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Look into their role in the Agent Orange poisoning of Vietnam during the war. If that's not evil then the word has no meaning.
I am an economist, and I have no idea what that means. Sounds to me like confusion over two things: (i) the difference between "supply and demand" and the "quantity supplied" or "quantity demanded" and (ii) equilibrium. The circular logic is a tell tale sign. Price goes up, so people demand less, so price goes down, so people demand more... That's the whole point of equilibrium. Where does all of that net out.
AFAIK many economists now believe that gold caused many depressions in the past and thus is not a good currency. Also, when the value of gold increases it creates an incentive to mine more, but Bitcoin has no such feedback loop.
So your insight is: bit coin is something new, that has inherent value, and is unlike anything that came before it, just like other things that were new. And your contention is that bitcoin's primary function is "to go up in value?"
No, bugged me too. In fact, nothing on the entire page is actually #FF4A00. The big logo down the bottom is the more muted #ff6122, for example...
Do you think Google is a charity?
I find Github has helped with this problem a lot.
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While I think we all know that iOS will never be self-hosting, Android is most definitely capable of this. [0] It may be tedious on a 4" phone, but it is actually comfortable on a Nexus 10 (though I prefer a bluetooth keyboard).

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
Yes, you're spot on there. I see this sort of hero-worship in many communities. I'm still not sure why so many Americans loved Jobs but seem to hate Gates, despite the latter doing more for the general growth of the industry (admittedly through very shady, monopolistic practices), the US economy, and recently, the health of humanity in general. Is it just because Bill isn't as cool?
This comment is more or less irrelevant. The third axiom of probability is about sums of countably many terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axioms_of_probability#Third_axi...
If you want to throw far (200-300 miles), it never hurts to have more watts.
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> It's also quite odd that Arrington lives in Washington, the events at issue allegedly took place in SF Bay Area, but the lawyer and his firm...are located in LA

Arrington grew up in Huntington Beach and went to Claremont.
``Reddit'' is worthy of bashing in many ways, but you are bashing it for the wrong reasons; the reason why the article was downvoted there most surely wasn't because of the lack of image macros, but rather that it ran against the locals (he probably posted it in a pro-Bitcoin subreddit) religious fervor.

You still see them swearing allegiance to Bitcoin and deriding those who sold during the crash, all the while holding on to their, at least temporarily, worthless Bitcoins.
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For the record, since somebody will bring it up anyhow in a breathless blast of conspiracy theorising: I host this website (along with a bunch of others). No: I don't get money from the ads, the authors do.

I submitted it because Helen Dale is an excellent thinker and writer and deserves a wider audience.
Abstraction is the keyword here, I really don't agree with yours.

Bitcoin and USD are not the same abstraction. USD is a currency and Bitcoin is an entire monetary system. One that's different enough that initial friction is entirely unsurprising.

It has the potential to change how a core function of society works (money transactions). Much more so than e.g. the invention of the credit card, or electronic banking.

Such a shift is quite obviously not happening within 4 years or anywhere close to it.

At this point it's still a tiny experiment that may very well fail. But apple/orange comparisons don't do it justice. And since this all happens between consenting adults I'm sometimes a little confused by the negativity.
Given the scope and breadth involved in these benchmarks, that's a helluva tall order. I'm sure nothing's stopping anybody from doing it themselves though.
Up until about two weeks ago - Bitcoin has worked really well. I want to put $USD 2000 in the pocket of somebody I've never met, and neither of us want to use credit cards, or paypal, or pay fee's, or pay currency exchange.

He gives me a hex string, "1LnLfnc3nU3fYAY3DfuPsmqJqFAuRb4p9U".

Presuming, that Bitcoins are trading at $40 USD/ i type at the linux prompt, "bc sendtoaddress 1LnLfnc3nU3fYAY3DfuPsmqJqFAuRb4p9U 50"

15 minutes later, after three confirmations, he sells those 50 bitcoins at his exchange, and he now has $USD 2000.

That's the way it's been working just fine for the last 18+ months, until the recent couple weeks of increased volatility.

I don't see anything inherent in the currency that suggests we will have 10+% volatility every 15 minutes for the for seeable future. Doubling every month, of halving every month is fine, users of the currency can adjust for 2%/day volatility.

That's about the only problem I see with BitCoin as a currency right now. Let's check back in six months and see if we're still seeing the +/- 10% swings per day.
why is this even a question?
TSA auctions are going to get mindblowing when they start confiscating smartphones along with pocketknives.
I actually think this is the solution. Nothing would be more impressive than a python project that started out as a "c++ witten in python" project that barely worked but then evolved into a well managed project full of best practices in a matter of weeks.

