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From: What_is_the_goal_of_Silk_Road.txt

It is interesting to hear your perspective Kandra. Stick around a while and hopefully you can get to know everyone better and even become a part of the community that has formed here. As far as non-drug items go, it's not that surprising. This is a niche market for things you can't get more easily from places like amazon, ebay, and retail shops. There is an added cost to doing things the way we do, and at least for the time being, you're going to be able to get legal goods more cheaply and easily from these other places. Eventually, we may win out because of our advantages over these other markets (e.g. vendors don't have to pay taxes on their profits from sales here). From what I've seen, despite some problems like attracting scammers, the market has only gotten better as more people have joined in. More buyers means more competition among sellers in the form of excellent customer service, low prices, and quality goods. More sellers means an expanding array of offerings, which attracts even more buyers. So far, this is the virtuous circle that has driven growth here IMHO. More people and a diversity of opinions is a good thing, and I would be hesitant to lump our diverse community into two opposing categories. By and large, there is much more cooperation and camaraderie than conflict and I'm generally impressed with the level of discourse. Maybe you have a point, though. There very well could be a place for multiple similar markets that cater to different folks. In fact I hope that is the case. I'd rather Silk Road be the leading market in a growing industry, than trying to take on the establishment alone
Oh god, something like this surely you'd want to distance yourself away from Silkroad as much as possible? Call it something else. Don't mention SR.
How much money do counterfeiters cost us, anyway? Even if they have, to date, inserted only $70,000,000 of counterfeit bills, the impact to inflation is minimal, and really it only hurts a few individuals here and there who aren't able to circulate the bills. But how can you measure this impact, and, if we don't fight it, what would its projected potential impact be?

Then I'm curious about these questions:

1. Is this the most cost efficient method to deal with it? It seems a bit silly, to me, as this is a game of cat and mouse, and those tend to be very expensive in the long run, if you want to win.

2. Would it be worth investing in a digital solution such that a bill could be copied, but only one copy of that bill can ever be recirculated, so you could "back up" your money, digitally, then re-print it somewhere else, but you could never spend it more than once, as a general solution to counterfeiting?

3. Would either of these actually save more money than just ignoring the problem?

4. 100% digital? Maybe not online as a requirement, but definitely tap your card to transfer funds to someone? Why do we still have paper bills anyway, with multiple demonstrated cryptographic protocols that could replace them entirely?
It might be a good thing or bad thing depending on the expectations of your users.
The real silver bullet behind Kanban has nothing to do with Kanban. It's the desire for continual improvement and willingness to start where you are and improve from there.

Anytime you attempt to make a huge process shift you are tempting fate and risking failure. The short term drawbacks to huge change can often stifle the process before it reaches maturity. The trick is to work through the rationalization with the team based on current observable problems and lead them towards self-realization and analysis of their own problems.

Most people have ideas of how to make things better, but if you lead them towards the desire for slack, optimizing for the bottleneck, rather than maxing out everyone as if they're all the bottleneck, then you can easily get from there to Kanban-like WIP limits. From there you can adopt other solutions as the problems they tackle are realized.

Smart people frequently arrive at similar approaches whenf aced with the same problems, but not always. Your team may find some novel approach that works better for your context, or they may go looking for options and find Kanban. But the goal should begin with being able to communicate process problems, ask how they can be improved, test the potential solutions, and adopt the best ones.

Unfortunately, the biggest hinderance to gradual process improvement (once your team is on board) is that software tools tend to offer a "whole solution" and don't have the ability to grow with your team's maturity, unless they're writing it themselves.
I don't have time to find the link right now; but, if you google around a bit, you can find articles (one, I believe, from Cringely) that points out that Sony's dominance in many areas was during an era of primarily mechanical electronics. That's a very different skill set than computer hardware / software based electronics. A skill set that, presumably, Sony never fully developed.
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As a European I can only ask why this is so expensive...
Why downwote? Oh I see; fixed version: Wine on Mac
I would point out that NT is already running on ARM, it was demoed at one point recently prior to the launch of windows 8.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windo...
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No. But it should be noted that even Satoshi retained his anonymity in creating Bitcoin; that, with no indication Bitcoin would have any real use or value in the future. That should stand as fair warning for anyone considering creating such systems.
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* crowded

* dirty

* traffic

* a great deal of self-important wannabes

* _astronomical_ cost of living compared to "less desirable" environs like Denver, Omaha, Salt Lake, Dallas, or other large mid/mountain west localities

* family unfriendliness, as the chic "millennial" crowd despises children

* bad politics that impact everyday life (gun ownership, etc.) and high tax rates

and there are many other reasons to _not_ want to be in one of those hotspots.

