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"Code quality is higher on open source"

<sarcasm> Right, because somehow people not being paid to work on code right better since they are doing it for their pride, where as closed source people just lose their jobs if they write crappy code</sarcasm>

Open Source with wide adoption leads to bugs being fixed.

Closed source security through obscurity leads to exploits being only known by those exploiting them. Not a good thing.
Even the article states they changed their names because the members felt it was seen as offensive.

I only spent about 30 years in Texas, so maybe I didn't absorb the culture as much as you. I can assure you I know many people that attended a Robert E. Lee High School in San Antonio (established 1958) and have seen plenty of Dixie flags. Not as common as the Texas flag, sure, but still not that uncommon, especially in rural parts. Another Old South reference in High School was Tascosa, http://thsamaisd.sharpschool.com/news/school_history. I'm certain there are plenty more, it's a big state, those are just two off the top of my head I have personal knowledge of.

They should never have voted something with Confederate in the name as anything state 'Official', but there are still plenty of people there that don't get it.
Yeah but you need to perform the sales with matching funds on both trading platforms. Selling here and transferring BTC/USD to another trading platform is not the method due to the swings and time for verification.
Most people who aren't risk-tolerant toward things like this are using services that instantly (or daily) convert to USD or EUR to minimize losses due to exchange rate flux.

It's really only a big deal for speculators, or people who are trying to run a btc-in-from-customers, btc-out-to-vendors business. SR is probably pretty interesting today.
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All these employees, including the CEO, are no longer in control anymore; the owner, Elsevier, is in control and is not an impartial 'financial investor' but an 'strategic investor' with a larger stake in the industry than the whole of Mendeley.

It means that a week ago CEO could make the same promises and be heard seriously, but the same CEO promises right now are not worth the paper they're not written on.

Now at any point in the future all the Mendeley 'openness' promises can be easily broken by Elsevier, so they either know that all the promises they're making now are empty (i.e., lying intentionally) or they don't know that (then they're naive and incompetent as general managers).

Promises can be made by those in control. Leaders in public companies can be considered in control. Leaders in privately held companies can be considered in control if their public vision and roadmap is aligned with the owner. But if the owner has a clear interest to change the roadmap - then it would be imprudent to rely on such a roadmap. Elsevier has a reputation of intentionally sabotaging projects (say, gov't initiatives) that should bring openness - if they fool you twice, shame on you.
List<String> pets = Arrays.asList("cat", "dot, "bird");

Bad usage does not equal bad language.
Yea, I get the theory - my point is just that we need more than anecdotes when it comes to posts like this.
Not that I'd wish monetary loss on anyone, but if the first Bitcoin crash is any indication, these things tend to have a positive side-benefit of driving out most of the speculators flooding in after all the news reports that fuel these cycles, and the people actually interested in the currency itself stay behind, with an influx of new folk.

After all the noise dies down, new businesses and services get built backed by the wider audience, and the ecosystem develops further.

It's not yet clear if this is a crash similar to the previous one, but if it comes, I don't think much will change in terms of Bitcoin's future for the next few years.
Edit: Will do.
It says on their site: Bitcoinity is currently completely behind. New machine is coming slowly. Sorry folks
It had awesome UX until the google UI fascists got their hands on it and starting to over engineer the thing...
Same problem, can't sell... :( I also tried putting in a buy order, but it didn't go through either.

Looks like a good opportunity for an alternative exchange...
Fair play :-)
Html to Markdown and Markdown to HTML?
A few weeks ago there was a HTML to Markdown converter. This converter also converted Markdown to HTML. There was a demo page where this was displayed. I though it was cool at the time, but didn't really have a use for it, so I forgot it. Now I'm working on a project where this would be useful and can't remember what the title was. Can someone help me out.
On my non-retina MacBook the newsletter signup bar takes up about 1/3 of the screen real estate on that page. Seems a bit ironic for something that teaches us about a good UI...
Their vision right now has a remote control with a "reverse" button, held by well known enemies of that vision.
Technically, Austrians don't equate "no central banking" with "commodity-based currency". They simply point to the fact that without a Socialist central bank dictating by fiat what currency to use, the free market would simply decide. Austrians point to the historical record that shows precious metals filling this role in the majority of cases where the market was left alone. However Bitcoin seems to be competing now as-well in certain ways which is very exciting.

