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No Bitcoin exchange was running on May 8, 2009. But there is this one famous trade of the guy who bought 5000 bitcoins with $26.06 in "2009" and then bought an apartment in 2013 [1]. This puts the value of one bitcoin at $0.0053. With $1000 you could have bought 189,000, which would be worth $113 million today at $600 per bitcoin.

But there is no doubt that buying that many bitcoins at that time would have been difficult. The few sellers you would have been able to find would have probably raised their price when seeing your interest.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/29/bitcoin-fo...
>> Its impossible to make a capacitive stylus that isn't like drawing with a giant, cumbersome crayon.

Which is why I think Apple needs to offer a version of the iPad with a Wacom-style digitizer.

Steve Jobs' famous quote "If you see a stylus they blew it" might apply for UI navigation, but it doesn't apply for a lot of other use cases, including the ones that Pencil is trying to address.
"I wonder if I was a CBP officer how would I behave if I didn't want to be the officer who allowed a terrorist into the US who manages to succeed with some plot."

Well, how about having solid reasons for detaining someone, something better than "Who takes a coat to the U.S. in the summer?" And speaking about attitude, be polite at least until you have enough incriminating evidence! Just to offer an example from the article itself - shouting at the drug-smuggler was OK in my book, whereas "what the hell were you doing in Yemen" was not.
I haven't personally used SmartOS, but from my experience with Solaris 11, package management and availability wasn't great. Many common packages weren't available, some were only available through a semi-maintained community repository (OpenCSW), and other things were difficult to build due to non-GNU Solaris components (even when GCC and GNU tools were installed).

PS: I don't mean any disrespect towards OpenCSW, the packages that were there saved me a ton of trouble earlier this year. Packaging is tough.
When you want something.

A deflationary currency isn't much different from owning stock. Imagine you own $1000 in stock and want a TV. Would you ever sell to buy? Of course.
Ripple contains a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency called XRP that only takes a few seconds to confirm transactions and does not require mining:

https://ripple.com/

https://ripple.com/wiki/Introduction_to_Ripple_for_Bitcoiner...

It also allows accounting in any units.
Small things like clicking a tab again to go back to the previous tab are excellent settings in the older versions.
I came to Brazil with $87 in the bank and no jobs lined up
The way we are changing University and the first Hackathon at UCL
It'll pass. It's just a marketing trend.
DuckDuckGo also has the !so shortcut.
Bitcoin promises to be cheaper, and to not require blessing of payer or payee.
Up to now, I've never considered personaly buying a development environment. Now I can say the idea is kind of disgusting - imagining my development tools evolve into silos, like happened with social interaction and portable apps.

I guess I know exactly how much I'd pay.
No, it sounds like a species of killer apes. Which is what we are; Raymond Dart was right.

If you're serious about "ethical problems" letting our species of killer apes off of our home planet, how exactly do you propose to stop it? (Remember: Once you try it, you've just made these killer apes very mad at you.) Seems tricky, once the economics line up for space, unless you're talking mass genocide or mandatory doses of soma.

Transcending the millions of years of evolution that turned us into killer apes is the task of civilization and culture. But the megadeaths of the last century caused by wars between democratic governments actually dwarfed the prior century's wars between non-democratic governments. Maybe, to go back to the upthread discussion, there are better alternatives that don't involve the straw man of "isolat[ing] from each other as thoroughly as we can."
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it's very hard to find someone who does not understand Ukrainian and Russian at the same time

Hard to find in Ukraine, since most people (both Russian and Ukrainian native speakers) have been constantly exposed to both, very easy to find in Russia :)
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"With the component cost and the retail price so close, it’s possible, Rassweiler said, that Sony is taking a very small gross margin or even a possible loss on the console in hopes of making it back on games. “If your cost is within $10 to $20 of the retail prices, there’s very little chance you’re making a profit on the console,” he said."

I feel like this understates it. Of course they're making their money on the games. These discs (or even better, digital DLs) cost close to nothing to spit out, yet sell for $60 each. Of course, Sony doesn't make get all of that profit, but come on, Sony isn't stupid -- it's obviously trying to produce a high-end, expensive console with plans on making money on the games.
Ripple moves IOUs based on trust, not hard gold-like asset.
I was on the Google Talk team at the time when we introduced this feature and I can confirm we had no knowledge of other products called 'Off The Record'.
This looks really great. I take tons of screenshots, always forget to delete the file on my desktop after I'm done doing whatever I need to do with it (email it, tweet it, whatever), and then spend too much time cleaning everything up once I've amassed too many. Now I can do what I need to do with it, keep it or delete it, and not have to worry about my desktop filling up.
A cheap solution for palm rejection is to just pick up some cotton gloves from the local dollar store.
The US Mint and the Federal Reserve aren't the only institutions -- there are many other similar institutions duplicated across every sovereign power. Also factor in all the national/international banks, too.
I disagree. I have a hardware keyboard (and type pretty quickly on it), and I still don't do very much work on my phone. The difference between a physical and touch screen keyboard on a phone is significantly smaller than the leap from a phone keyboard (even a physical one) to a computer keyboard. Even if I could type half as quickly on my phone as my computer, I still wouldn't use it for any serious writing/editing.
Don't forget why these documents are being declassified. We have the EFF to thank.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/victory-government-rel...
Beyond tab management (which was exceptional), the side panel was and is my favorite UI widget hands-down. In the same vein as hot-corners, being able to 'toss' the pointer into the edge of the screen to open mail, notes, etc. felt just plain better than other methods.
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The fluctuations are a result of it's size. Currently the monetary base hasn't expanded enough to even cover the market cap of a single company the size of Tesla.