Surprising as it may seem to some of you, there are cool and interesting people everywhere.
I don't understand why we still mint a $100. It's the prime counterfeiting target, is mostly used overseas, and is too big for real commercial value. It seems like just having the $20 be the largest bill would overcome all these problems.
Check out some of the replies on the page. It seems that under certain not-rare circumstances, Visual Studio itself will generate paths longer than 260 characters.
Good to hear. Bitcoin already occupied 5-8GB last time I fired my client up, many moons ago.
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It's very difficult to leave the country with $80m in paper bills or bullion. You can hide bitcoin in your head and nobody can tell it's there.
Agreed, but I think it's already happening and will get even faster, possibly within the next 5 years. All my cousins in highschool are learning RoR / Python; millions of contractors overseas are picking up new languages besides PHP (granted, most of them still write terrible code). It has just gotten so easy to build basic CRUD apps that people need a hell lot more to call themselves developers.
I use a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, nothing special, and it's about 50cm from my eyes. I'm in my 40s, so anything real close (< 25cm) is hard to read without reading glasses, but otherwise my eyesight is fine.

Don't know about 'hacker bias', but yes, I'm a dev that's grown up on xterms (on huge monitors), and use IDE's fullscreen at fontsizes a lot smaller than those of a medium blog (now _that_ would be a waste of screen space ;))

I see your point, but imho font sizes like OPs feel like a large print edition book held about a foot in front of my face. I guess it's mostly a matter of taste.
>> I believe 1.2 is normal

It's the default in browsers and what the 'normal' keyword means yes, but I don't think it's a good default, any more than the default font-size is. I think 1.5 is a pretty common recommendation in the world of typography. I don't really have any good references to back that up, but if you Google '1.5 line height best practice' there's some reading to be had (realise that's a highly scientific approach)!

>> I feel like I'm reading a children's book with 2 sentences per page.

Is that a problem? Perhaps they got it right with children's books. :) Is it comfortable on your eyes?
I'd say just the opposite; there have been more languages for the JVM than for the CLR because Java-the-language is a worse language than C#, so people are more motivated to create replacements.
If anyone has glass for me to test on, I would inappropriately love you too much.
We thought about this approach. This would mean that we'd have to have fine-grain permissions logic every time we used that resource. An analogy to this is like having to sanitize literal strings for every user input from a web form; if you forget to sanitize (or in the API case forget to filter the fields) at any point, you have a security bug in your code.
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My friend Eliana and I (@eli_awry, @lilz0r) built a brainwave-controlled vibrator this weekend at a hardware hackathon! Is there a market for focus-training sex toys?
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What if the creator somehow profits from the system?

One could imagine a Bitcoin-esque system where the creator includes rules in the client that require every transaction to send a small cut to a Bitcoin address he owns. [1]

If that system then "happens" to be used for illegal purposes like drug trafficking, is the developer of the system committing a crime? It's distributed so he can't shut it down and he's no longer actively participating. What if he destroys the private key of the Bitcoin address?

It's an interesting thought experiment...

[1] Of course you'd need a critical mass of users and the right incentives to prevent people from starting their own "alt-markets" much like Bitcoin has spawned dozens of "alt-coins".
This should be modded much higher than it is. What are the odds that someone thought to check Stack Overflow independently of any particular reason to do so?
While some describe this as "frank", I think to have that quality TFA would need to specify where the decryption keys are stored. Are they in the USA colo's too? (I realize I could probably figure this out myself if I could be arsed to do so, but why not just tell us?)
> [Greenblatt] might not claim that what is describing is "true," but, rather, "good to think with."

Ah! Gleichschaltung.
This one seems to be pretty close to a CS degree:
http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/g...
Not really well-informed enough to comment on details, but it's fantastic to see the field is still moving, even if slowly. Proud that we are still funding this kind of research.
Garnered a positive response from Larry Page after being presented at Google X:
https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/QVyCe3UhEGC
I dont think people do, that doesnt mean it doesnt happen by accident. Until we can get file system as a database, and all of this can be abstracted, it can be a real issue. That said, the target here is a developer - a bit of careful planning can avoid said complications.
We should be careful to avoid presentism, applying modern moral standards to somebody who lived over 200 years ago. By the standards of his time, Franklin was unquestionably a great man.
"Hidden dangers"? The review doesn't say Gladwell is dangerous, just that he doesn't actually PROVE anything, but people take his claims as if their solid & settled science. There are scientists & researchers who can communicate clearly — Einstein did, Bill Bryson does for astronomy, etc. — without going too simple.
Have considered, but no one has come up with a legitimate reason. Name some "legitimate" reasons?
Go, MongoDB, AngularJS.

