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MtGox withdrawal issues are huge. I wouldn't downplay their issues at all. Speaking from personal experience I had a $10,000 June/July withdrawal stuck for 8 weeks. Customer service wouldn't give any timeline.

After a lot of back and forth they said I could pay a 5% fee and get my USD in 7 days. Basically a bribe for them to convert to JPY and send the transfer through..

At the time, they said withdrawals would take 2 weeks.. Now if they say 6 weeks you should pray :p

I ended up buying back some BTC (at about 10% loss due to price) and then selling later on bitstamp due to the recent price rise. Worked out okay for me but please DO NOT USE GOX FOR USD.
All buyers, no sellers, price will continue up. There is a steady stream of new people hearing about Bitcoin, believing in the idea, and wanting a piece of it for when it becomes a dominant world currency. Everybody is holding, nobody's selling. This will continue for a good long while - there are still very few people outside tech circles who own bitcoins.
Coinbase is trailing this (currently $510) quite a bit.

https://coinbase.com/charts

I don't understand why people keep price quoting mtgox as it seems it's not very reflective of the other indicies.
Indeed, why not enforce people use social network if they want to watch a video?
Article says "To me, they represented the antithesis of Microsoft"

IMHO all they are is following a similar trajectory around 20 years later than Microsoft.
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1) it is my CTO who has asked me to reach out because the whole idea was for him to come here when we raise new funding. if he can't, he does not want to be in the way of progression and would need to think about what is the best possible solution for the startup (99% equity of 0 is still 0).

2) it's not as simple math as you make it out to be. i'm raising money based on my credentials and years of connections in the industry and consequently, it'll be my head on the line if the business doesn't succeed. the cto can always say, well vision from ceo didn't make sense. the ceo has no excuse. now, how idiotic will i look if i took their money, didn't take their advice and then the startup fails bc of development issues i.e "i told you so" scenario. my cto doesn't have to worry about that now does he? he can just join another startup or go work for another firm. for me, how am i going to raise subsequent funding? for me, i can't go back to the industry i left that paid multiple times more than most engineers in the valley. that is the risk i took to start this business. so don't tell me about who's getting shafted and who's not.

no one is selling anyone down the river. in fact, you being from bangalore should be the first to know how difficult the situation must be to get visas in a hurry and to work on multiple platforms concurrently. and you definitely know communication/cultural dialogue is spotty to say the least.

3) also have you considered other employees besides just taking sides from the engineers' perspective? CTO/engineers are one component of my business to keep happy. If the sales/marketing guys can't get my full attention and get pissed off because i'm busy communicating overseas with a CTO all the time and they say "hey didn't investors and bunch of our advisors tell you not to do EXACTLY this b/c it's going to be a huge headache?" then i have another problem on my hands now don't i that you didn't think about- attrition of the supply side of my business as well as critical employees leaving because i'm not making them happy.

it's not just what does my cto think... it's what is best for the business and for every team member of this business so that we all succeed or we all fail. it's about the team. not about the cto. not about me. it's the entire unit as a whole and navigating the waters before it actually becomes a problem.
Diamonds and gold make for quite shitty currencies

Gold is extremely laborious to move, and not divisible enough for most usage. Diamonds are not fungible or very divisible. Both are very susceptible to physical theft.

Network effects for money are very strong, and bitcoin has a huge first mover advantage. Any competing digital currency will require quite the innovation or distinguishing factor to gain any traction. It is becoming more 'known' and trusted with each month that passes. Pre-bitcoin-era financial groups are slowly yet increasingly giving it more legitimacy (Mainly VCs, a few funds, the occasional bank, and research groups -- also Second Market and the Winklevoss ETF are two big things to watch right now).

The main counterpoint currently is that bitcoin use is quite error-prone and hard to digest, but this seems more like a temporary roadblock to me. Y'all remember geocities and AOL right? Bitcoin will become much easier and more secure to use in the coming years. Software is relatively easy to improve, compared to gold, fiat, and the like.

There are some potential solutions to traceability, but it is uncertain how that will play out (I can't even pretend to fully understand the regulatory environments and international politics that will affect this). The one thing I can guarantee -- the way we use and conceptualize money is going to change drastically in the next several decades, and I think bitcoin will have a huge influence on this.
I'm saddened that legislation in the UK is so awful that it's virtually impossible to run a legitimate bit-coin business.

This is going to come back to hurt the UK economy in the end.
Webflow, an existing product, is much more powerful and pretty affordable. Macaw, if it's as awesome as it looks in the demo, may be better than Webflow.

This, this is thoroughly underwhelming. Sorry.

