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Ask HN: What should I ask Jason Fried? 
I'm going to interview Jason Fried tomorrow on http://drt.fm. We will be talking about his new book, 'Remote'. What would you like me to ask him?
> With fractional reserve banking, it's not that the bank has to keep 1% of the money they have on deposit, it's that the bank gets to invent 1000% of the money it has on deposit. And it doesn't have to borrow money from the Fed in order to do it, it gets to make up the money on its own. Steps 2 and 4 should read $10 and Step 3 doesn't exist.

I haven't studied this subject in some time, so can't remember the exact mechanics. This summary sounds accurate. I would like to say that "it gets to make up the money on its own", while correct from one perspective, is another way of saying "other banks can respect its credit (how much money it says it has) if it plays by a certain set of rules".

I don't remember if this mechanically occurs via some kind of direct lending or via the Fed sanctioning "Bank A's" credit as satisfying reserve requirements for a "Bank B". The ultimate result is the same.

> That's why pyramid schemes are illegal, the banks hate competition.

I'm assuming that this is said tongue-in-cheek, but pyramid schemes are an example of perversion of credit and lending on a scale that separates them from banks. In particular, the core feature of pyramid schemes is a rate of return that is unsustainable, and thus requires rapid creation of new customers instead of gradual growth of new wealth.

If fractional reserve banking is indeed really terrible, what is the alternative? I think a massive body of research is required for someone to assert the superiority of such a system.

> So yes, it especially doesn't work for bitcoins, because how do you make a blockchain for fractional bitcoins based on a mined bitcoin? The mined bitcoin is the one that has the blockchain. You can't make a bitcoin transaction without first checking the blockchain for double-spending, say nothing about 10x spending.

This was ultimately my point. The principles behind fractional reserve banking and bitcoin seem fundamentally incompatible. Given that fractional reserve banking has worked for many centuries, any alternatives that are radically different should be approached with caution.
I'll remain pessimistic for the time being. IPv6 has been coming my entire life.

I'm a Comcast Business class customer in Silicon Valley, and I recently (few months ago, a little after IPv6 day) asked about IPv6 support. "Not currently" was the answer, so it's a little surprising to see a HN article about "Comcast [shows] Dramatic Increases in IPv6 deployment". If the article's graph is to be believed (and I don't see why not), then I'm curious as to where they're deploying it.

I partially wish the graph's Y axis was [0, 100%], to show how far they have yet to go.

If Time Warner continues deployment at current rates, it looks to take them ~15 years to complete. That's assuming that the growth is linear, and only using the last ~6 months. (Since it seems they only just started.) Hopefully, growth will initially be exponential, and this won't take quite that long (I expect some sort of S-curve[1]).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
No it isn't. Only if you are stupid does it compromise you.
Deslugging in Go with pprof: btcd
Is he going to have to tell everyone who uses these affected versions of OS X to run these commands / change these preferences in order to view his site? This is much worse than he expressly states... How many people are going to put in the effort to contact the site author, or investigate the error, instead of writing off the site entirely? My takeaway from this is not to update a machine to be able to view a site with large certificates, it is to not use large certificates until Apple releases a fix for this.
That depends on what he's learned. Not to mention, he hasn't had anything to do with the platform since 2003. I have no idea what he's done or learned in the intervening 10 years, but I'd hate people to judge me today on what I developed 10 years ago without considering what I've learned and developed since.
A good researcher would have the cash to hire hundreds of people and intentionally randomly assign them to different work environments, I guess.

Then we would be picking on how they measured productivity and whether the results held up over long periods.
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Scala 2.10.3 released
Coinbase is down. It probably isn't helping the situation.

Wow, as I'm typing this now the market is massively recovering. I just saw it go from 600 to 700 in probably 30 seconds. There are a lot of people doing algo trading with bitcoin.
Except that she let him remain homeless and fell in love with another man.
I've used it with legacy applications with good success. If you really want, you can completely ignore GORM. Leave the domain directory blank, use command objects for your DAOs and DTOs. You can add your validation straight to command objects.

On top of that, you can write your own hibernate xml on which your domain objects depend. If you get too fancy, you'll lose some of your GORM syntactic sugar, but you do have options.
Yes, it is correcting back to what it was...this morning.
>I mean, I agree with you, but just because you are 'on duty' doesn't mean that you become an automaton of the state. You are still a person with privileges, rights, and responsibilities.

As a person, sure. But as an on-duty police officer? Even a regular person working at McDonald's or Walgreens or Walmart there are cameras rolling all day.
Its pretty volatile today. Probably not that interesting for HN to see new posts on it.
Most likely things like version control, static analysis, dynamic analysis (e.g. Valgrind), automated testing, and code review. The Joel Test[0] is a good starting place.

