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We're suitable for companies of all sizes -- we're running payroll for companies with just 1 employee all the way up to 50+ employees.

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Creative idea. Would you consider releasing it under the GPL in the future?

I bought it anyway, it's just that open-sourcing the app would allow other apps to (possibly) link time functions into it, which I think would be really, really neat.
An empty boat has a higher center of gravity. Thus waves are more likely to capsize (tip it over) it. It is better (from a strictly economic sense) to have a slightly slower functional boat than one that is sunk.
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In most companies, even the "better" support is utterly useless. And I'm saying that about cases where we were paying seven figure fees annually for that support.
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How do urinals fit into that metaphor?
I don't--it's something I struggle with, to be honest, which is probably why its value has become so apparent to me.
Why don't people listen when we tell them to encrypt everything?
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> However, BTC China is still trading at above $275

Spreads for fungible commodities are generally not good. They mean that either a) somebody is getting massively screwed by paying a price that's way off the mark, or b) nobody's actually trading, which means the asset is illiquid. That is, unless there is some real reason why a BTC should be worth double in China what it is in the US.
> You insist on a misnomer.

What? I have only insisted that it hasn't happened, and that it's a requirement for viable fusion power.
US currency is backed by the land the US is built on and the means to defend that land, as well as the ability of US citizens to expend their time in a productive way.

And to some extent it is currently based on the ability of the United States to protect its interests overseas, the trading of oil in the US dollar and significant trade partners accepting the US dollar as a means of exchange for goods shipped to the US.

And that works as long as significant portion of the world continues to believe in all of the above, if that should ever stop I hope I won't be there to watch the carnage. That's the kind of 'interesting times' that one would hope to avoid.
Maybe because the market has weak infrastructure and also the majority of investors (ie. mutual funds and institutions) are effectively barred from participating. Just guessing though.
A friend of mine told me "dude, the price is falling". So where do I go to check what's up? HN, of course!
In the U.S., except for a relatively small stretch around the turn of the 20th century, freedom has never overlapped much with libertarian economic "freedom." The whole concept largely post-dates the founding (remember, Adam Smith was a contemporary of the founding fathers, and his ideas wouldn't turn into modern free-market principles until much later). I'm sure at some point it was perceived that it was beneficial for Texas to force sales through Texas franchises rather than allow out of state car manufacturers to sell directly to Texas citizens.

The state-affiliated monopolies are a different situation. They exist because state and local governments wanted something for nothing. They wanted taxi services to serve poor people and far-flung parts of cities, and they wanted telecom services to do the same. In a free market, all these service providers wouldn't do that--they'd focus their efforts only on the most profitable areas. So the governments reached a bargain: the companies agree to serve everybody, and in return they get a monopoly. That's why Uber isn't allowed to "compete" with the local taxi companies--those taxi companies get a monopoly in exchange for their willingness to venture into the Bronx.

Take a look at airfare. It's dramatically more expensive to fly from Richmond, VA to Eugene, OR than from New York, NY to San Francisco, CA, even though both trips are roughly the same distance. But cab fares are uniform (per mile) throughout a government's service area, as are utility rates usually. How does this happen?
You can't normally read SMTP exchange between two arbitrary servers. Granted, there's a range of attacks possible to a motivated hacker, but they are exactly that: attacks. Your email is normally not exposed to third parties.
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Exactly. A majority of taxi drivers do not own medallions. But decades of being on a "wait list" for the right to buy one and FUD by taxi companies causes a lot of them to dislike ride sharing, when, in reality, it's a huge net win for them.
email servers generally aren't publicly accessible, rather they're only accessible to authorized (registered) users

Yes, sending email requires authorization to the SMTP server but MTA to MTA communications (as in when your mailserver actually sends your email to the recipients mail server) are clear text and can easily be intercepted.

The difference between telephone calls and email is that you generally don't have access to the things you need to listen in on a telephone call, but email you only need to have access to one of the routers that it's routed through
Google doesn't dump money into Mozilla's lap every year. Google pays Mozilla (and various other companies) for search traffic acquisition.
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I think perhaps we are operating with very different definitions of harsh. If your response is simply intended to be a poor attempt at criticizing my tone, you did not make that clear. Obviously such vacuous nonsense would not warrant a response.

Your assertion that whatever problems I deal with are solved problems is absolutely insane. Please, tell me how problems like interpreting customers requirements are "solved" and what technology I can use to ensure that all the code I write will 100% always match the users mental picture of what they wanted.

