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> as a result I noticed that a lot of people seem to think that bitcoin is undergoing massive inflation

Really? Bitcoin was designed to be a deflationary currency from the get-go. This is very, very common knowledge. How did this get voted up on HN?
Or as British like to call it, "Titaninium".
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It's not contrary cause of this "So pick a percentage number, preferably one that's above COLA, and just give everybody that. If that's not enough, your base salary isn't enough."

Which, to me, implies they have different base salaries for different positions. So when your "career progresses" you get a different (predetermined) base salary. Orthogonal to raises.
> anonymous and private transactions

Something doesn't have to be private to be anonymous. So if you're happy with anonymous and public it's possible, but hard.
But I'll bet that when it comes time to discuss IP rights, the company (as an entity) will have no hesitation speaking as if they have some sort of moral high-ground (e.g. people that 'steal' images are evil... except when we do it, then it's an accident and should be forgiven).
And while we're at it, let's stop letting them wave the "but the terrorists" flag every time they justify a program for which the goal is a lot more than terrorism (assuming many programs are about terrorism at all. Personally, I suspect most programs have nothing to do with terrorism, but that there is no better way to push through support than to argue "but the terrorists").
Bitcoin is most similar to gold, so it's not surprising. Gold based economies also underwent severe deflation [1]. This is definitely a good thing for bitcoin as a store of currency (that is what it was designed for anyway), but it would be a bad thing to have an economy actually based on bitcoin as everyone would just hang onto their bitcoins as long as possible without utilizing them for growth as there would be little point.

Bitcoin is still a dubious store of currency as it could completely crash (or skyrocket) in the next few months with no prior warning. If bitcoin does survive, it will eventually settle as some kind of new age gold, but for now it's more of a slot machine. Whether bitcoin survives or not depends on how hard governments try to force regulation on it in the short term, I'd think. Long term doesn't matter because if it survives it will be entrenched and regulation will be far harder to implement if businesses are using it en-mass.

If you're up for gambling, I'd say bitcoin has much better odds than slot machines, so roll the dice.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard#Depression_and_Wo...
Browser trust anchors aren't a fundamental property of HTTPS/TLS? That's like saying "TLS is insecure if you don't distribute any root certificates with your browser".
Is there any movement on TACK recently? It seemed promising when it was proposed, for the reasons you mention, but I haven't seen any real movement towards implementing it by any of the major browser vendors. The IETF proposed draft also seems to have stalled: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-perrin-tls-tack/. Do people have objections to it, or is it simply inertia keeping movement slow?
Transactions on the Ripple ledger are much faster, with a new ledger (analogous to a block) every few seconds. The speed-up is because there's no mining (proof of work).
> We can and should leave the protocol alone.

Nobody, not in the article and not in the post you replied to, sad that the protocol needs to be replaced. In fact, both say the exact opposite.

I like your posts, and you clearly know what you are talking about, but this time it seems you don't discuss the article, but just hop in the discussion with random and not correlated, but true facts.
--Gmail, Android, Chrome, Picasa, Google Drive, Docs, Translate, Maps, Scholar, Books, Earth, AppEngine, Research, Hangouts. Too many Chinese rely on these financially, and in their jobs--
google docs, google drive, google videos are already blocked in China, google images is almost useless, as it blocks in the second search, then you have to restart the browser to search another keyword for images ( count until 10 before restart the browser ) and even google search is almost useless in most of China, as it takes too long to return the results (except for the big cities, where it works ok) , same for Gmail, it takes 5 minutes to open, and often never opens, the progress bar just stops in the middle.Again, this is not for big cities, but try to open Gmail out of the urban area of big cities and wait. Lan-houses(cyber cafes) dont open Gmail even in big cities. The impact on economy for completely blocking google will be almost zero. I live in China for 10 years, right now using a ssh to open gmail.
It's insane that they went with a proprietary XML database for a project like this. The site probably won't work until they rip out that stupid database and put in a regular SQL database, but that probably means a full rewrite.
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One of the problems I see with Github structure is firing people. One of the tips you see most successful companies follow is hire slow and fire fast. I think it's unrealistic that every hire you do will be the perfect match and a lot of times things just don't work out. The question is: how does Github handle this case?
That's an oversimplification.

The words 'inflate/inflation' have several senses depending on domain, and even within the economic domain, shades of meaning based on whether you're referring to price level or money supply.

All of the following statements are true, when considered in their likely context:

"The price of Bitcoin [in dollars] is inflating."

"The Bitcoin supply is currently in an inflationary phase, as dictated by an algorithmic 'mining' schedule set at its creation, but will reach an eventual fixed maximum."

"Since the permanent supply of Bitcoin is capped, economists would classify it as a deflationary medium of exchange."