[0]http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
Yeah, but it went up to $900.

There are a lot of people trying to buy bit coin right now; it's a commodity and people are speculating on it. There is more demand than supply right now IMO.
Then when you anonymously speak to a newspaper you might as well say that, right? Unless he assumes everyone already knows that police officers can't trust each other.
Agree. Chrome looks totally out of place when running with Evilwm.

BTW: it is annoying the web browsers don't seem to support the -geometry switch under xorg.
I have been perfectly happy with my /64 for many years. I can't imagine needing multiple subnets for home or small office use.
Damn this makes me feel way better about not listening to all my friends that told me to sign up for food stamps while started my company. Too me I wasn't unemployed
What stood out to me about this is how well-written it is. I hope someone in a position to hire a writer reads this and recognizes his talent.
I think we have to wait a little longer to make that call. The "correction" seems to be correcting itself now:)
And now it's on the rebound.
Just normal 25% intraday volatility; nothing to see here.
So what's the actual limit it is set to by default? If I get a certificate, I'm not exactly going to tell everyone to run a sudo command before opening the site :)
> Yes that could possibly have a slight impact on the economy

In the same wall that a concrete wall across a freeway could have a slight impact on traffic.

> from an individual perspective increasing value is definitely a good thing.

From an individual perspective, its only "definitely a good thing" if you ignore all of the effects of everyone else using it except the effect of providing you the opportunity to use it and actually causing the increase in value.
If I had a Bitcoin for every prediction that Bitcoins were going to have a correction, I would have more Bitcoins then what exists.
I wouldn't be surprised if NSA had a basement full of specialized hardware devices for standard crypto&hash functions (including SHA256) for a decade already - in order to keep up with their primary mission which, among other things, includes bruteforcing such issues. They definitely have some such devices for years already, and have much more practical experience on how to build such things on scale than the current ASIC-miner manufacturers; the question is how much of them they have.

If they have some 'spare inventory' available for such a mission, it might not cost that much if they just have to turn on a warehouse-full of already existing HW.
Parkinson's Law of Triviality applied to Pull Requests (and why it matters)
The United States is isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
I imagine that, if necessary, the accused's lawyer could argue that showing such footage would be unduly prejudicial. This would preclude the jury from ever seeing it (unless its probative value outweighed its prejudicial impact).
None of your other examples have the power to stop, search, imprison other citizens based solely on their word. They are not even functional as counter-examples. How many 'corrupt firefighters' send people to jail for life or shoot someone to death and then get off scott free?
Researchers at MIT develop a shape-shifting table surface [video]
Like a chess game, it is not always obvious when you've made a decision that will ultimately cost you the game. Even if it is the only bad decision, and even if the mate comes 2 dozen moves later, you may never realize what it was.

In reflecting how this could have played out differently, it seems that he needed a perspective outside his own circle, even after he had resigned. Not a formal adviser and paid advice, but someone he trusted who could see the increasing peril to his career. Even if the outcome was inevitable, perhaps the landing could have been softer.
Completely - this is a very new commodity market upon which lots of people are speculating. I intend to speculate on it and so do (are) many people in the tech and now wider communities.

Worth remembering that at least bitcoin is backed by some value of work, what is USD backed by again? Debt :-D
They give out so much free space, right now I have 55GB of free space for life. Then again, I'm not the typical user; I've visited Dropbox HQ a couple times, gone to their recruiting events, and know some Dropbox engineers.
As a non-US non-sports fan, can someone explain the context for this? I have no real clue what this fight is about.

As far as I can tell, this fight seems to be between two ways to watch a sports game:

1. on over-the-air broadcast, which is free to receive.
2. cable television, which is not free to receive.

Apparently Aereo makes (1) easier, which presumably means more people will choose (1) instead of (2).

What I don't understand:
* If I could watch the sports game for free, why would I ever choose to pay for it instead?
* If they (I think in this fight 'they' refers to the NFL and MLB) don't want me to watch the sports game for free, then why do they allow/provide free broadcasts in the first place?

From what I can tell, the whole sports game watching market looks even more ludicrous than the arbitrary restrictions online TV/ebook market (the number of books in the kindle store that are available - then suddenly disappear when I log into my Australian amazon account - presumably publishers/authors love losing money).
Future of Food Hackathon: good food, cool ideas, and even a rapping chef
On the Path to Personalization
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IROS 2013: Robots That Pay Attention To You
Life inside the Matrix is pleasant isn't it?
Yep, very true. Things were moving down very quickly (down 30% in 30 mins) when I posted this.
Honestly, it seems like a really positive thing for the "good cops" out there too. No more "he said, she said" complaints.