I suggest you watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxcjT8T3EGU on trade cycles before the Fed.
Bitcoin plunges from $266 to under $150 in a day
Watch it unfold live at http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/
and that's when, with regulation and control, decentralisation and anonimity vanishes
Yes, there were a bunch, but the bomber one was most popular and my favorite, I probably saw all of them, growing up there.
Does the opposite exist? Front-end services for back-end developers?
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You are preaching to the quire. I do not disagree with you. Also, we should have world peace, nobody should die of hunger. etc. etc. Is easy to talk idealistically but the reality is that Tesla cannot change the status quo on its own and you saying all or nothing is not constructive at all.
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Thanks for the update. I ran into "unexpected error" when trying to create a project but they ended up appearing when I refreshed the page. Then somehow I landed on: https://test-lozige.backliftapp.com/
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Its going down hard now.
Except Google's servers and whatnot are not your property. The lock keeps other Google customers from accessing "your stuff" not Google itself.
We'll just have to put Rust up against MLton and see if tail calls really are so expensive.
Can you do an attack like ssl-strip, but on IMAP servers? Presumably you can.
Quite a few of the transactions on bitcoinity are actually cached mtgox pages pulled from cloudflare, which accounts for the fake $180 fluctuations.
How do you instantly convert USD and BTC when the prices are this volatile? Bitpay quotes BTC prices good for 10 minutes.
Kovacs didn't really have any public visibility during his tenure. But Mozilla has been doing great, so I assume at a minimum he "just" ran things, and didn't ruin them, which by my calculus is high praise for any imported CEO, let alone one coming into an unusual organization from a very different background. Well done!
Wouldn't it be possible to have some sort of macro able to "manually" convert calls in a recursive style into loops? Something along the lines of Clojure's `loop/recur` but less tricky (and maybe with a single "word")?
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What do the numbers in the background mean? I've seen everything from $0.01 to $8000+ in about 30 seconds.

EDIT: Realtime transactions? Impressive range if they are.
How many sellers caused this? Was it a whale cashing out or multiples panic jumping the ship?
In the short run:

- Ion thrusters are way simpler and they are trying to do something that is much easier.

- Ion thrusters are relatively mature, working "fusors" don't exist.

- Existing machines that are trying to get fusion breakeven are building-sized.

- Trying to start a fusion reaction is hard, it only makes sense if you get a commensurate result (energy gain).

In the long run, I'm very optimistic about fusion.
Agreed. I'm going to start flagging them. Due to their volume they've become spam.
Awesome - thanks so much for sharing that!
The charge is hidden. The US dollar, and every other national-bank-backed currency, is debt-based. For every dollar that's put into the economy by the national bank, a bit more than a dollar is owed to the bank. That makes it impossible to pay back the debt without inflating the currency, which reduces the value of the dollar (what it can buy) to less than the original dollar+debt amount.

That's the short version of the explanation I've read about the "evils" of central banks and debt-based currencies. I'm no expert, so I can't really judge the accuracy of this explanation or whether or not it's evil.
Amusingly, "losing stack trace information" is among the reasons the JVM doesn't do TCO -- it needs to keep it around for the security manager to do its thing. Its especially annoying there because references are held by higher stack frames and prevent GC, and the destructor excuse isn't present.
If the exchange allows international traders then the price will equalise with the rest of the world due to arbitrage.
also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/310974/what-is-tail-call-... gives a decent overview
"In exchange, they would agree to give up some percentage of their gross profit on the transaction."

Sounds just like a commission. If the problem is "marketplace founders are stumped when it comes to capturing any of that value for themselves", then the existing answers include commissions and referral fees. Setting up instant financing in order to have something to take a cut of may be a solution in search of a problem.
This. There's been so much talk about curation/deletion of posts lately. Letting the algorithm do it's job is the only way to determine what's HN worthy in my view.
I guess I just don't see the benefit of a pure Redis approach, compared to the traditional approach of using a proper (replicated or otherwise) disk-based datastore, with caching (Redis or otherwise), especially for a forum/comment framework. It seems needlessly complicated and expensive.
Actually, you can set a price floor on Bitcoin. It's the dollar value of the transaction float at The Silk Road.
Smooth the line and bitcoins are doing exactly what you'd expect from a linear-demand-growth emerging commodity market with a fixed rate of supply.

And to be clear - what is it that you expect? A long-term per-unit appreciation in "value"?
This is simply a panic when someone decides to sell low. The average weight is the right no. to look at.
Being successful and being nice shouldn't be the same effort -- they are two efforts, unrelated, that sometimes incidentally intertwine, hopefully for the better.