Criticizing the choice to deliberately create security holes for convenience is not "badmouthing", and "I'm offended" is not a productive response. It literally conveys no useful information at all.
Which division is Mozilla leading, exactly?
> I place a high value on treating others with respect, helping without expecting anything in return

> I can't figure out how to get taken seriously and turn all this supposed good karma to financial benefit in a business way.

Based on my very limited data, you sound like an arrogant self-entitled child with a huge ego, low self-esteem, and a chip on your shoulder.

Accomplish something legitimate, and you'll stop needing recognition from others to fulfill your self-esteem. Do nice things for others without expecting something in return genuinely, rather than just paying lip service to it, which is precisely what you are doing.

> I just know that reading stuff like this feels like salt in very raw wounds for me.

If my intuition is not incorrect, this is as it should be. You are doing it wrong.

But then again, maybe I've misjudged you, who knows. It has little effect on my life whether I am right or wrong. It has an enormous effect on yours, as you seem to be currently experiencing. If I was you I'd stop and think very carefully about whether there is perhaps some truth here.
Apart from all the obvious externalities of cab driving operations, the extremely high probability of fraud, and the fact that policing cabs is extraordinarily expensive, there's another problem a lot of these analyses miss about why cabs are regulated the way they are.

In many large cities, the taxi system is a fundamental component of the transport infrastructure. There are locations in most cities that are not efficiently or safely reachable via bus. Visitors to cities also tend to need point-to-point transit; it takes some know-how and a lot of flexibility to get from an airport to a business meeting in a near suburb, for instance. Taxicabs are effectively a privatized component of metro transport systems.

Cities therefore have a powerful interest in making sure that whatever else happens, there is a strata of taxi service available to all residents of the city at some predictable rate.
Ask HN: Give me your used laptop (and a book)
SHORT: I want your used laptop (and a book), will you give it to me?

I think I could I just you the simplest reason why I need it.

I am currently learning to program, and I don't have a computer of my own. Up to now, I am just renting computer since six months ago when I started learning to code. Renting is costly and computers have a lot of restrictions. (Not to mention setting up the computer, automation will do the job).

I've already learned the basics of programming. Many recommends Python for complete beginners, so I did. I want to focus and spend more of my time learning/programming without worrying about the cost, restrictions, and setting up the computer.

So, will you help me guys? I'll make it clear that I am NOT asking for your money (nor I am letting you give me some so I could just buy my own, NO.). What I asked is your soon-to-be trashed laptop. Maybe you have recently bought a macbook, and there's no place for the old one. Maybe, you don't need it anymore and want to trash it already. Or maybe, you're just too generous and you want to help a stranger. You can donate it to me. That's already a really big help to me. :))

I am serious. I want to learn.

(And also, if you happen to have a book about programming, maybe you could donate it too. :) )

Send me an email:

mgnfcntsteiner@gmail.com

THANKS A LOT!

(Sorry HN, you can delete this post if inappropriate :)
Just because you have no response to something doesn't make it trolling.

The men's rights movement as it is should not exist. Not because male inequality is covered by feminist ideals, though it is, but because the "men's rights" movement is largely nothing more than a pretext for men to openly and self-righteously flaunt their anti-woman beliefs.
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Wouldn't it make sense that everyone is logging onto those forums and comment about the price changes? I would think anything bitcoin related has a high volume today. Including HN.
Well, transferred. Can't even say for sure if the BTC changed owners.
"This pile of rocks was created by ships, merchant ships to be specific."

Is this a supported assertion or a guess?
The data I put in Google is MY property, I want that data protected and don't care less about servers just as I do not claim ownership to the school locker.
Does it really matter which US-based regulatory body I'm dismissing as irrelevant? The long-term impact of Bitcoin is way bigger than any one country or culture.
The BIG difference is that you'll know about it, because the warrant will go to you. Not only will you know about it, but you can control the timeframe in which you respond as well as explore legal challenges and remedies. You will be in control of how things play out.

The IRS isn't going to break into your mail server.

People should really, really be running their own mail servers, and I suspect should be providing their own dialtone as well. The latter is certainly much more complicated and technical, but that level of control is a very nice thing to have.
at what point did people start to use the word "pragmatic" for "opinionated"? (and I've heard it a lot lately...) I'm ok with opinionated technologies, but stop calling them "pragmatic": when the implementer of a language or technology makes a choice that restricts how its users can do some things, it makes an opinionated decision, that just happens to be pragmatic in the use-context he has thought of, but may not be pragmatic at all for the use-context that some technology user imagines, like a language feature that may be hard-to-impossible to implement but that when done properly (and it only has to be done once) would simplify the lives of a large group of programmers that just want to do things in a certain way.
This is HUGE news on Bitcoin - nothing like this has ever happened in it's history. Market went from $250 to $110 in 5 hours. MtGox was down for 30 minutes today. Trading lag was 600 seconds for orders placed at market prices. April 10th, 2013 may be the day that will be remember for the next 20 years as the day that Bitcoin crashed and either (A) never recovered or (B) kept progressing after an incredible Blip.