Of course, if these tapes get conveniently "lost" that presents another set of problems.
Try something like "Government has outsized power to change economical outcomes, and punishes sustainable decisions hard, making any rational person choose the viable unsustainable ones. People that make unsustainable decisions (everybody still in the game, as the government destroyed everybody else) can't sustain themselves for long, and routinely face deep crisis". I guess that's a bit longer, but more clear.

Things would be less bad if just one unlucky event in a crisis wasn't enough to destroy the entire life of somebody, but it is, so we must play russian roulette every few years.

Anyway, I'm quite sure reducing the government intervention will replace this problem with something worse (that we can check on history books), thus the solution has to come from some other kind of change.
That debt is backed by the collective work of the citizens of the US. In total, and discounted by the tax rate, this is far, far more work, and of course far more useful work, than Bitcoin mining.
Booting to Rust
I can see use for maybe about 4, not sure about more, but if I recall correctly the privacy extensions require a /48 don't they?
8192 bit RSA key is one or two notches above overkill. 2048 is expected to last many more decades, and I haven't seen 4096 outside tin-foil hat environments. I know our national root certification authority uses 4096, for example.

I propose such a key actually decreases security because it is less compatible with existing software, training the users to further ignore warnings or dangerously tinker with their security settings.

Which one is more likely? NSA being able to break 4096 keys, but not 8192, or your user accepting an invalid certificate because "the key is probably just too big", or "it drains too much battery"? Which one will have more impact down the line?

Besides, if you are worried about such sophisticated attackers, your priority should be securing side channels and protecting yourself from rubber-hose cryptanalysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis).
What does a reversible payment method mean? And how does that differ from Mt. Gox? I know Coinbase is not an exchange like they are but are their payment methods different? Genuinely curious.
The only surprising thing is how much faster BTC goes through different market phases than other financial instruments. A blow-off, reversal and sell-off like this would take at least days in equities or commodities while this merely took hours. It also appears as if the frequency and amplitude of BTC tops is increasing. This trend actually makes BTC less and less useful as a currency to do business in since you have to hedge your exposure by the hour.
What anonymity? The transaction history is public, and doesn't need a quantum computer to analyze, any institution with available time can do stuff like that.

The only truly anonymous bitcoin way is if you mine some bitcoin and spend it right away without it ever being related to any other data about you.
Ask HN: How do I go about getting T&C's for my new startup?
I'm bootstrapping a company and have landed some customers, but need T&C's to present to their legal departments. What's the best way to go about creating T&C's and a Privacy Statement for my new company?
Relocating to california for internationals
People like to make it seem that a bitcoin purchase is life or death and basically equate being able to buy bitcoins whenever and however they want up there with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Their site seems to be down. Scary!
Coinbase uses ACH (which is reversible) while many other exchanges use wire transfers (which AFAIK are merely more difficult to reverse, not impossible).
Really interesting how you figured that out. The penalties strike me as unfair and pretty arbitrary. I like articles with more discussion for example.
I could never get used to not having an address bar. I'm jealous.

The good news is that if you don't like the new look of firefox, you don't need to see it:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...
Block it from the Great Firewall?
What everyone needs to understand is that Bitcoin is a gift from heaven for every "productive" country's central bank.

Much of the world is trying to get away from the USD as a global "reserve" and trade-settlement currency, without the masses jumping into gold and without pissing of the US (govt, economy, Wall St).

Bitcoin is so much more "tolerated" by Germany and China than it is by the UK and the US, it's pretty obvious.

You don't really want the masses to rush into gold -- it needs to stay cheap so oil can stay cheap for whole economies, and central banks can acquire more of it for a future when intra-national trade imbalances may be settled in a proven, timeless, globally-accepted (at the central bank level) reserve asset that's not subjected to any one nation-state's (or state union's) wims or woes. You also don't want the savers to store their excess savings or retirement funds in USD or even your own currencies, because they'll be screwed over. You also don't want all the excess liquidity printed over the last 5ish years to end up as real-world price inflation on store shelves. Something like Bitcoin solves all these beautifully, and carries no diplomatic concerns because it's something that citizens are now just free to adopt as they see fit.

You think the Chinese want USD long-term? Why on earth would they? They wanna convert them into other wealth assets, even BTC if they like, asap. Think about the situation today or more so the last decade or three: they export something, take in USD. The producer takes those to their bank to convert into spendable yuan. Their bank takes those to the central bank for yuan. Their central bank doesn't wanna sit on them either so (traditionally) they buy treasuries for those USD, which sends the USD back home to the US where Americans go on the next shopping spree of buying Chinese (in our example) goods (circle repeats), and when the treasury is due, freshly printed USD plus a small interest "gain" go to China central bank and they're left holding the bag once again. What to do with those homeless USD? It's called reserve-currency privilegue and really the world would be happy to abandon it, but you can't just flip the switch or madness would ensue. Similar situation for the majority of producing-and-exporting countries.