"Prices of other things as denominated in Bitcoin have been undergoing extreme deflation during the run-up in the Bitcoin/USD exchange rate."

The words are confusing enough in traditional colloquial and economic usage... and Bitcoin is weird enough, straddling a number of the categories that were devised before its creation, that it's even harder to describe. Entirely new categories and words may be necessary.
Sorry, this is not a reply, but I second that motion. I'm currently involved in a project with a pretty big Postgres DB, but we haven't been able to find good literature about high availability deployments. It also seems like all solutions are third party software, most of which lack proper documentation or haven't been updated in a long time.
I'm including the CA system in my definition of "the protocol".
Editor's summary from the Nature journal:

Geologists and oceanographers generally have to rely on indirect evidence from the analysis of solid materials in deep sediment cores when estimating temperature and salinity levels of the ancient oceans. But now a team from the US Geological Survey has identified a body of underground water that is actually a remnant of a past ocean water, a body of Early Cretaceous North Atlantic sea water. Deep drilling at the site of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater has yielded groundwater with an isotope and chemical composition signature that together with model analysis suggests that it was trapped in the sediments before the impact occurred around 35 million years ago. The water may have lain undisturbed for much longer: it has an average salinity of about 70 parts per thousand, twice that of modern sea water, and is probably 100–145 million years old.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7475/full/nature1...
If you are in Santa Monica City proper, Santa Monica has a not-well-known fiber network: http://gismap.santa-monica.org/GISMaps/pdf/smFiberOpticsZoni...

TrueCar uses the city's fiber network to connects between its buildings with dark fiber, get a gigabit cross-connect to its colo in downtown LA, and 500 megabits of nLayer bandwidth to the offices. The service has been fantastic and is cheaper by far than anything else we found.

See http://www.smgov.net/departments/isd/smcitynet.aspx for contact info.
No one said it didn't have value, merely that it's not a good currency because it won't have a stable value if used as a currency.
I don't really consider bitcoin to be the absolute solution. But it's certainly flexible enough to be a great solution.

With increasing transaction volumes the bitcoin network is lately having some issues confirming transactions with low or no fees. Furthermore, with the appreciation of bitcoin/usd value the minimum transaction fee (hardcoded at 0.0001 BTC) is getting too high. (Rising from 0.05 to 0.08 cents)

The thing is, bitcoin is still very much a WIP project, a beta if you will. It still needs more bright people working on it to improve it.
If they are both android, use chrome and you can share tabs between them.
You're obviously not sitting next to an electric space heater and typing with cold hands :).

As long as the pricing pencils out, using computation to provide winter heat can be a win-win for everyone who needs computation, heat, and a planet.
In theory yes, but as the linked blog-post shows, Bitcoin---in its current state anyway---likely isn't truly anonymous either (ostensibly due to its transactional records being public).
But it's interesting to know the scale of this, because the bigger the scale, the more people and institutions around the world will starting to think that "hey, they must be doing this to everyone, possibly even to us - so maybe we should do something to protect ourselves better".
A water heater may be better - warming incoming water to save hot water cylinder bills or heat a pool if there is enough heat. Something that needs short bursts of heat would be harder to implement. I know someone who uses a waste water to raise the incoming water temperature 1-2 degrees C and it saves a measurable amount of money on power bills.
That is the policy of the company to follow that rule as a whole yes, but individuals can act alone. Just like individual cops can steal drugs from their busts, but this isn't the policy of the police or Getty to act in this way, so it is disingenuous to call out a single individuals act as a policy of the company across the board.
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Here's the cited paper from UCSD on bitcoin address analysis:

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
That's a really good mindset to have. However, saying that what the NSA is doing is expected really doesn't explain anything.
So much easier to crack the box holding the key.
The trouble with the idea that TLS assumes DNS is "totally insecure" is the numerous CAs that will issue certs based on proof of control over the domain name -- as observed by the CA.

So while TLS itself doesn't trust DNS at all, PKIX does! CAs may well have google.com on a blacklist, but if someone could "yank" matasano.com and point it at their own server, they could most likely get GoDaddy to issue them a cert based solely on their control over that server. GoDaddy's existing test for the legitimacy of a certificate issuance request is the ability to post a text file with specified contents on an HTTP server pointed to by the subject CN.

(For that matter, the attacker who took control of the matasano.com zone could then publish MX records allowing them to intercept any verification or confirmation e-mails to the whois contacts.)
They'll do what makes their shareholders richer. They'll keep helping surveillance unless doing so hits them where it hurts - money. If the general public valued privacy more than convenience, they'd start avoiding services and products from these companies. I wouldn't bet on that.
> Did you use the same camera design as the speed & red-light cams do?

We didn't.

