skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the original Bitcoin paper opened by addressing exactly these concerns: the origin of transaction costs in current payment systems consisting of middle-men (central trusted parties, in more charitable terms), paper forms, etc.

While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model. Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot avoid mediating disputes. The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non reversible payments for nonreversible services. With the possibility of reversal, the need for trust spreads. Merchants must be wary of their customers, hassling them for more information than they would otherwise need. A certain percentage of fraud is accepted as unavoidable.

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
The only major issue is with using CSS3 for animations (not transitions). IE generally handles it by adopting the new style state instead of animating.

http://caniuse.com/#search=css3
Just because one man said something back in the 18th century and was wrong does not mean that anyone who says something vaguely similar also is wrong.

World population, energy consumed, paper clips manufactured, fishes caught in the sea - all the graphs shows us a exponential growth.

There are physical limits to growth.

I would very much prefer to do something before we run into them rather then being around when it happens.
"Just as environmentally friendly"? Since when did Wind power require long term storage of waste?

Nuclear power depends on public trust (which is reflected in politics). That trust was just about built up again after Chernobyl when Fukushima happened. Now we'll probably have to wait another 20-30 years (except in China and India, which as both actively pursuing nuclear energy).
I'm not sure, but it seems like Enron must be involved there somewhere.
In case you didn't realize it, you're arguing that wind power doesn't "make much sense" on an article describing an entire nation implementing almost 25% of its total electric power demand via wind, and planning to raise that to 50% within a decade. I'm just reminding you in case you didn't realize that.

The only problem described in the article is having too much energy (crikey Moses, what a nightmare, we have to fix the grid). If a wind turbine falls over, the impact is a little less than if a tsunami envelops a nuclear plant, isn't it? Not to mention dealing with waste for hundreds or thousands of years? (I'm not anti-nuclear, just not delusional about its downfalls, and let's face it, there are many. Thorium has waste too.)
Also known as a single nuclear reactor. While I am all for renewables the real problem is storage and buffering. The solutions in these areas are improving but not nearly as fast as needed.

A cheap supercapacitor with less than 10% daily discharge rate could go a long way in positioning renewables to shine.
But if you are mining, there are fewer and fewer new coins to be discovered over time, so you have to compute more and more hashes in hopes of finding a new one. My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that processing a transaction 1 year from now will be no more difficult than processing one today, whereas in the future you'll have to mine for longer to have the same chance of getting a BTC.

In other words, doesn't the workload for processing each transaction stay the same over time?
They've been accepting orders for 7-8 months and almost always state they'll ship 'any day now'.
The video has been posted for anyone interested:

http://vimeo.com/61044810
Can someone explain why you would ever pay someone to take surplus power? Is it because they don't want it To go to waste? Otherwise can't they just get rid of it somehow?
There are certain times when there is a surplus of energy in the network (usually at nights iirc).
With a lack of good storage mechanisms, energy vendors need to actually pay companies to use the energy at certain times. Otherwise, the energy excess would damage the network.

If Denmark doesn't have enough companies that could take the energy, they have to send the energy to be used up somewhere else. It's quite likely that at the same time in other countries a similar situation occurs, so nobody really wants the extra electricity. Hence Danes need to pay other countries to get rid of it.
What would incentivize people to actually go into research if that were the case? Our best would all be bankers, lawyers, and mobile app developers.
Curious to hear others experiences. How many white, north american born people are on your current team? I'm the only one on my current team and have often been the minority in the groups I work with.
Hi, unfortunately I'm located in New York state. I am a freshman.
the grid is not magic, it's not easy to just put excess electricity somewhere.
What the heck are you doing messing with ./configure && make && make install? Are we back to 1998? apt/yum/emerge/[random package manager] are there for a reason.
"I love looking at windmills too but then I don't look and listen to them all day."

Is looking at them significantly worse than looking at the car traffic on a major street in the rush hour? As far as the sound is concerned, I doubt that the effects are anything more than purely psychological. There are established hygienic limits for a reason.
Nuclear Power in its current state of developement isn't really ready, because of the huge complications it can generate when not kept in a perfect order. Even so-called "This nuclear can never go wrong because of its design", have proven not perfect, usually due to human errors. I don't mean to come of as an anti-nuclear, I just look at the various incidents that have occured, although usually minor, it only takes one big, to screw things up.