Go for being modern, fast and fun. MongoDB or similar for its scalability and being quite good for modern applications. Plus I'm just tired of SQL DBs.

AngularJS for a rich client experience, plus I look at REST servers as serving any type of client and the thick web client is but one such potential user of the service. Expanding to mobile or god-knows-what is easier.

I have more details about architecture I'd prefer and could write a lot on that, but don't want to.
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13GB with indexes now. If it's an issue, just use an SPV client like MultiBit that doesn't store the blockchain at all.
The problem really boils down to reputation and trust. If you can create a "portable" reputation that can move among decentralized marketplaces the rest is relatively easy.

But that's a very hard problem.
I'm up-voting, because it's aaronovitch, Rusbridger and radio 4. I know what I am listening to in the morning
Academia has no monopoly on the ability to spot a snake-oil salesman.
I love the design, concept and copy, but will someone please explain what Dropplets uses in lieu of a database? (I may have missed something, but I don't think that was explained in detail.)
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I believe that the biggest problem with Malcolm Gladwell's writing is that one may be left with the impression that it's journalism. To understand why he does not provide critical analysis of the topics he writes on, this quote from last week's NY Times Sunday Book Review is enlightening:

I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like. My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.[1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/books/review/malcolm-gladw...
Not really a Fibonacci
version number system since v(n + 1) = v(n) + n + 5, v(-1) = 0. It doesn't depend on v(n - 1), so while it's a recurrence relation it isn't a Fibonacci-type sequence.

The next version should be 5 + 6 + 7 = 18, not 17.
In my understanding this distinction makes the degree essentially worthless.

Udacity and Georgia Tech are comparing the real master's and online master's as equivalent, but there hasn't been any evidence that employers or other universities (for PhD programs etc) would treat the online master's any better than a string of MOOC completions.

While usual bachelor and master degrees offer a "costly advertising" function, the lowered barriers should actually make the degree less attractive to employers. They could always hire self-taught engineers at a considerable discount if they wanted to.
Not directly. I did study in London on campus. However, there are plenty of cases where outstanding alumni of those distance BSc programs got admitted to a later on-campus Master's program. Also, the content of those distance BSc courses is identical to the on-campus versions. They teach the same courses, and you'll sit the same exams.
> there is no legal right to rent your apartment to short-term guests

I am just trying to understand the situation. I don't see what is the difference between me being in the apartment vs somebody else being there. About taxation, we already pay income taxes. The property owner already pays property taxes. If people who rent out their apartments don't disclose said rent money in their income tax, yes I'd say it is scummy that people are getting out of paying taxes when my income tax gets reported/deducted at the source.

They probably should get hit with a huge fine for tax avoidance.

Humor me for a second. If short-term renters were quiet and non-aggressive, would you still have a problem with that? How does the hotel tax on short-term renting solve anything? Can people be loud and obnoxious because they have paid the hotel tax?
My understanding (also not a lawyer) is that passwords are protected under the 5th amendment when the very act of giving them is testimonial. Two cases where this appears true:

1) Your password is "ITotallyKilledThoseTwentyPeople", e.g. the password contains testimonial evidence. This can probably be circumvented by allowing the defendant to enter their password privately.

2) Your lawyer successfully argues that the very admission of knowing the password to a thing is testimonial. In other words, let's say the feds find an encrypted hard drive labelled "child pornography" under the couch at your apartment. If your argument is that a friend left it there, and the feds can't prove otherwise, then the very act of decrypting that drive would be an admission that it's yours, and hence a violation of the fifth.

It'll be interesting to see where law settles in this area. One thing that seems certain: if the gov't can prove you know a password, they can force you to use it (assuming use is possible without disclosure).
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>There is a number of unhealthy uses of guns, like murder. Should we ban guns?

No, but I believe the state has a legitimate interest in regulating their sale and use.

But i'm not talking about guns in the abstract. I'm talking about the purposes that organizations involved in a black market gun trade would likely be putting them to. Collectors of firearms are not going to be using Silk Road 2. People who just want something to protect their home aren't likely going to be using it, either. The issue is the degree to which a black market, by virtue of it's purpose to evade law enforcement, would be used to facilitate criminal activity.

