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Oh, I absolutely know go is a complex game, I was talking about the "surface simplicity". It does appeal to me, but at the same time it strikes me as being too bare bones to really be enjoyable -- for me.

Maybe it's just that I think board games should be played on a proper board, with tactile feel of the pieces -- and I don't know anyone that play go (or shogi, for that matter) where I live. Also the main reason I don't play chess -- I can't really say I enjoy any of these games as computer games/internet games.

When a computer is involved, I fell I might as well play something with complex rules that leverages the computer, like Planetside ;-)
Shh ... We are supposed to believe no one goes to the theatre any more because that's the lamestream media or something ... Right, that's the correct echo chamber view?
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Yeh, but is Dropbox really worth $8 billion?? It's a web-site plus some hard drives!
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Two really interesting things to me are (1) that it's now possible to have hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets and not have them seized when arrested; and (2) there's a lot of speculation that bitcoin was created by a government entity and that that's who Satoshi is - what are the implications of that entity funding DPR?
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FYI, on Windows 7 with Kaspersky Pure 3.0, using Chrome, it generates no warning.
It's a little difficult to say for sure, there's not enough information in the article to judge (e.g. No info on lease length) Since it is in effect a structured loan, any advantage is better expressed in terms of interest rate improvements over a non-Uber lease.
These were preschool kids right? Confused and angry ... Is that uncommon for preschool aged kids? What other kinds of things can we learn about the world based on these data points ... ? I feel like there is a Malcolm Gladwell book here ...
I don't understand why you are being downvoted for your data-point. I've not seen 3.x used anywhere in anger either. But I've seen plenty of people embarking on new 2.7 projects. That's just my data-point too.
As this article admits, it is just a rewrite of "Triumph of the Nerds".
Well then likewise, your idea of encapsulation is too limited.

> If one class is free to use the internals of another then it is not a sound abstraction by definition.

So abstraction is not sound without encapsulation.
don't outsource for the sake of a few months, if things take time, then they take time.
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Bitcoin doesn't threaten taxes at all. It would be like suggesting that taxes didn't work in the age of cash transactions (eg for the first 200 years of US history).

Primarily it threatens fiat-based Keynesian economics by making it impossible to inflate away savings / wealth / standard of living as a means of government deficit financing. To the extent a government is dependent on devaluing their currency to remain afloat or otherwise pretend to be better off than they are (eg paying for entitlements with inflation), is the extent to which bitcoin would be a threat with wide-scale adoption.
> When there was an architecture change for the PowerPC, many installations only required a regeneration of the installed software.

Unfortunately it wasn't quite that clean in practice. Regen required TIMI to have access to the compilation templates for each program. These were intermediate compilation stages ( bytecode, I suppose ) that it could then translate to the new machine architecture.

However, these templates were often missing, deleted or out-of-sync. So we did an awful lot of recompiling from source, when we could find it...
Don't set too much store in the MtGox price - it's not real money, because all their bank accounts are frozen. The value is high because it represents the substantial risk that nobody will get any of that money.
Good question. I never buy DRM unless there's a powerful reason (and "I really want it" doesn't qualify).
Can somebody explain to me how the FBI could seize his bitcoins without knowing his password? My passwords for such things are long, written nowhere, and I enter them on oddball platforms and applications (e.g. not Windows). Is that not enough?
Work needed. Specifically: overlapped images are a mistake, and the typography is not well done. Recommend checking out medium.com for optimal type handling, and Gingko which has gone further towards a sane UI.

https://gingkoapp.com/hyperloop

Gingko discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302825

IMO, novel interfaces like these have a fundamental problem - they're better for creating or combining content than actually consuming it.
Let's say you want to store some data. Mostly in your final application you'll be writing to a database, but you'd like to keep the option of writing to different types of storage (files on disk, amazon S3, memory for testing).

Polymorphism lets your database storage object present the same interface as your file storage object. Pretty useful if you want to be able to substitute them!

Encapsulation lets you make sure at compile-time that you haven't accessed anything specific to a particular implementation. If someone else maintains that part of the system, it also lets them mark interface parts that won't change between versions and some implementation parts that may change between versions.

Implicit state mutation lets you open the file (or create the file or establish the database connection pool) on the first attempt to access, letting multiple implementations present the same interface even when different things are going on in the background.