The nuclear power I look forward to, and which i think is the real hero to come, is fusion power. The way it works, it simply cannot physically create disasters similar to fission, because it needs energy to create energy, and if the energy stopped, the output would stop. Additionally to that, it doesn't generate the nuclear waste products associated with fission power, and can thus without worry be installed in more problematic countries.
Fight Club - The most relevant movie of this generation. Addresses issues such as consumerism, the over feminisation of young men.
Bitcoins are just special numbers--there's no inherent value in them. If everybody decides tomorrow to use a different blockchain they will become completely worthless numbers.

A tulip looks pretty in your garden, (many) internet companies make money, and houses are a basic necessity. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is a purely social phenomenon. It has value only because other people think it has value.

The argument trotted out at this point is some variation of "but there is value in having an anonymous, decentralized currency." And that may well be true. But the high valuation and extreme volatility of bitcoin (not to mention its inherent deflationary character) is actually a hindrance to its use in that manner. Who will accept bitcoin if its value can fluctuate 100% in an hour, and who will spend them if their price just keeps going up?
It's hard. I'm not sure what to say, and can't promise to be an authority, but here goes.

I've always felt like I have very few __friends__, and many friendly acquaintances. I'm not sure I can tell you how to make them: in some cases it was as simple as finding another nerdy kid with whom to talk about things (computers, math, puzzles, chess), and in others my close friend said, "This is ___.", and at some point (years later) I realized that I was good friends with the guy he had introduced.

Are there things you like to do besides programming? Do you have interests in science fiction, movies, or the outdoors? You might try team sports (like ultimate frisbee) or computer team contests (ACM, I think?). Consider going to clubs, or looking for other people that are similarly as secluded as you, and talk with them. (It's hard. I'm terrible at it. Sorry I can't give better advice.)

People aren't (usually) friendly with you because you are inherently awesome, or they are your perfect friend -- rather, people will want to hang out with you if _they_ feel that you care about them, about what they think, and about their wellbeing. That is, you are acting like a friend to them. I'm not sure how to tell the difference between someone acting like a friend to you and __being__ a friend, but the former seems to come as reciprocity. (I likely don't understand this at all!)

I've found friends (and my wife) in the SCA (history nerds) and while playing games online -- not because I went there to find friends, but because I found people who shared a common interest, and who for some reason were interested in sharing their thoughts and time with me. Most often, my friends have been within my peer group at the time (most of my friends now are parents, like I am).

See if you can find something to do that involves time with other people, where everyone has a plausible pretext for being there together. Whether it's your campus film club, computer club, people who already share something in common with you are more likely to engage in small talk. If you have Asperger's, that may be hard. Consider listening, rather than trying to "solve" when they share problems. Ask questions, find out what they like. I'm not even sure how to do this - I've found most of my (few) friends by accident.
And all those windmill parks are heavily subsidized, which contributes to the Danish electricity prices being the highest in all of EU[1], 0.3 euro per kwh. Its basically a state-guaranteed high yield for the pension funds etc that put them up, paid for by the consumers in DK.

[1] http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
Which is why it is better to explain the benefits, not the features.
Funny. Chance has it that I am right now working my way through "Practical Common Lisp" and rather enjoying Common Lisps bag of tricks. We'll see if I will dive deep enough to start hacking on the compiler itself. Once I go there, this post will be an awesome resource though.
Well, a single nuclear reactor minus the waste that needs to be stored for thousands of years.
The article hit the key word: density.

The unique thing about Kendall Square is the sheer density of geeks in general and startups in particular. Other places have higher absolute numbers, but not in such a concentrated space.

Plus, from a tech worker's perspective it's fantastic to have so many potential employers all in one place. You don't have to disrupt your lifestyle to change jobs, which gives you some extra clout as an employee.
Usually you need a team focused on just one job to get done - otherwise there's no 100% commitment to your project. You don't want your employees to switch between priorities.
Making up statistics out of thin air doesn't help anyone. Credit cards charge more than double what you speculate. Neither you nor I have the data necessary to calculate real numbers. The important point is we shouldn't assume Bitcoin is worse just because the waste is more obvious and/or less socially acceptable.
My H1B was applied for by a company with ~ 15 employees, and i was their first non-American employee. There was no legal "department." They hired an immigration lawyer. I would guess it cost in the low tens of thousands, not "millions and millions."
Is your last sentence sarcastic?
If you take the somewhat cliché'd (but still true, imho) view of conservatives favoring protectionism of industries and large companies, causation/correlation notwithstanding, it would follow that there's less innovation because large companies are sluggish to innovate.
Isn't it possible to build a bitcoin(protocol) system with predictable inflation in the single digit percents, maybe with few negative feedback loops to keep it there.