At scale, things gain stability. If a newborn loses a pound, that's 10% of their weight. If I do, it is .5% of mine.
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Refer to the quote that you posted earlier.
´These discs cost close to nothing to spit out, yet sell for $60 each.´

What's that supposed to mean?
These discs have contents that took years to develop.
You don't need to run a power station if you don't want to. Like people are not forced to make lolcat videos for everyone's amusement. They do so voluntarily. What's the problem?
I'm from the UK and personally I think we are the last people who should be winging about immigration, given how much of the map we painted red.
Perhaps it was posted during wrong time of the day or was crowd power pointed to front page.

It is also possible that people here on HN do not have enough intuition about ideas, which could possibly change the world just like bitcoin is doing it right now. It's fun to read retrospective posts here on HN, but apparently innovation starts elsewhere..
Theoretically the total cost of the energy expended on mining will be equal to the value of the mining rewards and fees received by the miners, minus the cost of the hardware amortized over time and a small profit.

Additionally, mining operations will gravitate to areas of the world with excess electricity, since it will be cheaper to mine and thus more profitable.

So the "cost" of running Bitcoin will rise with price, but fall as the block rewards continue to halve every 4 years (unless transaction fees make up the difference). The users essentially pay for it through inflation and transaction fees. It's really quite elegant.
The border interrogations and searches are not providing any substantive security benefit. It is amazing to me that we permit this to continue.

The terrorism myth used to justify hostile wars for resources and territorial control has also been very useful in removing the ordinary rights of citizens at the borders. We should not be surprised if this is extended to the interior of the countries.
Can you elaborate a little please?
I think he's just commenting on the marginal cost of selling an additional unit after production.
A 51% attack only gives you the ability to double-spend coins you already control. It doesn't give you the ability to crack the private keys of others. So there is no straightforward economic incentive for a 51% attack unless you own a huge amount of Bitcoin, and thus would be hurting yourself.
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> In other words, this selective declassification is not about being transparent and open. It's propaganda designed to take some of the flak off the administration.

That was pretty much the public explanation given when the order for declassification was issued (it was framed as an effort to reassure the public about the programs in the wake of the leaks), so that shouldn't be too surprising.
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We should discuss whether the situation changes over time. As gasoline cars age, their likelihood of catching fire increases. As electric cars age, does their chance also increase?

The flammable elements of a gas-powered car also have wear and tear issues, and poor service risks. A do-it-yourself mechanic replacing a fuel filter is a worry, for example.

Or, an old engine with a compromised head gasket, coated in leaked oil and then overheating.

No time to do the analysis myself, but I am guessing that the failure modes of a gas car that cause fire are many and the failure modes of a Tesla are few. Moreover, the likelihood of a particular failure mode in a Tesla may not increase at the same rate as gas as the cars age.
If you're 23, PLEASE go with the startup route. Even if it fails, you're so early in life you'll never regret it. Going the other way, it's easy to become trapped by the financial requirements that (usually) come with age (kids, family, stability) etc.
You could argue that deflation is the cure to consumerism, and the start of environmentalism.

HDTV's have had strong deflation for years, but I still have one.
Complete aside: The slow fade from fluorescent green to black and back on the "Read This Next" headline at the bottom of the page triggered some kind of disturbance/disruption between my eyes and my brain.

I thought maybe a blood vessel had burst inside my head and my vision was about to go.
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I'm sure people have thought about this before, but is there no way for bitcoin mining to be performing useful computational work? Some algorithm that is CPU-intensive and verifiable, but also beneficial to humanity?
In their blog they mentioned that their will be a Linux version, but I don't think it's a priority for them
They did presumably bet by not buying. At the time, even just a small purchase of Bitcoin then would be worth a million dollars today.
I'd say randomly guessing that 1/3 of processors are useless is pretty out there. I'm sure Sony has smarter process than that.
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If those videos were available to be purchased from his site, or if you could subscribe to his site to get premium video content, do you think that you would do that?
So basically you're saying is Stack Exchange development team does what ever the fuck they want to do? 10 developers can have the project setup 10 different ways? :S Nothing worse than going sitting with a developer to find out their setup is fucked.