In Australia, at least, red light cameras are cameras, and they do have a flash (you can see it go off). The plate readers on the freeways for tolls are more like video cameras.
Is NSA "law enforcement" though? They are spies. It is (or should be) also quite illegal for them to be doing that to its own citizens, so if they do that, they should be in prison.

Too bad we live in a time where the president of US and Congress, prefer to protect these guys no matter what (whether it's spying or torture), instead of punishing them according to the law.
> I'm including the CA system in my definition of "the protocol".

Well then, TACK changes "the protocol". As you know better than me it proposes changes to the TLS handshake and how CAs are verified.
You're postulating that the DNS is compromised. So you've already given up on the first connection and are relying on pinning only to raise red flags if someone does too broad an attack. With DNSSEC CAs only the .COM CA (USG compromised you say) gets to try to MITM. With the current system all CAs (compromised by USG and others I say) get to try to MITM. Pinning+DNSSEC seems strictly better than Pinning+ExistingCAs.
It doesn't work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvPY5BH38B8
Lists a million chords that simply are not there, it can't even detect that the main verse is just one chord. It's a good concept, but seriously needs work.
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I think the world is waiting for a new programming language. It is about that time historically and we are going into a situation where cores have replace GHz. Its not clear what the model will be. I think a lot of the new languages are models for how the language designer is thinking (or not) about these new realities. At the same time, the hop from PC to Post-PC like the hop from Mini to PC, brings new constraints (dammit, where'd all my memory go) and a new environment to the programming (what do you mean the computer moves while my program is running).
I thought I'd join, just see what's what until the signup form told me this:

password is too long (maximum 12 characters)
Your comment is nonsense even if you had gone into a huge explanation of why. Hell, I thought it was sarcasm at first.
I am again baffled. If a CA issues a rogue certificate and, as is likely, is rapidly caught because 10 million people have an already-loaded pin for the real certificate, Google can nuke the CA from orbit. Google cannot nuke .COM.

How could a government-run PKI possibly be better than a network of crappy private companies? At least the companies have to respond to incentives.
You're right, I have no idea why the scenario in question could in any way be considered the opposite of what the user expected, and that---perhaps making a leap in logic in conflating the causes---he found it somewhat humorous.
I do think "fixing" TLS is ultimately a pointless exercise that would only serve for the transitional period until we can build an Internet that's encrypted by default at the IP or Tranport layer.

If that's the case, then we may just have to dump TLS eventually anyway, since it was made as a patchwork to cover a very insecure Internet. We need an Internet where security is mandatory (in a cheap way, if possible), not just "optional".
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I agree that the model doesn't work at all right now without pinning, though for the adversaries I'm concerned about, it's still strictly better than DNSSEC.
From whom? Last I checked we had most of our fleet sitting outside countries with whom we have conflicts of interest and not countries known for harboring pirates taking over private vessels. When was the last time a US war ship captured a Somali pirate vessel?
Painfully inaccurate.

This appears to assume all coins were valued at Today numbers, not the numbers on the days they occurred.

PayPal does $44B a year in transactions.
https://www.paypal-media.com/about

Today there are $12M Bit coins in existence.
If each coin is valued at $800 (make my math easy and assume the sum of all bit coins is $10B)

It is possible to have more in transactions than you have in holdings. I pay you, you pay your baby sitter, $20 was $40 in transactions. But for the math to work BitCoin holders would have to be all averaging 4 transactions of 100% of their holdings a year.

This isn't possible since we know that the majority of bit coins are held by speculators, not consumers. (We know this because no one would buy bread if the price could double or half in 6 hours).
:-D

Is there a way to switch this on permanently?
I just hope the product is better than the video and the music.
You haven't told us which headphones you are talking about. My Sennheiser HD-414s are over 25 years old and still going strong.
That is a strange pattern:

http://bitcoinrichlist.com/address/1HtUGfbDcMzTeHWx2Dbgnhc6k...
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This is why I take bitcoin seriously, the privacy implications are BRILLIANT :P

In all seriousness, this is going to come across as a conspiracy theory, but why else would major government organisations be thinking that bitcoin is actually a good thing? Surveillance by design neatly negates all the current NSA privacy issues! It is also a figurative goldmine for economics researchers, who get to study every transaction in an economy for once, with full information on how the funds are following.

There's quite a few of us who have been concerned for a while about the issue of who controls the bitchain, as the only real thing stopping a single entity from doing this is cost. Yet the advantages are so very high. There's also the very real possibility that you don't actually need 51% of miners to do this for specific purposes, either. Just look at some of the TOR monitoring research.

EDIT: I should also add that we need to be talking about these issues, rather than dismissing them. If the cryptocurrency movement is to survive, then these are the challenges ahead.