Definitely HN fodder today.
Give me your key and I'll send you one ;)
> it needs to keep it around for the security manager to do its thing

Haha. As if the JVM needed proper tail calls to get owned every other week. :-)

Anyway, the discussion is pretty much moot, because "JVM" doesn't really refer to specific implementation. If one cares about proper tail calls, use an implementation which supports it.
In case anyone else was confused like me, you click the green button in the bottom right to covert it to dollars.
Evidently, many hoarders/speculators decided to cash out at once -- much like the audience in a movie theater would try to go through the exit door at the same time if someone were to yell "fire!"

The naive souls who recently bought bitcoins to make a 'quick buck' are in for a rude surprise. In the short run, no one knows how Bitcoin's price will fluctuate.

In the long run, however, if Bitcoin continues to work as intended, the more people around the world who adopt it as a store of value and/or medium of exchange, the more demand there will be for it, and with supply being fixed, growing demand will be reflected in a rising price.[1]

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[1] My full thoughts on the matter: http://cs702.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/on-the-potential-adopt...
Because YouTube is the only video sharing site on the internet?

Because you are not permitted to run your own web site / server to share your videos?

Do YouTube have a legal, moral or ethical obligation to you to allow you access to their ecosystems for your benefit?
A downvote? Should I have capitalized They? As in all those in power who do not want to see alternative currencies succeed and have therefore infiltrated it to see what They can do to stop it? Does that make it better? (Yes, I expect a downvote now here too. Que sera sera...)
How do they manage to make the DDOS only target buyers and not sellers?

Seems to me a DDOS would just make no bitcoins available for sale, but would not change the price. It doesn't matter if the price is low if they can't actually buy anything.
>Sounds mostly like a pile of empty words to me.

All words are empty until we put meaning on them. Go and read what they are trying to achieve and how, and then they won't be empty anymore.

>Usable and pragmatic are purely contextual. Is rust faster than Haskell?

It's not highly optimized yet, as it's in pre-alpha stage. But it's goal is to be faster than Haskell, and close to C/C++/ADA speed.

Usable and pragmatic means that it should work for their goals, which are very real and tangible themselves: to use it as a compiled language to create a fast, parallel and secure web browser engine.

They don't want to pile on academic concept and programming features or compiler tricks just to be "cool", "interesting", or "cutting edge". They don't even care if they would be "nice to have". They care about: what helps their goals, and what can be implemented without overcomplicating things.

If Rust cannot become a language in which it's able to write a fast (faster than the currently available), parallel (more parallel than the currently available) and safe (safer than the currently available) browser engine, then it would have failed on its targets.
Any experience with Clustrix?
I wander of social responsibility is enough to convince merchants to use this new currency.
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Neither. That number is just a Bitcoin transaction. The value changed hands. It was probably someone sending coins to an exchange, or an exchange shuffling coins around within its internal wallet. Though I do think that site tries to filter out those network transactions.
can someone eleborate in which way this is different to what you can do today with a script-tag? E.g. http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/template-binding.html

Am I missing something?
Does your home have a heat pump? If so, your house heat pump is 3 to 4 times more efficient than the waste heat produced by your computer, and you are using 3 to 4 times more electricity compared to the same heat output from a heat pump.
They eventually want to be competitive against C++ code and it seems they won't support TCO as that would harm their performance target.
We are talking about a transmission protocol, not a storage protocol. For storage, privacy and identity overlap. For transmission they do not.
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In my case, I bundle the "brew tea" step with a trip to the latrine: 1) get boiling water and steep tea 2) hit the restroom 3) tea is steeped (only require 2min for me), 4) Add cold milk/cold water to make drinkable in short order.

