culture necessary to sustain the model you're describing).

Several out of work as Valve makes 'large decisions' about its future (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215891)
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You don't need to register to see them, see this post: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628
You'd need to register to comment though.
Photosensitive epilepsy can be triggered by repeating patterns, too (stripes with a certain spacing in the visual field, for example). That's why optical illusions occasionally have epilepsy warnings attached.

Wikipedia has some reasonable information on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy
Girl Talk and other DJ's, remixers, samplers, whatever you want to call them make their money from performances. I was kinda hoping the article talked more about that aspect of their business. Basically all their mix tapes are promotion for the live events.

When I was a Junior/Senior (2009-2010) at Vanderbilt, I was VP of the programming board that arranged speakers, concerts, homecoming, comedians and other campus events and activities. We had Girl Talk come and while the price was not 6-figure crazy like what Acivii[1] charges these days, I was hit with sticker shock big time.

[1] http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201304/avicii-tim-berg...
TOTP is surprisingly easy to understand and implement. I do my best to explain how it works in the "Understanding TOTP" section of this article. Take a look at that section and let me know if it makes sense.
How would Gina McCarthy change EPA?
On the ios version of GA you have to hit the "legal information" button, before the "edit" button will work and you are able to rename/rearrange things.

No clue why, and you have to do it any time you restart the app (I think it works across backgrounding, but I can't remember). Pretty weird bug.
It's not bad if you actually have an office. It doesn't work out in an open office plan or cube farm.
Why on Earth would they dig up an extra trillion dollars?

The war hawks and the Keynesian economists got together over a decade ago[1] and realized you can finance an entire war on debt.

The Keynesians get a massive stimulus and the war hawks get their war. Conservatives (except for libertarians) won't speak up, and democrats (except for progressive liberals) won't speak out so long as the white house has a "(D)" in residence. And lets be honest, libertarians and prog. liberals are among the most ignored demographics in Washington.

So, all in all, sounds like something Washington can get unify around to prove they can work together. War, it's a win for partisan politics!

[1] In all honesty, the realization that you could blow up the budget and call it stimulus happened longer than a decade ago, I'm just being pithy and referring to the fact that Iraq/Afghanistan were kept off of the official books for years and years and obviously completely unfunded except by debt-financed deficit spending.
The bank runs and depressions were quite common in the 1800's and before, because of no effort to control inflation or deflation.

Once, there was a huge investment in, get this, Wooden Roads. Everyone knows wood rots, but somehow these wooden road investments developed a huge bubble. http://www.stocklobster.com/9998mhpr.html

If you take the time to read The Wealth of Nations, there is a pretty good description of banking and how it works without a common currency backed by the government. If bitcoin became the entrenched currency, what would happen is banks would issue Bitcoin vouchers to people, "This voucher from Bank of XXX is redeemable for 1 Bitcoin upon presentation." This would increase the supply of bitcoins. What the bank would actually do is probably transfer some of these bitcoins and continue on being a fractional bank, retaining say 10 Bitcoins, and investing 90 Bitcoins. If these bitcoins investments go to buying stuff from other countries, you get new capital(In the Smith sense of Capital) into the buying country, if you
just lend your bitcoins to the foreign country, you get the profit, but you lose some capital (your bitcoins are in another country now, not producing capital in your own country, so even though you get a small percentage of profit, you don't grow the total capital in your country).

Uh, well, read Wealth of Nations, and take notes.

So these banks would still be fractional and exposed to the dangers of a bank run, because they are fractional. If you don't want a fractional bank, you need a bank that charges a storage fee. So you need deflation that outpaces the storage fee, or your stored bitcoins are losing value all the time. You can keep Bitcoins in cold storage, but then they are a) harder to use and b) must be protected. An encrypted hard drive is not a good solution because of hard drive failures. Printing them out essentially turns them into cash.
Not knowing anything about Rap music I saw a product name and then a tagline, nothing more.
North Korea claims, unverifiably, that their most recent test involved a miniaturised device:

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/12/171818226/did-north-korea-test...