If open source is your biggest differentiator, I think you should emphasize this. Being able to use this as a part of other environments would make it much more compelling. Maybe change up the kickstarter page?
There are enough of private investors willing to buy without crashing prices on the open exchange. Financially, it'll be a good deal for both a buyer and a seller. I heard SecondMarket's BIT (bitcoin investment trust) can't buy new bitcoins fast enough from private hands to satisfy the demand.
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It's also true that you gain benefits out of this trick when you've got lots of instances.

This is usually true when, say, analyzing some data. If your design pattern is good, those object would be immutable anyway.
It could be the S-curve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUPPYzzZrI&feature=youtube_...
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It's better to get out too early than too late. Quit when you're ahead, is the big rule of gambling. (Which is what this is.)
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What do you mean by long overdue?
And their open source projects like Chrome do have public bug trackers, but in my experience I've either been ignored or treated with what I felt was contempt. The first is probably the same feedback problem as everywhere, the second is because the Chrome developers don't want the same kind of internet I do...
A shameless plug for my own similar open source project with an already functional version http://www.brickseditor.com/. It uses Bootstrap for the layout but there are plans to support other frameworks. It's built on AngularJS. I'm currently working on it full time. Maybe there could be some way we could collaborate if this Kickstarter isn't successful?
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Because you want to have some agile tool. Are you trying to dance tango while wearing a medieval armor?
> I just never expected them to turn into Microsoft.

Why not? Google started around 20 years later, that's the main difference. In a different environment, google focused more on internet software and grew faster than MS did a few decades ago, but the path from scrappy startup grabbing an untapped niche, to corporate monopoly is a predictable one.
It's OK, at the current rate tomorrow it will be worth $720, and the day after that $864 :)
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I really like the Outlook.com interface however the setting pages are god awful. They need to make them more dynamic so I don't have to load a whole new page for one little option.
Hm I had read previously that they only had one order book for all currencies, but now that doesn't seem accurate (or reasonable). Guess that's what I get for believing it without looking into it myself :/
It will be interesting to read about these reactions in the future.
http://talkingbitcoin.com/
looks very nice. I especially like that it's fast
Don't fall for that bullshit. Most of the best engineers I know don't have a github/bitbucket/sourceforge/you-name-it account, which doesn't prevent them from being awesome.
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I tried with this:

http://pastebin.com/nfqtDUiW

Try comment and un-comment the __slot__. You can measure the program memory footprint using

pmap -x <PID>

where <PID> is obtained using

pgrep python

...more than one python process?

cat /proc/<PID>/cmdline | xargs -0 echo
I thought about buying a coin recently, but then I realized, I don't think Bitcoin will ever be successful as an online currency. The process of buying into Bitcoin, and getting money out of Bitcoin is a complete disaster in my book. Everyone is looking at Bitcoin as an investment, and the only people putting in the effort to join are those aiming for financial gain.

My prediction is the price is going to rise, faster and faster in the coming weeks. The hype is still building, people are seeing these 20% gains overnight, and thinking they're going to get rich. It feels like a pyramid scheme, where the people already owning coins are going out and recruiting others to buy into Bitcoin, to raise the value of their own wallet.

Now, time for a wild guess. I say it peaks at 900-1,000 two to three weeks from now, then starts to level off. People get worried not seeing gains, and decide to start cashing out in time for the holidays. By the new year, under 300.

If I had a coin, I'd hold it until the end. As others have said, I think it's going big, or going to zero in the coming years.
my (nontechy) mother in law mentioned them to me yesterday, I (techy) bought 2 kebabs last night with bitcoin (through takeaway.com). I think you're right that mainly techy people have them at the moment, but I also think that with the right friendly UX exchange we could soon be approaching a tipping point.

Another thing; I didn't buy from my usual takeaway because they didn't accept bitcoin. So bitcoin acceptance was the primary factor in making me choose a new takeaway.
If the goal is to merely map elevation to color in a way that best reveals slope, then both colorings are pretty terrible. What you’d want instead is to have uniform change in lightness [lightness differences are the most salient perceptually].

The big problem with “rainbow” gradients is that they typically have some sections with steep change in lightness, and other sections of nearly uniform lightness, mixed together with nonuniform (in terms of human perception) hue and chroma changes from one part of the gradient to another. It’s very difficult to compare the slopes of a rainbow-gradient-mapped function across different parts of the gradient, and in some sections of the gradient very difficult to visually distinguish salient details.

It would be much better to have uniform changes in lightness. The simplest such map just goes from black to white in a perceptually uniform way. But if more distinctions are needed, then another possible method is to make the lightness attribute sort of sawtooth (or can potentially use more of a triangle wave, in some cases), while keeping chroma relatively constant and letting hue change close to uniformly. This makes a few places where the perceived lightness has either a change of slope or a discontinuity, but since the rate of lightness change is otherwise constant, it is still fairly easy to make comparisons. [I really should make a proper article/essay about this at some point, with some demonstrative images / interactive widgets: it’s much easier to show visually than to describe in text]

In the case of the chart under discussion, if the goal is to show the slope across the shoreline boundary and compare it to the slope elsewhere, I would recommend having uniform lightness change from dark [low elevation] to light [high elevation], combined with a hue discontinuity at the shore boundary. Because lightness is the most perceptually salient color attribute for noticing object boundaries, textures, fine details, motion, etc., it would still be possible to have a good idea of the slope across the shoreline boundary, while being able to perceive the boundary when closely examining the image.