I'd hire that person to do nearly anything. Sadly, not many interview processes are hip to github yet.
filepicker.io is awesome.

-bowerbird
I don't hold the answer to your question but how does one go about procuring a nemesis?

I'd be proud of that achievement were I you.
I think keyboard macros - completely isolated from the system they're dispatching to - are an interesting "what if" in our history.

There's plenty of room for innovation, but I don't know of any attempts at it.

Thinking about this, I realise - could play around with these ideas in tmux.
There are lots of private construction projects going on because of the massive recent boom in real estate in the valley.
But that's not the point.

The point is claiming that Google took one existing open thing (RSS), killed it off, and replaced it with a Google-proprietary alternative. The spying agitating part is just side-complaining.
Just to note that some of us are the exception to these adequacy feelings, but that is possibly because I am a software developer. My current workstation has 32GB of RAM and an 8 thread i7. That is the maximum amount of memory the motherboard can take, and Intel had a few faster i7 models but not sufficiently faster single threaded to justify the massive price difference. Even my laptop is an i7 with 16GB of RAM (again both maxxed out).

I am having to go in and make all the work I do be increasingly parallel and pipelined. This is a lot more effort than straight forward code.

I used to have a first gen i7 and am now on 3rd gen i7. I recently transcoded a DVD which I had done before and the performance difference was incredible. Before it would take several hours, and now it takes 10 minutes! (There may also be a lot of credit to improved software too.)

I will admit that sometimes I do feel the adequacy. During the tail end of the Soduko boom I decided to write a solver as an intellectual exercise. I started out with a brute force solver that tried every possibility. It was written in Python and I gave no thought to optimising data structures or the code - I just needed a baseline. It solved most puzzles before the return key had sprung all the way back. It took less than 5 seconds on "hard" puzzles. The most difficult puzzle I could find took under 45 seconds. I gave up at that point.
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That is one of the most affordable (and presumably useful) recruiting vectors I've ever seen.
I've been looking into a program like Dev Bootcamp as well, what do you mean sponsored?
Hmm. I didn't specifically mention college education, but you've got something at the end there.

I am a college trained programmer, but I do identify strongly as the second type. When I really think about it, I'm forced to admit that if I was in charge of a large company's HR policy, that policy would probably prevent hiring someone like me for all but the most junior of positions.

A smaller company might have a lot more freedom in this regard. "You'll never hire one of the second kind" might better have been said as "big companies never hire the second kind".
Im general I agree with you and I'm not sure bitcoin++ will work either. But I think it has to happen and fail before the idea is really and truely dead.

I think no one cares for a large number of reasons but one of them is because you'd need to trust the people who run most of those currencies(i'm ignoring the bitcoin clones) and if you are going to trust someone, might as well trust a regulated entity like a bank.

Just look at how paypal screws people? Why trust someone else even more sketchy. However, precisely because pay pall screws people it might end up being the case that there is some market for a non centralized online payment system. But it certainly can't be deflationary and it ought to avoid rampant speculation.

I wonder what would happen if every 30 minutes the currency inflated by 100% percent. It would make sure no one ever held inflatcoin. You'd just use it as a transaction medium.
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How many ways are there for the people accepting the currency in country to get their hands on bitcoins?

I guess they could also act as an intermediary for people that want to send money in. Might need some deep currency reserves to play at that though.
>tedious use of mouse and/or the tedious keyboard dance for immediate, visual, feedback on a touch screen is even better for them.

I don't think you understand how shortcuts work..

Either way, no point in arguing. This is little more than an agree to disagree scenario.
What a bunch of nonsense. The report makes extreme predictions without any backup or weighting of arguments. There is no reason to believe that the network should crash.

The author has no clue about economics, so please.... (not that Ben Bernanke or Mario Draghi have, but anyway).

There will always be a use for Bitcoins. Think about other countries than you yourself are living in. Think about people who have to pay 20% for cross-border transactions.
I have over a 100 tabs open in 15+ windows, plus all my addons, the only reason I haven't switched to chrome is my because how deeply extensions can integrate with FF.

I do love the fact that you can build a decent server with consumer grade products, I can deliver low cost servers for my customers using an i7 and setup remote desktop services. The extra cores are great for such uses, but the masses will probably never need that much power, especially when you add an SSD to the mix. The PC market is mature, unless something drastically changes sales are going to stay flat.
I thought one of the biggest benefits of remote work was NOT having to look at the same people all day, every day.