And one has to ask, if this is not the sole means of accepted currency, are these issues actually a concern? What would count as appropriate mitigation? Can multiple forms of cryptocurrency co-exist and serve different purposes?
Which is why the key hopefully isn't stored on any system that is remotely accessible.
I play slow (correspondence) chess at redhotpawn.com. Great site!
Thank you for this explanation. I'm always telling people the same thing. We should respect the name which the discoverer gave to it.
Ditto. During all the "China is hacking us" stories, I never once recall any piece of news that talked about what we were doing to the rest of the World. As someone who is also in software, if such a story had been published, I would have been among those in the United States most likely to have read such a story.

If you have articles with publish dates pre-Snowden with lots of examples like the revelations in the posted story, please share. I want to figure out how I missed this.
But what if they are not android? I have a PC and a Blackberry Z10 smartphone.
I've tried to play it a couple times but the first half hour or so is walking around with no shooting and nothing happening and that's pretty unforgivable for an id shooter.
I don't think price fixing qualifies as enabling competition. You mention a choice of providers, versus I guess previously only having the choice of BT's monopoly? So, government already creates this telecom monopoly then breaks it up a bit, uh no that doesn't work at all sorry. Absent regulation, I have all the choice in the world.
Leasing the computation equipment is a sensible way to bootstrap the process. There's risk associated with siting a computer at someone's home; if the homeowner has some money invested in the computer, they're less likely to walk off with it, repurpose it, or accidentally damage it.

If there's a developed home heating/computation market, homeowners would be happy to invest in a compuheater.
there's no email in your profile would like to keep taking.

Just launching my own startup and into the customer discovery/ user acquistion phase.
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Sir Humphrey Davy first used the word aluminia but Charles Marting Hall was the first person to come up with an inexpensive way to produce aluminum, which is what brought the metal in to wide spread commercial use.[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martin_Hall
>> If all of 1M queries hit the InnoDB tables, then I would be impressed.

And you should be because that is exactly what is happening :)
Inflation is an increase in money supply which is what is happening today with the number of Bitcoins in production. Eventually it will be deflationary because coins get lost.

Inflation has nothing to do with price volatility. Something that cost 10 Bitcoins yesterday might cost 1 Bitcoin today and 2 Bitcoins tomorrow. It doesn't mean that Bitcoin is deflationary today and inflationary tomorrow.

(Good job removing all comments on your blog that don't agree with your flawed definitions)
Really? You're arguing that a feature that was first implemented in 2011 is a fundamental property of TLS? And are you also arguing that the whole web should have Google/Firefox/IE/Safari ship a certificate pin with the browser? That will surely scale...

If we're doing that why do we need CA's at all? Just ship pins of self-signed certificates to all the browsers and trust Google with the integrity of the database.
I wasn't really claiming that its easy to win MTG tournaments. I was just illustrating that fairly standardized play begins at a much lower level than it does in chess, because even beginners can buy a world class deck for a small amount of money.

Limited is a great format that I'm glad you mentioned. Anything involving a draft is going to be pretty creative.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that MTG is inferior to chess. I like both games equally well.
Even if your previous employer was utter shit, there's almost no way to talk badly about them without sounding like an asshole. In that situation, your best bet is to spin it in a positive light. Leave in the fact that you did 90% of the work but refrain from talking about how bad management was. Talking bad about the previous management does not help you in any way. Even if you left the job because of it, you're better off saying you left "to learn new technologies or whatever, rather than saying it was bad management. Saying it was bad management leaves the possibility open that you could have been the problem. So rather than take a risk on you, an employer may choose to go with someone who says they worked well with everyone at their previous company.
And this is why I can take Bitcoin seriously. Can you imagine if it were really completely anonymous, and someone could be spending a hundred million dollars on, say, a nuclear bomb, without any record, association, or so much as someonel leaving the house and delivering a suitcase full of cash? Imagine if Russia become a failed state or bribeable - you really want to be able to pay off a hundred million dollars to some general there with no more record - to us, to the rest of Russia, or to anyone else, including at any future point that the general would spend any of that money, than if you typed md5 'haha now i'm nuclear' at a bash shell on some disconnected PC? I think this aspect of btc is great. To see what you're talking about, go ahead and type echo -n Haha I\'m nuclear! | md5sum at the prompt and see if you think that a financial transaction of any amount should be as totally untraceable as the cryptographic operation you just performed locally. Really, come on.

Also we already had a case of ransomware. How about ransomware that attacks a nuclear facility, flight control tower, hydroelectric plant or whatever else, and threatens to immediately cause damage if a ransom isn't paid. You really want that to be totally 100% off of any ledger anywhere - and not even include a delivery of a briefcase full of cash? Nor any way to follow any of that money at any point whatsoever?

I think btc pseudonymity is a fine compromise.