All takes about 10m every hour-ish.
when Europe falls things will change eventually.
Yeah nobody should think for a minute that this relationship is in danger of Google dropping that contract either; Microsoft/Bing would KILL to have that default product visibility at the top of another mainstream browser.
Anecdotally, I have been waiting for prices to fall because I was looking to actually use some btc starting a month ago, but because Im planning on using a tumbler, I was afraid of where the price might be in a week.
No, this is a good point. History suggests that the government of france should absolutely be afraid of french citizens.
You can easily demonstrate the veracity of your statement by letting us all know what publicly-accessible server we can access to read your email, without using violence and coercion (for which 'government power' is a euphemism) against a service provider to circumvent your 'authentication'.
The mailbox in the foyer of your building and whatnot are not your property. The lock keeps other tenants from accessing "your stuff" and not your landlord himself.
I'm going to vote on the side of "people hitting bitcoin related sites to figure out why the price is dropping so fast", as opposed to an "actual" DDOS.

The result, however, amounts to the same thing.
Your SMTP server requires it to send email to prove it's really you and really them, yes, the mail server however sends your email to the recipient in clear text and can easily be intercepted if you happen to be inbetween the two servers.
A system similar with Bitcoin could be usefull (something to guarantee convertibility for merchants)?
It's hard to treat this re-pricing as a huge crash given that it was preceded by an equally unprecedented boom.
I use "Beep Boop" as my umbrella term

It's particularly good as an initial answer to "what do you do", especially accompanied by a hunt-and-peck typing pantomime.
Talking about your own open source project
That's probably a transaction resulting from MtGox's shuffling coins around.
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We have not really won this fight until people encrypt private messages and get angry when private things are sent in the clear.

If this is the criterion for success, this fight will take a very, very long time to win. It may be impossible.

How will I explain this to my grandma?

To my 10 year old cousin who is interested only in Nicki Minaj and makeup?
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No clue... haven't spent enough time in New York to really have any insight on that one. :-(
I don't know what taxis you ride in, but i routinely ride in medallion taxis that either use GPS or their iphone to figure out where to go. I've also had some claim that they're at the destination until I pull out my phone and point to them on the map where to go.

If you want to regulate taxis, you can still do that - but there is no reason to limit the supply of taxis.
You're still not understanding. LMDB is a disk-based database. It is not only writing to memory.
At this point I'm just flagging bitcoin price updates. We don't need these here.
if anything this as just re-injected new life into the elsevier-protests and the sorry state of academic publishing in general.

elsevier's business practices are well documented and the protest is not just manned by some fringe people but has support from prestigious institutions and scholars.

with each new round like this people will educate themselves even more about open access and contemporary free and open source tools for academic work.

zotero probably will win this out and be pushed to mimic mendely features soon enough. zotero already is pretty good but its social features need to developed or integrated with other platforms like arxiv or academia.net.

last not least given googles science-bias and foothold in academia not least with google-scholar and google docs I wonder why they haven't made a move with respect to citation management.
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Your communication to users on the same server, however, is secure since it isn't actually email - it is just a local copy operation.

Every single rsync.net intra-company "email" has never crossed a wire - always just a local copy operation.

Yes, we do all use (al)pine over SSH, so no, it didn't cross a wire to a web browser.
I think you're misunderstanding that reference. The amount of radioactive material is not that different; the distinction is that a ground burst localizes some of it at ground zero. It creates a small area which will be an acute radiation hazard for a short time. An air burst gives a very large, diffuse, atmospheric plume.

In the maps from the CDC link, large areas -- whole states (check out pages f29-f35) -- are contaminated with low levels of airborne radioactive fallout. From the isotope data, it's clear most of this is from the weapons, not environmental activation products. The doses are too low to be immediately dangerous (<1 mSv), but can have chronic health effects, as a slightly increased cancer risk.
Agile?
I think you are making the same mistake as some other people in this chain. We are talking about SMTP, not IMAP. You don't need violence or coercion to sniff unencrypted mail in-flight.

To prove to yourself that SMTP is primarily concerned about authenticity over privacy, just try setting up your own mail server. Ensuring your mail is not blocked and/or marked as spam is an involved process of establishing multiple checkpoints re-confirming your identity. DKIM, SPF, domainkeys- each intended to establish that you sent this (unencrypted) message, and not someone pretending to be you.
I never thought tail calls were hard to debug, but can you can keep text offsets to the original tokens through the CPS transform? Usually with typed languages that's enough information to figure out what went wrong or at least what to log.

Also, I'm not sure why the entire library needs the same calling convention when it's such bad form to expose all of your functions anyway.
I'm actually really curious, how could the SEC (or any agency) take any action here? Sure, they can make rules that say you shouldn't trade bitcoins, or maybe even threaten fines ... but for someone who doesn't care to report their activity, is there any way to be "Stopped" from doing so?
It's both. One person sells and another buys.