If i'm lonely I'd go hang out with my actual friends. And since I'm remote, those friends can be anywhere I can travel to.
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When I gave it a whirl back when wave was cancelled - it felt half baked.. Then again my skills are half baked as well :)
If you enjoy this kind of thing, I'd suggest longform.org and gwern.net.
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I like seeing proposals like this that use Bitcoin as essentially a protocol layer (and in this case value store).

40KB anything is not going anywhere near the blockchain soon; this is going to be a no-go for the dev team and miners.

There are also a bunch of ancillary questions, like can these zero knowledge proofs (presumably non-interactive ones) be combined up with the rest of the blockchain to be turing-complete? Also a no-go.

Anyway, this is cool. Given current Bitcoin decision making processes, I would expect it would need a solid year of great adoption in some sort of side-car process before it had a shot at main blockchain integration, and even then, it would have to get drilled down to 1 or 2k of data max.
Downvotes have been happening for a long time. One kind of downvoting that is implicitly recommended in the welcome message for this community

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

is downvoting of comments that are "rude or dumb." Language choice can matter for what is considered rude, and I think some of your most recently downvoted comments were rude in tone and unnecessarily harshly worded. Live and learn. Hacker News attempts to establish very high standards of civility and thoughtfulness, as the linked welcome message explains.
Please, at least attempt to prove some of the wild predictions you are making. Science is about proofs, facts, etc. ... not just assertions.
The thought of lisp coming back to life as other forms like clojure, makes me wonder if in a couple of decades a modern form of c++ will be trendy. In that universe, the current hate of java and c++ will be the cool stuff.

Is this the technology keep evolving, or is it us keep changing our minds?
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It appears that Mtgox has gone down again.
if you want a page that converts .html to markdown,
and markdown to .html, that is the page you want...

-bowerbird
I have HTTPS Everywhere and I'm shocked at the number of sites I've found that don't work like they should when it's enabled. Namely a certain stock charting website that uses javascript to force you to HTTP unless you are a pro member that gets HTTPS Everywhere stuck in a loop fighting with it.
This brings up a metaphysical point of whether humans really play a natural part in the evolutionary process anymore. For example, when mankind wipes out another species, in some sense you can say this is "natural", since evolution made us in the first place, and we're just doing what we do. In another sense, you can say we're assholes.

Personally, I do see a line being drawn, starting a few thousands year ago and coming to a head now with bio-engineering and robotics, etc., where human-level intelligence represents the next major stage in how matter is organized over time. First was the stellar life-cycle, then biological evolution, and now we're joining the party. If you view it this way, I don't believe we can say that we're part of the natural environment anymore.

Sorry, didn't mean to get all abstract...it's all physics anyway.
I've heard that companies will sometimes pay candidates they know/like to go to one of these programs to learn to code. Seems a bit risky, but I'd like to hear whether someone has had success doing something like this.
> other than the indication that they are giving.

Which is the definition for "credit" :P
The volatility is there because people are panicking, don't know what to do: buy or sell. Some think the bubble is imploding. Some believe in the long term and are buying coins on the cheap. And in between you have traders like me: I sold at $190 2 days ago. Re-bought at $70. Re-sold at $120. We are making money hand over fist... I love the volatility.
That's an open-and-shut case (provided they catch the bootleggers). This was meant more to (theoretically) stymie something like Tengen's 3rd party NES carts. Nintendo wants a cut on all the games that play on its consoles.
Weak post, I know. Just posting to inform people that may be trying to access the site and it's down.
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I agree that telling someone to shut up should be beneath HN standards. That was rude and unnecessary.
I always wanted a big brother.
I think that this could be specced out in stages, and implemented an a number of rounds. First would be a schema for a blog, with authors, posts an comments. Next would be a rest API for posts and comments. Finally mock pages to be used for posting, reading and commenting in HTML to test the included templating system, if there is one.

You really need to go at least this far. This will also give you an approximate code size for thus sample project as well, which is is at least as important as performance to some people.
Wow. That article was awesome. The video was cool, too, although it didn't hold my interest like the story did.

The thing is, I don't doubt there's lots of interesting content on YouTube. I just can't conceive of browsing through it for fun. There's too much good stuff to read.
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An Australian self-made millionaire made his riches from waste and recycling. You can read about him and his company here:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/dial-a-dump-sydneys-30... (The Telegraph is hardly Australia's best paper but for the purposes of answering your question I'd say it suffices).

I believe he deals mainly in industrial waste. Google his name (Ian Malouf) to get a fuller picture of his business practices.
I have run OpenUpload for years. It is a lot like a YouSendIt system.

http://openupload.sourceforge.net/
Not only is this procedure very slow (Bob would do better to solve the crossword) it will result in a number of possibilities for the solution to 21D as paths through the dictionary from different words will overlap.

