skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presume the gallery refuses to ship the piece because they didn't get the money yet, right?
The Constitutional provisions deal with the right of the Federal and State Governments to issue currency, not individuals or private organizations. Meanwhile, there has been a long history of minor private currencies in the US without legal interference.

I haven't read the decision yet, but the justification in the article is weak. If Bitcoin is a currency because it can be exchanged for dollars and other real currencies, anything I can sell on Ebay is a currency as well. I guess the SEC will crack down on fraudulent dealers on ebay now.
I'd say most of the strategy can be duplicated with the right founders. The only significant mainstream press we've had was the TechCrunch article and while it for sure helped out to accelerate growth, I think we would still have hit $5k a couple months later without it.
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There were many private currencies in the 19th century that the government never claimed power over. Here's one example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bechtler#The_Bechtl...

This move with regard to Bitcoin is merely Bank.Gov trying to protect its monopoly on the issuing of currency.
I think pg is using the word identity differently than you (or Jung) here. He doesn't attempt to explain the source of the "strong convictions" that drive political or religious beliefs. He simply observes the connection between the case where people think of themselves as a certain type of person and consequently will defend the associated beliefs regardless of evidence.

So there's something about peoples minds that makes it costly for them to accept certain facts. For a long time now, professing a certain belief with conviction has been a way of associating yourself with a certain group has had and continues to have direct implications on a person's physical well-being. Given acting is hard and cognitive-dissonance is nasty, actually adopting the belief makes sense.

A more precise way express the essay's thrust might be "don't get attached to your beliefs."
> Just like a slave camp. You know, besides the fact that you get paid...

Each successive future we strive for should have standards higher than the previous. We can do better than putting literal slave labor behind us. We should achieve a standard where the metaphor doesn't even apply.
Or wagon manufacturers when automobiles took over. Or manual farm workers when plows and then tractors took over.
I'm sure people used to say the same thing about the dollar or bank notes, and exiting to the underlying asset like gold. It is possible to remain within the Bitcoin system. It may be difficult now, but it's getting easier every day.
Interesting. It's nice to see someone actually do analysis instead of just dumping numbers and saying "So X is the fastest, except when it's Y".

I'd like to see all these re-run on a desktop with a desktop JVM. I'm curious if the problems Dalvik showed on the binary tree bench are specific Dalvik specific or if Hotspot has optimizations that fix some of the issues identified.
Saddens me to suggest that Carmack has finally 'jumped the shark'. Childhood hero of mine and all, but id hasn't been doing much lately. He's cutting back on funding Armadillo. Maybe he plans on retiring and taking it easy pretty soon? He's had to have an exhausting last 20 years.

No matter how cool this Oculus product is, VR headsets are just not going to catch on.
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They would not have more leverage then Google does . Actually, it's worse, as Android is way bigger them both of them (together).
I guess one of the only hopes is that intel can get up with an option for arm socs, as they are pretty good opensource citizens.
The uncanny valley.

What made waves in the industry was the level of polish that Siri had when it was first shown to the masses.

Had people seen all the lame stages of the product the baseline attitude would be "meh", don't care.

Which is exactly the attitude most of its users have today. However, when it was unvelied the sheer unexpected novelty certainly drove some sales.
"exodus"

I haven't heard, seen or read about any user exodus from such services potentially sharing data.
Here is the link to Stephen Fry's letter @ http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/08/07/an-open-letter-to-david...

Much rather give give him the page views.
Bitcoin transactions are broadcast to the entire network, which includes people who are in the USA. At the very least, American laws apply to those people and can certainly affect foreign Bitcoin users.

Really though, what the judge is saying is that Bitcoin cannot be used to evade US laws where those laws apply. No surprises there.
> Owning capital is what buys you security.

Owning profitable capital buys you security, but that's basically a tautology. Plenty of people invest heavily in means of production and fail. In fact, the risk of investing in capital is almost certainly much greater than the risk of just trading your labor for a paycheck.
Then the assumption is wrong. I'm not arguing anything; I'm trying to point out that the assumption is the source of disagreement, rather than the argument being wrong-headed.
Truly Inspiring. Thanks for posting!
You should try this sometime.
Even if you sell millions of devices, SoC vendors don't care and aren't willing to deal.

(This is why, for example, when I hear that Ubuntu edge, which can't even sell 45,000 phones, will "try" to come with free drivers, i laugh)
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> On the whole, it seems like Bitcoin-enthusiasts would be far safer in a more regulated environment.

Speaking as a longtime Bitcoin user, I'd disagree. My bitcoins were easier to trade before the government started taking Bitcoin seriously. They were also safer before the government declared the power to confiscate bitcoins.
Sounds pretty wild. What's next for the smoothie that Gawker said "looks just like semen"?