You should be courteous and respectful of human beings -- if you feel that this very concept is somehow detracting from your life in a meaningful way, I suspect that you're misattributing your lack of success. But it's hard to speak on it without any real specific examples.
The closure over your username is undoubtedly different from that over mine. Revel joyously in the personalized experience of HN.
...in your country, maybe. Bitcoin runs on IP and FinCEN isn't everywhere.
Ask HN: How did you learn design? What resources exist to help one learn?
I'm currently a developer with the ability to put together organized wireframes, but I lack that certain something necessary to put together complete, quality designs. I've seen plenty of "Learn to Code" type posts, and I'm interested in what sort of resources exist regarding learning proper design.
That still does not verify beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a widespread DDoS on "pretty much anything bitcoin related". Can you please explain why such attackers would bother spreading their DDoS volume across such a wide range of sites instead of focusing it on the one site that handles 80% of btc <-> usd conversions?
No, thanks. I prefer getting the relevant updates from HN.
And I just showed you that they don't tend to favor men -- how was men favored by WWI? 16 million men died -- I doubt a thousand women did.
The slides from the talk: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qbqqcfjz3YwocRZu2led...

Slide 31 should be extracted and made into a cheat-sheet.
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Don't forget that people upvote them. There are many people who find them interesting and don't think that they're spam, including me.
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Note well that the BTC/EUR and BTC/USD markets on MtGox are _different markets_. The (liquid) one that you care about is the BTC/USD market. The EUR-traded one is much smaller.
This looks so intentional. Deploy a JS that breaks right when there is panic.
* disclaimer: I'm working on a service that's an entry into this space as well *

I believe the customer pain is that for many applications, it takes many iterations before the product takes off -- and for non-developers, who have to hire developers to implement each iteration, it could be cost-prohibitive to get to the take off stage. Easy application prototyping and MVP developing products allows agility in fine tuning ideas to make sure it meets a need, before spending the money to hire a developer and implementing the final, more optimized version.

It's also advantageous for developers to use these products as well -- not only is it faster to develop (no need to learn a ton of APIs), it's also easier mentally to change the product to suit a business need (after all, it's easier to toss out an afternoon's worth of work than 2 weeks', if needed)
Agreed. I've noticed some rather nice performance improvements over the last six months, and, like you, I've switched back to FF from Chrome.
Everything should be https.
I completely agree that this has been the pattern so far. These are great stress-tests for everyone developing software around bitcoin if you ask me.
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I was going to go with Post Hoc Naming, because the choice of name invites the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy [1]: "Oh, they must be a democratic nation, because it's in their name."

Alternatively, "Me Too" Naming.

[1] http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/post-hoc/
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another quote i find really thought-provoking, and pretty relevant to the current startup culture:

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
So you too are saying government is there by populations consent. Taxes and USD are by products of that consent. So is bitcoin, or any other medium of exchange really.
I probably can't give you specific examples that would make sense to you without seriously shooting myself in the foot. Suffice it to say that getting condescending pats on the head on hn is a personal frustration for me and that folks here who like to see themselves as helpful and often do help others have a track record of crapping on me personally. And it would be really stupid to name names and give links to actual examples.

Edit: And I really feel pretty disrespected by the ugly assumptions you are obviously making about me. I am nice because I believe in it as an ethic, not merely a manipulative thing to do.
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My Econ 101 understanding is that the value of USD is not primarily due to taxes, i.e. if the government stopped collecting taxes (or started forcing people to pay taxes in gold or Euros) the value of the dollar would not tank. Instead, we're in a Nash equilibrium where we're all accepting dollars as a means of exchange and it would be costly and have little benefit for individuals to defect. The intrinsic value of the dollar is roughly set by the value of all good and services exchanged in a given time period divided by the number of dollars in circulation.

That said, the tax part does add a bit of stability in the form of an additional friction to any hypothetical plan for everyone in the US to coordinate to start exchanging gold or Euros in lieu of dollars.
They don't want to be cool. They want to create a usable, pragmatic and fast language.
You've got a point there, but let's be honest: that 3d pen was pretty cool.
Can someone tell me how to put a filter on my Hacker News account to remove the multiple-times-a-day articles about Bitcoin? Bitcoin is the opposite of a useful thing for my business, where I need actual revenue in dollars so I can turn around and pay my expenses in dollars.
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In my experience (ex-mechanic here), BMWs do have a higher than average cost of ownership.
Which is +- what Scala allows with an annotation.
Those people who converted their USD to BTC yesterday just got screwed. If only there were a central authority to regulate bitcoins volatility. oh wait...
I was there yesterday when Elon supported the new bill to the committee. Each and every single member seemed infatuated. They're personally setting up a meeting with Elon & The Texas Automobile Dealers Association to talk things through.