This way the currency will be great for transactions, but ultimately unsuitable for long time value storage. It should be only slight modification and will remove a lot of the practical problems.
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5].reduce(0, &:+) #=> 15

Which is short hand for:

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5].reduce(0) { |memo, item| memo + item } #=> 15
Really? Oh, but you can win them multiple times. Simply achieve 100 Nobel Prizes (or merely 97 if you resolve P?=NP, the Navier Stokes Equation, and the Riemann Hypothesis), and you will have made a similar contribution as Bitcoin or jQuery. That's not counting, of course, the millions you'd be raking in as a tenured professor in the meantime.
Is anonymity in the minting of coins the piece of this anyone cares about?
Why did Denmark have to pay other countries to take its excess energy? What am I not getting here?
ars technica has considerably better coverage here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/will-the-supreme-...
Yeah, Kendall Square.

What sold me on the Cambridge Innovation Center was the unlimited supply of FREE organic coffee, tea, peanut butter, butter butter, soy milk, milk milk, cereal, jams, etc. ;-)

Couple of guys were actually living there, crashing on couches in one of the upper floors, and then later, given das boot -- not sure if they were start-up co-founders or what, they certainly leaned on CiC 24/7 for around $250/month, cheapest rent in town.
To me the main advantage of standalone packages (thanks for reminding me of what they're called) is that they just work (to borrow a phrase from Apple's fan club).

Having to solve installation/compilation/dependency issues is just a waste of time, when those problem don't need to exist at all (things can just be packaged with all dependencies and dumped onto another machine).

I also like the fact that .dmg files are self-contained installers that don't touch any files outside of the ApplicationName.app folder they install to. So that to uninstall something installed from a .dmg file all you need to do is delete the ApplicationName.app "file"/folder.

There's nothing advanced that Mac OS X is doing here. See the Ruby Enterprise Edition installer for how nice the world could be if only there were a change in the way most people think about distributing software in the Linux world. REE installs to its own folder and doesn't touch any system files; it also needs very little from the system besides the compiler (so no dependencies afaik). That's why it just works every time I install it. Now contrast that with ImageMagick.
They only get hydrogen that way because methane is also an energy source. It would be trivial to replace it with water plus external heating if you had some other energy source.

You can get hydrocarbons anywhere, petroleum is convenient, but certainly not required.

The raw material of fertilizer is nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sulfur. Methane is none of those - it's just a carrier for nitrogen.

Same with pesticides, they are organic molecules so need hydrocarbons, but you can use any hydrocarbon, from trees, grass, whatever. Oil is cheap, so they use it, but it would not be a big problem if you had to use something else.
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"First, telling someone what they should and shouldn’t do in their free time is a tremendous insult to them and their personal judgment. It’s also incredibly short-sighted."

Read that. Twice. Now, add these words of pearly wisdom to the end: "It's also none of your fucking business."

It's their time, not yours. If your employees aren't giving you 100% at work, you've every right to complain. But it's absolutely none of your business what they do outside of work.
I don't know about that. Click on Eminem, which is one of their options, and you see "No results found for 'Eminem'."
I've met plenty of young people who would prefer to live in boring Silicon Valley rather than places like Manhattan.
I get paid a salary to work X hours a week. If you want me to be "all in" and go the extra mile, you need to align my interests with that of the company — through equity or other means.
> Their code is worse than Yahoo! or virtually any startup. Bitcoin isn't.

99% of code written by Government is subpar, the other 1% is like Stuxnet
Vomiting certainly does increase the Bayesian likelihood that she was intoxicated; whether it is enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was intoxicated to the point of being unable to consent is a different question. I have not, of course, seen the photo in question, nor do I know what witness statements may have indicated.

I'm not saying that Rehtaeh Parsons was not raped; only that when the police and prosecutors say that they do not think they could secure a conviction, I'm inclined to trust their expertise and knowledge of the case.
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5548378

Synthetic fertilizers are not synthesized from natural gas - they can't be. Methane has no elements that plants need. Methane is just a carrier for the elements acquired elsewhere.
Also, each of the n individuals knows that there are (n - 1) others who could also leak. Attribution for the source of the leak becomes harder and everyone involved knows it. So the motivation to keep the secret is reduced along with the sense of accountability.
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A left field speculation of mine: are we sure Bitcoin isn't Japanese? I know there's circumstantial evidence against Satoshi being Japanese, or even being a single person, but considering Japan's economic malaise it seems possible that they would consider bizarre experiments. MtGox, the largest exchange, is also Japanese (or started there).
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Just in case you're wondering how a price for energy can be nagative: It is not. Someone else is paying full price for it. The producer is guaraneed to always sell the enegry into the grid at a fixed price. The market is broken.
It should be noted that globally, fossil fuels are also heavily subsidized. [1]