The color is a bit problematic in that respect. He should just put in a little coloring. I suggest green.
Thx. I know of flask-mail already. Just wanted to see how different would the "envelopes" be .
App Builders Need To Remember That Obligation Isn’t A Real Use Case
I think the key difference is that an automated loom replaced one kind of worker, while robots and computers can replace workers across the economy. It's your judgment call whether that's a qualitative difference or just a quantitative one.
Heh. I wasn't even thinking about the "Forgot your password" feature. Better still.
It means they'll pass or enforce laws that require citizens to pay taxes, exchanges to file paperwork & pay fees, etc. It means if you're caught not abiding by the law, then you will get punished.

Obviously they don't have natural jurisdiction over and above crypto-anarchy, unless they have the capacity to wage war against the protocol. They probably do. There will be workarounds. So it goes.

I believe the ponzi pirate PirateAt40 should be punished, not because Bitcoin falls under the jurisdiction of government as money, but rather because the pirate defrauded people. You can defraud people with beanie babies or baseball cards as well.
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The Bitcoin community is so speculative right now. From the people who are interested in the technology and where it might go and what problems it solves to the people who want to be free from central banks to the people who are just trying to get rich. It sometimes feels like the Bitcoin community has forgotten what currency is for: spending. And if you spend it, someone can regulate it.
Even other open devices (Firefox phone, Ubuntu Edge) will suffer this fate - they all, AFAIK, will require proprietary blob drivers for the GPU.
It's one of many possible reasons, but certainly not the only one.

Of course! But it's the assumption that is made. It's good to remember to check the assumptions people are making.
It used to be possible in Chrome; I'm not sure about Firefox or modern builds of Chrome.
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Blue maybe, but probably not green which is often associated with algae growth in fluids.

One of the most interesting thing about this whole campaign is seeing who is afraid of it. Now that provides some interesting insights.
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ATV Breckenridge this Summer! ATVing is the one of the best ways to explore rugged terrain and bask in the glorious Rocky Mountains. Tours to ATV Breckenridge can be booked through a variety of companies. Depending on the company you choose you may be able to ride guided or unguided through the backcountry. Breckenridge ATV companies will provide the necessary safety gear including helmets and goggles but bandanas and a change of clothes are essential because to ATV Breckenridge is to get dirty. One great Breckenridge ATV trail is up Ute pass where you can get a 360 view of the Gore Range. There are so many miles of Breckenridge ATV trails that you can continue to discover new territory. If you are just visiting the area my advice would be to take a guided trip as the guides ATV Breckenridge all summer and will be able to give you the history of the area as well as point out specific geographical landmarks.
Those two statements are not inconsistent.

"Papers" is not just about pulp, it's about the information encoded onto it. Bits don't have to be more than just bits to be protected.

Therefore bits can be 'just information' under both clauses and get the result your original statement would have had.

Note: I'm not saying I think this is the most reasonable way of interpreting the law, I'm just saying you haven't shown why it would be wrong.
Why do you need the CDN to be provided by DO? For instance, I host at Linode and use Cloudfront for CDN.
Some still exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours
He's not leaving id. A recent tweet:

"My time division is now Oculus over Id over Armadillo. Busy busy busy!"
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/365126783290445824
I don't know that the government has any illusions over the issuance of currency. I can spend and exchange my foreign currency in the US, correct? I can take my US dollars and transfer them and get foreign currency in another country as well.

What this says is that any commercial exchange is subject to government regulation.
Quite a few clones have been popping up. Here's the latest: http://theidler.org/

You can find the HN source or create your own. It's definitely worth a shot.
"Just as the database complex marks an "improved" image, the tracking/identifying complex marks an improved form of vision: a database-harnessed, societally-endorsed form of safe seeing that updates prior ocular regimes. Haunted by pending obsolescence, driven by technological imperatives, it is a visionary capacity that cannot fall behind lest it become simply unreliable . . . ."
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=115
I run a similar business (fully managed though). I know for certain that hardware and bandwidth costs are the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Remember there's also colocation, power, contracts, networking equipment (2x10G), and DDoS costs.

You don't really charge a client for the bandwidth costs incurred during a DDoS if you choose to absorb the attack. You don't charge a client when a RAID controller fails and you need to restore xTBs of data (xx man hours). Oh and you need to purchase backup nodes, which you're not getting any immediate return on.

You need an office. You need to factor in travel costs. Overtime pay. Health insurance, payroll costs, etc. Ads...
Calling Bitcoin a currency, and therefore allowing that it can be regulated, is an important factor in whether the government can care about it at all.