Inheritance is useful if you have multiple objects - maybe you have one for reading inputs, one for storing work-in-progress, one for writing outputs - and you want to reduce code duplication by sharing implementation details. (IMHO this is one of the less useful ones)

TLDR: Use it to unit test your database access.
Ok, the submission link was originally not a direct link to the PDF. A moderator changed the link, so my comment is now useless, and hence should be deleted. But mysteriously I've lost the ability to edit or delete it, even though it was posted just 16 minutes ago. New HN feature? Maybe the edit time is now reduced from 2 hours to 10 minutes? Not sure.
Good luck getting a contract that bars the other person from showing your content when you don't have the copyright.

It's true there's nothing about "copyright", the legal concept, that implies that there should be no legal way to watch The Walking Dead in Europe... but it's also true that setting up that sort of circumstance is the point of copyright law. Copyright law is what enables the contract clauses you're talking about.
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Lawyers can be a pain at times, but sometimes they set up punchlines perfectly:

"We've heard a good bit in this courtroom about public key encryption," said Albright. "Are you familiar with that?

"Yes, I am," said Diffie, in what surely qualified as the biggest understatement of the trial.

"And how is it that you're familiar with public key encryption?"

"I invented it."
"I write ASP.NET MVC so I don't use state for the most part."

Nor unit tests I assume
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Rather than rescuing your data, start publishing to your own platform and syndicating content out to whichever silos become popular.

This is the idea behind 'Indie Web' [1] and even though it is harder at first it is the simplest long-term solution. Domain names are cheap, hosting is cheap, and publishing isn't very difficult.

[http://indiewebcamp.com/why]
It's suspected that computer forensics managed to recover the private key of an unencrypted wallet from his disk. The sequence of events would be: He previously used an unencrypted wallet. Then he encrypted it and deleted his old wallet.dat. Then he forgot to zero out his "deleted files" area of his filesystem, so the old wallet.dat was recoverable via forensics.
Possible he didn't have have a password on his wallet, just his laptop, which was unlocked when they arrested him.
Since the issue states that all reports seem to be from OS X 10.8.X on, I do wonder if it is related to changes that were introduced around 10.8[1][2]. Could FileVault or default Gatekeeper permissions also be involved?

I don't know much about LevelDB or the Bitcoin client, but I am currently taking a closer look at OS X first.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/General...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/macosx/...
At least for me, it's more than anything a lot of fun.

Honestly I don't care if it improves quatitative aspects of my thinking. There are other ways to do that.

But there are a couple of lessons that it keeps reminding me: to be very careful in the order I do things and to keep the ego out when analyzing a situation. Of course, YMMV.
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Nope, it's entirely correct. During the consensus process, each server only listens to servers that its operator has marked as trusted - there is no way for servers outside the trusted clique to affect in the consensus within the clique. This has a few consequences:

- Currently, there's a small clique of servers run by OpenCoin Inc and their partner businesses which only trust each other and which everyone uses. The ledger closure process and transaction acceptance are effectively centrally controlled by that group; if your server closes the ledger itself rather than waiting for the official ledger from on high, it will be permanently stuck on its own fork of the network.

- Because of the way the ledger closure process works, if you set up your server wrong and end up in a part of the trust network that's poorly connected to the official servers you will end up permanently stuck on your own fork of the transaction history. (In practice, since you can't disagree with the official OpenCoin servers and you can't influence their consensus, you should just set your trust list to the OpenCoin-approved list exactly and forget about peer-to-peer stuff.)

- There's a mandatory transaction fee in a virtual currency, XRP, and unlike in Bitcoin the XRP used in that transaction fee is destroyed. The fee is set as part of the ledger consensus process, which is controlled by OpenCoin Inc. They also control the supply of XRP. In effect, there's a central organisation with the power to charge arbitrarily large fees for the use of Ripple.
It's not worse, but prior to the late 90's you didn't see this sprawling degenerative wasteland for what it really was.

The oddities were still out there, as a subculture, but no one was actively shoveling them to the forefront of television in hopes of a slight ratings bump at the sheer spectacle of yet another train wreck.