From yesterday's experience, I'd be surprised if Tesla didn't get its way.
Please, follow the conversation. We are talking about the SEC and users crying foul. Not the impact bitcoin will have today, or tomorrow.
I don't think people are afraid to comment, it's simply not worth commenting on. I read the first paragraph of the article and closed it because it was crap. Do I need to waste more time to leave a comment, like I do now?.
bitcoin is done. Why would anyone take this seriously and use it as a store of value when it has had this much volatility in one month without any fundamental reason? The problem with bitcoin is that hardly any businesses support it as a unit of payment, without having to convert to a real currency. So as a result, bitcoin does not have any fundamental value. It's purely for speculation and fun.
Every other car manufacturer with no dealerships.

These laws originally made sense for car manufacturers that first completely delegated selling and service to dealerships and then tried to undercut them with factory discounts and other things.

The problem here is that Tesla never had any dealerships and does not intent to start any either. So none of these laws should apply to them.
Is that the likely root of that fall?

Any idea who/why someone is DDOSing them? And why they are so effective at it? Can't they just use Cloudfront which supposibly 'fixes' DDOS issues?
Right, the article points that out - they chose the word confederate originally to reflect their 'rag tag' nature, and went along with some confederate imagery as a running joke. Some people saw the use of 'Confederate' and the Dixie flag as offensive, so they changed it via member vote.

I've lived here about 25 years combined and spent 5 years in other states (including South Carolina and New York), some city, some rural, and my experience is that the rebel flag is not that common as compared to other places (I even saw several in rural areas of upstate New York). Different experiences, I suppose.
Agreed. If quality is critical (most OSs, for example, ship with known bugs) then look to embedded systems. You don't send the Mars Rover to Mars with known bugs in the software. Same for heart monitors. And that means waterfall, lots of modelling, simulation, and huge design up front.
You just missed the point. The IRS is speaking to all email systems. If I have a private server in my private house, and I send another message to another user on the same server (i.e. local delivery only), then the IRS's claims still apply to that. I don't see how the Google/Twitter/Facebook come into play here.
"current" is more precise than "actual"
It's not written how deep the rocks are, or how much watter were above them in Jesus' time, but just imagine not much and that he knew where they were -- then the scenes where he gets out of the boat to walk on the watter get a very obvious explanation.
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Let's be clear that I and likely Musk -- Tesla -- are not opposed to equal things being equal. I honestly don't know the history and the inner-workings of why automobile manufacturers are barred from selling their goods directly to consumers. If I can liken the music/movie/etc industry to the automobile industry, I can understand why Tesla would not want to wait years, decades, forever? to stave off dealerships, if they don't have to. In all likelihood, the gas-automobile manufacturers are just as likely to be OPPOSED to this bill, if they think it will make Tesla go away and they can continue to get kickbacks from dealerships.
Many of the currently available SATA hard drives will saturate 1GbE.
You can unglue an envelope over steam or on a hot surface.

That's beside the point though. People in general expect their mail correspondence to remain private, although a motivated third party might be able to defeat security.
for what its worth, i lost my flagging privileges doing the same thing in the bitcoin bubble two years ago
Totally necessary when the early PCs would just die on you because you pushed a key.
It solves the problem of giving Libertarians something to feel good about?
Perhaps I'm overly skeptical, but I have a hard time envisioning them as a "corporation of tomorrow" when, AFAIK/naively assume, they exist (as a corporation that can pay salaries) merely because Google dumps $x00 millions into their lap every year.

To me, this is less "how companies of tomorrow can run", and more like a bunch of techies who hit the jackpot and so can have fun building whatever technology they want.

(Which is awesome, I'm just saying I think Mozilla has a pretty unique situation.)
I've yet to meet a good mathematician who didn't know more about probability and statistics than 90% of the folks who call themselves statisticians. Math is math.

This myth that math geeks can't tell you anything useful is rather irritating. Sure some of them speak very abstractly, and they might use a technique that you don't understand to draw their conclusion, by they can also save you a lot of time by identifying a fools errand early on. Proper grounding in maths not simply an academic exercise.
You insist on a misnomer.
Achieving electrical breakeven haven't been done yet (and even if it will be)
Structurally this practice is a lot like the preindustrial precursor of taxation, when governments would sell monopolies on the import or production of things in exchange for a lump sum.

When obsolete government practices persist, they tend to be pretty sinister.
No, actually you lose some impulse purchases, in the liquor store case at least. I admit that cars must suffer less from the effect.
Obviously, you can't. The intra-day prices have only been this volatile for 3 or 4 days out of 1000, though.

I think a half of one percent is pretty good for something that finally solved the centralization problem for digital currency and has only been really useful for a couple of years. It will, of course, continue to get better with time as the size of the market increases.

This big flux could well have been caused by a single old-school miner/collector dumping $1-2mm of BTC in one batch, too. Remember, these markets aren't really that big yet.