If they decided that it wasn't a currency and had no value, the case against the Bitcoin Savings and Trust founder would go nowhere. This decision cuts both ways. Without recognizing it as having value, there'd be no fraud to charge and if you were defrauded, no remedy available.
Wouldn't it be more misleading if the C++ version did something different?
As long as the government is collecting taxes, and as long as you cannot make tax payments with Bitcoin, you cannot remain within the Bitcoin system. Even if all your other transactions are done with Bitcoin, you'll eventually need to get some dollars to pay your taxes -- and then you'll be hit with regulations.

As for gold versus paper money, the above reasoning does not apply. Paper money is accepted for tax purposes (and would be far less popular if it was not).
It's not how you would write it in Javascript either, or Java. Actually, in general you wouldn't be implementing a sieve algorithm at all.

That's a general pitfall of benchmarks like these - the micros don't test real programs so much as they test a limited set of implementation mechanisms. In this case, what we're measuring is: "allocate an array, fill it, and then scan it with various stride lengths and mutate it, and then free it.. what does that cost on average, given this spread of array sizes?"

The useful thing with these benchmarks isn't what the final numbers are, but why they are what they are, and what that suggests about the underlying implementation.

To put it another way, I think these sorts of comparisons are more useful for being able to confirm that some set of mechanisms work roughly equivalently in one vs the other system.. rather than useful for saying one is "better" than the other in any objective way.

For example, the nsieve result suggested an issue with ARM codegeneration with asm.js. But the fact that scores between asm.js and native are pretty close on x86 desktops suggests that outside of codegeneration, the cost of allocating arrays, scanning them, and mutating them like this is roughly equivalent on asm.js and native.

Similarly, the nbodies result might be suggesting that double-indirection in hot code is a weak spot for asm.js compared to native.

The fasta result suggests that there are high overheads associated with using Java collections for small lookup tables of primitive values.

With benchmarks, my opinion is that the scores themselves are less important than how you interpret them. Thus I'm not as concerned about how one would optimally implement a looped sieve algorithm in C++ vs Java vs JS, since that's not what I'm trying to get at.
I always thought Android's openness was a driving force behind the platform's fragmentation. If anyone can build an Android device, and modify it however, wouldn't you expect it? Wasn't it an expected byproduct of Google's initial strategy?
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Padding oracle attack - some info from the field. Just a cheatsheet
Well in one regard they already did a variation, when the original G1 was being designed it was a deal breaker if the blobs for the radio couldn't be distributed.

That said, one of the interesting "advantages" that Samsung and Apple get here is that they are their own SoC vendors. Google will have to get into this game eventually.
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It also drives innovation.
> but i couldn't see them in person anywhere!

What country are you in? In the US, you can see Kindle at any Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Staples, OfficeMax and several other national retailers that cover most of the country.
In testing, Express members ordered from Instacart, again according to Mehta, two or three times weekly. The caveat to the Express deal is that delivery is only free on orders over $35.

So Express members are spending $70-105+ per week on groceries? I guess Instacart must be a hit with families.

For those kinds of users who spend $280-$420 per month on groceries, $99/year is relatively small.
The trick with typedef is it is exactly the same syntax, in all cases, as declaring a variable of that type. This is essentially the only way you're going to ever remember how to do function pointer typedefs: typedef int (function_t)(int,int); // or something to that effect
Maybe this one won't get deleted. Not sure why the other entry disappeared.
If they can add IMAP, POP, possibly Exchange, and good email parsing (it's truly a pain in the ass to do yourself) this will be a killer library.
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That's not what it says.

It's not 'the US can regulate any interaction that involves bitcoins'.

The proper reading is 'even if an monetary interaction substituted bitcoins for dollars, if the US would have had jurisdiction, then the US still has jurisdication'.
Awesome! Either post an issue to GitHub, or for general questions, etc., write me at ed.leafe@rackspace.com.
Isn't AmazonFresh Amazon Prime for Groceries?
The US government claiming power over the currency its banking corporation issues is one thing. I don't know why people just accept, without question, the claim that the government has regulating authority over a currency that it doesn't issue.
> That kind of zero-skilled, follow-the-instructions work is going fully robotic, much more quickly than people realize. Amazon themselves are investing heavily in robotics.

Exactly.

This is what worries me about the attempt to bring unskilled manufacturing jobs back to America. It's a losing battle & the wrong battle. The focus should be on how to equip workers with skills for the 21st century.
It doesn't have to be a currency to have value. Defrauding people with baseball cards is illegal.
I really don't see what the big deal is with tar. Everyone seems to hate it. Probably because exactly one of those flags is necessary: zcat merc.tgz | tar -x
It's already named Soylent, I feel like you kinda have to have a green colored version.
Saying it's not a currency is not the same as saying it has no value.