This bug is more of an issue for OSS than a company. IMO.
Indeed, however the time and money isn't at the cost to Sony. Sony takes a cut of revenue from game sales.
It really all boils down to what problem you're trying to solve, what kind of analysis you're trying to do, and what the performance requirements are. For basic stats, R and Python will be comparable in terms of library availability and functionality. If you start getting into more specialized and/or esoteric statistics, you will find more R packages (libraries) than you will Python libraries.
The primary value of the mining output is heat.
Still pretty good, considering most consoles are sold for heavy losses in their first few years.
That seems rather natural.

It wouldn't even be surprising if they sold the consoles at a loss, considering there is a lot of money in owning as much as the market share as possible, due to game sales but most of all the ever growing "online store" phenomenon.

The fact that the PS4 costs a good chunk less than the XBox One and is perceived as being the more powerful console will serve Sony well, I predict.
Thanks so much for the reply. I will take a look!
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that Sony licenses the discs to the publishers, so in fact to Sony the discs do cost next to nothing (in which case you'd want to include the price of developing/manufacturing the console to make the discs not "cost nothing," not the cost of developing the games, which is on the publisher).
XRP is trustless, like Bitcoin.
You seem to be assuming that while USD has human protections, the only thing protecting BTC is the chain. But if someone were to actually destroy 10 trillion USD, there would be social consequences as well; it's not like people would just accept it quietly.

More importantly, what gains would the attacker get to compensate an expenditure of such big amounts of money?
Startup life is less appealing when you can make near 6 figures as a software engineer even just after graduating.
I'm not sure their BC investment will ever be worth that much. Time will tell though.
No. Not at the product; at the effusive, over the top, false in places - absurd in others, marketing copy.

I care.
Responding to pjmlp, a cool project I saw recently that's related to the ones you mentioned is Unikernels [1]. They noticed that a challenge faced by a lot of those projects is hardware support--each OS has to ship with a huge set of drivers to be widely usable. They sidestep this by targeting a VM, which exposes a single hardware interface no matter what it's running on.

[1]: http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2013-asplos-mirage.pdf
This is the first major console launch in many years where the console itself is being sold at a profit - previous launches have sold the hardware at a loss, and clawed back the profits on software. I believe this is true of the PS1, PS2, PS3, 360 and original xbox.

The headline could be 'PS4 not being sold at a loss!' instead of 'PS4 is only just scraping a profit'.
You're very welcome. I appreciate the kind words.
Fluctuation is somehow "upwards". That's not a fluctuation, that's normal exponential growth of something with network properties. If people discover a pile of gold and start grabbing it and selling, its price would also increase exponentially until everyone has a piece of that gold. Than we can talk about stability.
Ahh, someone on HN who understands stores of exchange-value. Refreshing.

Just one of the many, many ways bitcoin is better than gold as a store of exchange-value: embedded security. No armored trucks, no vaults.

And look at China. BTC's recent rise is partially attributable to the fact it's a so-far-legal method of moving ¥ out of the country. And their government looks to be in support. The reason it's illegal to exchange yuan for foreign currency is so it doesn't leave the system and lose value. With BTC, the yuan is received by the buyer as something of value, instead of something to be "disposed of," thereby not diluting its value.

Ie. BTC can move currencies without making them lose exchange-value. That's not a small deal.
Oh my glob an AdventureTime reference on HN..
This is very similar in ambition to https://empeopled.com which is also community-based content sharing and voting platform. The main differences seem to be 1) your vote weight on empeopled is determined by your previous contributions in a given community (independently) and 2) the same voting system is used to determine the community's rules and elect its leaders

full disclosure: I am one of the co-founders :)
To me, latency is by far the most important issue here, and I don't see any mention of it on the page. Compared to my Wacom tablet, touch input is just too laggy to use in anything but the most basic drawing and note-taking tasks; is Bluetooth better or worse? (Judging by my existing BT devices, I'm gonna have to guess "worse".)
The Apple Remote is solid similar to the Samsung but with out all the keys.

Roku's first remote was very similar but had the same problem - no back button. If you're going to do interactive apps on your TV you need a back button and an exit or "home" button - they're two different things. The Apple remote assumes very limited input almost zero text input so no numbers or extraneous keys like the color keys.