TV didn't have to try hard back when the only competition was movie theaters. In the 80's, before cable became a fashionable norm, some television stations could still rationalize "going off the air" between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.
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I think we've already seen something like this in practice. One missing piece: let's make money by betting that these drivers won't be able to pay the loans.
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If there's a 10% commission to earn spam would be the least of their problems. No one would buy anything expensive any longer without making sure their spouse or a friend recommends it to them.
It doesn't have any porn, or music... Guess Google Didn't like advertising a competitor?
You can use sed's external command mechanism to do that. This replaces lines of the form "include foo.txt" with the contents of foo.txt.

sed 's/^include \(.*\)/cat "\1"/e'
Nowadays, `tar -xf foo.tar.gz` (at least in Linux) will auto-detect the gzipping and just do the right thing. I think it uses file extension, so I'd suspect it works for .bz2 and .xz too. (Not sure I'd use this for shell scripts, but for everyday command line it should work.)
Hi Ryan, it's Mark. I worked with Jorge in creating Freimarkets [1]. I was also on the Ripple mailing list back in the pre-OpenCoin days.

[1] http://freico.in/docs/freimarkets.pdf

> To me, the main thing XRP adds to the concept is a way of bootstrapping the network by providing a way to bridge the gap between islands of nodes with no trust pathway for monetary value to flow between them

XRP adds nothing new to the bridging problem. Any other common currency could have been used, such as USD-backed assets or bitcoin. XRP was Jeb McCaleb's stab at Bitcoin 2.0, and the bridging issue simply a post-facto rationalization. In a world where there is already existing decentralized currencies, or multiple legacy options for a common currency, there is no need for yet another centrally issued scarce-money... except that OpenCoin stands to materially benefit from forcing XRP down our throats.

> XRP also provides anti-DDOS...

It does so by economically limiting its own usefulness. Accounts and assets cost real money to create and maintain - more so than the fees involved with bitcoin. That brings us back to the traditional banking model of institutional asset issuers and heavyweight accounts, and rules out a number of protocols involving ephemeral asset issuance or privacy-enhancing one-time-use accounts.

I don't consider the problem solved if the "solution" involves restrictions that unnecessarily limit the capability of the system.

> as well as a brilliant way to finance the creation, development, and maintenance of the network.

On this I could not disagree more. XRP is an unnatural, ill-fit hack on top of Ripple which provides no tangible benefit that could not be achieved by other less restrictive, and less obviously self-serving means. It therefore ads risk to anyone investing time or resources into using Ripple, as it may be surpassed by a superior fork which removes XRP.

Financing the creation of a new, distributed, peer-to-peer network is not easy, I know - it's been hard trying to get funds for Freimarkets. But the OpenCoin / Mastercoin / Bitshares model is not the way to do it, in my opinion. Rather the bitcoin model is: distributed issuance and make your money from the economy that develops, not an underhanded wealth transfer written into the protocol.
They probably have his wallet file, but it's encrypted and he hasn't given them the password.

So in theory it's "seized" ... if they can brute force / guess the password.

But in practice, with access to a computer, DPR could probably transfer the contents from the address to a new wallet.
> Sure, reddit has a community aspect, but it's really just a side dish compared to the content (links).

Maybe if you stick to the default subreddits that are composed entirely of memes.

The main reason that I use Reddit is for the discussion; I highly, highly doubt that you're going to find /r/askscience-calibre conversations on Facebook.
The assumption is that the first blocks were all mined by Satoshi, however Hal Finney was also running the client early on.

Bottom line, it's clear why the Bitcoin creators chose to be anonymous.
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>> I wonder when TV networks will move into the 21st century. The next network delivers cheap, on demand HD content worldwide will make a ton of money :)

It's called bittorrent. Enjoy! :-)
I strongly recommend Mato: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMxK1FKAbmj2N-faTWLwNig
probably because it30.com is a squatter, and it's difficult to distinguish between the two - terrible domain-name choice there.
The begged question that mainstream music quality has declined is one of the more curious things I have read in quite some time, to say nothing of the implication that the same will happen with, say, dramatic content.

You may not like, say, Miley Cyrus (I don't), but artists and groups like Daft Punk and Radiohead are quite mainstream, quite successful, and quite good as well. The broadening of what is "mainstream" has added a lot of choice for pretty much everyone and a lot of it is quite good.
Didn't the article specifically state that the FBI transferred coins from his wallet to their own?
Reading this, I'm happy I never fell for the apple or google phone trends. These devices are intrusive snitches into your life constantly watching you, where you go and what you do and reporting to notoriously dubious giant corporations behind them with privacy and basic human rights respect issues.