Food for thought!
Coinbase uses a method called "ACH" to electronically request the money from your bank account. The problem with this method is that it is relatively easy for a fraudster to get the information needed to do this (routing and account number) and submit that as their account on coinbase. Consumer protection banking laws in the US are very consumer favorable and thus if someone goes to their bank and claims they did not authorize the transaction (of coinbase taking the money from your account) the funds will be returned to you and coinbase will take the hit. Now, typically this is less of an issue, but with bitcoin, coinbase is not able to take back any bitcoins they have let you withdraw. Thus you can see where this leaves them in a very delicate situation about having to monitor how and who they withdraw money from as well as the amounts.
Again, you are putting words in my mouth. I've never said Rich Jews controlled media.

I said that rich jews have strong influence in our world. If you don't think that's true maybe we live in different planets.

Every genocide is unique. If you think the systematic mechanical killing of the holocaust is unique you haven't read the post you're commenting on. And surely you don't know much about history.

Again, it's important to lear about the holocaust? Absolutely! Was it one of the greatest acts of cruelty we know of? No doubt about it.

But I just think that there is so much more that we don't learn about (at least they don't teach at the school or make movies about it), that makes the holocaust seem like the pinnacle of human genocide. And that is not true.

We learn more about the holocaust than about slavery. And it was abolished only 125 years ago (in brazil). That's just nonsense for me.
I am absolutely shocked. Postal vans, delivery trucks and armoured vehicles that deliver money to banks and stores all have GPS trackers fitted to them, heck even most taxi companies have fitted GPS trackers to their vehicles. What is the big deal? It means that a dispatcher can accurately see how far away a police officer is from a call for help. This could save lives and all the while keep some police honest.

Imagine you call 911, the dispatcher immediately sees your location based on your phone number and then based on what service you need, dispatches the nearest police car to you if there is one nearby as opposed to putting out a call over outdated radio technology.

Sounds like a case of police being misguided as to what the motivation is behind such a move. If delivery companies and mail services use the same technology for efficiency and estimates on arrivals, why shouldn't the police?
Until Coinbase complies with applicable laws, every transaction they handle is a high-risk transaction. They could be shut down at any moment.

They're not alone. There isn't a single Bitcoin exchange in the world right now compliant with U.S. money transmission laws.

Buyer/seller beware.

Full disclosure: we're in litigation over this.
Robot Lets Doctors 'Beam' Into Remote US Hospitals
Actually, it's almost the definition of progress.

So often for real progress to be made, those who swear by the old system have to be ignored and abandoned because the only feedback they can provide is "leave everything the same".
I think the most compelling use case is a separate guest network (which is firewalled from your normal network; some wireless access points tout this as a feature). Power users might also run a VPN and allocate a subnet to VPN clients. There are also home automation standards that put all your devices on a separate subnet.
Not to be pedantic but he's making a point about "preeminent developer types" not office space. Specifically don't bet the schedule on one rockstar developer's word alone.

It really has little to do with the physical office space configuration. This problem could happen in open plans too, assuming a sufficiently complex project that can't be assessed by merely glancing over their shoulder.
Scientists "Burst" Supercomputing Record with Bubble Cloud Simulation
Yes, wires are much more difficult to reverse but they can be reversed. In my experience, your financial institution must get your prior approval before reversing a wire (which is not true for ACH reversals). Wires also you a completely different system of clearing funds which is part of the reason reversal requirements are different.
Dropbox is not a social network, but they still have a (softer) network effect.

For all of my personal syncing I use BitTorrent Sync. However, because a few friends want to share files with me, I'm still a Dropbox customer.
I'm not seeing that at all, I run a few subs over 10K users and I'm not seeing much spam at all.
ISPs are doing consumer IPv6 first because consumer has no SLAs.

The process definitely isn't linear; it generally consists of badgering the CMTS vendor until they release working firmware (which takes 2-5 years) and then deploying that firmware to millions of customers en masse. Since each ISP uses a small number of CMTS models, we should expect to see large jumps with plateaus in between.

Also, I think these graphs are measuring not just customers who have IPv6 available but how many are actually using IPv6. There are millions of customers who have IPv6 but their router or OS doesn't support it; this will probably phase out over 5-10 years.
Individuals. Some are using it for business purposes, some for personal use. Most of the personal users have filled their quota with sharing as 'ghshephard' mentioned.
A debt that can never be repaid, so we'll just print an ever increasing amount of cash and sell gold to make sure no-one realises the dollar is worthless?

Obviously, I'm being a little bit facetious...
Startup Develops SmartPhone Sized Portable X-ray Machines