When used in the context of password encryption though, all of these "overlapping" words are also the password.
The Crowdtilt site is written in Perl using the Dancer web framework. Perl may no longer be the default choice as a scripting language for those new to programming, but it's just as capable as Ruby and Python.
"The economy of the last century was primarily based on natural resources, industrial machines and manual labor. It was an economy where many of these resources were zero sum and controlled by companies. If someone else had an oil field, then you did not. There are only so many oil fields, and there is only so much wealth that can be created from them for society. Today’s economy is very different. It is primarily based on knowledge and ideas — resources that are renewable and available to everyone."

Ok that's absurd. The economy today (and in the future) is based on resources. Period. It takes resources to produce ipads, food, sheets, clean water (even dirty water), cars, soap, condoms, films, power, etc, etc.

I mean, why do you think we maintain our huge Army? It's our abundance of resources that allow us and Zuckerberg to do what we/he does. And now out in the field gathering food.

Even when it all comes crashing down. It'll be a race for food, water, and salt. Not a race for webapps.
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Just thinking out loud...

How about a simple hardware device covertly attached to the plane's flaps and rudders... Then using a smart phone to control that hardware device, thus mechanically overriding the onboard aircraft control system and giving an attacker a degree of control over the plane.

How hard is it to get access to a plane to install something like this? Is it possible for a plane to pass an inspection with this device installed?

I imagine the motors that control the flaps are powerful, but even being able to lock them up would be useful. Lets say the plane rolls 10 degrees. We can then trigger the device that physically jams the motor, locking the flap in that position.

This could be like some small gel that expands and hardens.
Bitcoin envy.
This seems very pertinent to the current thread. Amazon Coins means Amazon gets Customer's money before it is actually used.
I bought into a couple poker training sites. What killed a lot of that business was Poker Black Friday, I'd guess most the income for these sites was coming from US players, and that dried up immediately. There might be another opportunity coming up though. I can hardly wait to play when on-line poker starts up again in the US.
>they consistently buy off startups and kill them

Shouldn't we be citing sources, so that readers can learn and decide for themselves?
I don't get this argument. Bitcoin lets you do things you can't do without it. That's not zero sum, that's creating value that wasn't there before. And we are only at the beginning. Pretty much no one understands what can be done with it in the future. Smart property, oracles, etc.
there are a few (growing) number of production installations of NSQ...

our (bitly's) cluster spans a a few datacenters and hits peaks of 80k messages/second.

I can answer any questions you have (one of the authors)
It's an odd argument to make - that is, yes, of course the web is now better in many aspects than what it was 10 years ago -- but what makes you think that without Google the progress would stop, or even stall? If you think about it, anything that a lot of people care about and work on will get better after 10 years of work. You don't need a dictator, even a supposedly benevolent one, to have progress.
"scary to imagine what life would be like if we couldn't look up whatever we needed"

It'd be scary to work out math problems without pen and paper. It'd be scary to cross over the amazon without an airplane. Applies to every tool you use.

I'd like to think of Google as my secondary memory (HDD?). All I seem to have is RAM.
Heroku also sponsored Andrew Godwin's Django Migrations Kickstarter project with a hefty sum. I'm happy to see them constantly giving back to the community.
> [...], sudden and large increases in the user base cause dramatic increases in the nominal exchange rate. This is because the money supply is exogenously fixed by the mining algorithm.

I think the reasoning here is too specific. Most currencies are only inflationary long term. If during a 10 day window a trillion euros flood into the US dollar market, I doubt the Fed will be able to respond fast enough to keep the prices fixed.
Don't be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven't managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they can't afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.

Search is gone too, virtually all ads:
http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/google-sear...
http://www.click-conversion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/g...
we do; rather happy with it. do you have any specific questions about it? the article's approach is.. strange, so I'm not sure how I can meaningfully contrast from a high-level.

(disclosure: i've contributed to nsq, after we began using it in production)
In order for this scheme to work ZeroCoins would have to have the same computational creation requirements as a bit coin. This would mean that there would always be fewer zero coins than bit coins and those coins would have to be mined.

If the zero coins were not the same difficulty to create then you could just create zero coins and trade them for bit coins anytime you wanted.

This seems like a huge flaw in the system.
If a kid who only went to community college (or no tertiary education at all) has the skills to be a great programmer and can pass the interview, sure Facebook would hire them. It is harder to get noticed without a degree, so they might have to do more to show it by contributing to open source projects, winning programming contests or being referred by an employee, but once they're in the loop, it's fair game.