How long before those "personal assistant" start influencing and controlling our decisions then our lives ?
The stasi or the eye of moscow would have love theses devices and probably made them mandatory.

http://i.imgur.com/CoKDEVh.png

I would never trade these informations about me for some extra convenience.
There were also many great threads on HN about UNIX commands:

Unix Commands I Wish I'd Discovered Years Earlier [1]
Useful Unix commands for data science [2]
Favorite Unix Commands [3]
Top Unix Command Line Utilities [4]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360320

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046682

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022457

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985393
I can't imagine DPR would be that stupid.
Does no one think that with that much money in his wallet, he wouldn't have simply memorized the private key in addition to storing it somewhere? The keys aren't really that long or hard to memorize and I would certainly remember mine if I had any significant amount of money tied to it.
Or maybe the values are inflated because we're in the middle of a currency war with all the central banks in the world trying to devalue their currency harder than the competition?
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How is this different from a loan to start any business?
Oh, you made me remember again. I forgot that little detail of formatting. In those days formatting was a common practice, right now unless you want to do a wipeout clean install or prepare a new USB for other file system you don't need to format :).
• He posted a question on StackOverflow with his real name and the silk road address.

• His first post on Bitcointalk was him introducing the silk road and then again about a job opportunity with his real email address.

• He ordered fake IDs on his own market to his house with his DPR identity and his real face.

You can't get any stupider.
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They're funding a lot of stuff relative to their perceived size, but they're not funding a lot of stuff relative to the gamut of content that exists. In particular, pilots are something that intuitively I feel like Netflix is going to have trouble speculating on at their size, whereas the networks and cable providers generally green-light a number of pilots per year. Netflix will need to hit on their productions (and have so far, to be sure, but they're betting on the surest of things) and I have a feeling that in the short- and medium-term that's going to result in what they've fielded so far: well-produced but not particularly innovative content with mostly established actors. That's not bad, to be sure, but it's...kind of boring.
Goddamnit, why do the nasty predictions for the future have to arrive early while the nice ones are always late?
Just explain that you can't concentrate on what they're saying with all of that noise, and you can see things out of the corner of your eye that distract you.

I don't have the TV on much at all to be honest. I don't understand the people that have it on all of the time, from waking to sleeping. Some people put it on as "background noise" but that doesn't make sense to me - you might as well tune a radio into FM between the stations for background noise or buy a white/pink noise generator and put that on!
> A good first step would be to go after the psychopaths who run campaigns like these. A good second step would be to abolish the cultural norms that allow sexuality and nudity to be used as a weapon.

Absolutely. The people who fire someone over simply having some photo online, carry part of the blame here.

But the harassers themselves should all be in prison, and pay their victims for lost income and emotional damage. They are the true evil here, and should be treated as such.
How do you promote an outsourcing web development company? E
We do web development outsourcing from Romania. We rarely work with end-user businesses, instead we tried to align our service with companies from western countries that do web development and pass the projects down to us.

We would like to expand our outsourcing efforts and grab more end-user clients. What are the best way to promote our service?

Where the service isn't a web application or some kind or product (no user signups, etc.) like many blogs write about where you could do email marketing, inbound marketing or even raising VC money...
Microsoft has addressed it since WinForms 1.0, except that it's unfortunately not automatic. You need to include a simple application manifest that enables the dpiAware flag, as described here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd464660%28v=VS.85%2...

That article stops short of Windows 8.1 which provides new multi-monitor options. Here's the latest manifest overview:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2013/09/10/manifest-m...
He would need to be mining to get those.
Windows has offered 200% scaling since Windows 7, and made the option more obvious with a new radio button in Windows 8.1.
I suppose this highlights the problem with a third-party owned and run system - you don't own your data! You are at the mercy of the third party for data that you put there and believe are owed.
> Almost nobody in my age range, or younger (late 20s), has cable.

Are you sure that's not just selection bias? I'm 25 and almost everybody I know around my age does have cable. Some are sports fans (and you miss out on much of MLB, the NBA, and the NHL by cutting cable--the streaming prices for each are extortionate and there are cable-area blackouts for local games), some just really can't be bothered to put up with the delays to get to Netflix or other streaming solutions (for many there is a strong social component to being able to see, and discuss, television programs simultaneously with your peers).
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Thanks gbog. To what extent is Baidu just small teams? I would have thought there should be at least a central core team for search?

That link using the HN link shortener:

http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/What-will-Baidu-and-Bitcoin-acc...
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