Or to extend your example further, no, we shouldn't ban cars, but we have every right to shut down chop shops.
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I'm with you.

I've read and enjoyed Mr. Gladwell's books, and may even prefer his essay writing[1].

The guy isn't writing a dissertation; this is lightweight pop-science from a fairly good writer and presenter, with a knack for inductive reasoning (albeit sometimes controversial). The fact that the masses misjudge the scientific efficacy of his arguments is not a real issue. It's not like the guy is selling hate-speech. He should be WAY down the list of authors requiring a scientific debunking.

[1]http://gladwell.com/category/the-new-yorker-archive/
> For the life of me I can't understand what the language designers want, or how they think software should be written.

From what I've read, that's exactly the design philosophy: we don't know what people will (eventually) want from our language, so we'll be sure to make it very extensible. And so the Scalable Language was made.
So I am not familiar with all of his books and it was some time I've read the last one (Outliers) but he doesn't give (at least not much) direct possibly harmful advice to people. He just describes some phenomena and some bold theories to explain those. It's not like you will hurt yourself committing to 10k hours of deliberate practice in your field or something.

On the other hand Oprah with her promotion of The Secret which is potentially very harmful if you start applying things it advocates or Kiyosaki with his books/mlm promotion are better candidates to put into scam category.
Almost every real-world criminal that ends up arrested violates several "you'd think" statements.

"You'd think" is often true when "you'd be correct to think" isn't.
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I'm sure that throwing around the names of logical fallacies makes you feel smarter, but are you really saying that the history or reputation if a source should be completely ignored? It's perfectly valid to be skeptical of a source based on their past behavior. That doesn't mean you just disregard what they say, but the OP didn't do that. Hence "straw man".
That would be true if evidence were a one-to-one relationship but since it's many-to-one, you can't conclusively state !B.
They will only have limited resources for per-student support, they will have to authorize each student and they will want to gradually develop what "passing grade" (or similar) they want to require.

Slow roll-out is probably the smart choice.
I work for a web news network startup, and I'm hacking together D3 visualizations specifically because they're reusable. We're based in Chicago, and plan on doing crime segments, and my visualization will take public CPD crime stats, display them (hopefully beautifully), and then encode them with ffmpeg for web video.
HASN'T, obviously.
That research seems reasonable, lnanek, but I'd like to encourage anyone interested in education technology to ignore it. There is absolutely massive potential to make a difference here, and it's mostly not with improving private schools.

If anyone is trying to think of ideas, let me re-post a great link that was on HN last week: http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
Sorry to piss on your parade, but..

"Soon after, the $3.5bn facility shifted focus, cutting the amount of time spent on fusion versus nuclear weapons research - which was part of the lab's original mission."

Admittedly that is phrased in an odd way...
yes, but keep in mind that Perl 11 could also just end up being Perl 4 + Perl 4 + Perl 3
Can anyone here recommend some references for someone wanting to learn about Kanban?
"And No One Knows Why" Nauseating..

Health is a mess, and we're further advanced than ever in history. Education is a mess, and every person has all the knowledge of the world literally in their pocket.

Personal responsibility.
Wait for zerocoin then.
> The problem I have with best-seller pseudoscience is that it gets used by people to justify assinine decisions in the workplace and even worse, in public policy.

He, like many writers, has a very clear agenda and influencing things like workplace hiring practices or public policy is EXACTLY what he's aiming to do. No doubt, he's sincere in thinking what he's ultimately doing is good, but it's very often insincere in picking or even manipulating data to fits his beliefs rather than letting the evidence speak for itself.

I have respect for him as a writer, I have very little respect for him as a truth teller.
We (Sendicate) agree with your points. We have templates that automatically resize images, use readable fonts and colors, emphasize text and readability on mobile (even with multiple columns and dynamic layouts). We also automatically create a plain-text version without re-writing links for tracking. We have learnt from the mistakes of others and tried to solve the problems you describe. Email can be horrible, but it doesn't have to be.

The good news is that you can decide how to view your emails. For Apple Mail try running "defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool true"
woh, awesome... and that's all real time?
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Obligatory stories of a Taco Bell employee refusing to accept a $2 bill and a Best Buy employee having a guy arrested for paying with $2 bills.
(plus more currency anecdotes linked from the bottom of the article)

http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp
You should only show a dialog before an action that cannot be undone. So, the "not Cancel" button in a dialog should always be destructive, and "Cancel" should always be the safe choice.

Also, Red is the universal color for danger. That's why the action button is red.