[Note: such schemes will also generally be helpful for colorblind users]
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This is pretty fantastic. Some combination of this and LinkedIn will mean I can give up word docs forever !
This reminds me of a story of Sir Isaac Newton and South Sea Company bubble. He got out early, then watched all his friends get rich, jumped back in again with both feet, lost a fortune. Even smart people are not immune to bubbles.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/isaac-newton-and-the-south...
So, you are not switching now, hopefully?
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One of the subtle shell script mistake which I was
unaware was that if a shell script is modified, currently running instances of the script might fail [1].

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2285403
Understand that no-one has any damn clue where the price is going. If you'd invested at the peak of the last bubble and held on to it, you'd have doubled your money. Work out a plan, write it down, stick to it regardless of price. Mine is investing £100 on the same day of each month, including this month, and selling in five years. Work out what your position is - mine is massive realization in five years - and then don't b swayed by the day to day.
Very nice! Yours is much more than just a front-end editor, yours create complete apps.

EDIT: And yours is not MIT licensed and has separate commercial licenses.
I think the view you present here is outdated. Today, rebasing is used a lot by Mercurial users. Even for the development of Mercurial itself, rebasing is not considered bad, it's considered a requirement for submitting a patch series. That is, the patches are sent by email and applied with 'hg import', and thus implicitly rebased. If that causes too many merge conflicts, you will be asked to rebase it yourself and resubmit it.

Mutating history is front and center in the changeset evolution framework people have been working on for some years now. The first step is that Mercurial tracks when it's safe to rebase or edit a commit: each commit has a "phase" which is "draft" initially, but changes to "public" when you push the commit somewhere. The history editing tools ('hg rebase', 'hg histedit', 'hg commit --amend') will then tell you when it's unsafe to edit a commit.
The reward structure is odd. For example, the 'super backer' $1000 level is limited to 200, yet the rewards given (e.g. The memory stick) are unlimited in the previous levels. Why artificially limit yourself to 200?
how is this getting upvotes? that is obviously not an SQL injection per se. It could just be OPs history of entries in any search field or the website that records what people input.
Prices like 0.0167 are averse.)
Investments always have an exit time frame; if you never end up exchanging them for something else, then their worth is as meaningless as if the price were zero. This is as true of a business as it is of stock or currency trading.

I look at market trading similarly to competitive games of strategy like Chess now, because they share this nature of having to carefully exchange resources over time to achieve an increasingly advantageous position.
Threads about sexism on HN are toxic. No useful discussion ever happens in them. Flagging them is the only useful option.

Posting this in a thread full of those toxic people is going to get you heavily downvoted:

"I fucking hate how openly misogynistic HN is. I don't even want to bother sifting through this shit anymore.

s/women/black people/g
s/attending/going to elite, white-only colleges/g"
No. Of course it can be regulated. Indeed it could be flat out made illegal. Just because you can't physically stop people from doing stuff doesn't mean a law can't (or shouldn't) be enacted.

Having a "no murder" law in no ways stops people from comitting murder.

As pointed out in the comment below you can certainly make it difficult to participate in the market - e.g making it illegal for companies to provide clearing into fiat currency. E.g in the UK right now altho there isn't currently a law no UK banks will provide deposit or clearing facilities for exchanges or market places for fear of reputational damage, e.g being at risk of accusuations of faciliating crime or terrorism financing. (Barclays have recently ended banking facilities with several hundred regular currency exchanges for exactly this reason - including a Somalian remittance service which has been in the news a bit [1])

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24553148
The use of percentages within the example resume's made me wince.
Yes, but they are not open source.

Have you seen divshot, jetstrap or easel?

You probably have, are they open source? NO!
Hey! You're the guys I saw in the Avalon lounge Saturday night.

Hope my drunken pool playing didn't annoy you too much. Things seem to be getting off to a good start with Tablo—good luck!
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How do you go about contributing to open source projects?
I'm interested in contributing to open source projects. How do I get started on this?
Both projects are awesome, I like the aesthetics, but my profile is seriously twisted :-P in both cases.
+1 for this excellent argument!
I thought this was a lot more interesting GitHub visualization: http://osrc.dfm.io/bergie
I would imagine Google is a/b testing and keeping a very close eye on the analytics of usage/retention with the new interface. We (power users/technical people) may lose out, but they must be seeing the numbers and improvement over the previous interface.
Well I wasn't even talking about growth vs steady-state. I was talking about monetary policy vs fiscal policy. A traditional Keynesian stimulus would have been fiscal in nature, and preferably direct state spending on productive matters.