IIRC, most definitions provided by Federal Law designate that currency or money is by definition minted by sovereign governments.
I think IFTTT covers a lot of what you've mentioned. For example you can set an alert IF(its going to rain) THEN(send me a text), and a lot can be customized. What kind of alerts were you thinking that would need human evaluation?
Looks like more head-in-the-sand security from people who aren't detail oriented. Yes, your login pages need SSL.

Perceived rarity has nothing to do with it! A password is being transmitted in plaintext.

If forum passwords weren't a target then why are so many website databases a primary target lately? They steal the crappy, unsalted hashes and emails and go to town at other services where they are likely to use the same password.

I can't believe we are having this discussion!
From an API standpoint:

(1) I feel like sending emails isn't a task that's going to be repeated endlessly across a codebase, so is it really necessary to save three characters by truncating "from_address" to "from_addr"? You lose clarity for very little gain.

(2) If truncating the above was so important, why is it "text_body" instead of just plain "body"? In this case, you'd lose almost no clarity.

I prefer APIs to not have unnecessarily abbreviated words—especially when, realistically, I'm going to type them once per file.

(Sorry, pet peeve.)
Exactly.
The problem I see with these 'guides' is repeatability. You cannot just follow the steps and get there... the substantial part is missing. Find A Problem Worth Solving... well everybody knows that, right? Is anyone here intentionally trying to solve problem that is not worth solving?

I have to admit that I am actually little annoyed when I see title like '5 Steps to $5,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue' because to me it seems a bit misleading. These are not really steps to $5,000/month... if they told me _how_ to find problem worth 5k than maybe that could be useful.

But this is like, ehm... do you want to be successful with the ladies? Here is one simple step... be awesome!
How scammers drained $1,700 from a bank account using Starbucks cards
Yes. I'm being serious about adding a coloring. Most synthetic foods don't have very nice colorings without dyes to help. Blue would be good, a lightish brown like chocolate milkshake would be good too.

The green suggestion was in reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green, a joke.
There is a big gap between "all the ingredients are safe to eat" and "the ingredients comprise everything your body requires".
Well, Pennsylvania has voters, and at least now thousands of them have both motivation and moral standing to push for such statutes.

One shouldn't think of laws as something that exists to be obeyed - laws are (or should be) the written down consensus of We the People about how we want our society to be, and any [lack of] such law can and should be fixed.
> "VR headsets are just not going to catch on."

There are a lot of very smart people who seem to disagree with you.
If you think time has no bearing on aesthetic then you don't know much about design. You might not care but engaging people and increasing views are important to a new aggregator.
Not suspicious at all. Are you being paranoid? Binary blobs are so widespread unfortunately that you will find it difficult to have something that doesn't ship them. Graphic card drivers? Wireless chips? Even a computer BIOS is mostly a binary blob.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Why did John Henry buy the Boston Globe?
I wish I knew.

As it stands, I can keep my queue full via sites like High Scalability [0], Research at Google [1], Arxiv [2] and a long list of "Architecture at X" blogs that post sporadically.

On HN I probably spend more time scanning the "new" queue here than the Front Page. Plenty of quality submissions never gain traction.

Obviously, that's just content. I don't have a solution for the lack of community.

0: http://highscalability.com/
1: http://research.google.com/
2: http://arxiv.org/
There is no overhead for vagrant, it is just something that provisions/sets up your server with chef/puppet/whatever

once the server is up, it is exactly the same as if you did it by hand
Yes! There's already a lag-delay primitive, but it's a one-off hack we needed to get things working - more general asynchronous propagation is definitely a requirement.
Hoping to support this with donations seems unstable. Mail will cost about two cents per 1GB account per month if you buy your servers at the right price and if you have a good ISP with nice electricy prices. At that price, you need 1% of your users to donate 20 bucks per year. This is awfully close to freemium conversion rates, I'd expect donations to be much less.

Add more storage and it gets hairy real fast. And don't forget to add fixed costs in the end (paid sysadmins and customer support).

Hmm, ever since GReader I'm a fan of "show me your money making plan" or I'll suspect dark monetization plans.
Baseball Cards is a good example. I think that different Federal, State and Local agencies should prosecute such things.

Meanwhile, the SEC has far bigger fish to fry, as it were.
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Article I, Section 8 says that Congress may:

"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"

So the Constitution gives Congress not just the right to issue currency, but to regulate both its own currency and other currencies.

In any case, Shavers's argument was ridiculous to begin with. He claimed that his investments didn't fall under the umbrella of the SEC because Bitcoin isn't money. But the SEC regulates securities, not currency. A security is just a tradeable financial instrument. The subject of the security doesn't have to be, and often isn't, money. E.g. a share in a corporation is not backed by dollars, it's backed by an ownership stake in some legal entity.
You can do that in a user CSS stylesheet: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13955163/imitating-a-blin...
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