My favorite remote close to the apple one was the Boxee 1 remote (it too needs an explicit back button). But the slim, pared down front side design with the full keyboard on the back was very slick and usable.

http://old-blog.boxee.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Boxee-Bo...
In the hope that this will inspire other universities to organise hackahtons
Huh, thanks for letting me know. Seems to be automatic in Svbtle, I'll try changing the color I choose and maybe that'll help prevent that effect.
But it'd be difficult to keep such an attack secret, and the value of bitcoin would zero pretty much immediately.

So the only way to make money on this attack would be to short a very significant amount of bitcoin. I don't know it that would be illegal - does it count as insider trading if you cause the value change?

So the mining costs do not have to cover the entire value of all bitcoins. They only have to be large enough to discourage political attacks, and large enough that a bet to short twice the mining costs worth of bitcoins would be noticeable.

Still, it's an interesting point that I haven't seen raised before.

EDIT: woops, other siblings of this posts are right. The protocol validates all chains before accepting the longest one as true, so you can't print or steal bitcoins even with 51%
TFS is beyond terrible.
I like the whole idea of well-crafted products, but in the end this is nothing but a crappy, laggy, low fidelity finger-simulator/crayon. Writing any text with it is probably clumsy, and certainly impossible to do as well as with any other pencil on paper.

Pass. Apple needs to get out something with a proper active digitizer so that all these satellite companies start making nice pens that also work well.
Probably that was the reason why Apple did not have the courage to do so, but it is obvious that it creates additional value for some people. Especially designers and illustrators, I think.
That was my first-cut search and so it's certainly not the worst example, but in software if I put buttons like "T.Link" and "DMA" and 4 unlabeled colored buttons right on the main home-screen of a consumer-oriented UI I'd be laughed out of the room.

Buttons like that are an artifact of the days when TVs didn't have on-screen UIs. The remote should not be designed for the 1% of users that fiddle with such things.

Do heatmaps and find out which buttons are actually used frequently give those big clear buttons with unabbreviated labels, and move everything else into the menus.

And the menus themselves - you have a whole screenful of space, you can actually describe to the user what each option does in helpful detail.
I was looking at some information about my grandparents (fairly wealthy second generation South African Muslims of Indian descent) and I expected to see a bunch of socially backward, repressed people. To my surprise, they were involved in poetry appreciation societies, sporting clubs and valued education highly. They wore western suits and hats and played cards. They were somewhat religious, but religion seemed to be more a pursuit for women. Many of that generation were involved in the anti-apartheid movement.

Interestingly, since the rise of the Tablighi Jamaat in the 1970s the general mood of wealthy South African Indian Muslims has become a lot more conservative. Beards and headscarves everywhere (it isn't unusual to see women with full face veils in the swankiest Johannesburg and Durban shopping malls), and even among the less religious, the mood is generally more conservative. Political participation seems to be in decline, except for Muslim-centric issues like Palestine. Since the end of apartheid, insularity has, in many ways increased. Recent Turkish immigrants provide some liberal religious influence, but they are outnumbered by conservative Paskitani immigrants. But even without these immigrants, the trend was becoming conservative.

In all, there seems to have been a worldwide shift to conservatism and insularity amongst Muslims in the past few decades. Not just in backwaters like Afghanistan. Saudi money cannot be the only explanation.
I recommend taking a look at Whoosh -- I worked with it extensively a few years back, adding a keyvalue backend for it.

It seems to be designed for indexing manpages. That is, a medium-sized semi-static database with a few different dimensions per document.
Then the meta-bets, will said start-up fail? If you bet "yes" and you're right, there won't be anyone around to facilitate the payout ;)
It's not randomly guessing, it's comparing to defect rates in other 28nm processes. An example: if you have 30 chips per wafer and 3 defects per wafer, you get 90% good chips. But if you have only 10 big chips per wafer with the same defect rate, now you get only 66% good chips.
But those attributes can be replicated by another crypto-currency right? So the distinct edge of both bitcoins and tulips are the maddened crowds. They have that in common.
It sounds like your experiences are seeing people who don't really know the tool and / or the framework. To someone who knows both, intellisense (especially adding in resharper) can be a huge productivity increase.

Snippets are pretty much available in every language, and they are a good start. The key thing about the tools VS (and resharper) add is that they understand the code, to a certain extent. So you're not merely doing text based processing of the code, but semantic processing at some level. Every year it gets better and better. As you come to understand what it is doing within that context, you can really use it to fly while coding, especially while doing things like refactoring.
I wonder how much they pumped into your advertising for this. I can't go anywhere without hearing or seeing something relating to the PS4.

Weirdly, absolutely nothing from the Xbox One
"Such thin gross margins on a consumer electronics product are rare"

For games consoles, it's extremely common for them to be sold at a loss. (Nintendo used to be the exception)
Yes but that's pcwalton's point. The OP complained that Rust is slow, in part, because of that feature and pcwalton pointed out that A. most languages do it now and B. that it has no runtime cost because it's just sugar syntax.