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/27/i...
Completed Bitcoin transactions on eBay
Grid oversupply is bad (just as any overpowered circuit is generally bad). There isn't a way to dump power or store it, so they had to dump it on other countries who then had to adjust accordingly on their grid. You might think of it as a nice gesture, but it isn't; the other country has to power off plants or otherwise adjust to handle the excess as well. There isn't an "energy garbage can" or dummy load at power grid scale.

Running a power grid is a 24x7 dance of supply and demand, which is why people that hate renewables like wind are quick to lament its variable nature. It's the same in high-capacity systems planning in our line of work; systems that have variable latency are a lot harder to plan capacity for than systems with fairly constant latency. Just substitute "supply" for "latency", and you're now a power grid operator.
classList won't work in IE < 10.
XHR with promise is quite verbose.
Transitions won't work in IE < 10.
etc. These were examples, not a complete case list.

What's the point to use shims or polyfills if it means including some others libraries ?

JQuery is not slow. If you .addClass() two hundred divs, sure. But for basic DOM manipulations, it's fine.

JQuery is not heavy. 32kb. It may be in cache. You'll likely gain that twice 32kb by optimizing your png.

This anti-JQuery war is a silly fad started by people who don't make websites.

And as per arguments like "a fadein should not be mandatory blablabla", explain it to the client. It may work. Or it may not.
Hmm ... it was more of a scale comparison, not endorcement of nuclear fission.

But anyway breeders are a partial solution to that problem and we haven't actually put a lot of effort into the waste disposal.
Facebook Home could've been nice if there was at least some sign of security. Everybody getting hold of your phone can post all kinds of nasty stuff on your behalf to the world. That's a huge oversight, which made me deactivate Home. It's not so bad otherwise, but having no PIN or password or anything similar is just a no no go for every sane individual.
> Pools of crypto guys who don't leak stuff are usually employed by startup funds.

That's not true, and it's the crucial difference between your version and the original.
There are a complicated set of problems that are preventing us from understanding each other. I am going to do my best.

> weird configuration file

One of the disputes here is that the maintainers are of the opinion that config files are actually good, on the face of them. They point to examples of well-settled uses like .gitignore to claim that config files are The Git Way.

It may very well be that configuration files are in fact weird, or are weird in this particular case, but since the convention is and has been for git's history that config-files-are-good it would require a well-reasoned essay to move the needle of discourse on this subject, not just to use "they are weird" as a claim to prove something else.

> This 'True Rejection' is essentially rejecting the merit of refactoring code.

I don't want to get into a big meta-meta flamewar here, but there are many people who do reject the merits of refactoring working code, for some definitions of "refactor", for some definitions of "working", and this has been the subject of many popular essays, most notably Spolsky et al. This is another place where moving the needle of discourse would require writing a well-reasoned essay that quotes the appropriate authorities, and it is not sufficient just to appeal to a particular view of the merits of refactoring as a claim to prove something else.

> Hardlinks and symlinks are both features in their own rights.. [this] is a superficial change.

This is another one of those thorny semantic problems that are preventing us from understanding each other. There is a sense in which it is superficial, and another sense in which it is a substantial change. If you are using "git add", or are implementing it, it is a superficial change. If you are writing subtree-merge or git-submodule or something that really needs to understand the storage of submodules, it is substantial.

And so they are both features in their own right, in the sense that: git-add-and-friends will want to access things with a certain pattern, and git-submodule-and-friends will want to access things in a very different pattern. This is why I suspect the solution here is to have two distinct APIs, that access the same underlying storage mechanism. And if it makes sense to continue to support something very much like the old API, it probably does not make sense to redesign the FS to look like the new API.

Of course, there is a lot of resistance in the git community to have two ways to do the same thing. So when I say "I suspect the solution is to have two APIs" I mean only that it would address most of the objections raised thus far, not that it would actually be implemented in mainline.

> Everything the current submodules do could be achieved using the proposed solution. (As he repeatedly has to make clear to Linus and Junio)

And as Linus and Junio have repeatedly made clear, merely doing everything the current implementation does is not within a few galaxies of meeting the burden for breaking FS compatibility. The compatability-break burden is extremely high.
Now, if it only had EDN[0] support too.

[0] https://github.com/edn-format/edn