Here's a few things that could have been done:

* Increased spending on scientific research

* Reform the health-insurance system to a universal system for greater efficiency while pouring extensive funding into it

* Vast amounts of infrastructure and public-works projects (especially: bridges, sewage infrastructure, electrical grid, fiber-optic internet, etc)

* Refunding/renationalizing state universities

Most of these sorts of things were utterly uncontroversial until the "neoliberal bloom" of the 2000s, in whose wake Western politicians have apparently forgotten how all their predecessors have managed recessions ever since the Great Depression.

And that's before we talk about undoing financialization and fixing the world's iniquitous trade policies! Those would be controversial!
It's quite the opposite of gambling. In a casino, the odds are are exactly defined, and the ROI is negative. This investment has unknown ROI.
Yes, but what about point of sale purchases? It's worth it for merchants to let you pay for beer or food using bitcoin.
Do you have any logical/economic basis for this speculation you have so confidently pronounced?
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Very interesting.

Gamma is a very complicated subject. Also the "legacy" aspect as mentioned, CRT had it, LCDs don't BUT to be "backwards compatible" they add this nonlinearity.

Looks like the same discussion of why are we talking about PAL/NTSC and interlacing in digital video formats.
Portability need for 24hour monitoring:
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Why would you do a 10 minutes introduction video ! I can't watch anything longer than 2 minutes.
Which is how the bubble burst. Lots of people who are holding might think "Oh I'll just sell a bit".
This seems like a pretty good strategy. A bit of fun, low risk. I bet a heavy smoker spends more than £100 a month of cigarettes.
Better yet, a worthwhile reinvention of the concept. I am hopeful with DarkMail, even though the name isn't very catchy. SecMail would sound much better.
Thanks. I'm trying to keep it simple, fast and extensible.
Some investments go up really fast for a while, and then go up more slowly after that. Do you have good arguments for why bitcoin couldn't do this?
Why did this man work for 36 hours straight?
In which country living with $75k is living below the poverty line exactly?
Cynthia Brewer’s “Color Brewer” is a great tool. http://colorbrewer2.org

Though note, it’s not really ideal for making gradients, since its “sequential” schemes only go up to 9 distinct categories, and its “diverging” schemes only go up to 11 distinct categories. If you took the suggested colors and made them equally spaced control points in a photoshop/CSS/etc. gradient, you’d get a reasonable outcome.
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This is not true. Look at the price on BTCChina and you'll see it's pretty much equivalent to the USD price on MtGox. Bitstamp and Coinbase are lagging behind because BTCChina and MtGox make up most of the volume.
That'll be 17 millicoins, sir. Would you like a receipt?

Or whatever hip term the youngsters come up with ;)
I'm not even sure the headline actually represents the original article faithfully (http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1769890)

One thing to note is that there are many organisations who represent the elderly and they have political power - certainly in the UK, older people vote so you see laws that benefit them sometimes to the detriment on the young.
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There is only one type of commit in Mercurial. Please don't suggest otherwise.

The commits form a directed acyclic graph (a DAG) and you expand the graph when you make new commits. Subsets of the graph can be said to belong to the same branch (a named branch, the ones you create with "hg branch"). By default all commits belong to the branch named "default".

Any given subset of the commit DAG might have multiple heads (commits with no children), e.g., the subset of the DAG that is the "default" branch might have multiple heads representing multiple features that haven't been merged yet.

To help you pick the right head when you update, diff, etc, you can give it a name — you add a bookmark to the head. The bookmark is just like a post-it you stick on your monitor saying "commit e9ade5b11421 is better known as fix-broken-build". It's just an alias for the commit ID, in the same way that a Git branch name is a convenient name for a commit.

To be useful, bookmarks move when you make new commits. After 'hg update fix-broken-build', a 'hg commit' will move the "fix-broken-build" bookmark so it points to the newly created commit. This is again very similar to how a Git branch pointer will advance when you run 'git commit'.

I hope that helps a bit!
Kudos to you for completing your game !
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Turns out adult supervision wasn't all bad.

I remember some time ago, probably 2002-2003 (?) when Bill Gates said something along the lines of "every tech company goes through a period of love at the beginning, and then that love turns to resentment; Google is in the middle of their "love" period and Microsoft is way past it; but that will change".

And, like a newly wed, I remember thinking: nah, that can't change. My love of Google will never fade.

Yet here we are; today no company annoys me more than Google; every decision they make seems bad. Like most people I still use their products, but every time I do I wish I didn't, like when I was driving a Renault.